creepy

I live here and I'm positive that 99.9% of the reports are just commercial airliners. Every video I've seen is either obviously a plane or too far away/blurry to tell. People have a very hard time gauging the distance, size, and speed of objects in the sky at night. Distant planes can appear to move through the sky as if they were much closer drones. Lighting on planes has also gotten much brighter in recent years due to the adoption of LEDs - if they are pointed exactly in your direction, the distance can be very deceptive.

When the comet was here a couple of months back, we had dozens of posts on local astronomy FB pages where people were mistaking airplane contrails at dusk for the comet. People are generally not aware or observant of their daily surroundings and this time it has spiraled into a mass panic.

I will gladly walk back my hypothesis when I see one clear video of something that can't be anything else but a drone, but I'm not holding my breath as it's been weeks now and we still have nothing. The "government testing out drones" theory just requires too many leaps of logic in this case to be believable for me.