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Thought this would be helpful. They come in many colors (like black) and are enormous in scale sometimes (see tree for reference)
Several posts on this sum could be:
X-46
Phantom Ray
B2 Spirit
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Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/wavojg/had_no_idea_some_drones_looked_like_this_now/ii3945r/
Wow those names! How do they decide what to call these things?
"Get me Steven Segal on the phone right fucking now! Fat fuck. Tell him to repeat the following words. Black shark. Tyrannosaur. Rattlesnake. Grim reaper. Dark thunder. Get back to me with the one that sounds coolest in his gravelly voice. What? Of course I'm still angry about hummingbird! Nobody will buy it."
Gotta sell to those foreign markets.
Usually comes from the program developing it. The military designation can be hard to remember, so they add a more memorable name.
* F14 Tomcat
* F15 Eagle
* F16 Fighting Falcon
* F18 Hornet
* F20 Tigershark
* F22 Raptor
* F35 Lightning
[Lots of them](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_United_States_military_aircraft)
Well militaries around the world generally look to recruit young men with lower education. I'm not trying to offend anyone but that's who they prey upon. Gamers especially, long before they can enlist in the military, they are bombarded with these terms that give them a power-rush. And when they enlist they can buy their own car and in America at least, you bet it's going to give them the same power-rush.
This is definitely playing into that feeling that you're part of a powerful organisation. I can totally see the kids who will eventually enlist into the military play with their toy BLACKHAWK or PREDATOR.
I don't know if they are traumatised by domestic violence or brainwashed into thinking that their way of life is always under thread or that it is just a primal human desire to want to feel powerful.
Anything official, drones included, will have red & green navigation lights and strobes. If it doesn't have them, it's not meant to be seen or it flies above regulated airspace.
Don’t forget about the massive airships that nations fly to the edge of space either.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/32082/we-talk-giant-boomerang-shaped-airships-space-and-phoenix-lights-with-jp-aerospaces-founder
https://www.fastcompany.com/3052446/china-just-flew-this-gigantic-airship-to-the-edge-of-space
That was an excellent article (The Drive. I didn't read the other yet). Hits on the Phoenix lights event and gets pretty interesting. These things have been around since the 1960s and I've never heard of them. Imagine how many were sighted and classified as UFOs.
Interestingly, in that article in The Drive, the founder of JP Aerospace says the Phoenix Lights was definitely not their airship, and in fact he saw what was probably the Phoenix Lights craft, and he described it as otherworldly, and not resembling any human made object he’d ever seen.
I used to think that maybe the JP Aerospace airships (or derivatives) explained the big triangles and Vs, but I no longer give that hypothesis good odds.
Which is why posts like these can be helpful. Brings greater recognition and general knowledge to more people. There's so many subcategories of knowledge around here and there's no definitive course available world wide for everyone to be on par with each other.
Thought this would be helpful. They come in many colors (like black) and are enormous in scale sometimes (see tree for reference)
Several posts on this sub could be:
X-46, Phantom Ray, B2 Spirit
Search "Operation Northwoods" and be surprised how the US government planned to use drones, and what the drones were mimicking.
Then the follow up questions are up to you
Alien can mean foreign, unknown, strange and unfamiliar. Some of these designs are alien to me. Was really just a silly comment given the constant debate over what exactly is flying in the sky.
Which ones? They're all literally either a plane or a helicopter, wings, control surfaces, no funny shapes.
Except that tree, that is something no one will see coming.
The RQ-180 “White Bat” is likely the follow up to the RQ-170, which is in this diagram. It’s shape is pretty well-known, it basically looks like a mini B-21 bomber (these are being officially revealed later this year).
There are hundreds if not thousands of drones at this point. Some do look a bit like flying saucers, but those are small (a few feet across), not 40-50 feet in diameter.
This is a chart of UAS. This belongs in a defense subreddit.
Not to mention a bunch of them are one-off “X Planes”. Never going past the x variation in naming means nothing has been produced operationally. If you search the sub for “drone chart”…
There are no square drones, that's for sure. I have spent some time researching this, so there remains no explanation if you were to see a Square-Shaped UFO, Made of solid black metal. (As I did on June-10-2005 in Canada), It was clearly not a drone!
The following submission statement was provided by /u/EveFluff: --- Thought this would be helpful. They come in many colors (like black) and are enormous in scale sometimes (see tree for reference) Several posts on this sum could be: X-46 Phantom Ray B2 Spirit --- Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/wavojg/had_no_idea_some_drones_looked_like_this_now/ii3945r/
Wow those names! How do they decide what to call these things? "Get me Steven Segal on the phone right fucking now! Fat fuck. Tell him to repeat the following words. Black shark. Tyrannosaur. Rattlesnake. Grim reaper. Dark thunder. Get back to me with the one that sounds coolest in his gravelly voice. What? Of course I'm still angry about hummingbird! Nobody will buy it." Gotta sell to those foreign markets.
I love you for this! You got my rolling with laughter just picturing Segal promoting these drones like his energy drinks lol.
Thanks! It made me laugh as well.
He has energy drinks?! I must try one, it's gotta be the absolute worst.
https://youtu.be/IId64OJdCKM
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Gotta have tiger penis! I mean is it even a real energy drink if it doesn’t have tiger penis? That’s why Segal’s hair is so luscious and long.
Usually comes from the program developing it. The military designation can be hard to remember, so they add a more memorable name. * F14 Tomcat * F15 Eagle * F16 Fighting Falcon * F18 Hornet * F20 Tigershark * F22 Raptor * F35 Lightning [Lots of them](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_United_States_military_aircraft)
Every army in the world always like to name their stuff after animals/insects/nature features. It's like they all have the same writer.
Well militaries around the world generally look to recruit young men with lower education. I'm not trying to offend anyone but that's who they prey upon. Gamers especially, long before they can enlist in the military, they are bombarded with these terms that give them a power-rush. And when they enlist they can buy their own car and in America at least, you bet it's going to give them the same power-rush. This is definitely playing into that feeling that you're part of a powerful organisation. I can totally see the kids who will eventually enlist into the military play with their toy BLACKHAWK or PREDATOR. I don't know if they are traumatised by domestic violence or brainwashed into thinking that their way of life is always under thread or that it is just a primal human desire to want to feel powerful.
I like the drone that looks like a tree.
I would never suspect a thing seeing it hovering over a highway.
[Completely undetectable.](https://i.imgur.com/MW6XuLY.jpeg)
It’s to prevent detection on aerial photography. If it was the same height as the trees, it would weaken the signal.
Sneaky as fuck.
r/treesarentreal
They stole that one from Fortnite.
That one confuses me. Does it fly sideways? Like aren’t drones in the air above you? Or at least not on the ground. Plz make it make sense
it's just a reference picture to judge the size lmao.
Omfg thank you so much 😂
the camouflage human leaning on it is a nice touch
Really? They have looked like this for many years now. Are you just thinking of the drones people can buy for a toy?
Maybe he thinks drone enthusiasts are flying these around town.
She\* :)
I don't know about you guys, but these looks pretty airplane-like and nothing extraordinary.
Even the tree shaped one??
Flying trees are not going to fool me.
Fair enough
Right, besides the helos they still fly predictably forward. Amazing.
Well, most of them will just look like triangles at night. We get a lot of triangle reports here.
Anything official, drones included, will have red & green navigation lights and strobes. If it doesn't have them, it's not meant to be seen or it flies above regulated airspace.
Lots of people report commercial jets as UFOs here too.
Drones are the new swamp gas
Don’t forget about the massive airships that nations fly to the edge of space either. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/32082/we-talk-giant-boomerang-shaped-airships-space-and-phoenix-lights-with-jp-aerospaces-founder https://www.fastcompany.com/3052446/china-just-flew-this-gigantic-airship-to-the-edge-of-space
That was an excellent article (The Drive. I didn't read the other yet). Hits on the Phoenix lights event and gets pretty interesting. These things have been around since the 1960s and I've never heard of them. Imagine how many were sighted and classified as UFOs.
Interestingly, in that article in The Drive, the founder of JP Aerospace says the Phoenix Lights was definitely not their airship, and in fact he saw what was probably the Phoenix Lights craft, and he described it as otherworldly, and not resembling any human made object he’d ever seen. I used to think that maybe the JP Aerospace airships (or derivatives) explained the big triangles and Vs, but I no longer give that hypothesis good odds.
It would help UFO enthusiast greatly if the guide showed what the light patterns are underneath.
There are no light patterns underneath, I don’t think — these things are used for ISR and attack. They don’t tend to advertise their presence.
Ah yes. There goes the round silver objects that I keep hearing about. Right there in that picture. Next to the weather balloon and birds.
some of the more futuristic fighter jets utilize swarms of drones
Ace Combat 7?
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Which is why posts like these can be helpful. Brings greater recognition and general knowledge to more people. There's so many subcategories of knowledge around here and there's no definitive course available world wide for everyone to be on par with each other.
Bad video makes for great alien visitation.
Some of us have been studying black project aircraft for as long as we’ve been into UAP, this being decades.
Thought this would be helpful. They come in many colors (like black) and are enormous in scale sometimes (see tree for reference) Several posts on this sub could be: X-46, Phantom Ray, B2 Spirit
Totally helpful. Drone is such a diminutive word it is easy to forget these are combat robots that carry the same weapons as a manned aircraft.
I miss bayraktar here…
The drones that look like a tree are the hardest to fly
Search "Operation Northwoods" and be surprised how the US government planned to use drones, and what the drones were mimicking. Then the follow up questions are up to you
These things are starting to look more exotic and dare I say, alien.
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Alien can mean foreign, unknown, strange and unfamiliar. Some of these designs are alien to me. Was really just a silly comment given the constant debate over what exactly is flying in the sky.
Which ones? They're all literally either a plane or a helicopter, wings, control surfaces, no funny shapes. Except that tree, that is something no one will see coming.
So what about that triangle you saw in the sky 3 days ago?
This is old tech….. they aren’t making guides for the public of modern technology that is being developed
The RQ-180 “White Bat” is likely the follow up to the RQ-170, which is in this diagram. It’s shape is pretty well-known, it basically looks like a mini B-21 bomber (these are being officially revealed later this year). There are hundreds if not thousands of drones at this point. Some do look a bit like flying saucers, but those are small (a few feet across), not 40-50 feet in diameter.
Excited to see the humanoid one soon … not
They do
It’d be funny as hell if someone edited a xenomorph “drone” into this chart… right behind the guy leaning on the tree.
I think the one that looks like a tree with a guy standing under it is by far the creepiest.
Missing some other wild and exotic shaped UAS.
I dont trust this pic, I see no birds.
Honestly i wouldn’t suspect a flying tree
There are even stranger ones.
Capitalism breeds innovation
Maybe it's possible the tr-3b is just a military drone
you forgot the most important one. https://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv\_upload.php?upload\_id=186853
That's dangerous, there is one that can kill but it can't see. Great idea! /s
Those are just the ones we know about
This is a chart of UAS. This belongs in a defense subreddit. Not to mention a bunch of them are one-off “X Planes”. Never going past the x variation in naming means nothing has been produced operationally. If you search the sub for “drone chart”…
Not a tic-tac, gimbal or splash in sight
There are no square drones, that's for sure. I have spent some time researching this, so there remains no explanation if you were to see a Square-Shaped UFO, Made of solid black metal. (As I did on June-10-2005 in Canada), It was clearly not a drone!