The military equips many of its ground units and ships with hand-launched drones including quadcopter-style models. The Air Force and the other military branches operate thousands of unmanned aerial vehicles ranging from airliner-size Global Hawk spy drones to Reaper hunter-killers the size of Cessnas. It sounds like a jetliner when you’re standing next to an airport.” “It doesn’t sound like your normal drone,” he said. He described the curious phenomenon to The Daily Beast as square in shape with red lights on the corners and a white light in the middle that move around at a consistent speed of about 45 miles per hour at a few hundred feet in the air regardless of the wind, emitting a low hum and high-pitched whine. He told The Daily Beast he has seen the mysterious objects more than once over Hugo, a town with a population of fewer than 800.Īn abnormal red light will appear on the horizon, he said, and soon a drone, or whatever it is, will buzz by overhead. Michael Yowell, a captain at the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office, has added drone patrol to his law enforcement beat.
The mystery has become big news in Colorado. No one can quite figure out what the apparent drones are doing, or why. 20, local and state government officials, including the Air Force, have denied they have anything to do with the nocturnal air shows. Since residents first reported the UFOs around Dec. It’s more disturbing still to see them lingering near nuclear-missile silos. It’s disturbing enough to see formations of glowing drones maneuvering in a grid pattern over sparsely populated expanses of land. There, airmen at the base man and protect around 200 underground silos housing Minuteman nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), each packing enough firepower to wipe out several cities. Warren Air Force Base in neighboring Wyoming. Some of the counties where drones have been spotted do butt up against F.E. Unless, of course, people and industry aren’t the targets. “Everyone knows that the alien spacecraft prefer the American Southwest.”
Why bother mounting such a sustained campaign of drone aerobatics in a place with so few people and so little industry? What’s weird, even for those who discount the possibility that the UFOs are extraterrestrial in origin, is the low population of Eastern Colorado, an expanse of rural farmland. “Besides, everyone knows that the alien spacecraft prefer the American Southwest,” Shostake joked.
“There’s nothing about these sightings that’s inconsistent with drone technologies, so why reach for the most extreme explanation?” Seth Shostak, an astronomer with the SETI Institute in California, which uses powerful sensors to search for aliens, told The Daily Beast. Other locals say what they’ve been seeing are merely quadcopter-style drones. Some observers believe the UFOs could be alien visitors. Media have been drawn to small towns on the Colorado-Nebraska border. In the vacuum of any definitive answer about who might be responsible for the aircraft, theories have ricocheted around the internet. The FAA has reached out to UAS test sites, drone companies, and companies that have authorization to operate drones in the area, “but we have not been able to determine that any of these operators were the source of the reported drone flights,” an FAA statement read. “But we will inform the public about any important developments.” “The group is not going to discuss the details of its inner workings, and is not planning to provide incremental updates on its activities,” Ian Gregor, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesperson based in Los Angeles, told The Daily Beast.
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