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I’m telling you about this not to ruin their plan or to call them out for trying to confuse the media, but to say that people mistake drones for UFOs all the time. In October, a British drone flyer scammed at least three local newspapers into thinking his tricopter was a UFO. He zip tied a “light loop” of green LEDs to the bottom of his drone, flew it around, took pictures, and sent them to a local newspaper.The next day, “at least two people reported seeing this bright disc in the skies,” according to one newspaper, which wondered if it was “alien or otherwise.” Similar things have happened in Oregon and California. The man behind the UK hoax is known online as MrGyro. In a blog post detailing the hoax, he wanted to prove that “newspapers will report on anything.”And people are, for the most part, really bad at realizing that a drone is a drone and not, say, an alien spacecraft. One drone user group in the Pacific Northwest has actively partnered with a UFO expert in the area, who will call them to confirm where and when they were flying.
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