This is hilarious. First, a few people start flying drones in the night sky, with lights on, and someone got upset about it and reported it, and the news services picked the story up and reported it.
So, of course, more drone owners joined in, putting lights on their drones and flying them at night. Some of them got creative and put long rods with LED’s on them that stuck way out, making the drones look bigger, and people started saying the drones were the size of cars.
Now, in New York and New Jersey, you can see hundreds of drones at night all over the place, flying around in totally random patterns, and people on the ground staring up at them are all going “Wow, what is it”? like a bunch of idiots and our government is acting like they’re trying to cover up something they’re doing. All the drone owners are joining in the fun, there’s drone clubs that are probably organizing night flights now, it’s become a fad.
It is perfectly legal to fly a drone at night as long as it has lights on it so aircraft can see and avoid it. The drones are usually flown no higher than 200 feet, so they’re easily seen at night, and they’re loud, no one mistakes them for a UFO. The clowns flying them can switch off the lights remotely, so when someone aims a strong flashlight at them, they turn off the lights and freak people out even more.
We Americans know how to have fun. 🙂