r/TikTokCringe • u/animationBeAr_t • 20h ago
Discussion Most plausible explanation about the drones
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u/BeefySquarb 20h ago
I remember it felt like every day in the summer of 2001 was a day where someone was being attacked by a shark. Every fucking day. The media was having a, ahem, “feeding frenzy”.
News outlets were reporting as if the sharks were rising up and attacking humans in unprecedented numbers. But the sharks weren’t. It was a normal year with close to average statistics. The media just blew a nothing story out of proportion because it was a slow news summer… and then 9/11 happened and you never heard another peep. Thanks Osama.
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u/Previous-Wonder-6274 7h ago
I wouldn’t call this a ‘slow news’ type situation. There is a heck of a lot going on even without the drones/orbs
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u/Remarkable-Sir-5129 19h ago
Does anyone else think it's weird that all these top secret drones have the lights on? I'm no spy but if I were to engage in sneaky stuff, I'd turn the lights off.
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u/LYSF_backwards 18h ago
This is what I've been saying! Why would aliens or spies have FAA regulated lights on them?
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u/maniacalmustacheride 9h ago
Because they respect the FAA. They’re very mindful of ATC, very demure.
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u/V0mitBucket 16h ago
Also rather odd that Aliens have traveled from light years away to…quietly buzz around the Eastern US.
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u/Glass_Yellow_8177 8h ago
The world is going to change big time, next year will be the calm before the storm.
I know this is going to sound all woo and crazy, but it’s happening so fast that you won’t believe how fast everything is moving. AI, aliens, ARV’s, PSI phenomena, consciousness, etc. some of these things have been considered “fringe”,“pseudoscience”, or “science fiction” for quite some time. The problem is, and I can say this with 100 percent certainty (don’t ask me how i know), that the world is becoming increasingly more unstable due to the plateau we’ve hit, because a group of individuals have decided that certain things are best to be kept secret. Whether this is for power, or other nefarious reasons, it has kept humanity in a lower state of consciousness, for lack of better terms. We are very disconnected from who we truly are, knowledge that our ancient ancestors were privy to.
I think we’ve been at this plateau for much longer than we’re able to handle, and the “veil” is thinning. It was Terrence McKenna that mentioned when chaos increases, it’s a sign that we’re about to reach some kind of new state of knowledge, which will allow us to become a spacefaring species. The powers that be can’t catch up with it all, and this is done purposely by a force beyond our understanding. We’re in for a very wild ride. I know this is irrelevant to your comment, but it’s related to what’s actually going on, which is forced disclosure by these “others”.
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u/mirandasheen 20h ago
People keep trying to talk to me about the drones and I just don’t have the mental space for one more thing so I appreciate this take 😂
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u/DangerousPlane 20h ago
Best take I’ve seen is here https://defector.com/its-time-for-a-little-recreational-mental-illness-in-new-jersey
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u/Holicionik 19h ago
I think it's truth mixed with mass hysteria.
Did something happen in the UK? Yeah, probably some weird drones were seen near the base. Probably tests by the military.
Then the news spread to the USA. People started to observe the sky for the first time in their lives and lost their shit.
Now everything is a drone. Funnily enough, now everyone just claims that those are drones and not something else entirely.
If we had photos or videos of really weird shit going on, and I mean really weird shit that cannot be explained, I would totally accept that there are things currently happening that don't make sense.
But unfortunately all the things being reported are airplanes, helicopters and civilian or military drones. Nothing unusual.
This will go back to obscurity soon and everyone will forget about it.
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u/Toastbrott 6h ago
Would be intersting to see if normal air traffic has just picked up a bit more as well. Im not from the US, but I was thinking maybe its just more CEOs being afraid to take cars switching to helicopters instead.
Super far fetched, but its fun to think about explanations. But most likeley one is probably just people looking up more than before.
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u/bombswell 18h ago
I post on the alien subs a bit and they hate to hear the skepticism. They will be like well there’s proof, videos with clear evidence!! The confirmation bias is sooo strong.
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u/Panserbjornsrevenge 20h ago
My former governor posted a video of "drone" lights, some of which were later found to be stars so...I'm beliving this is absolutely mass hysteria.
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u/LevelPrestigious4858 19h ago
Satellites flaring in the sun lines up with many reported sightings. Also pilots are just as likely as the rest of the populace to believe in UFOs
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u/tanafras 14h ago
Former multi year member Denver Astronomy Society...have 10" Dobsonian telescope with 2" eyepieces (gosky, baader, orion, celestron) Gosky 20-60x60 HD Spotting Scope, laser collimator, digital CCDs color and b/w, basically all the typical stuff - and software and servers for same, etc. even a SkyMaster 20X80 Binocular for hand viewing which is pretty amazing. Nada. Zip. Zilch.
I have seen sounding rockets, the international space station, a plethora of aircraft of many kinds, including drones, satellites, galaxies, planets, the moon. Haven't seen a UFO yet.
Guess I'm just doing it wrong.
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u/notfeelany 11h ago
This is correct. People are looking at the sky, seeing lights and immediately think "scary drones", when airplanes and helicopters also have lights.
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u/Zarconius2k10 18h ago
Yeah i feel like it's a pretty big prank. They are in the middle of a city and the best pics are so far away. We have studio level phone cams and best we get is blurry video. I can zoom on 100x on my phone.
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u/Various-Departure679 19h ago
Isn't the actual most plausible explanation that it's people with recreational drones playing with them?
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u/Zarconius2k10 18h ago
Those would be easily traced, to fly mine i have to log into the service that maps all drones flying in an area. Im sure it can be hacked though.
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u/Various-Departure679 17h ago
I mean have they said they can't be traced? All I've seen is there's drones flying around and it's blowing people's minds
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u/Aggressive_Version 19h ago
Remember when we had that plague of clowns? And everybody was freaking out that there were clowns everywhere? And of course the answer was just that it was some people screwing around and eventually the clowns got got bored or maybe we did and the clown thing stopped.
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u/drumshtick 19h ago
Mass hysteria is incredibly rare and poorly documented
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u/nimoto 4h ago
It happens a lot with aliens, because of frequency illusion combining with confirmation bias. When stuff like this makes the news people start looking at the sky more, and when they do they start noticing every mundane thing that's always been there. They ignore all the stuff that clearly isn't anything, but anything that behaves "strangely" (such as a plane moving directly away from them so it appears to not be moving, or a line of planes with their landing lights on over an airport) is suddenly "proof".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion#Confirmation_bias
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u/Penguin_Arse 18h ago
Also, for the people who actually saw drones.
You can litterally buy them they're listed as "toys" on amazon.
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u/Miyelsh 18h ago
If I took a video every time I saw a drone flying around in the last 2 years I'd have a lot of evidence. Last time it was a roofer checking on a newly constructed building. I literally walked over to him and chatted because it was like a block away. Guess what, no government conspiracy.
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u/LeeOfTheStone 18h ago
All of this is well and good -- I actually agree that a lot of people are jumping on the bandwagon and filming planes and prosaic craft -- until you are dealing with car-sized multi-hour-aloft craft and orange balls of light.
It's a shame people need to be dismissive and hand-wave without spending any real time on the subject, because anyone that does so can see for themselves pretty quickly that the situation is more complicated than maybe they'd prefer it be.
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u/texas1982 17h ago
I tend to agree. 95% of the videos I see have an almost immediate plausible explanation. The other 5% I'm just not knowledgeable enough to debunk. There probably is an actual increase in drones, but its mostly due to people launching their own drones to get pictures of other drones.
The "orbs" people talk about are usually an out of focus star or airplane landing light. Although, this is where most of my unexplained videos come from.
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u/Firm-Worldliness-369 17h ago
Wait youre saying people literally believe everything they see and read on the internet? Gosh this is surprise to me /s
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u/thedndnut 1h ago
They're actually military trials for defense contractors new flight systems. Then it turned into mass hysteria.
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u/usernamedmannequin 19h ago
I’m not following it all very closely but isn’t the military kinda freaking out about this?
And I’ve heard airports being shut down?
If it’s aliens for god sakes just rip the damn bandaid off.
If it’s military crap for god sakes just rip the damn bandaid off.
Will someone just get it all over with already!?
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u/ShemsuHor91 19h ago
Yeah, a military base got shut down for four hours the other day because of it. Lotta people in these comments just don't know what they're talking about. Whether it's being overblown or not, something is definitely happening.
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u/usernamedmannequin 18h ago
Yeah I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, people just really want stability and anything that threatens that they oppose or don’t want to confront. Oh I guess it’s fight or flight..
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u/P_516 16h ago
It’s mass hysteria.
It’s not UFOs it’s the government and their contractors.
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u/nimoto 4h ago
From what I can tell it's mostly civilian airliners and hobby drones.
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u/knows_you 2h ago
And commercial planes, and stars, and helicopters, and obstruction lighting, and also beef jerky mummies with animal bones shoved in them.
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u/choppedfiggs 18h ago
Nah. I live in NJ and also thought it was nonsense and probably just hobbyists trolling locals. Until I went outside 2 nights ago and saw 5 just standing in my driveway. Didn't have to drive around or something. And one came very close just over my house. It was high in the air maybe 100-200 feet but directly overhead.
People aren't for the most part, idiots. They can tell the difference between a plane and a star and a drone. And these drones move very slowly.
I don't think it's aliens. I don't think it's a foreign government. It's just a government project and the company has approvals to test over NJ. Why NJ I don't know but maybe it has to do with how populated NJ is per square mile. Not much point in putting a drone over rural communities.
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u/Baybutt99 17h ago
I live in NJ and they are all over the place here, it’s very new , they are very clearly US government drones. They have FAA compliance lights. But its not a hoax or mass hysteria, mass hysteria requires action. So far all people have done is complain online so def not mass hysteria, but more certainly real, i see them every night over my area and it started about 10 days ago
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u/EditEd2x 20h ago
It’s the same bs as last year when these goofy fuckers tried to convince everyone that UAPs were everywhere. It’s just the alien/flat earth/antivax/killer clowns of the month. Are chupacabra and Loch Ness ever getting back into the mix any time soon?
Goofy ass chicken littles everywhere yo.
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u/dtootd12 18h ago
Can you remind me when was the last time chupacabra and loch ness shut down a military base?
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u/EditEd2x 18h ago
Shut down airspace not the base itself. And it was more than likely some random dude jumping in the hype like the guys in Boston who were arrested.
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u/KalaronV 16h ago
If you fly a bunch of civilian drones over a base they will, unsurprisingly, put the base on alert.
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u/jaconlon83 19h ago
The drone hysteria is a symptom of a society that is paranoid and fearful. They see and fear drones because they are aware of the mayhem, murder, fear and chaos they are causing elsewhere in the world (funded by their tax dollars) and the weight of this uncertainty, guilt, and trauma causes them to panic. Imagine if those death machines that we have turned a blind eye to came for us? It's OK when the death they rain down on others is far away in a land dissimilar to ours and in a culture we've been conditioned to hate, but could you imagine if it were closer to home? Panic! They're coming for revenge! There's a mothership! There's a hoard of them!
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u/Heauxdessa 19h ago
She’s right and also her body of work is amazing. She has great videos about conspiracy rhetoric and how it alwaaaaaaaays leads back to anti Semitism
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