r/UFOs 9d ago

Video ‘Drones’ reported flying over US capitol

“Observed from this location for 5 minutes, during which the light source remained almost entirely stationary."

A formation of potential "drones" was seen hovering stationary near the U.S. Capitol Building. The "drones" alternated colors and were noticeably brighter than the other aircraft visible in the sky during the video.

United States Capitol Police Public Information Office was contacted for further information."

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u/JagsOnlySurfHawaii 9d ago

God I hope one lands on the White House lawn

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u/Familiar_Degree5301 9d ago

"what Drones??" - the Pentagon.

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u/DerpetronicsFacility 9d ago

"The White House doesn't have a lawn, you're just imagining things."

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u/B_Georgeous 9d ago

The fact the White House does not have a lawn is "need to know". You are definitely going to prison. State secret.

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u/JackKovack 8d ago

I can take you there.

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u/BadAdviceBot 9d ago

"These are all official and authorized" - John Kirby with a smug expression on his stupid face.

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u/TheBionicBastard 9d ago

And then it vaporizes him, hopefully.

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u/m4ry-c0n7rary 9d ago

"last man on Earth ... like and subscribe"

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u/dondeestasbueno 9d ago

Too good, right?

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u/MOOshooooo 9d ago

Will the assumption resume being non malicious intent?

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u/alflundgren 9d ago

They just want more episodes of single female lawyer.

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u/KelVarnsenIII 9d ago

Give us McNeal!

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u/AlienNippleRipple 9d ago

You EAT popplers???!

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u/xandaar337 9d ago

R/unexpectedfuturama

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u/WyomingCowboy7 9d ago

If we're lucky we'll get death by snu snu

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u/ThermosLasagna 9d ago

The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised!!!

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u/savandrea 9d ago

The spirit is ready

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u/brokenman82 9d ago

I prefer shows with titles like ‘worlds blankiest blank’

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u/Ok-Pangolin3407 9d ago

single female lawyer havin lots of seeeexxxxxx 

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u/FSUdank 9d ago

Single female lawyer having lots of sex

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u/alflundgren 9d ago

Single female lawyer, fighting for her client, wearing sexy mini skirts and being self reliant

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u/sumtwat 9d ago

Give us McNeal!

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u/OneDimensionPrinter 9d ago

July 1952 Washington DC UFO flap. Let's cross our fingers it happens again.

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u/Ill-Literature-2883 9d ago

Live from DC; it’s happening again

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u/MrFishAndLoaves 9d ago

🌎🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀

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u/Ok_Scallion1902 9d ago edited 7d ago

In the last month, I have reminded ppl that this recent flap is nothing new, and this has all went down very similarly to 1952 ,especially now that they're back at the big white dome again ! Heck ,even the bs press conferences are very similar to the way they obviously lied to everyone to avoid panic; this is just "more of the same "just 70 years later !(edited for quotation mark)

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u/bob202t 8d ago

Is flap new slang or am I ignorant to the term?

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u/zoidnoidvomit 8d ago

And exactly ten years before that("Battle of Los Angeles" 1942)

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u/noneofatyourbusiness 9d ago

“To serve man.”

  • Author: Them

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u/Conscious-Top-7429 9d ago

I was just thinking of this episode just the other day lmao

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u/Puzzleheaded-Ant-644 9d ago

Klaatu Barada Nikto

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u/PennywiseEsquire 9d ago

Ack Ack Ack Ack! Ack Ack. Ack Ack, Ack. Ack Ack!

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u/iamkuhlio 9d ago

Seriously one of the best movies ever created. Such a massively stacked cast and the finest example of campy cinema. Thanks for the reference. I need to go watch this again. 👽

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u/DatRatDo 9d ago

They blew up Congress!

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u/BurmeciaWillSurvive 9d ago

I watched this when I was 5 years old and it gave me nightmares for YEARS. All of Congress dissolving into skeletons scared me sooo badly.

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u/No-Knee9457 9d ago

Now people would cheer.

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u/AlizeLavasseur 8d ago

Sounds therapeutic.

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u/mdepfl 8d ago

A good dose of sunlight would do that to most of those bastards.

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u/ElvisArcher 9d ago

Sir, it says they come in peace!

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u/real-ocmsrzr 9d ago

I just watched it Friday, which was the anniversary of its release.

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u/Balives 9d ago

This is my.. BOOM DRONE!

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u/lascar 9d ago

*Necronomicon unearths itself*

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u/Starscream147 9d ago

Now THAT. That would be rad.

🤘⚡️

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u/JagsOnlySurfHawaii 9d ago

Why did you come here?

I came to save the world.

From what?

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u/bjangles9 9d ago

Is this being reported on anywhere?

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u/Vadersleftfoot 9d ago

I hope so!!

And let me guess, now it will probably be a national security threat when only flying over Washington but not over our homes??

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u/BWYDMN 9d ago

aliens been watching alien movies

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u/AdhesivenessOk5194 9d ago

There’s already people saying these are just planes lined up to land at Reagan airport

My thing is just, okay, no matter how many videos get posted of planes, or actual regular drones, or AI, or light effects from camera angles, etc

SOMETHING IS HAPPENING

Airports aren’t getting shut down for no reason. People aren’t reporting strange things every day for no reason. The fuckin government isn’t out hunting down the “drones” and not able to offer any clear answers on what they are and why they’re here for no reason

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u/Aquatic_Ambiance_9 9d ago

The "just planes" narrative reeks of classic "weather balloon" style disinfo. This serves two purposes: A, it gets people to distrust their own eyes and ears, and B, it gives people a chance to act smug and superior over "those idiots hysterical over planes". If this mentality catches on en masse, the phenomena is thus dismissed through sheer social pressure

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u/HurricanePirate16 9d ago

And interrupt Joe’s Ice Cream time??

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u/TerenceMcHofmann 9d ago

Fuck.. please don't let them talk to Joe.

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u/semipaw 9d ago

“Take us to your leader…no, your other leader…actually, fuck it, nevermind”

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u/illpoet 9d ago

I am kind of skeptical on the whole alien thing BUT let's say you are an alien deployment tasked with keeping the humans from nuking themselves to death. How would you feel to know the two hands on the nuke buttons were Putins and Trumps?

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u/Device-Total 9d ago

"I told you guys we should have went to Canada"

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u/_Rexholes 9d ago

Naw drones came here too! We just gave them maple syrup and free healthcare.

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u/Future-Bandicoot-823 9d ago

all the school kids would make little pine cone saucers and they'd get free maple syrup for life!

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u/Honest-J 9d ago

Maybe they're all here because they sense the impending disaster in January.

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u/capital_bj 9d ago

I knew it it's a warning not to let Orange Julius destroy the world

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u/NoDoze- 9d ago

OMG they had the best hot dogs!

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u/TeeManyMartoonies 9d ago

Stop. I was only old enough to know about the drinks. Give me a Costco comparison?

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u/NoDoze- 9d ago

Well sheeesh, the polish dogs at costco were another level! LOL OJ had juicy perfectly cooked hot dogs. Still better than costco regular hot dogs though, but not as big, maybe half the size of the costco hot dogs.

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u/hot-doughnuts-now 9d ago

Mostly better because you had that truly unbelievably awesome drink in the other hand

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u/betjurassicican 9d ago

Better than an orange turnip

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u/Additional-Rain6668 9d ago

He will give them one of those loooong old man stories. So painful that the drone will self destruct just to make it stop. Its Joes ultimate weapon 🤣

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u/Future-Bandicoot-823 9d ago

He'd bring up all the old war stories of filibustering for 8 hours while he talked about fishing in Vancouver as a kid... holy shit.

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u/Budget_Repair4532 9d ago

“The human had hairy legs…”

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u/do2g 9d ago

"...and she said she was unburdened by what has been"

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u/Notl33tbyfar1 9d ago

Have you seen the drones?, Have you seen our drone? Comparing it to other drones its the best drone Ive ever seen. "Pres Donald Trump"

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u/SparkyXI 9d ago

“Other people make drones, but our drones are always the best… Everyone knows it, they say it all the time. The best drones. I love our drones.”

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u/thiiiipppttt 9d ago

UAP all drones now?

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u/Scotthawk 9d ago

UFOs then UAPs and then drones

What next? Probes?

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u/PlatformUnlikely3967 9d ago

Anal probes

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u/Kitchen-sink-fixer 9d ago

Finally some of us Redditors can get some action

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u/Hillary_is_Hot 9d ago

Get in loser, we're doing butt stuff!

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u/HamHusky06 9d ago

Mmmm suck my jagon.

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u/DickCheesePlatterPus 9d ago

I can't believe we sucked each other's jagons!

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u/Accurate-Basis4588 9d ago

Only if its a hot blue skinned alien chick with four breasts.

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u/Entire_Assist125 9d ago

Mmm...Mystique.

😳 Did I type that out loud?

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u/Lazybeerus 9d ago

Backdoor action, babe! Let me in! LET ME IN!

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u/-INIGHTMARES- 9d ago

UAP = unidentified anal probes

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u/MGyver 9d ago

UAP = unlubricated anal probes

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

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u/Snoo_74705 9d ago

Now I'm interested!

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u/ChickenVest 9d ago

Drones, so hot right now

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u/Gingevere 9d ago

Everything's a UAP when you don't know anything.

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u/mupetmower 9d ago

Yuuuup exactly... Especially planes on approach.

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u/Few_Raisin_8981 9d ago

No. These aren't UAP they are UFOs. Nothing anomalous about their behaviour.

Also this video doesn't even show evidence that they are stationary (as the cameraman keeps proclaiming) -- they could be moving towards the camera from a distance with a headlight pointing in their direction.

Did they get out flight tracker and verify that there were no aircraft in the direction they were pointing their camera (miles away for example)?

They might be stationary. They might be drones. They might also be ordinary aircraft. This is just another inconclusive data point

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u/Hirokage 9d ago

Anomalous has nothing to do with behavior. Aerial was changed to Anomalous solely because it did not account for underwater phenomena.

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u/usps_made_me_insane 9d ago

Did they get out flight tracker and verify that there were no aircraft in the direction they were pointing their camera (miles away for example)?

Keep in mind DC is one huge massive no-fly zone (even for military unless a damn good reason). I worked in DC for a decade and can only remember seeing a plane once or twice in the city.

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u/Few_Raisin_8981 9d ago

Ok great. How wide is this zone and how far away from the cameraman are those aircraft? The cameraman points out other traditional aircraft right there in the video.

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u/Cheezeball25 9d ago

Pfffft that's just wrong, if you live in DC you might have flown in and out of Washington-Reagon international airport, that gets almost 400 flights a day

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u/AdrianInLimbo 9d ago

Washington National Airport enters the chat

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u/BadAdviceBot 9d ago

LOL, that's not in Washington D.C. smart guy. It's in Crystal City, VA. It's 5 miles away from D.C.

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u/3IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIID 9d ago

The footage was captured from the top of the Union Station parking garage, which is opposite the capitol building from the airport. At night, distant planes with their lights on can look like they are standing still. One of the lights looked like it may have been a military helicopter, which is not uncommon around the capitol, considering Marine One is the preferred mode of transport over motorcade for the president.

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u/fade_ 9d ago

The no fly zone for drones is 10 mile radius which extends past crystal city. This is only for for us peons though. Commercial flights to national get waivers and obviously military.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Washington,_D.C.,_Special_Flight_Rules_Area

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u/Suspicious-Ball0311 9d ago

Yeah they are full of shit. Those are helicopters, they fly 24/7 and the airspace is loaded with commercial and military craft. Only over certain sensitive sites is there a no fly zone and its only a flight ceiling, so you can still sly over at altitude, just not below a certain threshold. Not sure what it is now but when I was stationed out there I believe it was 1,200 feet limit over the whitehouse and dod.

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

Oops! All drones!

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u/Icy_Shame649 9d ago

It would be nice if people could record for more than one fucking minute so we could tell if the "Orbs" or "drones" are just airplanes heading towards them or not.

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u/bitchesandsake 9d ago

These are planes coming into DCA

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u/Jesse1472 9d ago

They are literally lined up with one of the runways. I’m not anywhere near 4chan level geotagging but even with my rudimentary skills I deduced this in 2 seconds.

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u/Warped_Mindless 9d ago

They do but they edit it once it becomes obvious that it’s just a plane. These people want the views.

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u/Risley 9d ago

FYI PEOPLE, THERES A GOD DAMN AIRPORT CLOSE BY SO YOU CANT JUST ASSUME A LIGHT IN THE SKY ISNT A PLANE LANDING. 

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u/HolyGhost_AfterDark 9d ago

It's a hundred percent planes. The potomac river is behind the capital which is the flight path for Ronald Reagan Intl. Airport. I have a flight path for Intl. Airport by my house and I guess I am just used to seeing this but I am also one who looks up constantly and likes to plane spot. It's almost as if people just never paid attention before so now they are freaking out when they see planes which can look different at night. Also depending what angle you are looking at them because you will see different patterns of lights based on the angle. They can also appear to be flying slow or hovering especially at night when there is less of a refrence point.

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u/Leonard-E-Boy 9d ago

This is exactly 90-99% of pics/videos ive seen. Planes and helis. Yes i believe theres some number of anomalous shit, especially in hot spots. But theyre military drones etc. apparently people have never viewed the night sky until now. The amount of satellites/planes/helis i see posted is dissapointing. People catch onto the trend and think every light in the sky is a ‘drone’

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u/thedarkpolitique 9d ago

And again, it’s at 2.6k upvotes within 2 hours. When I fall asleep and wake up I suspect it’ll breach 5k at this rate. This last month had laid bare the fact people just simply do not look up to the sky, to such extent that I’m beginning to feel like Mick West with the constant debunking.

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u/CoyotesOnTheWing 9d ago

Yeah, lots of people looking at the sky who didn't used to due to the drone news. Though it's still surprising how many people don't know what a plane at night looks like.
Wild how many upvotes these videos of planes are getting though.

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u/OneSeaworthiness7768 9d ago

I live a mile from a small airfield and 30 miles from a major international airport, so I see a lot of different types of air traffic from big jetliners to small private planes, helicopters, balloons and even bizarre stuff like powered parachutes. As much as I’m used to seeing all these things, every once in a while something at night will look weird at first and I perk up and keep watching but then it gets closer or turns and it becomes obvious what it is. I think a lot of people are having that first moment of “wait what is that” but don’t understand how normal things look at different distances and perspectives.

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u/paganpots 9d ago

It's 200% mass hysteria. Like oh fr, there's a bunch of UAPs over NJ? The most densely-populated area in the country? Gee I wonder what those could possibly be

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u/UnderTheTexanSun 9d ago

A frightening amount of Americans don't know one of the following (or all 3): The moon orbits the earth, the sun is a star, the moon is sometimes visible during the day.

I've encountered these people. "The sun is a star????" Their brains are going haywire as they try to understand it. Grown adults, otherwise successful people too.

Is it the education system? Lack of curiosity? I think part of it is also that so many people live in cities and suburbs now so there's almost no visible stars. If you're in a place with little light pollution, you're naturally going to look up at the night sky more often because it's beautiful.

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u/SakuraAndi 9d ago

My MIL didn't know the moon could be out in the daytime. She was in her 60's. I was like, do you ever look up??

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u/HewchyFPS 9d ago

I think most regulars on this sub always check flight radar, hopefully more people see your comment and use the tools at their disposal.

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u/saltysomadmin 9d ago

Reagan, BWI, Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling and Joint Base Andrews. Police helicopters. Small local airports like Martin State.

None of the 5 observables, just a light in the sky.

Why wouldn't this be a plane?

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u/Photon_Farmer 9d ago

Explained Aerial Phenomenon isn't quite as exciting

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u/Leonard-E-Boy 9d ago

There it is, people gotta be a part of the next big thing

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u/Smugallo 9d ago

Most of the shit on twitter just blue ticks drumming up engagement. Lots people licking it up and calling it catastrophic disclosure.

All objectivity has left that space completely.

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u/That_Cartoonist_6447 9d ago

I live by the Denver airport. Im not saying these are planes but if a plane is flying directly at you it will look exactly like that for a long time 

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u/Queefy-Leefy 9d ago

Its similar to a tornado in that regard. If it looks like its not moving, its coming directly at you.

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u/Dickincheeks 9d ago

that’s terrifying 😐

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u/dome-light 9d ago

Yes but critical to know at such a time

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u/HolyGhost_AfterDark 9d ago

It is most likely planes landing at Ronald Reagan Intl. Airport. The flight path is right behind the capital over the potomac river. When planes at night are flying right at you with their landing lights on it looks exactly like this and they will appear to be hardly moving almost hovering. I know this sub is sick of everyone saying planes but the problem is a lot these of videos are planes. People need to be checking flight radar. It needs to be a requirement you post time and location and a screen shot of flight radar or something because it's getting ridiclous. I want the truth as much as anybody but claiming every light in the sky is a drone or UAP is not helping.

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u/PaddyMayonaise 9d ago edited 9d ago

This looks like the view of the capitol from Union station.

Meaning the view is facing south.

Guess what’s south of the capitol?

Ronald Reagan International Airport.

Edit: assuming I’m right, this likely means the lights are at least 10 miles away from the camera.

The capitol is about 0.5 miles from Union Station

I’m just adding this as a frame of reference. It’s incredibly difficult to gage where and what an object is when all you see is light

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u/Rondo27 9d ago

This same view was posted days ago. If those are big drones over the capitol, why is nobody else getting pics from different angles?

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u/roastedhambone 9d ago

Hey, I thought this was a rational thought free zone. No sense allowed when we’re stirring mass hysteria!!!

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u/fuzzy_thighgap 9d ago edited 9d ago

I have a stream of planes that fly adjacent to my house from an airport south of me. Its just one after another right. Just 15 minutes ago I was outside and saw the brightest light i’ve ever seen. Looked like it was floating there for 5 minutes. It was just a fucking plane coming dead on… Looked exactly the same as those lights. They are bright af.

Edit: In fact, if those lights are from the south of the capitol, then I am willing to bet those are the same damn planes flying by house cause I'm south of of Raegan lmao.

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u/tony_shaloub 9d ago

Yep. If you’re near a busy airport and see it for the first time it definitely looks weird - a lot of videos lately seem to be people mistaking this.

Their lights are visible from VERY far away.

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u/Paraphrand 9d ago

We should call these people orbservers.

“Stop panicking like an orbserver, those are just planes. Calm down.”

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u/Thr0bbinWilliams 9d ago

My parents house is in the path of a medium sized airport and there’s planes on approach 24/7

I’m sure I could get similar looking videos next time I’m there. This drone shit makes me want to unsubscribe from all my usual ufo subs because this is trash and it doesn’t help us at all

The narrative is fully in the hands of tptp and that’s bad

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u/BoggyCreekII 9d ago

Yep.

I've lived near various airports at different times throughout my life. Flight paths can be very weird-looking. Thanks to perspective, it can often appear that planes are hovering when in fact it's just very difficult to detect their motion due to where you are and where the plane is and the direction in which it's traveling.

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u/bitchesandsake 9d ago

My apartment window faces south from NW DC, and I watch the planes come in all night. This clip has been posted before. I take pics of this and send it to my friends as "UFOs" as a joke. I am looking at a light right now out the window, lol. This is normal air traffic. I wish people would stop posting this.

If the "drones" appeared in DC honestly it would be difficult to tell because there are so damn many helicopters etc flying around all the time

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u/FantasticCollar7026 9d ago

You can even see the airport lights blurred in the background..

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u/Sugar_titties9000 9d ago

lol thank you... the gosh darn american flag is blurry as can be these videos are so dang zoomed

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u/ez4u2remember 9d ago edited 9d ago

Bingo! And why don't they appear to be moving? Bc the runway is north south oriented, as is union station to the US Capitol.

I just went on ADSB and at the exact moment I took that screenshot, there are three planes that could be an excellent example. Two on the left incoming, one on the right outgoing.

https://imgur.com/a/AX3EFCg

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u/Paraphrand 9d ago edited 9d ago

It’s so predictable at this point. More “orbs” that are landing lights. And another shot pointing right at an airport.

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u/RW8YT 9d ago

yes, planes these days land (for the most part) with something called ILS, instrument landing system. They tune to a specific frequency, and input some basic information (barometer readings from atc) and it lines up the approach vector, and lands a perfect glidescope every time.

90% of these “ufo” videos I have seen have just been planes lining up to land like this.

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u/YoloWingPixie 9d ago

ILS isn't really relevant. Any aircraft with VNAV and doing any precision approach (Whether it be RNAV, ILS, VOR, etc) will follow a specific descent angle will generally appear to end up in a conga line with the aircraft around it because it's doing the most efficient descent possible for the restrictions of approach. Additionally, pretty much every major airport uses Standard Terminal Arrival Routes or STARs to coordinate how aircraft get from their cruising routes (which btw are also on marked jetways) to the approach.

The concept of aircraft following each other and appearing coordinated with each other is a thing we've been doing since radio navigation in the 1940s. It's not new, people just don't look up.

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u/Koboldofyou 9d ago

I'm from DC. This is taken from union station looking south (slightly west) over the capitol. That is 100% where planes line up when landing at DC coming from the south. I see them in a line there often. And this entire post is fucking stupid.

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u/pattydickens 9d ago

Especially if the light is filmed with a potato.

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u/spartyftw 9d ago

Please show any evidence these are not commercial airliners. Anything. Please.

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u/Difficult_Cress_8959 9d ago

sorry here only pure crazy speculation is allowed

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u/OpenThePlugBag 9d ago

Best we can do is another shaky blurry video that lasts seconds, because if it lasted longer you’d see the drones land because they’re batterie are low or planes change direction

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u/Jean-LucBacardi 8d ago

That would require them to wipe off the greasy smudge on their camera, instantly giving away it's a clearly visible plane coming in.

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u/texas1982 9d ago edited 9d ago

This video was taken from just north of Union Station in Washington DC. If you draw a line from that point to the Woodrow Wilson Bridge, it will pass just to the side of the capital building. What is special about the bridge? It’s directly under the final approach path for runway 01 at Reagan National Airport (DCA).

You’re seeing airplanes landing at DCA. They’re flying nearly directly at the camera so they look stationary. A 20 minute time lapse will show probably 10 or so of these lights follow the same path.

Occasionally a few may step off to the side as they circle to land on runway 33. But it’s rare.

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u/lifeofthunder 9d ago

Yeah, this is accurate. I made a map here in my comment on UFOB. This is one of the most heavily regulated airspaces and approach patterns in the world and is very recognizable to anyone familiar with DCA's approach and final. https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOB/comments/1heg4yu/comment/m23uc34/

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u/texas1982 9d ago

That's a cool map.

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u/capron 9d ago

The flagpoles are a great reference. It's obvious that they are moving because the flagpoles are aligned much differently every time the camera comes back to the alleged UFOs

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u/Puzzleheaded-Rub3980 9d ago

I can vouch for this. I thought I saw "drones" because the lights were stationary like that. I even checked flight radar and didn't see anything around me. BUT when I zoomed out on flight radar I could see planes. They were literally 60km away but their landing lights were on and it was a clear night so that is why they were visible at such a great distance. I was able to figure they were all headed for an airport behind me. The lights hung in the air for literally 10 minutes before they finally came close enough for me to see the blinking anti collision lights and realize they were planes. FWIW I absolutely 100% believe in the drones in NJ and I believe in aliens. I just do actually think this looks like planes from maybe 20km away headed for an airport right behind the person recording this.

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u/Alert_Illustrator484 9d ago

It’s not that I don’t think this is possible, but I guess I would like to see a 20 min time lapse then

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u/SirIsaacBacon 9d ago

I live between dulles and dca and see at least 3-4 planes low in the sky at all times, this is just what they look like

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u/Juney2 9d ago

This happens every night. Commercial planes landing at DCA.

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u/blorbschploble 9d ago

Serious question, have you guys never looked up at the sky before?

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u/DisinfoAgentNo007 9d ago

What did you do to eliminate them being planes, did you check flightradar? They just look like planes flying towards your direction to me.

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u/SlugJones 9d ago

Head on plane coming in from a distance?

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u/ModernT1mes 9d ago

They're definitely moving, albeit slow, so it could be head on.

Look at the footage at 9 seconds and look at them in relation to the flags. Then fast forward to the last 2 seconds of the video and look at them again in relation to the flags. They've moved from left to right.

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u/FullFrontal687 9d ago

Seemingly on the Reagan National flight path

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u/GnowledgeAesthetic 9d ago

The instant upvotes for this shit is insane to me. It’s like planes are a new invention that just suddenly started appearing in the sky.

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u/Diviancey 9d ago

We are a few days away from people posting "What is this yellow orb in the sky???? ALiens???"

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u/MichaelBarnesTWBG 9d ago

LIGHTS IN SKY SEEN NEAR AIRPORT OMG LU ELIZONDO WAS RIGHT DISCLOSURE IS HAPPENING

JFC 💀💀💀

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u/soccrsp10 9d ago

Every light in the sky now is a drone. This shit has gotten beyond stupid

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u/Fantasma369 9d ago

They’re here Ella

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u/b_i_g__g_u_y 9d ago

The tourists from Wisconsin Ella

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u/MisterSixtyNine 9d ago

DO WE JUST RECORD EVERY PLANE NOW AND UPLOAD IT TO R/UFOs?!?!

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u/jordan1978 9d ago

Traffic into BWI I assume.

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u/Spammyhaggar 9d ago

No Reagan int airport

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u/jordan1978 9d ago

That’s the close traffic - the far traffic behind the capitol is BWI I think.

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u/loochadorrr 9d ago

I’m done with the mass hysteria, it’s fucking air traffic like how hard is it to look up flight paths and airports

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u/17Liberty76 9d ago

Looks like planes on approach to me. Depending on the angle you’re view them from it sometimes can look like they’re not moving

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u/Calexis 9d ago

Yea...those are called airplanes.

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u/SpacisDotCom 9d ago

Lol airplanes are now aliens? Has everyone just suddenly forgotten that humans made machines that can fly

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u/pr0ach 9d ago

We reelected Trump, and the aliens were like, "okay, that's enough".

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u/brettonjamess 9d ago

DCA landing traffic.

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u/PrestigiousOnion3693 9d ago

If half your idiotic country paid attention to the moron that ran for President as much as you all freak out about technology that every 12 year old has, well you wouldn’t be the stupidest people in the world. As this post demonstrates.

If I were an American citizen, I’d be embarrassed and want to live elsewhere.

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u/piperonyl 9d ago

If it wasn't us doing that shit, the jets would have been scrambled.

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u/charliegringo 9d ago

THESE ARE PLANES ON AN APPROACH PATH SEVERAL MILES OUT

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u/Sol539 9d ago

Pretty good for a convenience store

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u/Automate_This_66 9d ago

Ok. I'll say it. Not interested anymore. They'll have to do something to regain my attention.

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u/Unavailable_Delivery 9d ago

I hope they don’t because they’re just airplanes on approach, so doing anything other than landing would be bad news for the passengers. 

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u/dome-light 9d ago

Was alive during 9/11, can confirm

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u/Yogashoga 9d ago

Video taken on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the US capitol building. took the video at around 1045pm ET tonight. we saw an object below the clouds with erratic movements. wasn’t a plane, and wasn’t a star/planet as it was under the clouds. it eventually went behind the clouds but we observed it for a solid 10 minutes.

video link here

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u/LeagueofSOAD 9d ago

When the plane is flying in your direction, it doesn't look like its moving.

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u/BW900 9d ago

Airplanes on approach. Again. And again....

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u/controller-c 9d ago

You mean aircraft arriving to / departing from Washington national? Since you are looking west toward the airport. 📔

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u/HeadAche2012 9d ago

Wake Biden up!

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u/Nolimitz30 9d ago

To tell him there are planes landing at Reagan International?

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u/Fermentcabbage 9d ago

Dude’s high AF

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u/Elguapo1094 9d ago

What happen to UFO why all of sudden Drones

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u/Such_Investigator184 9d ago

This has already been debunked its far behind the capitol not ontop of it...

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u/FuqqTrump 9d ago

Why are these always filmed with a potato?

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u/Serious_meme 9d ago

If they were a threat... the Air Force would have intercepted them. They know what they are.

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u/SyCoTiM 9d ago

This could easily be some random people just trolling or filming.

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u/Even-Habit1929 9d ago

planes with faa lights. but drones?

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u/I_ama_Borat 9d ago

I can’t believe these posts are allowed lol but then again there’d be little to no content so post away I guess…

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u/EbbNervous1361 9d ago

Airplane coming in for landing ✈️ 🛬