Assuming our nighttime skies are actually being flooded with drones, there are important questions that no one seems to be asking.
Sure, the obvious questions are about who owns the drones, what their intentions are and why the government says it can’t detect them. But, there are two other seemingly obvious, yet overlooked, questions about the ongoing torrent of reported drone sightings.
- Why Are the Drones Still There?
Now that the drones have made national news, why haven’t they run off and hid?
When a criminal finds out that he’s on camera, he doesn’t hang around there waiting for the police to come and arrest him – he leaves and goes somewhere less conspicuous. Why would the drones be any different?
There are a few possibilities:
- Why Is the FAA Issuing Drone Bans?
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is continuing to issue more and more edicts banning and threatening drones in dozens of areas of the U.S. – but, why?
Why are they banning something they can’t detect and claim doesn’t exist?
If the government can’t detect the drones, then they can’t enforce the bans. They can’t do anything about something they can’t see.
Perhaps, when drones are reported in a particular area, the U.S. military could fire blindly into the sky above, hoping to hit them – but, that would create an entirely different set of problems.
Sadly, there is at least one possible reason for issuing the utterly impotent bans: to make an empty gesture designed to ease citizens' concerns without actually addressing them.