rdm<p>It struck me recently that the current drone panic in the USA is oddly familiar.</p><p>Then I remembered where I had seen it before. In reports from the 1960s and 1970s when there were floods of UFO sightings. They even had a word for it: "A UFO Flap". </p><p>That is what we are seeing now. A Drone Flap. 50% misidentification of common objects (weather balloons, aircraft, Venus), 49% mass hysteria, .99% legit drones being used for perfectly legal purposes, and .001% something else.</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/DronePanic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DronePanic</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NJDrone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NJDrone</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/UFOPanic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UFOPanic</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/WeveSeenItAllBefore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WeveSeenItAllBefore</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/UFOFlap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UFOFlap</span></a></p>