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My $300 night vision monocular showed me a drone doing something weird | Conspiracy Debates - Librear

My $300 night vision monocular showed me a drone doing something weird

Got this used gen 2 monocular off a forum guy for 300 bucks, mostly to watch coyotes on my buddy's farm near Waco. Last Tuesday I aimed it at a blinking light that was hovering still over the tree line. It didn't move like a plane or a bird, it dropped straight down to the field, sat dark for like 4 minutes, then shot up and left. No noise at all, and my ears are good. I checked flight radar apps and nothing showed in that area. I know tech like this has limits and could be parallax or my eyes playing tricks, but the descent was too mechanical. Has anyone else seen ground drones doing pickups at night and actually tried tracking one to the source?

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the_logan15d ago

Living near a farm myself, I've watched plenty of stuff at night that made me question my own eyes, so you're not crazy for wanting a second opinion on this. That four minute dark sit is the part that would bug me too, since even a battery swap on a racing quad takes maybe 30 seconds tops, not that long. Maybe set up a cheap trail cam pointed at that field next time and see if it catches anything the monocular misses.

rileynguyen15d ago

That mechanical drop you're talking about reminds me of when I used to fly racing quads and we'd mess with the GPS return to home. If someone killed the throttle manually it would just fall dead straight, then they punch it and its gone. Four minutes of dark sit time is the weird part though. That's way too long for a normal drone loiter, that's either a payload drop or someone swapping a battery in the grass. What part of Waco are you near, because there's a fair amount of ag drone testing out that way and those guys fly at night to dodge the heat. If you see it again try noting the exact time and direction it leaves, that's usually enough to figure out the launch point.