I would do it myself if I had the equipment or money. But, I could volunteer to be part of any operation to capture the rogue drones.
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A really thoughtless proposal. Might work if one had practiced and scored trial captures. But this would be like going out in a fishing boat to bag some mysterious large ocean life. It could easily end badly. If the object in the net was not deterred from action by the net, it could foul the helicopter and then you would have a helicopter crash in some neighborhood, killing all on board and possibly everyone beneath. The epitaph? "Seemed like a good idea at the time."
At least the military has a greater appreciation of what they can't do.
And one other thing; The only thing the military is doing about those drones is playing grab-ass, and acting like they don't know anything about them, while simultaneously indicating that these drones are no threat. The Pentagon cannot be trusted in this matter, which is why patriots should take action.
Yeaaaahhhh…the shots are ‘safe’ and ‘effective’…
I’m sure the drones are no threat…
That doesn't follow at all. Do you KNOW they are not a danger if molested? Nobody's even obtained clear photographs of them. (The ones shown on a recent podcast are optical artifacts resulting from lack of focus.) If the military is obtaining signals intelligence data from these objects, would it make sense for them to say so out loud, for the benefit of whoever is operating them?
I am not risk averse, let's find out. And, I am quite certain that Uncle Sam has very clear, and detailed photos of the things- which for some odd reason they are not sharing with the public. Those drones flying in our airspace over the heads of American civilians is a tree that needs shaking.
Imagine this happening during the 1950's or 60's. This would be a non-stop media frenzy, and the govt. and president would sure as hell be talking about it, not hiding what they know. This is bad shit, and the public needs to know what is going on.
You may not be risk averse, but the folks below you might be. If you have no idea of the risk, you are just foolhardy. And impatient. Not a good combination. I've seen test film of an antipersonnel warhead in action and that is a good thing to stay far away from.
What you can't seem to grasp is that the military does not yet know anything. (That's been the big secret all along with UFOs, although these are not like classical UFOs.) They may be trying to track their guidance communications to determine from where they are being controlled, and possibly how to jam their communications. SIGINT takes time. And, once they get that information, it may be sensitive enough not to publish.
In the 1950s and 1960s, this technology didn't exist, so the comparison is empty. There were plenty of UFO sightings, resulting sporadic news coverage, occasional congressional committee meetings...and generally forgotten by everyone, so that the current crop of sightings are treated as though they were somehow new or novel. In those days, we had Russian A-bombs and intercontinental missiles to keep us worried.
This is where the cell phone relay towers should be dual-purposed as a distributed radar network.
I agree that big net would not be the safest way to capture one. But, latching grapple hooks and cables with weights attached to one of them may work better. Or, some other creative method.
Just keep adding more hooks and weight as needed to force it to gradually lower its altitude.
Anyways, leaving them up there to do whatever it is they are doing is based on the assumption that they are harmless.
I do not concur with that assumption. Take the fucking things out, or else come clean with the facts that we know about what they are, and what they are doing.
There are plenty of people who make really big mistakes by trying to approach bison or bears in Yellostone National Park. Those animals are harmless, too---if they are unmolested. It is probably the military's OBSERVATION that they are so far harmless, and the deduction that if they were of harmful intent, that would have been clear at the outset.
It does seem that they have some kind of proximity detection, and if they are the size of an SUV (as claimed), you have no idea if they are carrying the equivalent of the Mother of All Claymore Mines aboard as a fireworks greeting for any amorous intent. You don't want half a dozen of self-forging steel needles to zip through your helicopter wall, through you, and out the other wall.