A February police report indicates that Tucson police chased a mystery drone across the city at more than 100 miles per hour. The FBI is now looking for the pilot.
Close, but almost. I live in Point Loma, San Diego Ca. Google map my neighborhood and you’ll see just how close we are to Naval Base North Island. Wonderful things are always flying or utilizing the ocean around us. 🇺🇸
Lol but geese can’t fly 100 mph, and I don’t think they fly at 14,000 feet either lol. Probably some sick military drone that we don’t know about yet. If the story is even true that is.
I HIGHLY DOUBT this was a drone. Most likely a wing. You can buy a wing on ebay that can go 100 MPH EASY for $100 and it can fly for an hour at those speeds. It takes very little skill to build and fly
@@StreetMachine18 my $100 wing can fly for an hour, ,can go 100 mph+, and has infinite range if using cell towers and GPS. It's not rocket science, any idiot with youtube and the skills to solder and draw a flight path can do this. I'm being dead serious it's stupid easy
it was most definitely a propeller driven wing. ( like the shape of the B-2 ) My single motor wing can fly over an hour and can cruise at 80MPH. If you program a flight path using GPS the only limit is battery life.
@ShaunDoesMusic they objects that the military called foo fighters in ww2.. They have been proven to be very large, they don't make any sound and turn on a dime
More like. Cop#1 "hey you want to test this helicopter to its limits" Cop#2 "I mean yeah, but boss would be on us about it and wasting the super expensive fuel for no reason..." Cop#3"ive got an idea, but we all gotta agree on it okay? Let's say a drone almost crashed into us, and we chased it trying to stop them but it was insanely fast and maneuverable... but we gotta say it was stealth because our cameras won't have evidence" Cop#1 "man you're a genius, let's do it buckle up"
@@helpabrothawithasubisaiah5316 My first thought was the CIA or NSA paid the cops some moonlighting money and had them sign a NDA with criminal penalties so they could create propaganda to make the Chinese and Russians think the US military has some new super drone technology. But when I saw your post I then realized the whole thing was much simpler than I thought. Either way, there was no drone.
That's what I was wondering too... at 0:53 they did say that it had a "green light" on its belly, but could see nothing else. I guess it was just the green light they saw, and chased after what it was attached to.
@@ErrorAcquired Not just Police but Government. In Canada you can't fly a drone over any public lands, Near anyone or within a kilometer of ANY man made construction of any kind. Which means you can be charged for flying within a kilometer of a single fence post in the middle of no where if someone complains or even if they just say a complaint was made through a tip line. Government also allow people to post their land as no drones so you can't fly over it. You can very literally own a quarter section of land and they can charge you for going to the geographical center of that property taking off Hovering and landing if any neighbor complains as a kilometer is a bit over the 1/2 mile. The only way to be entirely safe from Government laws on where you can legally fly laws you must own 4 sections of land in a square together where you can fly below 300ft in line of sight circles. And even with all of that and required licenses and registration. If a plane or Helicopter break the law and fly into your allowed air space hitting you. Well, that's your fault also. 100% liability is on you. We used to be a free country. No more! And the US is right on our heels into authoritarian rule.
Assuming it ever existed, which it didn't. We in the UK have just found out that our government has a Behavioural insight department more commonly known as the nudge team so it's guaranteed the USA has something similar in spades and this sort of untruth will be used to justify remote ID.
@@Wayzor_ Imagine living through the last 18 months of complete governmental lies and manipulation, where the tinfoil hat wears were finally vindicated after all these years of being called lunatics, and then attempting to use that term in a derogatory manner. That's you.
@@dananorth895 this is the fearmongering they want you to worry about, GOD FORBID " put situation that hasnt happened yet but you think up of in your mind" AH yes lets find reasons to oppress people we havent thought of yet.
@@meestameestaaaaaa Depends. A lot of people use the term "drone" to mean a quad-copter, like the one the reporter showed, and only that. There can also be fixed-wing drones, which can be faster and have greater endurance that the copter type drones. If that is what they were chasing, then the greater range and high-altitude performance become a lot more reasonable. Most helicopter operations are at altitudes of 10,000 feet or less, so helicopters don't usually carry oxygen equipment. This drone is reported as flying over a 14,000 foot high mountain, which is the height at which the FAA requires pilots to use supplemental oxygen. Oxygen is also required if flying above 12,500 feet for 30 minutes or more.
Your scientists have yet to discover how neural networks create self-consciousness, let alone how the human brain processes two-dimensional retinal images into the three-dimensional phenomenon known as perception. Yet you somehow brazenly declare seeing is believing? Mister Crikenson, your scientific illiteracy makes me shudder, and I wouldn't flaunt your ignorance by telling anyone that you saw anything last night other than the planet Venus, because if you do, you're a dead man.
Like they said it was doing circles around them, I figure that's the part where the helicopter was spinning around making it look like the drone(bug) was doing circles around them.
lol exactly. Also didn't show up on radar. So it was there but couldn't see it with their eyes or on radar. I guess they were chasing the noise that they couldn't hear over the helicopter engine. Sad report.
@@ineverplay1 these comments are as ridiculous as the report. It's obvious that they were able to see the UAS. How else could they describe the green direction light. If you read just a little bit of the text you could see that the pilots had a visual in the UAS and we're able to follow it. The UAS kept flying around them to avoid their visual contact. They were unable to observe it using their night vision. Doesn't mean they couldn't see it. Doesn't mean that it wasn't tracked by radar.
@@mattmarzula if it was tracked on radar, they would have shown its flight path, just like the helicopter. with composite materials and proper fabrication, i too can make things disappear from civilian radar
And that helicopter supposedly flew that corkscrew flight path at over 100 MPH. Right. Sure it did all them nonstop circles at 100 MPH. Sounds legit to me.
the flight pattern is exactly how i would avoid letting a police heli lock their gimbal camera system on me. You deff dont want nice HD pictures of your new shiny drone you spent 3 years on in secret being released to the public before you can lock all the patents down.
@@AnthonyGoodley Nobody said they maintained 100 MPH the whole time. You’re assuming and inferring things that are not based on the available data. That’s on you.
@@babybirdhome Yeah, but you bought into an article that's definitely at least 90% fake. The only part that's arguably real is the "alleged" fact that an LE chopper chased it. Everything else is complete BS. And I mean COMPLETE. This "advanced tech" has been around for over a decade; Pretty much for as long as GoPro cameras have been around. There is absolutely nothing about this alleged drone that falls under the category of "not commercially available," "hard," or "very expensive." It would even be a stretch to say that this tech is "not readily available to everyone." In fact, anyone with internet access, a debit or credit card, and about $1500 can buy not only the drone, but the entire setup (all batteries, cameras, transmitters, receivers, antennae, and even an auto-tracking antenna system that tracks the drone for you and automatically points the antenna at it!) That includes >100MPH capability and the ability to control the drone up to 100 miles away from the base station. This entire article is a lie.
exactly, they shoulda shown footage of a predator drone not the quadcopter. This story isn't really interesting when you remember we have a military with classified advanced technology
Hey cut the fbi some slack, They're busy investigating those elusive white supremist groups, and rounding up Trump supporters who were invited into the halls congress by the Capital police. They have a country to protect.
It's not that expensive or difficult to build. long range radios for control and video are available for a few hundred bucks. Flying at 20k feet is possible if you have the power and props. At low altitude it can be extremely fast, can fly at hundreds of miles per hour. Check out the racing drones on YT.
That’s what I was thinking, Cartel. They use those to run things across the border. I don’t know how far Tucson is from the border but it sounds like it could travel that far-the drone.
when they say that only the d.o.d. can afford these types of drones, a fully built drone that can do these speeds and last that long would have a non electrical engine system. and would cost around 75k. movie sets use them and so does border control. you think movie sets would use a drone to film that needed charging every 10 minutes? get real people. expensive yes, but not out of reach for some
@@theobserver9131 You need me to spell it out for you? Govt doesn't mind when they are the ones in controll and spying on you but when they are spied upon and they aren't in controll then they don't like it.
@@theobserver9131 Dude the only thing close to this is Military Drones. Obviously the Military does not like when others have such powerful capabilities.
@@johnl.8616 You're just repeating your vague comment. I was asking for SPECIFIC DETAILS. I didn't think you knew what you were talking about. Carry on with your ignorance and paranoia.
This is not that difficult to do. LiFe batteries, long range radios and a powerful brushless motor. Stop picturing a quad copter. A fixed wing craft with a clipped wing glider style airframe. Easy. Low thermals, low visible signature, almost zero radar return. 100mph isn't difficult. Flight time over an hour, no problem. 14000 feet, again, no problem. Returning to a mountain? High altitude = extended range and line of sight.
Dude, stop talking like you know what you're talking about. LiFe also known as Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries are nothing special and less energy dense than Lithium Ion and actually lower voltage per cell. (3.7v vs 4.2) LiPo's - Lithium Polymer, are the most energy dense, especially in high voltage guise Lithium HiVi (4.35v per cell) like you have in your cell phones. They would use LiFe if it was some magic battery. To use the energy this aircraft did for as long as it did isn't a "Meh" thing. Just stop.
@@JViello LiFe batteries were just an example he stated and they’d work with the layout he gave so he it was all correct and it seems he did know what he was saying
The US Army flight tested drones in Honduras and into Nicaragua almost forty years ago. High altitude, long range flights. The only problem they ran into was barometric pressure changes effected the stabilization system. Other than that they worked rather well. Yeah, 40 year old technology. I knew one of the people who flew them.
That wasn't plastic... it traveled for an hour at over 100mph doing circles, then climbed to 14,000 feet and had no heat signature.. They had to have an engine built in, and heat shielding technology... Thats insane, that thing if it was human technology cost alot and had metal
@@helpabrothawithasubisaiah5316 Most plastics are invisible to infrared and something that can move at 100mph at elevations of 10,000+ feet probably has no issues cooling what little heat electric motors would actually generate ...
@@3nertia something like that would cost tons of money and the motors and batteries would definitely be dumping heat... Plastic drones 1 hour is pushing it, then to go up on top of a mountain with your many thousands of dollars and to the other side.... they would end up losing thousands of dollars. And there is zero chance the drone originated behind that mountain if it is a cheap plastic drone, it would have taken 30 min to an hour to get to the boarder patrol to begin with
... with a bad-*ss high tech drone and mad piloting skills. Legend has it Joey knocked him upside the head with a chain which caused him to become the drone pilot savant that he is today 😆
Very interesting. I commute from Casa Grande to Chandler and one morning about 3 months ago I noticed a drone flying parallel to the freeway, about 100 yards away from me. It kept pace with me @ 75mph and i observed it for at least 6 miles until it veered diagonally toward the mountains and out of sight. This one had just one small red light.
Uhhhmmm, law enforcement needs to observe and report only. The F.A.A. is the only party who can enforce airspace "stuff". If you're flying a drone somewhere legally in public and the cops come by and try to take your drone, tell them about this then tell the to pack sand.
Yes exactly and yet another reason why wasting vast resources to build a wall on the border was a waste. I’m all for some type of physical barrier where needed but technology and manpower are equally important.
That was exactly my guess.100mph is child's play for a seasoned RC pilot. I routinely do half hour flights at around 60-75% throttle using relatively low capacity batteries. Double the battery size and you could play tag with a helicopter and them on que no problem. Not mention all the equipment needed it can be built or bought for under 100$
I commented below that they still haven't caught the jetpack guy here in L.A. yet and turn on the 11 o'clock news. They say they spotted him today again but no go on catching him again. What a coincidence!
So they couldn't even see it with IR Vision?...how can that be a Drone then? My Drones Motors, Batteries and the Flight Control Board all heat up so much you can barely touch them, they certainly would show up on IR.
Thermal shielding with aerogel could hide the heat signature. But hiding a propane generator? That muffler will be HOT. Fuel cell burning hydrogen maybe, obviously the owner of this aircraft has near unlimited budget. Cartel sounds likely, who else could take advantage of the real time intelligence this device provides? Whoever it was, boss is mad that the pilot let himself get spotted by a screw up like that.
Nuclear powered drone it's not too hard to isolate heat signatures using Aero gel using liquid nitrogen cooling.... wiht precise cooling control you can make it invisible at ambient temperature making it invisible to IR or use glass skin glass is invisible to IR
if you know drones and think about what it would take to fly that fast for that long and that far and that high you know its probably a space ship not a drone lol.
Just like people walking along the street taking photos, these cops will handle the pilot as per standard operational procedures…. intimidate, harass, attack and arrest.
It was probably some 10 year old playing with a custom drone he built in his parents garage. He was just scouting back yards for girls sunning themselves in bikinis.
10 yo? really? 10 yo boys are that interested in girls and build drones? your comment would most likely apply to an adolescent or above, but not a 10yo.
@justan idiot there was a DJi that did over 10k ft... autonomous modes dont need a link either,theres video of fixedwings doing 100km routes on auto ,the authorities tell you its 400ft Max but thats for aviation safety...🤫
If it was flying over 1,000 feet in the air, it was violating the FAA laws for operating a UAS. Additionally, they said it came close to colliding with a helicopter, which is also against FAA regulations (which is fairly obvious). And if that wasn't enough, operating a drone in a way that interferes with a heliport is against the law (although, I do not know if he was actually interfering with the heliport and not just a helicopter in flight). Whoever was flying the drone could possibly ruin the hobby for other drone pilots, because this case could be used as an example of why the US needs greater drone restrictions.
So to summarize: helicopter pilots couldn't and never saw what they were chasing (and they could somehow estimate its relative speed versus theirs).. I'm really shocked they never found it. Sometimes the most logical answer is the correct one. Maybe a bird flew by, spent hours searching for something, and then have to justify the taxpayer money they wasted trying to find something that may have never existed in the first place. I haven't read the report so maybe this is just a really bad description by this news station of what happened.
Clearly this was a case of extraterrestrial teens out joy-ridding in dads space ship. Bop-Bleep had a case of beer and the keys to dads flying saucer. The rest is a matter of public record.
The distance between Davis Mountain air force base and Mt lemon is 39.3 miles. The elevation of Mt Lemon is 8000 ft so it went almost twice as high as the mountain
They would have to do something equally as bad or worse. The police wont bother chasing a bunch of drones just flying around not doing anything if there is a bank heist down the road.
Not really, you can use the cellphone towers if you make it digital. You can fly where you want as long you have a cellphone connection. And you can program it to fly the way you want on autopilot if connection is broken. Cheaper than satellite connection. Not that hard to make for somebody with some tech skills. A average tech nerd can pull it off. You can order all the parts on the internet. Just need someone with some programming skills to make the software. But it should not be that difficult.
They could also use Air Band, Hf or shortwave. If I had to guess, that drone has a letter beacon on it in case it runs out of battery or has an accident ect.
NOPE!!!! The drone had a flight time exceeding an hour, so it was fueled by some type of fossil fuel, and probably has a controllable range in the hundred mile plus area.
@@charlieodom9107 I seriously doubt it had a 100+ mile range. We are not talking military grade drone running off of satellite. Also a small drone will not have the fuel capacity to run hundreds of miles. It would have to be a large scale drone almost the size the ones used by the military.
@@robertdaone have you NEVER seen a hybrid drone? Ones with a 50lb gross weight rating can fly for an hour on half a gallon of fuel at max weight. A 4 or 8 rotor hybrid drone with a 15w radio, 1.5 gallon fuel tank, and some software allowing high speed flight would EASILY be able to fly for well over an hour at over 100mph and be able to transmit video for around 100 miles to a proper ground station. Hell...I have setup wifi that transmits over 30 miles at 100mbps before using off the shelf parts, and could easily transmit multiple HD live streams simultaneously, and these were powered by a 130w solar panel! That hybrid drone probably had a 2.4kw engine, so it had plenty of power. Try doing some actual research on the subject. You'll be surprised at how easily you could build one of these drones with readily available parts.
Intelligent flight modes can circle objects in motion without any pilot input! My drones can do it as long as long as they can go a little faster than the POI! I use it to film my kids on the tube or knee boarding at the lake all the time.
LOL...Who ever was the pilot of the "drone" was way more skilled then anybody they had chasing it. It was just playing with you and beat you without any problems.
We had a drone in my state follow a lady for 3 hours and finally she called the cops and the cops confirmed it was a drone but were unable to track it down. I wonder what kinda batteries these things are running.
I told the cops in Saint George utah about a similar experience with a drone that was outside my place. He laughed and said that what I saw was not possible. I asked if it was theirs and he scoffed. I could see it because it was below the clouds and had a light under it. I stood staring, watching and so I waved at it. Next thing I see is it goes straight up above the clouds like someone had pulled it up by a string. It just kept hovering. My neighbor has what looks like it might be a drone beacon on her roof. We have been trying to get down but it has been moved from a reachable location to the top of the roof peak. The last people out here that had equipment to do that was the city of Saint George. So you tell me. WTF?
I live in the country outside of tucson and seen that 3 times in the last year comes in flying out of nowhere Hoover's above then flys over the mnts... it is government...
I am a security guard that goes around and checks on buildings and properties One night I looked in the back of the building and I seen a drone flying in a cage it was about as big as a car it was in Scottsdale Arizona
I’ve been dealing with this since 2016. I moved from Florida to Kentucky and they followed along the interstate the whole way!! These aren’t your typical drones.. Our government knows what’s going on. I believe it’s some sort of mass surveillance system .. I call them star drones. They look like a star, but act like a drone. Yes, they can see inside your homes. They pick up sound as well.. If you play music you’ll see them pulsate to the sounds.
Ok I give up, it was me........ Had 5 modified batteries mounted on my DJI while capturing some 4k video until some giant drone showed up behind me, the tail wind was pushing me over 90mph all over town in circles, I barely made it back to the home point. Didn't know it was cops, my bad.
