Night drone sightings over eastern Colorado and Nebraska

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Highway across open grassland in eastern Colorado
The plains of eastern Colorado, where the nightly drone reports came from Chris Light, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

From mid-December 2019 residents and deputies in rural Colorado and Nebraska reported nightly drones flying in patterns. The Air Force and FAA said they were not theirs, a federal and state task force found no operators, and Colorado officials later attributed some reports to planes and stars.

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  1. PressColorado, Nebraska sheriffs puzzled by nocturnal drone flights (opens in a new tab)Fox News / 2019-12-30
  2. PressDocuments Indicate How Little Officials Knew About Mysterious Drones Last Year (opens in a new tab)KUNC / 2021-07-25
  3. PressNewly Released FAA Documents Give Unprecedented Look Into Colorado Drone Swarm Mystery (opens in a new tab)The War Zone

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