> The officer used advanced UAS monitoring technology to identify the drone’s location, flight history and its operators’ position on the largely uninhabited Boston Harbor Island known as Long Island, police said.
This just makes the New Jersey thing all the weirder.
I would guess that people using off-the-shelf drones (that are broadcasting operator’s location) are not the same as ones using drones with modified heat signatures.
A local sheriff who took the initiative to fly a law enforcement drone with FLIR after one of the recently reported swarms. That may have been in MD. There was a news report on YouTube.
Maybe not, like the airport in this story. But it’s created enough of a panic that if the technology exists, why not point it at the mystery drones? Or they already have, and they have zero clue what’s going on, but won’t say that…
> it’s created enough of a panic that if the technology exists, why not point it at the mystery drones?
I assume it’s expensive equipment that requires a better justification to be redeployed than the public getting uppity. (Now that there is political interest, I could see it happening. But again, that means depriving another place of that coverage.)
