# Remember the Colorado Drone Swarm? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 19, 2020, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-colorado-drone-swarm/915716 "2020-07-19T01:38:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2020, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-colorado-drone-swarm/915716/1 "2020-07-19T01:38:18Z")
At the beginning of the year, there were many reliable reports of swarms of drones flying over rural Colorado at night. [Here is an update based on FAA documents.](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/34662/faa-documents-offer-unprecedented-look-into-colorado-drone-mystery) TLDR; Nobody knows what they were. Everyone has moved onto something else. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2020, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-colorado-drone-swarm/915716/2 "2020-07-19T03:33:43Z")
It was street lights reflecting off Murder Hornets. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2020, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-colorado-drone-swarm/915716/3 "2020-07-19T20:08:00Z")
IMO it’s the 2020 equivalent of boring old crop circles. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2020, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-colorado-drone-swarm/915716/4 "2020-07-19T22:05:11Z")
Those were also made by murder hornets. ---
**Author:** ![KlondikeGeoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-colorado-drone-swarm/915716/5 "2020-07-20T00:09:45Z")
Yeah, we live in the Denver, and it was fascinating. Many reliable people reported it including police and even a pilot. Wonder to me nobody ever shot one down. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-colorado-drone-swarm/915716/6 "2020-07-20T02:17:23Z")
> [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](#): > > swarms of drones flying over rural Colorado at night It was just their seven-year mating swarm cycle. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-colorado-drone-swarm/915716/7 "2020-07-20T05:37:25Z")
You’d think the skies were black with drones a couple of years ago, the way idiots were panicking. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2020, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-colorado-drone-swarm/915716/8 "2020-08-01T11:52:07Z")
[Now they are over Arizona.](https://www.mlive.com/life/2020/07/michigan-has-the-largest-bear-ranch-in-the-us-where-you-can-pose-with-rescued-bear-cubs.html?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark) ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2020, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-colorado-drone-swarm/915716/9 "2020-08-01T12:48:15Z")
That links to a story ’ Michigan has the largest bear ranch in the U.S. where you can pose with rescued bear cubs’. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2020, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-colorado-drone-swarm/915716/10 "2020-08-01T13:11:36Z")
[Sorry, here it is.](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mystery-at-arizonas-palo-verde-nuclear-plant-who-flew-drones-over-the-reactors/ar-BB17qZHW) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2020, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-colorado-drone-swarm/915716/11 "2020-08-01T13:47:06Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > That links to a story ’ Michigan has the largest bear ranch in the U.S. where you can pose with rescued bear cubs’. As wrong links goes, that ranks medium on the weirdness scale but very, very low on the embarrassingness one. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2020, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-colorado-drone-swarm/915716/12 "2020-08-01T16:20:02Z")
I am making vacation plans about going to the Bear Ranch. Really, it is not what it sounds like. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2020, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-colorado-drone-swarm/915716/13 "2020-08-01T17:26:54Z")
Is it near The Gay Bar? [https://thegaybar.com/](https://thegaybar.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2020, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-colorado-drone-swarm/915716/14 "2020-08-01T20:42:29Z")
In a perfect world it would be…