{"id":4530,"date":"2025-03-11T17:14:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T17:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/what-are-the-drones-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T17:14:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T17:14:51","slug":"what-are-the-drones-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/what-are-the-drones-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the Drones?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What Are Drones?<br \/>\nAbout a decade ago, I penned a story titled &#8220;Drone Net,&#8221; centered around a fictional murder of a young girl, which prompted the UK government to establish DroneNet\u2014a network of drones flying over the entire nation to record everything in an effort to prevent future crimes. However, this initiative quickly turned into a massive invasion of privacy and was soon misused by successive administrations as a tool for authoritarian control. In light of the recent revelation that the US Government has confirmed the recent drone sightings were sanctioned by the FAA, it raises the question: are we dealing with aliens, or could it be an advanced form of surveillance from the future? Personally, I lean toward the latter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nWhat Are Drones? About a decade ago, I penned a story titled &#8220;Drone Net,&#8221; centered around a fictional murder of a young girl, which prompted the UK government to establish DroneNet\u2014a network of drones flying over the entire nation to record everything in an effort to prevent future crimes. However, this initiative quickly turned into&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/what-are-the-drones-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;What are the Drones?&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufos","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}