HWY 99 UAP Drone Sightings

[u/ElkFull2703]

Did anyone else see the drones swarming the highway on the night of Nov. 3rd?

I was on my way down from Albany and saw 12 of the them, spread out between Halsey and the Eugene airport. They were different shapes, sizes, and they were not flying in a grid like you would expect them to if they were surveying. I know some of you are probably giggling at my bad photos, but I promise this was not the moon/stars; in person you could clearly see the bodies of the drones. At first I thought was they were being used for farming purposes, but after watching the news updates about everything happening in New Jersey, I don't know what to think.

[u/Iffesus]

Its a fucking plane.

[u/L_Ardman → u/Iffesus]

And it was near the airport too 🤔

[u/Andromeda321 → u/Iffesus]

If we’ve learned anything out of this latest hysteria it’s how few people bother to ever look at the sky and know what’s normal. Legit saw a US Senator post something that was clearly just the constellation Orion.

Anything’s a UFO to you if you can’t identify a thing in the sky I guess!

[u/greyfoscam → u/Andromeda321]

1998 San Francisco had a blackout people called to report lights in the sky and emergency services had to explain those are stars. Also you can use Skyscanner apps to identify and rule out planes, helicopters and other aircraft. Sometimes it's also just a stolen aircraft smuggling drugs and trying to find a road to land on because America loves drugs.

[u/Andromeda321 → u/greyfoscam]

1) you are incorrect. This anecdote is from the 1994 Los Angeles earthquake. People were calling for weeks after asking if the “silver cloud” aka Milky Way was what caused the earthquake.

2) Even then, not everything appears on sky scanner. Def had military stuff fly over us in Eugene that never showed up there.

[u/greyfoscam → u/Andromeda321]

Thanks, I stand corrected. And double thank you for being polite while correcting errors:-)

[u/Andromeda321 → u/greyfoscam]

Of course, that’s my job!

[u/dannyZ747 → u/Andromeda321]

I did see the Phoenix Lights 1997. Was mass hysteria all over the damn town. Was just  military flairs. 

[u/WorthChipmunk9155 → u/Andromeda321]

There are lots of miss identifications, but playing this whole episode off as mass hysteria is just untrue.

This whole thing started at RAF Lakenheath in the UK. The UK deployed fighter jets and a special forces unit to investigate the objects flying over the base. Notably, we the US have sent over nuclear assets to these bases in the last several months. I'm sure nuclear bases and their soldiers are not suffering from hysteria, that I can assure you of.

This has happened in the past: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-air-force-personnel-ufos-deactivated-nukes/

These are trained witnesses within the military that encountered unknown objects near sensitive nuclear assets. Some of the military assets actually touched one of the unknown crafts. Later in his life he developed health issues due to being exposed to radiation, of course the military wanted to deny his health benefits due to not wanting to substantiate the event. John McCain stepped in to support that man, and made sure that veteran got the health insurance benefits he was entitled to.

It's important to inform yourself on this subject before writing it off completely. I don't know exactly what's going on in regards to these drones, but the military is taking it extremely serious. Writing it all off as mass hysteria is insulting to our men and women in uniform who are encountering these objects.

[u/TheBionicBastard → u/Iffesus]

You were there? You saw this with your own eyes?

I'm glad you can deduct that these are definitely planes from the low resolution pictures we have at our disposal.

[u/Length-International → u/TheBionicBastard]

Yea they’re fucking planes. There’s an airport nearby.

[u/cheesy_friend → u/Length-International]

It's just planes bro! Trust me bro, I'm not scared, you're scared!

[u/Length-International → u/cheesy_friend]

Why would i be scared of planes? I fly on them a few times a month. Nothing scary about them.

[u/TheBionicBastard → u/Length-International]

So the recent UFO sightings by the pilots in Oregon are also irrelevant because there’s airports nearby?

There are airports everywhere. By your infallible logic, everything in the sky is a plane.

[u/Length-International → u/TheBionicBastard]

Plane, drone, balloons, satellites, helicopters. Yeah, sorry this whole aliens things blows up every year and ends up being a giant nothing burger.

[u/Odd-Buffalo-6355 → u/Length-International]

Don't forget about planets. I saw Saturn once and wondered what it was.

[u/TheBionicBastard → u/Length-International]

Where in the post does it say anything about aliens?

[u/WorthChipmunk9155 → u/TheBionicBastard]

They're misinformed trolls. Anyone who has stayed up to date on this unfolding series of events knows there is something going on. Air force tankers in the air for days near NJ. Warnings sent out to local authorities and the public not to go near one of these "drones" in case they fall out of the sky as they may contain radioactive material.

This drone incursion started at RAF Lakenheath, where the US has sent several nuclear assets within the last few months. The UK is taking it very seriously, even deploying fighter jets to intercept and also deploying a special forces team.

[u/Affectionate-Art-995 → u/TheBionicBastard]

I think pilots def know what they're seeing up there! They can't get more than 3 pilots to lie about it. It's happening all over too. People are daft. I used to be a non believer too til I watched the recent documentary. Mind blown

[u/ElkFull2703 → u/Iffesus]

As I said in my description, all twelve had visible "bodies." Some that were only about 20 ft off the ground were the size of basketballs, but a larger one that was high above was about the size of a chair. All of them were black.

[u/Andromeda321 → u/ElkFull2703]

People, especially people unfamiliar with doing it much before, are notoriously terrible at gauging the height of things in the sky (especially the night sky).

[u/WorthChipmunk9155 → u/ElkFull2703]

You're right OP. There is something serious going on in NJ right now with regards to these "drones". I'm not sure what you saw, but the events unfolding on the East coast are a serious issue. There has been very a very odd military presence in the air with tankers in the air for days at a time. That only means one thing, fighters are in the air doing something. It's been suggested the drones are sniffing for radioactive material that may have made it's way to the East coast.

Just remember, you know what you saw. Don't let some random person on reddit tell you otherwise. These objects have been spotted all over. This actually started at RAF Lakenheath about a month ago, with the UK sending out special forces and deploying fighter jets to try to figure out what the objects were flying over the base. Notably, we (US) sent some of our nuclear arsenal to that base within the last several months.

There are lots of miss identifications, that's true. However there are "drones" that are out of place doing something weird in the airspace. The coast guard near NJ said they were followed by 20-40 of these drones in one of their vessels.

[u/Booger_Flicker → u/ElkFull2703]

So easy to see yet couldn't even video them, let alone get a decent pic.

[u/CommercialGur3015]

Medieval peasant brain strikes again

[u/Relative_Ebb8365 → u/CommercialGur3015]

Bro. Have some respect.

[u/ElkFull2703 → u/CommercialGur3015]

Insert that GIF of Willem Dafoe

[u/ONE-EYE-OPTIC]

Near the airport, I wonder what it could be?

[u/-PC_LoadLetter → u/ONE-EYE-OPTIC]

You think it's from Omicron Persei 8 or Omicron Persei 9? I'm torn.

[u/ONE-EYE-OPTIC → u/-PC_LoadLetter]

I had to Google. Hilarious.

[u/Relative_Ebb8365 → u/ONE-EYE-OPTIC]

I saw those military planes before and I know they were up to no good!

[u/LateralThinkerer]

Planes sequenced for the R34 RNAV ILS+Z+RWY+34R) at KEUG. What was the question?

[u/dwayne-billy-bob → u/LateralThinkerer]

Not likely for several reasons. Source: pilot.

[u/dwayne-billy-bob → u/[deleted]]

That approach wouldn't be in use because:

The East runway, closer to 99, is the general aviation (read:small planes) runway.

That's an RNP approach, not an ILS. Small planes do not have RNP equipment. So that's already a nonstarter. 34R doesn't have an ILS.

The Rnav Y 34R, maybe, but that's not an approach that is commonly used, especially not with tight sequencing like that.

KEUG as a policy doesn't use the East runway when the field is IFR (no simultaneous approaches). The only time they do is if the West runway is closed. It's not.

The weather for the past forever has been with wind from the south. Tower would have IFR traffic into Eugene landing the opposite direction (Rwy 16R, most likely) with those conditions.

I could go on.

(Translation: landings when the weather is poor are on the west runway, landing to the south, nowhere near 99, and with nowhere near this tight of spacing.)

[u/dwayne-billy-bob → u/dwayne-billy-bob]

Here is what would be in use with South flow at KEUG. It's quite possible that the OP saw airplanes but they were not landing 34R or on the approach mentioned above.

https://skyvector.com/files/tpp/2412/pdf/00140IL16R.PDF

https://skyvector.com/files/tpp/2412/pdf/00140RY16R.PDF

[u/LateralThinkerer → u/dwayne-billy-bob]

Thanks - I just grabbed one at random (obviously the wrong one) to make the point that the magic aliens were likely very human.

[u/itshorriblebeer → u/LateralThinkerer]

I think they reserve that one for the grays.

[u/LateralThinkerer → u/itshorriblebeer]

Phil Knight's jet?

[u/Ent_Trip_Newer → u/dwayne-billy-bob]

👏 👏

[u/Lanemeyerstwodollars → u/dwayne-billy-bob]

I think you mixed-up your directions. The West Runway is the runway in use when the airport is IFR.

[u/dwayne-billy-bob → u/Lanemeyerstwodollars]

Correct, I usually just think of them as 16R/34L (big) and 16L/34R (GA).

[u/Available-Leg-1421 → u/[deleted]]

"champ"

You must be a real gem in real life.

[u/cakewalkbackwards]

Before all this drone hysteria, there was one hovering pretty high up in Springfield. I looked later and it was still there after hours. Same spot. I thought it was odd.

[u/NothingButGaines → u/cakewalkbackwards]

Man I saw one a few weeks ago and thought it was odd. I wish I had grabbed a picture of it at the time.

[u/cakewalkbackwards → u/NothingButGaines]

This one looked like it was big. It was at least a few hundred yards from me. It had red and green lights.

[u/ElkFull2703 → u/cakewalkbackwards]

That sounds like something that was being piloted remotely. I can't imagine anyone would stand there just to make it hover for hours on end. Weird!

[u/cakewalkbackwards → u/ElkFull2703]

You’re probably right. Idk why the police dept would be using one for a car wreck or something. If someone was running away, it would be moving. Idk. I thought it was odd way before the news about New Jersey and everywhere else

[u/pancakesausagedog]

Is it just too much to ask to be civil to people these days? Maybe it's a plane, maybe it's a drone, but there's no reason to be an asshole, I just don't get it.

[u/Ichthius → u/pancakesausagedog]

Ma’am, this is reddit.

[u/TheBionicBastard → u/pancakesausagedog]

Exactly. I understand of someone is skeptical but there’s no reason for such condescending, prick-like behavior.

[u/Affectionate-Art-995 → u/pancakesausagedog]

True. Highly doubtful was a drone though. To quote 1 of the handful of pilots " it moved at speeds that are impossible to describe" basically in nutshell. The pilots don't think they were drones anyway

[u/cottoneyedjoe7 → u/Affectionate-Art-995]

It’s impossible to determine how far a point of light is at night, especially at higher altitudes. What those pilots describe as far away and moving at impossible to describe speeds was likely much closer to them and moving at a reasonable speed. There’s a reason these sightings only happen in the dark.

[u/Affectionate-Art-995 → u/cottoneyedjoe7]

That makes no sense. Doubting several experienced pilots is difficult for me. It's likely they knew what they were seeing and no not too far if it was showing up on radar really. Planes don't go up and down in seconds. And there's sightings in the day. Have you seen Investigation Alien on Netflix

[u/cottoneyedjoe7 → u/Affectionate-Art-995]

I am an experienced pilot. I’m saying what I’m saying based on experience. Aircraft can move up and down in seconds, especially drones. There’s almost always a reasonable explanation for these “sightings” but acknowledging that doesn’t get views or clicks.

[u/reddogisdumb]

Bear in mind that drone rules were relaxed relatively recently (Sept 2023) to be more permissive with night flying. It makes sense that drone usage would ramp up from that point over a number of months, and it also makes sense that the night time drones would be more noticeable during the shortest days of the year.

Or you can believe its aliens, a foreign invasion, or a collective hallucination brought on by the mRNA vaccines. But I think its just more nighttime drones just now being noticed.

[u/Modestexcuse]

Thanks for sharing this! I know you'll get ridicule, and people will claim you're crazy, but I think it's kind of you to post this, despite of all the criticism.

I appreciate this! I have been following UFOs since I was a young child, after seeing one at an early age. I'm 47 for reference, today actually.

There are plenty of pics of airplanes that people call drones in NJ, there is good logic to everyone's skepticism. Only a small portion of the data we get is real, but we know this going in; I'm hyper critical of anything on this topic.

I believe these drones are going to keep spreading across the US and the world, until the world stops. I, too, will be made fun of until it happens.

Have a great day!

[u/ElkFull2703 → u/Modestexcuse]

If seeing a couple drones by the highway makes me a conspiracy nut, then so be it LOL. I never said they were aliens! But thank you for the nice comment. And happy birthday! 🥳

[u/Modestexcuse → u/ElkFull2703]

Exactly! You're sharing what you saw, we can all believe what we want to.

I'm the nut, not someone like yourself posting your pics.

Thanks a lot!

Edit: I see my wording was presuming an awful lot. I apologize and didn't mean to insinuate, at all, what you think you're seeing.

[u/SPlKE → u/Modestexcuse]

Lets say these drones are mundane, what I don't get is why they glow/have lights on them. No one is claiming ownership of them, so why advertise their position by making them light up the sky?

[u/DragonfruitTiny6021]

People can fly drones at night since 2023. It is easier to maintain line of sight at night. Not to mention the expanded EPD program. I normally just fly straight above my house to get sunset pics in town.

[u/xgalaxy → u/DragonfruitTiny6021]

Yea but the drones being reported are the size of a car (at least the ones making national news in the east). It’s not “normal” people flying these drones and has nothing to do with the relaxed rules.

[u/FloBot3000]

I don't understand why everyone is concerned with drones... They are legal and common.

I imagine a bunch of guys on 4chan or something, in a drone sub, organizing everyone sending out their drones on certain days just to cause a little chaos.

Like organizing a flash mob or a protest, but the people don't have to be in the same city.

I think it's just people coordinating and fucking around, trying to freak people out. And it's definitely working.

[u/Warm-Vanilla420]

https://www.reddit.com/r/abovethenormnews/s/HlwjfSImpC

[u/Howry]

Hard to tell what it was since you took the picture with a potato it appears.

[u/Dry-Sir-919]

Honey, these photos are terrible.

[u/GhostPipeDreams]

People really like to think that they know exactly what is happening even though they weren’t there. Thanks for sharing, OP!

[u/djthemac]

lol. nice work dude.

[u/Effective-Kitchen401]

the aliens checking out our airports

[u/Hrynkat → u/Effective-Kitchen401]

In a line formation, probably going straight in a linear path!

[u/Oregonized_Wizard]

Looks like a blurry light. Could be a plane from these images

[u/Warm-Vanilla420]

don't look up

[u/Suspicious-Ball0311]

Those are planes approaching EUG airfield which is right off of 99E. This is getting ridiculous, have none of you ever looked up at the sky before or seen an air plane?

[u/sLantesVSzombies]

The drone hysteria is a psyop to scare people into voting for H.R 8610. That’s all it is. Look at the legislation, follow the money.

[u/zerobomb]

There is no way that you scanned a plane for life signs. Spit "drone" out of your mouth, and keep it out.

[u/Booger_Flicker]

Blurry shots of lights in the sky. Where have I seen this before?

[u/Antonolmiss]

“Swarming”

[u/Zeusinvestor]

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/operations/mk30-drone-amazon-delivery-packages all the drones across the country

[u/FirefighterHaunting8]

Planes generally follow major roadways, particularly VFR pilots in small planes, and the Eugene airport runways run north to South, just like 99 between Eugene and Halsey. These are planes lining up to land. Jesus Christ.

[u/Individual_Sand7605]

It's clearly Aliens preparing to invade.

[u/saabstory14]

Very easy to tell these are planes on a flight route. Especially because there freaking is a major one parallel with 99 lmao.

[u/Available-Leg-1421]

Have people really become this stupid?

1) Earth is not flat.

2) Airplanes fucking fly

[u/Relative_Ebb8365]

Oh may bad. That's 100% GOD looking down on all us sinners!

[u/Relative_Ebb8365]

Why does my comment automatically have a upvote? Fuck my comment.

[u/Relative_Ebb8365]

How do I stop this? It's infuriating!

[u/Relative_Ebb8365]

Oh..

[u/Relative_Ebb8365]

Obviously new here

[u/Randallman7]

November 3rd was sooooo long ago

[u/r0nchini]

It's a flying tolerance break.

[u/anonymous0745]

It’s War of The Worlds all over again lol

Nobody uses drones for ag at night, and almost nobody uses drones for agriculture anyways (not in oregon)

Kinda gotta grt your licensing in place and pay $30k + for a drone.

I know because I just went to a demonstration of a DGI ag drone that could carry 100lbs of fertilizer,

It was a monster 6-8’ across but still not ag drones

Just sayin

[u/ElkFull2703 → u/anonymous0745]

This is the most valuable input anyone has offered so far! I'd be very interested in watching a demonstration of the AG drones; they sound like behemoths.

[u/AWildJesse]

So relevant.

[u/International_Try899]

No one cares

[u/TheBionicBastard → u/International_Try899]

Any specific reason you woke up today and decided to act like this?

[u/MilkIsForBabiesGoVgn]

 I don't know what to think.

List your top 5 guesses. 

[u/ElkFull2703 → u/MilkIsForBabiesGoVgn]

Land Surveying, Farming, Hobbyists, Police, or something airport related? That still doesn't explain why they were spanning a stretch that is 30+ miles and didn't appear to be coordinated with each other. What do you think?

[u/washington_jefferson → u/ElkFull2703]

Whatever it is it’s not a conspiracy.

Do you have the Flight Tracker logs from that night?

[u/MilkIsForBabiesGoVgn → u/ElkFull2703]

I have no idea what it is. I just know what it isn't. 

[u/Budkid → u/MilkIsForBabiesGoVgn]

Dropped on head, parents, religion, the water, or just crazy?