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What will be true about the mystery drones flying over New Jersey (NJ)?
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resolved Apr 24
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Many of them are hobbyist drones looking for/chasing the "original" drones
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The drones will have mostly vanished by inauguration
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They record images/video using digital cameras
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More drones are flying at night after a Sept 2023 change in FAA regulations, leading to an increase in sightings
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It's just hysteria/mistaken sightings
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Local officials lack equipment sensitive enough to gauge size and relative threat
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Belong to a hobbyist
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Their true nature will remain a mystery
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Uses cellular networks to send and receive data
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Linked to illegal drug activity
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Some drones use advanced technology not available to the public
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Belong to a large company
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Are investigating Plasmoids
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An adversary is trying to force the US's hand into revealing their anti-drone tech
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they're designed to look like a commercial jet
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Redditor on r/UFOs (post with >= 10k upvotes) claims abduction by drones
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Belong to an activist
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Major Mexican TV network runs story implying drones are alien tech
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Does not use cellular networks to send and receive data
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Belong to a start-up

In case there is no information for a long period of time, will close in the Summer of 2025. Answers with no new information will be N/A’ed in order to not tie up mana indefinitely.

  • Update 2024-16-12 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): - Resolution will be based on official sources

    • Multiple different explanations/sources can be considered true simultaneously

    • Resolution will wait for information to be properly verified and sorted through

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as per the description:

Answers with no new information will be N/A’ed in order to not tie up mana indefinitely.

I don't see calls to decisively resolve any of these based on evidence provided, even if the market seems convinced. Lots of conjecture, but nothing that says "okay this one is YES/NO". Admittedly I only skimmed and frankly the market has been sitting closed way too long. On the other hand everyone is complaining this is still unresolved.

So I N/A'd everything but the metas "2 [/4] others will resolve YES", because they didn't so those are NO.

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Resolving questions like "Someone will attempt to shoot down a drone and end up injuring themselves or others" "Major Mexican TV network runs story implying drones are alien tech" or "At least 1 drone is shot down and recovered" to N/A instead of No on lack of evidence doesn't make much sense to me.

as per the description:

Answers with no new information will be N/A’ed in order to not tie up mana indefinitely.

I don't see calls to decisively resolve any of these based on evidence provided, even if the market seems convinced. Lots of conjecture, but nothing that says "okay this one is YES/NO". Admittedly I only skimmed and frankly the market has been sitting closed way too long. On the other hand everyone is complaining this is still unresolved.

So I N/A'd everything but the metas "2 [/4] others will resolve YES", because they didn't so those are NO.

@Stralor Feel free to contest any individual N/A by providing link(s) to actionable evidence in a comment in this thread and I will consider those re-resolves case-by-case. But don't wait too long because a resolved market where everyone got their mana back isn't worth litigating forever.

@Stralor Sounds just like what the government would say about the mystery drones.

@10thOfficial Can some or all of these resolve? If not, could you give some indication of what we're waiting on?

@mods Can this resolve? Wikipedia has a pretty good summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_drone_sightings

@NathanScott If you have a proposed set of resolutions state them here. If @10thOfficial doesn't respond we will just go with whatever the consensus is.

@Eliza Belonging to the US military/government should resolve No I'd say, although I'm biased because I have mana in it. The ones over military infrastructure were usually private citizen drones or other stuff being mistaken for drones.

@NathanScott @10thOfficial is active so tagging them here - can you please resolve your market that closed yesterday? thanks!

@shankypanky @10thOfficial please resolve

Resolve!!!!

@10thOfficial with the description saying, “no information for a long period of time, will close in the Summer of 2025” how’s this looking?

@10thOfficial thoughts?

@JasonQ This is why Manifold is a failed experiment in some ways. Bid on Zombie markets you'll forget about which will never be resolved anyway.

bought Ṁ50 YES

@10thOfficial do you plan to resolve at close?

sold Ṁ90 NO

Good luck resolving all of these without lots of drama due to tons of semantic ambiguities 🙃

bought Ṁ100 NO

@uair01 the degree of my surprise that this exists reveals my gross miscalibration

@d4hines Tingle is a national treasure.