[lxgr]

> The mayors and governor should not be dumb enough to stake their reputations on this when the null hypothesis of "mass hysteria" is easier and safer.

I think they played this exactly right: Most people will never accept a null result (or something close to it, like "there were a couple of weird drones, but mostly it was people newly looking up at the night sky") or even follow this news story long enough for the actual resolution to matter. The only thing they'll remember was their mayor or governor staying silent when they were scared/angry vs. shouting at the feds to let them shoot down some drones.

> Also NJ police report the anomalous drones give off no heat signature like normal drones:

The only thing we can conclude from this is that the NJ police wasn't able to detect a heat signature, but not whether there really wasn't one.

[whimsicalism]

i think the government giving credence to this is what made it spiral out of control