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I've read a bit more about this.
It happened in Russia. The spear thrower allegedly didn't intend to actually hit it, rather just give a cool shot for the camera. He offered to pay for the damage (it's not clear to me whether the drone operator accepted). The drone operator was chill and suggested that a competition for slaying winged demons from the future should become an annual feature at the re-enactment.
Oh, and the event organisers shat themselves and immediately went into "issuing statements" mode. 😀
Why use a drone when you have a satellite capable of resolution of 15cm per pixel.
Because people know when the satellite is overhead and can hide the fun stuff. You can also look into stuff which is hidden from overhead view.
In terms of nav lights some of the stuff alledgedly being flown doesnt have them. If I was going to guess I would go with a mix of hysteria/misidentification (majority), a few random drones being spotted and then maybe a handful of cases where someone is taking a peak at military bases.
Now there's reports of strange unexplained water falling from the skies.
https://twitter.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/1873773833854898491
As far as im aware, drones don’t normally come with nav lights unless fitted by the operator, and if this was for nefarious purposes, nav light would be the very last thing they’d consider fitting.
Pretty sure they do, or at least non-FPV ones may have them switchable, because the ground based operators need to be able to identify which direction the vehicle is going in in order to be able to steer it.
May be comparatively old "news" but they're less worried about the drones now, it's the orbs...!