Drones Pose New Concern As Witnesses Mistake Unmanned Aircrafts For Paraglider

AUBURN (CBS13) — A paraglider allegedly falls from the entity and crashed Tuesday nighttime astatine the Port of West Sacramento. Police searched the country but recovered nothing.

Investigators judge the idiosyncratic who reported the clang mistook a drone for a paraglider. According to dispatch audio, the witnesser reported seeing a idiosyncratic bash a stunt successful the aerial earlier dropping from 50 to 100 feet precocious to the ground.

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California Highway Patrol Valley Division Officer Kevin Vinatieri, a aviator with the division’s Air Operations, explained those types of calls are a uncommon occurrence for the Sacramento region.

“They don’t hap precise often,” explained Vinatieri. “When they are precise vague, unknown, not an nonstop location, not a batch of description, we are decidedly going to spell retired determination and analyse it, but a batch of times it doesn’t cookware out.”

Out of thousands of calls a year, lone astir a twelve are related to imaginable drones, chartless objects, oregon radical dropping from the sky.

“The Starlink satellites, we person an 80 oregon 100 of them, we had a fewer calls connected that, that was really exceptional to ticker but that was the strangest successful my career,” helium explained.

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In Southern California, unmanned aircrafts being mistaken for existent radical is becoming much common.

Twice past twelvemonth successful Los Angeles, formation crews spotted what they thought was a idiosyncratic successful a pitchy pack. Turns retired radical deliberation it could’ve been a drone made to look similar a human. This July, the flying antheral was seen floating successful the LA country again.

“Skywest 3626 usage caution. The ‘jet man”’is back, fto maine cognize if you spot him,” said aerial power to a aviator flying adjacent LAX.

Real oregon fake, Vinatieri said investigators can’t regularisation thing retired until they are successful the sky.

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In the Sacramento region, these occurrences are truthful rare, investigators said the calls are luckily not putting a strain connected resources oregon causing them a important cost.

Velena Jones