Last night (1/19/14), we entered the MK around 7PM. After walking through the train station, I turned around to look at the train and saw a "drone" flying above the entrance/train station area.
It was already dark, so I couldn't really make out what it looked like, but it appeared to be a quadcopter (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadcopter) based on how it was moving, with three green lights and two red (I could have that backwards). It was maybe 2-3' in diameter.
Considering that it was dark, it was probably equipped with a night vision or infrared camera. It certainly appeared to be manually controlled from somewhere as opposed to being on a circuit/loop.
Anyone know exactly what it's currently used for, seen it, or have ideas for its expanded use? (e.g. crowd monitoring, security, practically painless X-S Tech transportation). Can Disney physically prevent private use?
In related "news"...
http://lakeforest-ca.patch.com/groups/police-and-fire/p/did-government-drone-spy-on-disney-resort
Drone Reported Above Disney's California Adventure Park
Drone illustration (Photo by L Barnwell via Shutterstock)
An employee of the Disney Resort said that a group of employees spotted a small drone hovering above Disney's California Adventure Park last week.
The anonymous employee told Lake Forest Patchthat a group of employees saw the 3-foot-long craft with propellers floating about 40 feet overhead. Some employees waved at it, because they assumed there was a camera on board. It had a flashing blue light, and the employee said, "It looked like a flying spider."
It reportedly happened around 7:30 a.m. last Friday, just a half-hour before the park opens to the public.
There isn't any official record of the drone sighting. An Anaheim police spokesman said he hadn't heard about any sightings. Disney disputes the claim that there was a drone. Disney spokeswoman Suzi Brown told Patch, "I was at work Friday ... [so] I would have known about it." She said Disney's security chief hadn't heard anything about it. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies declined to comment. The FAA wouldn't comment about whether it gave clearance to any craft to fly through the no-fly zone above Disneyland.
It's not clear what happened exactly, but there might not even be an official explanation. Plenty of amateurs have been getting into the business ofspying using quadcopters to take videos from above. We'll be keeping our eye on YouTube andbestquadcopter.com for Disney footage.
It was already dark, so I couldn't really make out what it looked like, but it appeared to be a quadcopter (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadcopter) based on how it was moving, with three green lights and two red (I could have that backwards). It was maybe 2-3' in diameter.
Considering that it was dark, it was probably equipped with a night vision or infrared camera. It certainly appeared to be manually controlled from somewhere as opposed to being on a circuit/loop.
Anyone know exactly what it's currently used for, seen it, or have ideas for its expanded use? (e.g. crowd monitoring, security, practically painless X-S Tech transportation). Can Disney physically prevent private use?
In related "news"...
http://lakeforest-ca.patch.com/groups/police-and-fire/p/did-government-drone-spy-on-disney-resort
Drone Reported Above Disney's California Adventure Park
An employee of the Disney Resort said that a group of employees spotted a small drone hovering above Disney's California Adventure Park last week.
The anonymous employee told Lake Forest Patchthat a group of employees saw the 3-foot-long craft with propellers floating about 40 feet overhead. Some employees waved at it, because they assumed there was a camera on board. It had a flashing blue light, and the employee said, "It looked like a flying spider."
It reportedly happened around 7:30 a.m. last Friday, just a half-hour before the park opens to the public.
There isn't any official record of the drone sighting. An Anaheim police spokesman said he hadn't heard about any sightings. Disney disputes the claim that there was a drone. Disney spokeswoman Suzi Brown told Patch, "I was at work Friday ... [so] I would have known about it." She said Disney's security chief hadn't heard anything about it. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies declined to comment. The FAA wouldn't comment about whether it gave clearance to any craft to fly through the no-fly zone above Disneyland.
It's not clear what happened exactly, but there might not even be an official explanation. Plenty of amateurs have been getting into the business of
