As a band of unknown drones flies across northeast Colorado and western Nebraska, the Federal Aviation Administration is proposing a new rule that would require most drones to be identifiable remotely.
The proposed rule change, announced Thursday, has been in the works for more than a year, FAA spokesman Ian Gregor said in an email Monday. The proposal would allow law enforcement, federal security agencies and the FAA to remotely identify drones that fly through their jurisdictions, the FAA said in a statement.
Such technology would prevent a repeat of the ongoing mystery in Northeast Colorado, where residents in five counties have spotted large drones flying in grid-like patterns in the evenings and nights for about two weeks.
Residents have called local authorities to report seeing groups of six to 10 drones hovering or cruising through the region between 7 and 10 p.m., usually flying a couple hundred feet in the air. The drones have also been spotted in Deuel County, Nebraska, au..
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