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It’s natural to be afraid of things we see in the sky and don’t understand. It’s been happening for hundreds of years

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America is in the midst of a full-on drone panic and itâs gotten very stupid.

People in the northeast part of the U.S. are freaking out about strange lights in the sky and spinning all kinds of conspiracy theories.

The dark truth is that American memories are short and weâve panicked many times before.

The answer to that question tells you about the society that’s afraid, but it may not give you an explanation of what actually happened.

In 1947 , a military balloon crashed in Roswell , New Mexico , kicked off the first great sky-watching panic of the post-war years .

The Cold War years were awash in fears about strange objects in the sky.

In the new century , people began to see consumer drones flying through the sky and feared them.

Journalist and drone expert Faine Greenwood predicted this in 2019 .