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First, i ran outside to see a flashing blue light through trees of a drone flying extremely low, making an unfamiliar noise not quite like a helicopter. (Later, found it was a plane a mile high.)

second, a silent, triangle-shaped drone flew right in my line of sight, and got a close-up picture of it. i spent hours writing a sighting report for this sub, https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/s/ox64SWlABC and defending it from plane allegations, since it was obviously not a plane due to its size and lack sound. (it was a plane a mile high.)

a couple hours into the thread, a commenter sends the exact flight. Like a light switch, i snap out of it. i’m so dumbfounded with myself, my delusion so absurd it amuses myself and i keep the post up of that one time i got all worked up over a plane.

the next night, im walking my dogs with my zoom camera and see a drone with a bright light approaching directly toward me from just over the tree tops. It’s so low and making zero noise except for a high-pitched whirr like a leaf-blower. i get dead calm and focus on nothing but zooming in all the way and keeping the drone in focus as i snap loads of pictures as it glides quietly a hundred feet up. This was it. my magnum opus. I got the absolute moneyshot of one of the infamous drone. I message my friends excitedly, and go inside to review. I zoom in, and i’m immediately unsettled to see that the drone is the shape of a miniature plane. Like, as if it were a plastic toy. I edit the photos, write my experience, and post it here. It’s immediately pointed to be a united airlines plane. one mile high. i delete the post within two minutes. but, not before someone screenshots and uses it as evidence for an ensuing post claiming extraterrestrials are mimicking human crafts in toy-sized fashion and its being silenced, of course.

my only defense, is that in two of the three cases, the plane routes were not posted to flightradar until later on. the other case, i failed to convert UTC.

Has this happened to anyone else? Maybe this is cope for me being actually crazy, but I would assume it would be more prevalent among regulars of a sub like /r/UFOs, their methods for conformation bias more articulate-able, more eagerness to perceive something unexplained?