I hope so, but I’m at ground zero over here and it seems like there’s a lot more people freaking out about this than the balloon panic.

I do think the more normal people are starting to lose their patience already, though. The amount of “very clearly an airplane” videos being posted is quickly delegitimizing the whole thing for everybody except the most extreme conspiracy-minded. All it would take is one clear video of a big scary drone, it’s been weeks and still nothing.

What’s wild to me is A) how few people have actually looked at a plane for more than a second prior to last month, and B) how easily people will see what they want to see, even when they are looking at something that is very obviously not that thing.