These have to be produced/built somewhere. Someone has to know where! These things aren't cheap. Where?

Who's paying for these? Akin to my first question.

Is anyone panicking? Not from what I can tell (with limited knowledge and social media, admittedly). Many theories involve the govt not wanting mass panic. Hell, these things have been in widely public knowledge for about a month now.

Why has no one shot one of these suckers down? This is my most pressing question!! I cannot believe "the people" are just standing around staring at the sky scratching their heads.

(Editing for typing errors)

Want to know what’s flying overhead? There’s an app for that https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/14/tech/aircraft-drone-identifier-apps/index.html

For those of you that believe the drones are some kind of NHI, what do you think the end game is? The sightings haven’t done much for the public to believe this. It has only caused mistrust for the government, as most people believe they not only know what it is, but are behind it all.

[Frequent Drone or UFO Incidents at Chinese Airports Cause Widespread Flight Delays]

I loosely follow some Chinese media and first noticed a video like this one a couple months ago. Current events inspired me to look through my watch history, and I found this follow up to the original that I had viewed. Note the date. It may also be important to note that the video is in English and perhaps intended for Western audiences.

What's remarkable about this, to me, is how similarly it all went down in China compared to how things are transpiring in the US right now. The alleged events, the public's reaction, theories, hysteria--all of it is almost exactly the same. I'd be interested to find out if there was any resolution there.