As an engineer, the "Chinese drones" theory is NOT plausible. Here's why.

The only people buying this theory are those with no physics background. The explanation itself is implausible, by my estimate.

The orange "orb" UFO's have exhibited NO heat signature (as confirmed through imaging and testimony from military/police) - no exhaust, no friction with the environment - and that *alone* is evidence of technology that isn't just "a hundred years ahead," but actually changes how we view thermodynamics and the laws of physics. A craft capable of flying with zero heat signature would mean such a society could do pure sci-fi things, like produce infinite energy or perfect conversion with no lost energy (heat/friction). It would upend physics and science as we know it. Hiding the technology to literally save our planet from extinction would be criminal, at a scale never seen before.

And we're supposed to believe China has this tech, and is secretly launching it all over the goddamn world just to show off? If even one of those drones had a 0.0001% of malfunctioning or being shot down, we would recover it and China would lose this historically significant advantage. Not a risk ANY government would take, including China. And where are the subs that launch these bus-sized drones and orbs? Any sub like that off our shores would have been tracked LONG ago.

Why would you take the most advanced technology the world has EVER seen, and fly it over homes in New Jersey? and Denmark, Germany, the UK, Australia? It makes zero fucking sense. "They're just showing off," some people say. By doing something irresponsibly stupid and then not taking credit publicly? No logic is used in that argument lol

The only people buying this shit are people with no physics knowledge and bots who are spreading misinfo, plain and simple.

Don't believe this Chinese drone stuff, it's not even remotely plausible. And the morons who downvote the actual science and who claim this explains everything, it's the same accounts who "debunk" everything and all are usually just a few weeks or months old. Don't believe it.

Sincerely, an engineer and computer science researcher.

edit - as someone pointed out, the orbs and "drones" are not necessarily the same thing, but the anomalous "no heat signature" property is tied to the orbs mainly, from what I've seen. Even if the "drones" really are Chinese, wtf are the orbs then?? it doesn't add up to me at all

and if we do find out this was China all along, well we'd have a bigger problem than global conflict even. We'd have to rewrite our entire understanding of thermodynamics and reconsider what we've always thought were laws of the Universe. I'm game to do that if we can - but it seems unlikely that this has been well-hidden for so long

last edit - China definitely *could* have reverse engineered some NHI shit just as well as we could, I would buy that idea. It's unlikely, but possible. But the point here is that we're supposed to go, "oh man, China is just so advanced, that's too bad! They worked so hard they got 100,000 years ahead of us in tech!" - and then ignore the NHI implications. That's not plausible.