tell us than them actually flying around. reporter: last week, local sheriffs started hearing from residents about dozens of drones crisscrossing the night sky. they observed anywhere from five to ten drones over about a 25 square mile radius. reporter: the first sightings, in northeastern colorado and nebraska. now officials in three more counties are getting calls from baffled residents. the drones are flying at night. that requires faa approval, so the agency can warn other pilots, avoiding collisions like the one that recently damaged an l.a. tv news helicopter. and then there was this close call over las vegas last year. a drone narrowly missing a packed passenger plane. drone experts tell us most likely the craft belong to a private company mapping power or pipelines. the air force tells us these drones are not theirs. as for the faa, they re now proposing a new rule that would allow them to track drones in real-time, but for now, the drones here in colorado still a mystery
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these eyes in the sky are supposed to help cover the news. so what happens when they are the news? brooklyn, new york, may 4th, 2004. a tv news helicopter is dispatched to the city s flatbush neighborhood to cover a shooting. it arrives about 6:15 p.m. and begins hovering over the police cars at the scene. it s business as usual until suddenly the helicopter s camera goes haywire and then the shot dies. bystanders look up and see the helicopter spiraling out of control. suddenly we heard a loud boom! when we looked up, there it was.
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so what happens when they are the news? brooklyn, new york, may 4th, 2004. a tv news helicopter is dispatched to the city s flatbush neighborhood to cover a shooting. it arrives about 6:15 p.m. and begins hovering over the police cars at the scene. it s business as usual until suddenly the helicopter s camera goes haywire and then the shot dies. bystanders look up and see the helicopter spiraling out of control. suddenly we heard a loud pow! when we looked up, there it was. we saw the helicopter. i said the helicopter is in distress. another news helicopter responding to the same story begins filming chopper 4 s wild fall from the sky. it suddenly started coming right down. but guess where it was coming? right down at us. we started running. it came right down coming down, i said, no, no, no, no, no. the helicopter with two pilots and a reporter on board