General Discussion

Some drones flew far away from their intended location.

On Lake Eola, there is a grassy peninsula that sticks out into the lake. That is where the drones were launched from and supposed to be over. In one of the videos you can see a drone fly into the people filming it. They were about 250 feet away from that area.

The top left and bottom right clips are from the video. The bright light in the top of the bottom right video is the drone flying into the crowd. The other pictures are showing the map of the location and streetview where the person was filming from.



Clearly 250 feet was far enough away - but any normal failure on a quadcopter-type drone (prop / motor failure, collision, etc.) would not cause it to fly 250 away before crashing. It would tumble straight down (as many did in the show). This was bad GPS sensor data causing the drones to not know where they were. This is very likely the act of someone with a GPS jammer. They are cheap, small, and easy to get a hold of.