Very suspicious. Too many coincidences and incongruent activities to support validity of this footage.
1) The drone is focused on a fellow who demonstrates NO suspicious activity. So there’s no apparent reason to zoom in on him at all. He’s merely walking by one of three vehicles in a private home driveway. The presence of THREE vehicles there, in broad daylight, calls into question if anyone would choose to attempt breaking into a vehicle while other people are obviously present.
2) The pilot leaves the “action” in the center of his vision - the fellow simply walking by a parked vehicle - and arbitrarily pans to the right to capture 2 other males who, again, are not demonstrating any suspicious activity. Why? Looks like they are just leaving the house. So a) why turn the camera on them? and b) how did the OP even know to turn his drone camera in that direction unless he’s psychic?
3) Suddenly a weapon appears. Most car theives do not carry weapons with them while breaking into a vehicle due to felony gun laws that would make them face more time if they did so. The “shooter” does not spend any time trying to find the drone; he instantly aims directly at it. The quiet props of the
Mavic 2 -especially if heard at the height it appears to be flying - strains credulity that the “shooter” would hear the aircraft and therefore know exactly where to aim his gun. Wyatt Earp couldn’t even respond so swiftly.
4) The OP appears to be a recent pilot, having joined this forum about 7 weeks ago. The chances of him happening to be in flight over a private residence at just the right time to capture illegal activity are incredibly slim. Furthermore, the chances of him capturing such footage that includes a gun-wielding gangsta who knows a drone had caught him during the commission of a crime - which had not even occurred - makes those chances even less likely. Moreover, at the end of the OP’s footage, the car door is clearly open without any apparent trouble in doing so. Given the vehicle is a recent model, it undoubtedly would be equipped with a theft alarm system, and there is no indication any such alarm was sounded as the men just go about their business.
5) Frisco, TX, is a highly populated suburb of the Dallas-Ft. Worth metropolitan area. According to Texas drone laws, filming private individuals on private property as the OP appears to have done is blatantly illegal. Video captured of illegal activities via drones is inadmissible in Court there unless it is captured by certain authorized individuals and for specific reasons.
My conclusion: BS. Less credible than the drone threats alleged at airports across the planet that remain unproven. That is my take on this.
