‘Creepy’ drone hovers outside Calgary apartment windows

CALGARY — A Calgary woman spotted a drone hovering outside people’s windows in the Beltline Tuesday evening.

She says it was hovering close to an apartment across the street for a bit, moved over and hovered a while longer, then took off.

“This was kind of weird and creepy,” said Beth Allan, who spotted the drone. “I hope it’s not actually what happened. And that was just sort of my reaction, was like ‘I hope that’s not really what I think it is. I really hope there isn’t a random drone flying around looking in windows.’”

The Beltline falls within Calgary’s control zone — which means devices that are more than 250g are not allowed to fly there.

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Professionals must get permission to fly in these areas.

“I think it’s important to say there’s plenty of legitimate reasons .. it might have been inspecting windows.”

CityNews reached out to Nav Canada to see if it might’ve belonged to a licensed professional, but they have yet to provide a response.

Calgary police say they were called to the building in the 1100 block of 11 Ave. SW regarding this concern.

Hi everyone, I am looking for info on a drone flight over the Beltline earlier this evening near the Co-op on 12Ave. I know there are many legal reasons/ways to be flying & if that’s the case, or if you have any information, would you please message me? Thanks! #yyc

— Sergeant Chris Martin (@CPSSgtMartin) August 11, 2021

Their investigation is ongoing, but they’re asking anyone with information – or if it was you operating a legal flight – to call the Calgary police non-emergency line at 403-266-1234.