{"id":362751,"date":"2026-07-06T15:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/362751\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T15:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:38:08","slug":"hundreds-of-drones-illuminate-texas-sky-for-americas-250th-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/362751\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of Drones Illuminate Texas Sky for America&#8217;s 250th Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hundreds of drones lit up the night sky over Lake Carolyn in Irving, Texas, as the city kicked off its two-day celebration of America&#8217;s 250th birthday on Friday, July 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This footage shows a synchronized drone display featuring patriotic images and messages, including a cowboy, a bald eagle, and &#8220;Happy 4th&#8221; spelled out across the sky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to <a data-ylk=\"slk:Drone XL;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/dronexl.co\/2026\/07\/05\/sky-elements-250th-700-drones-irving\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Drone XL<\/a>, more than 700 drones took part in the display. Credit: Hayes Walsh via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of drones lit up the night sky over Lake Carolyn in Irving, Texas, as the city kicked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[127825,1266,128642,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-362751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-250th-birthday","tag-irving","tag-lake-carolyn","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}