Fireworks displays are increasingly being replaced by high-tech drone shows at concerts, sporting events and Fourth of July celebrations across the United States, according to the Fox News report. While these light shows offer a quieter and arguably more spectacular alternative to traditional pyrotechnics, the trend is raising new safety concerns, as the growing number of drones in the sky is making it harder to detect and respond to bad actors exploiting the same airspace.

The article highlights a recent example in North Richland Hills, Texas, where a display of 2,500 drones lit up the night sky ahead of America's 250th birthday, forming large-scale images including a rocket, a bald eagle and George Washington. The piece frames the rapid adoption of drone shows as a double-edged development: a technologically impressive evolution of celebratory displays that simultaneously complicates airspace security and the identification of malicious or unauthorised drone activity.