Probably so. Although I personally have a hard time understanding what kind of “tech“ could in some instances, even through great distances, see or even “read the minds“ of an observer and SEEMINGLY interact with what the observer sees or thinks. Which seems to be what some UFO type things can do. For example, sometimes there might be more then one observer looking and/or thinking about the UFO at quite some distance and at totally different locations. Yet the UFO seemingly can interact with the various observers at the same time. Also, sometimes an observer might be very well hidden from the UFO, yet the UFO still seems to be able to interact with the observer. If a more or less ordinary drone can do that, one might assume that it can somehow detect human eyes looking at it at greater distances. Maybe that is how? Or it interacts with a cellphone that is recording what the observer says and its location? Or, more fancy, the UFO or drone can interact with the consciousness of the observer?
On my experience so far, they are instantly telepathically aware. Or they saw me running a sort distance and guessed they were going to be on camera. Drones? No experience of any sort with these.
Two Septembers in a row I was out in the garden, saw a large cigar shaped opalescent craft, completelly silent, moving slowly to the East at about 5000 feet just a few degrees south of our house. Easily visible. I used to track craft on an aviation site to see where chemtrails or whatever they were, were coming from - it was usual Korean Airlines or Air Canada leaving the long-lasting trails, being at altitudes above 3000 ft to 4000 ft. That's how I estimated its altitude from looking at planes at different altitudes.
The second year in September I saw the same type of craft silently, slowly gliding to the east. When I noticed it, again from the garden, and ran for the house, it was gone when I got outside to photograph it. No windows visible on the craft, I guess they/it could have seen me from the air, suddenly a running human heading to a building, but their view of where I was running would be about 7 seconds till I was behind the house. It seems more logical to me that it was awareness.
In a video I saw years ago, John Vivanco, an excellent remote viewer, said if you remote view aliens they are apt to come see you. In his experience they knew immediately if they were being viewed. He told of other incidents of when they did come see him and his RV business partner, even physically - a Tall Grey Dude.
For What It's Worth, Vivanco's book, published 2016, 'The Time Before the Secret Words' is interesting to read. A quote from the book intro on the topic here: "One moment you’re working on predicting markets for a hedge fund, the next, you’re an inadvertent contact point to an alien species asking you for help." The alien species was a type of firefly that had a relative species in trouble on earth. Vivanco and his partner undertook to help the earth species survive in its remote habitat.
https://www.amazon.ca/Time-Before-Secret-Words-Strangeness/dp/0997825804