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Mysterious New Jersey drone sightings prompt call for 'state of emergency'

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Why are they not being shot down at the very least?

Some of these photos are of passenger planes. I think most agree that shooting down passenger planes is bad.

Also rather hard to accidentally do if you have equipment capable of shooting down aircraft.

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Lol, also rep. Jeff Van Drew claiming without evidence that the drones are coming from an Iranian mothership off the coast.

In his defense, he is a Cold War relic.

He was 20 in 1973, that doesn't qualify as a CW relic. Not even a curio.

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There is more evidence here than just pictures from this one article. The pentagon, for example, just declared that they do not know what they are[1]. Among many other credible sources. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1hc1l58/pentagon_no_e...

> There is more evidence here than just pictures from this one article. What “more evidence”? All the Pentagon is saying is that there’s no evidence that’s a foreign entity is behind it. Not “more” evidence.

Can you or can you not draw a red line with a blue pen?

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At least 6 out of 10 images in the linked article are clearly commercial aircraft.

And those other 4 out of 10 are very clearly not commercial airlines. I live in NJ was very skeptical of this at first, but after seeing the same patterns 5 nights in a row for aircrafts not going towards Newark, I really have a hard time believing it is simply airlines.

Sure, I’m not saying there’s nothing, but there’s clearly some component of hysteria.

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Bit concerning that no government agencies have figured out what’s going on, but hardly seems like there is a reason for a limited state of emergency given there is no known threat at all. My guess is a US company is gathering data and hasn’t admitted to do so without some type of licensing/etc

>My guess is a US company is gathering data and hasn’t admitted to do so without some type of licensing/etc My guess is "Flowers By Irene" or more likely someone contracted to do stuff on their behalf for optics/politics reasons. Real companies that do drone stuff are pretty by the book because they know the fed crosshairs are on them.

That's my impression as well. They could be tracking individuals or materials of interest coming from the ports which is why they're over NJ specifically.

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Israel has been mounting guns and speakers on long-distance quadcopters and shooting at Gazans. Only a short time until that tech becomes widespread. Israel seems to be a proving ground for mass population terrorizing tech like this. I'm having a hard time seeing how society is not going to devolve into capitalist tech fascism as we lose all our privacy and tech becomes more powerful than our governments, aka the wil…

Wait until you hear that the US mounted hellfire missiles on a drone in 2001 and shot at trucks/people in Afghanistan.

Or it is only "terrorizing" to a population when you use bullets instead of enormous bullets that also kill everything in a 30m radius?

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I live in NJ. I've seen these drones. They are not commercial airliners or helicopters. They are loud, fly low and slow, and make abrupt turns unlike any planes I've seen. Their lights are also very different from other aircraft. I can see how it's tempting to chalk this up to hysteria, but they are absolutely large drones of some kind.

At least 6 out of 10 images in the linked article are clearly commercial aircraft.

If it's got bright lights on it, it's very unlikely to be espionage.
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