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

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op00to wrote: post #242
_DeadFred_ wrote: post #229

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think the Coast Guard mistook 12 American Airlines planes for drones following their boat: https://apnews.com/article/fbi-drones-new-jersey-a978470fa3b... In another article a Sheriff saw 50 drones coming in from the ocean. Here a New Jersey elected official talks about the Sheriff/Police helicopter following an unidentified drone, then pull back because they feared for their safety (so low probability it was…

You keep posting the same stuff multiple times in the thread. It doesn’t help your argument.

My argument that the Coast Guard didn't mistake American Airlines planes for 12 drones following their boat is invalidated because I posted an AP article twice?

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Post by op00to »

jncfhnb wrote: post #211
xyst wrote: post #158

Reminds me of the Chinese balloon incident of 2023 [1] Unsubstantiated theory, but maybe a foreign adversary scanning ground for targets? Critical east coast transmission lines and substations in NJ possibly a target? [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Chinese_balloon_inciden...

You can see these things with satellites

Or airplanes. Like the ones flying overhead all the time in N.J.

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Post by trimethylpurine »

op00to wrote: post #239
_DeadFred_ wrote: post #209

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I mean there were 12 drones following a Coast Guard lifeboat. Doubt the Coastguard crew mass hysteria'd themselves into thinking 12 nearby 737s were following their boat (unless they just raided some Colombian drug submarine prior to coming into port). https://apnews.com/article/fbi-drones-new-jersey-a978470fa3b... And the official government response is super odd. Police were following a drone (that is totally safe…

Can you site an actual reliable source, and not the mouthpiece of a political party?

If there was such a news source we'd all be reading it and agreeing with one another.

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ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 wrote: post #226
_DeadFred_ wrote: post #220

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'We don't know what these drones are, where they come from, so we followed one, then we... just stopped following it'. That's not the normal Police/Sheriff response, no. There are multiple New Jersey state government officials that attended this government hearing retelling that the Police/Sheriff said a Police helicopter did just stop following the unknown drone because 'the Police/Sheriff felt unsafe'.

> There are multiple New Jersey state government officials that attended this government hearing retelling that the Police/Sheriff said a Police helicopter did just stop following the unknown drone because 'the Police/Sheriff felt unsafe'. I can't find that? Care to share?

Sorry I don't have Twitter and didn't save the link. Believe the one was a female New Jersey elected official. I suggest you start with looking up responses of officials from the meeting today if you don't believe this Assemblyman.

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Post by op00to »

alchemist1e9 wrote: post #132
Cthulhu_ wrote: post #29

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Why? Just follow them and see where they land / head to (they can't fly forever) and ask some questions to the owners.

supposedly they originate and return to somewhere out in ocean. presumably boats or submarines.

Unsubstantiated rumors. I say they come from mole people underground. The same reliable source as your information i’m sure.

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Post by toofy »

paranoidrobot wrote: post #137
gradus_ad wrote: post #49

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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.

"large drones" How large is "large"? Some of the articles are claiming "SUV sized" drones, but their photos are either of commercial aircraft, or of something that looks to be a DJI Phantom 4, or something much like it. Have you managed to capture any videos of images of these large, low flying, slow moving drones?

it’s amazing how so many people have seen these truck sized drones but they’ve all somehow failed to get pictures.

i can go outside right now in the dark with this phone i’m typing on and get a solid picture of stuff but somehow they keep showing us pictures that look like 1940s era ufo photo blur.

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