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

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Post by Balgair »

YZF wrote: post #370
thehappypm wrote: post #330

My father took this picture of a drone in Morris County, NJ. Anyone want to help identify what it is? https://i.imgur.com/Sfet0Ps.jpeg

I'm far from an expert but looks more or less like a garden variety quad-copter. Maybe a somewhat larger one. You guys are really seeing them all over the place? That's the start of a good sci-fi movie. Let's see if we find something out. Is it possible people are just a lot more sensitive to seeing drones that are around anyways?

I mean, drones are pretty cheap, yeah? Why not just join the fun? Buy a drone, follow one of these other ones around, see what happens. Worst case: Some army dude knocks on the door and says to stop it, maybe you gotta pony up to a lawyer. Best case: Your new alien friends have great new schnapps on the intergalactic party-barge.

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Post by gloflo »

Aeolun wrote: post #453
roflyear wrote: post #269

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The drones only operate at night and it's hard taking good pictures at night with phones (or even nice cameras) - try to take a picture of the moon, which isn't moving, is brighter, etc.. you can tell it's the moon but it's a lot quality picture.

Drones are a lot closer than the moon. I’m fairly certain my middle of the line camera can do better than what I see on that article.

Drones are small while the moon is far away.

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Post by anonzzzies »

kernelkhertz wrote: post #340
anonzzzies wrote: post #298

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Shift! Galactic Federation! Let me go watch some funny youtube vids about this new (to me) insanity. Flat earthers always crack me up; good comedy, so this should be good too.

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I see a lot of whining about skydaddy god and the kid he had killed. If I want lame fairy tale religion, I would open up X. This is just a very uninspired retelling of the bible in alien form; not even funny; the person who wrote this is either a bad fantasy/scifi writer or mentally ill (or both).

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Post by JohnnyLarue »

paul7986 wrote: post #344
paul7986 wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This story is so strange. I mean the US if im not mistaken allowed a huge white ballon to transverse the country and i heard Trump say that was from China. If that's true we just allowed it fly all over our airspace (weird). Is that not a potential public safety hazard and now these things. So odd nothing is being done like one of our jet fighters going up and shooting one down into a field.

overall this says the US will allow undenitified drones in our air space and to fly unabated to our enemies ... one of these or future ones could be weaponized. So its unfathomable to me that they we are letting these things fly unabated in our airspace, as well the govt is providing zero info or re-assurance.

Because they're not threats, and your 'enemies' are just other countries who have resources your country wants, but won't do what your country says. The calls are coming from inside the house.

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Post by motorest »

gradus_ad wrote: post #49
apcragg wrote: post #13

The photos I've seen posted look very obviously like commercial airliners and helicopters with their navigation lights on. You can even make out the American Airlines livery on the tail! https://www.app.com/story/news/local/new-jersey/2024/12/11/d...

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.

> 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.

You better crank out your camera and collect any proof at all,because what you are describing bears no resemblance to the sightings mentioned in the article.

There is a reason why sightings of supernatural fenomenal went down abruptly with the inception of cheap digital cameras.

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Post by whoitwas »

pkkkzip wrote: post #204
GenerocUsername wrote: post #146

I wish we as people could have meaningful conversations on the internet. To clarify some common logical issues I see spread across dozens of responses in this thread: Drones != Quadcopters Drones COULD use a housing to mimics common aircraft or helicopters. The military and FBI do not commonly monitor ALL airspace at all times beyond air-traffic radar. The government is not a hive-mind and individuals only know what…

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Let me get this straight ... you think Donald Trump is going to unseal Epstein documents?????????????????????????????

Why? He was his buddy and probable executioner.

https://epsteinsblackbook.com/names/donald-trump

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Post by motorest »

abuani wrote: post #68
Aeolun wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> And those other 4 out of 10 are very clearly not commercial airlines.

Cool, so a simple cursory glance of these mysterious phenomena is enough to immediately call bullshit on 60% of the claims.

That's a heck of a false positive rate, given the fact that this happens before any verification takes place.

If at least 60% of the claims given the same credibility are outright rejected without any effort, what does it say about the claims and those who make them?

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Post by mrandish »

jklinger410 wrote: post #39
apcragg wrote: post #13

The photos I've seen posted look very obviously like commercial airliners and helicopters with their navigation lights on. You can even make out the American Airlines livery on the tail! https://www.app.com/story/news/local/new-jersey/2024/12/11/d...

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...

> The pentagon, for example, just declared that they do not know what they are

I often hear those hyping UFO sightings citing this type of statement by the Pentagon. However, the Pentagon saying the don't know what it is doesn't mean anything. Of course, they don't know what it is. They weren't there. They didn't see it nor have any idea if there was anything unusual seen. The null hypothesis is the still the most likely: this is a result of media hype causing increased erroneous reports of aircraft and hobbyist drones along with false reports by social media attention seekers.

Also, the Pentagon has a consistently terrible track record of failing to properly identify spurious internal lens reflections, digital stabilization artifacts, IR ghosting and gimbal rotation on their own footage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsEjV8DdSbs.

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