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

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abuani wrote: post #83
Aeolun wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Oh, very much so some elements of mass hysteria. It took the better part of two weeks for authorities to recognize it, then it was "nothing to see here", then FBI is investigating. It sucks that one of our state representatives is out their claiming it's Iran and stoking further tensions. My personal feeling is if it was enemy drones, our military would have already taken them down. It's hard to imagine we'd let this…

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Post by topspin »

senkora wrote: post #369
DebtDeflation wrote: post #272

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I've been following the story and this has been discussed on the local Reddit subs. They are almost certainly PteroDynamics XP-4 drones flying from and to the military bases in question for testing purposes. There literally was a public demo of them on the USNS Burlington in Philadelphia a year ago.

Video of that model of drone: https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringPorn/comments/13juxdi/pt...

Something actually patent-worthy.

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Post by mjfl »

coliveira wrote: post #322
DebtDeflation wrote: post #272

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been following the story and this has been discussed on the local Reddit subs. They are almost certainly PteroDynamics XP-4 drones flying from and to the military bases in question for testing purposes. There literally was a public demo of them on the USNS Burlington in Philadelphia a year ago.

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Then Senators should stop blaming Iran for them. It’s irresponsible

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Post by abenga »

binary132 wrote: post #393
throwawaycities wrote: post #331

Almost no chance these are not US military. The drones have been appearing very consistently, if there were the slightest concern of foreign military drones, then military jets would have been scrambled to intercept - there have been no such reports.

Military jets scrambled to intercept a bunch of random UAVs? Do you know how expensive those things are to operate?

Airforces do a lot of ceremonial flyover stuff just to train and keep pilots' hours up. I doubt flying to deal with drones, even just for training, is a big lift.

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Post by karamanolev »

roflyear wrote: post #267
toofy wrote: post #259

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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.

No you can't - try it. Take a picture of the moon.

Probably not with a phone, but "affordable" full-frame MILC/DSLR cameras with 100-400mm or 600mm lenses exist and people have them. Much better chances.

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Post by amatecha »

Aloisius wrote: post #174
amatecha wrote: post #101

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TIL (from that page): "Flying drones at night without a waiver from the FAA is a violation of federal law" -- perhaps relevant to the top level article

You haven't needed a waiver since 2021. Now you can get near real-time approval to fly at night under Part 107.

Oh, then I suppose that page is out of date and should be updated. Thanks for the up-to-date info!

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Post by stevenhuang »

partiallypro wrote: post #454
stevenhuang wrote: post #440

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Why are you so certain it must be mass hysteria and not UAP? What are your piors? Are you a resident of NJ? Are you familiar with the UAP phenomenon? I venture you are neither of these.

For starters the Pentagon's AARO office, which is over monitoring UAPs has told reporters they have received 0 reports regarding UAPs over this "drone" stuff. Second, while I don't live in New Jersey, I have friends that do live in this area, and they have told me it's mostly mass hysteria. So, I venture to guess you're quite wrong. Finally, I think it's quite dangerous if people are saying we should shoot down unkno…

For starters, it seems you are unaware that AARO is considered compromised and is this era's project bluebook 2.0.

You have demonstrated you are not informed.

Check back in a few months time and you'll come around.

https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1gv9o56/how_do_we_kno...

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Post by garbagewoman »

mvcalder wrote: post #283

At the risk of being labeled a kook or an idiot, I photographed drones flying over my suburb of Boston neighborhood a few weeks ago. This was about 6am, definitely drones not regular aircraft. I assumed it was something flying out of Hanscom or the city mapping streets. And yes I took photos not video, sorry. https://photos.app.goo.gl/Lwfn134LqdEp6xbG9

why would someone call you a kook for a video of a thing

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Post by tsimionescu »

gooseus wrote: post #134
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 have had a bet going with two of my friends on this exact point for almost a week now, and the fact that it is _still_ not been resolved by any agency is insane. I also have a couple friends who work at Picatinny as well, and have heard that their civilian security have spotted some (which is strange since their airspace is always restricted), but there haven't been any internal memos regarding them. Some things I'…

> If there ARE drones being operated in a way where they would prefer not be recognized, then it doesn't seem crazy they would put lights on and move in ways that would disguise them as planes.

Wouldn't it be much, much, much easier and less crazy that, if you want to fly a small object at night and hide its exact nature and position, you would just paint it a deep, non-reflective black? Adding lights to an object you want to hide at night is completely crazy.

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