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Re: What we know about the mysterious drones flying over New Jersey

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Post by defrost » Sun, Dec 15, 2024, 10:26 AM UTC

EE84M3i wrote: post #20

tejohnso wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The highest authorities have indicated that the drones are not U.S. military [1]. I guess they could be playing semantic games. Could be defense contractor owned and operated as opposed to directly military controlled. In any case, if they know what they are they are lying. Either directly or by omission. Not that either would be unusual. [1]: https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/11/pentagon-says-mystery-dron... EDIT: Actu…

If they are Department of Energy, that's consistent with them not being US Military. For example, DoE is publicly known to have radiation detection helicopters - See Aerial Measuring System (AMS) and Nuclear Emergency Support Team (NEST)

The reason AMS like functions are carried out by fixed wing aircraft and helicopter slung pods is the weight of the doped crystal packs required to sense gamma radiation from even relatively low ground clearance.

Radiation surveys are steady paced gridding runs, evenly spaced lines flown at a uniform height and speed.

Little drones bobbing about aren't doing a good job running a detection grid.

Re: What we know about the mysterious drones flying over New Jersey

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Post by O5vYtytb » Sun, Dec 15, 2024, 5:53 PM UTC

IAmGraydon wrote: post #17

O5vYtytb wrote: post #2

The only hypothesis that makes sense to me is that there is something very dangerous on the loose that is being searched for, such as nuclear material. The highest authorities don't want to cause panic so they are executing a search this way.

That’s the only hypothesis that makes sense to you? Are you sure you’ve applied any critical thought at all? I’m calling it - this is going down as the largest case of mass hysteria in recorded history.

You could have taken a more curious approach on responding instead of a thinly veiled insult.

Re: What we know about the mysterious drones flying over New Jersey

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Post by jjwiseman » Mon, Dec 16, 2024, 9:18 PM UTC

Here's a video by Mick West, who's an expert in analyzing things people see in the sky, that does a great job of explaining what's happening and making it seem obvious in retrospect. It's short (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK4HFxzsjgo

tldr: People aren't seeing drones. It's collective delusion.