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

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Or here: https://felt.com/explore/us-electric-power-transmission-line... (Account signup required.)

Wow. What possible reason would anyone have to make that information so easy to access?

Companies that want to build assets that connect to the transmission system

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Grusch was given access specifically by an act of the U.S Congress to investigate UAPs. Watch the CSPAN link of the congressional hearing I provided for the full details. Read the link to "The Crowded Galaxy" theory for what's probably going on based on that testimony. It answers all your questions. There are probably millions of planets with life in the galaxy. We're not remarkable except with how hyper-violent and…

The government also studied remote viewing, psychic powers, and tried to control people's minds with LSD. The government has been investigating UFOs since Project Grudge back in the 1940s. None of that is evidence that remote viewing, psychic powers, mind control or UFOs are actually really alien spacecraft. David Grusch repeating second and thirdhand claims about alien conspiracies is not evidence that those claims…

Worth remaining a little skeptical. Could be Project Blue Beam, the plan for a fake alien invasion, that's been talked about for literally decades in conspiracy circles.

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This sounds like uneducated people seeing two things: consumer drones and just normal aircraft. They sell drones both online and at your local electronics store. Also, how would someone know it's "car sized" or any other size without a radar? Just looking isn't good enough.

Consumer drones have collision lights that look all fancy. They are also in the FAA jurisdiction so there's nothing the locals can do to stop it because it's not something they deal with, even if flying at night is illegal for non commercially licenced UAV operators.

If it's a secret drone then it doesn't have collision lights. If it doesn't have lights you can't see it at night.

Even after watching the videos I think you can figure this out a priori without the videos - drones exist and people have them, lots of them.

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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…

AARO is waiting for reports for something that is in the news? They have no field investigation teams? If China/Russia is flying drones over military bases they will wait for a report to investigate? Do they investigate anything at all or just file the reports and think about them? Seems like a very passive organization. The first report they put out seemed very flawed, it had an "artists rendering" of a graph!

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Seems like an opportunity for a training exercise. Have the FAA put a TFR in place and let the national guard interdict, ECW and such. Take control, land it in the x-ray scanner, check for explosives then take it apart and get telemetry data. The US taught Ukraine how to do this with great success. If no joy on ECW, disassemble them in the sky. If the drones were legit they would be broadcasting their ID as would the…

Most plausible theory I have heard yet. [1] disclaimer: prepper channel, some here may perceive it as nutty. Nuke sensors would explain why the guard is not touching them.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaEPvrq5VFM [video][21 mins]

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I don't expect you to believe in aliens. I don't tend to believe in much of anything. But when you have multiple whistleblowers giving testimony to congress that UAPs are operated by non-human intelligence, I think keeping aliens as "just speculative science fiction" is factually incorrect. https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/4712445-key-senato...

Human intelligence should be enough to understand what parallax is and how gimbals and IR sensors work. All those published videos were no less than a psyop to demonstrate weapons system's capabilities - with the implicit brag that there's even more powerful stuff they're not showing.

you're intentionally leaving out the eye witness testimony that accompanied those videos.

and promoting conspiracy theories. which is fine, I'm just telling you what US military officers testified to congress about under oath.

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DoD testing Starlink (wich is their product, from their front company SpaceX) with their shiny new drones

Downvoter, you are historical illiterate: https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB509/

Competition is the greatest tool for innovation

And i am omniscient

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Shotguns are being used for that purpose. Single buckshot from the top of a AR barrel are in vogue too. Someone should use a cheap arduino and a mike for aiming and shooting at fpv quadcopters. I really don't understand why that's not here yet. They can literally convert a toy from github.

They are "being used" but shotguns are the last line of defense. Good luck stopping a little FPV drone with one. If you do not disable it by 50ft you dead. And you have like 10% odds. Way better than 1% odds you might have with a rifle or nothing but... Jamming is first line of defense, a million times more effective FWIW.

One counter measure is no counter measure. If you look at toys like https://hackaday.com/2023/06/13/arduino-powered-missile-syst... and scale it up with bigger and stronger servo's for holding a shotgun instead of fake missiles; you'll have a second war - with the arms industry. For a bonus you'll also win the war of economy because the bill of materials costs less than a mad maxed FPV drone given you source the shotgun from the land.
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