2w ago

Why are mysterious drones flying over New Jersey?

www.aljazeera.com Why are mysterious drones flying over New Jersey?

The drones have been flying over critical infrastructure such as US military research facilities and police departments.

Some people are saying these are either UFOs or a foreign country. I believe that these HAVE to be domestic. Look -- if China/Russia/etc can overfly our most sensitive military bases and our Air Force, etc. doesn't respond, the USA has gotten PUNKED. What is actually happening is you are seeing some sanctioned activity either by a commercial contractor of the Federal government, or you are seeing some secret Air Force tech. The Army, etc will just deny, deny, deny, because they know in a couple of days this will fall out of the news cycle.

I'd be curious to hear people's theories to see if I'm alone in my line of thinking or not.

19 comments

He also noted that the drones are flying above critical infrastructure such as water reservoirs, electric transmission lines, train stations, police departments and military installations.
I’ll just add some detail to this as a resident of NJ; we’re the most densely populated state in the nation. I would say it would be difficult for anything to fly in our airspace without being in close proximity to any of these things.
Even in the more rural south of the state, you have a massive military base, McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst taking up a huge area
- Sure, to think the Air Force / Army etc would tolerate such a blatant violation of their airspace with NO RESPONSE is crazy. It's not like they have to fly 5000 miles like you said. They are literally right there. If America was really this powerless against drones in our airspace, then Iran, etc. would be dropping grenades on our power stations in 2 seconds. We'd be totally owned. This is VERY CLEARLY either the government themselves, or something done with the government's agreement.
  Another point -- if these drones are so secret and spooky, why are many of them flying with FAA compliant safety lights? Iran / aliens worried about mid-air collisions? Awfully nice of them!
  
  Yeah the bright lights is why I also think this is some skunkworks testing that Uncle Sam would rather not disclose rather than an adversary. That said, if that was the case why don’t they pull out something akin to the tried and true “just weather balloons” excuse?

It's been going on too many places for too long to be more than a few things...
It's ours and we're doing some sort of panic test or show of force
It's ours and we're looking for something dangerous and don't want anyone to know
Its an enemy state and we're either observing/gathering counter intel and don't want to alert that state to our capabilities
It's an enemy state and we don't want to have drones packed with ??? falling over homes
It's aliens ayyy
There's zero chance a military branch hasn't had this on satellite 8k by now but nearly every situation means they will never disclose information to citizens.
- Or it's a nonstate actor with unknown intentions. Corporate reconnaissance, perhaps? Musk preparing for his privatization of the military....

can i just see a real UAP one day please
- These technically ARE UAP. They are just not extraterrestrial in origin.

Planes? Hobbiest drones? You know you can just go out and buy a drone and fly it around right? All sorts of shapes and sizes and colors.
This whole thing reminds me of a saying:
"Anything can be a UFO if you suck at identifying stuff"
- If it was planes: then the FAA would be looking up whomever it is and slamming them in court and otherwise. Look at typical airspace violations -- they pounce on the offenders extremely quickly and there are immediate consequences. There is an immense amount of radar coverage over the US and any "mystery plane" not flying with their ADS-B transponder can be met with a response up to and including fighter jets being scrambled.
  Regarding drones, it's pretty much a weekly occurrence that some numbnuts flies a drone in restricted airspace. The FAA have gotten very good at tracking down these folks.
  So basically, both of your theories happen routinely and our government is very practiced at dealing with them.

It's kind of terrifying because we've watched the evolution of drone combat in real time, first in Ukraine and now in Syria (where Ukraine sent operators).
Hopefully it's more of whatever the fuck this is:
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/12/rocket-report-ukrainian-launch-firm-finds-maine-home-long-march-8a-debut-near/
https://www.ntd.com/chinese-student-charged-for-allegedly-photographing-shipyard_997881.html
Otherwise, it might represent another 9/11 with massive coordinated attacks on infrastructure all over the east coast. It only takes a few substations before the grid starts getting wobbly, or water treatment plants, etc., also structures that have been repeatedly probed with information warfare.
And next we've got Trump coming.
Oh boy.

Anyone ever watch Black Mirror? Specifically Hated in the Nation

A shotgun with buckshot should be enough to take them down, and in New Jersey there are more guns than in Texas. I saw this in a documentary (The Baritones or something)
- Sure, maybe at low altitudes, but try that at 1,500 feet.
  
  Challenge accepted.
  https://throwflame.com/tf-19-wasp/

19 comments