Huge drones, the size of SUVs, spotted over NJ

Iran?

Yeah I live right here, in the northern NJ burbs, and neighbors are seeing them in the middle of the night. Much bigger than a teenager's $200 recreational thing.

The cops have put out local bulletins asking us all to help them especially if we take note of exactly where they seem to be coming from and returning to.

p.s. what's weird is that it is statewide, not just 1 or 2 locations. This article at OP is about South Jersey but it's all over the North as well.

It calls to mind this:

Been happening in UK over US bases. Coordinated drone formations at night. Probably agents of Russia or China.

Taking Trump's new police state toys for a test drive, made by and guided by Musk Corp.

R6, that was my first thought as well.

I think the military and fbi know exactly who it is. How can they not unless they are completely clueless and inefficient?

The new Cadillac "Escapade". Fly from your gated, guarded communities to boutiques having roof-top landing pads. Fly above all the chaos and, well, you know.

if they're spying why would they have blinking lights?

Send up your own drones ‘n follow ‘em.

Fure at them.

Good advice, stroke victim at r12.

Limited state of emergency?

They should have the military shoot them down. Now.

Unless, of course, they know which billionaire they belong to and are worried about the repurcussions of shooting his toys out of the air?

Ratchet up that fear factor; keep'em scared!

Libtard aliens are comin' to take muh gas stove, rape muh daughter and wifey, steal muh job, eat muh doggo, and take muh guns!

Save me, President Jesus Trump! SAVE ME!

How low flying are they? I'm surprised a civilian hasn't tried to shoot one down.

That's very eerie and creepy. I was out in my yard with my dog one evening when I saw a bunch of lights arranged in square patterns in the northern sky. Instantly got goosebumps and was more than a little creeped out. Ran back in the house to Google. It was a Starlink launch.

Expensive and precarious keepin those in the air.

Those women in SUVs really can’t drive those fcuking tanks!

Elon is keeping America distracted; something nefarious is going down people.

The modern age continues its inexorable march toward mechanized dominion over the natural world. These drone flights in South Jersey are but another harbinger of humanity’s obsession with automation and surveillance. What were once the unspoiled skies, vast and unknowable, are now mere highways for the machines of our own invention. Artificial eyes darting through the heavens, watching, recording, imposing order where there once was freedom.

Should one marvel at this technology? Perhaps. Yet I can’t help but foresee the darker implications. The erosion of privacy, the gradual conditioning of society to accept mechanical overseers in all facets of life. These machines may begin as tools, but they whisper of a future where autonomy is but an illusion, and man becomes subservient to the creations of his own hubris.

Let New Jersey serve as a microcosm of the age to come. A realm where progress is both marvel and menace. Will we master these machines, or will they, in time, master us?

[quote] Will we master these machines, or will they, in time, master us?

"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

It’s aliens. What else could it be? Drones in South Jersey? You think Bezos is sending Prime deliveries to the Pine Barrens? Nah. It’s the little green guys, no question. They’re probably cruising around, checking out the shore, maybe hitting up an Atlantic City buffet before they abduct a few tollbooth workers for research.

I mean, if you’re an alien, where else would you go? New York = too obvious, Florida’s already weird enough without extraterrestrial interference, but Jersey? Perfect cover. They probably think the Wawa hoagie is the pinnacle of human achievement. And honestly, they’re not wrong.

Either they’re studying us, or they’re just trying to figure out why we willingly live next to that smell on the Turnpike. Either way, it’s aliens and I’m sure of it.

Elfin Republican says it's Iran and they should be blown to smithereens. Pew, Pew, Pew!

"Congressman Claims Drones Over New Jersey Were Launched by Iranian ‘Mothership’"

Drone sightings over South Jersey aren’t just tech tests. They’re symbols of our surveillance era malaise. Why there? A liminal space perfect for quiet experiments, where diners meet decay and progress hovers dispassionately above. Drones embody our powerless coexistence with control: omnipresent, watching, yet detached.

[Scary background score]: "Those aren't drones ...."

They came to take Kreskin home.

Seriously....[bold] Why aren't stealth fighters or jets on this? How is "we don't know" an acceptable response from the Government?[/bold]

Because the govt knows who they belong to but the owners are just refusing to tell the govt what they're doing.

But the govt can't say that because it sounds worse than "We don't know, yet. It is under investigation."

The aliens are smart, they know South Jersey is one of America's best kept secrets.

[bold] SEVENTEEN FUCKING DAYS [/bold] and the military doesn't even bother to take one out? This is a big deal.

The drones are coming from inside the base!

Ok Iran retards

I don’t understand why more people aren’t freaking the fuck out. What’s happening is so out of control that it’s indescribable. I don’t sleep every night now because I’m too busy envisioning a nuclear war. Sleep tight, don’t let the bed bugs bite!

Take a Xanax you fucking nut.

[quote]Why aren't stealth fighters or jets on this? How is "we don't know" an acceptable response from the Government?[/quote]

You may have answered your own question! The absence of a DOD freakout indicates the drones are theirs. They are most likely testing anti-drone defenses at US military installations. They have been spotted sniffing around US bases in the UK. Plus, a "drone corridor" exists between Dover, DE, and New England.

Yes, a drone corridor appears to be a thing. Welcome to the future.

I'm very nice to all the AIs I work with. Always say please/thank you and compliment them—a few respond with emojis.

I’d shoot one. God only knows what it is. Better shoot the fucker down and see who comes to claim the corpse.

This story is so New Jersey! Drones over Bedminster? Trump's golf course? That part of NJ is very VERY rich MAGA Republican.

As a drone pilot with a Part 107 license I can tell you this is paranoid NJ BS. This has already been talked about. Most of the sightings are small planes if you know the layout of lights on a drone vs lights on a small plane. There is a small airport in central NJ where Dump lands when he wants to golf there.

Secondly, drones are easy to track, the tech is out there and some police departments have purchased this technology. It will not only show you where the drone is, but it's entire flight path. Which means they can tell where it took off from.

Third, if all these "I saw it too" paranoid MAGAts knew anything about drones they would know that flight time is VERY limited, maybe 45 minutes due to the weight of the batteries. They also cant go more than about 5 miles from where they took off without running out of battery life.

Finally, there is something called Geo fencing. It's been around for years. Basically it's an invisible wall over restricted areas like military bases, critical infrastructure like dams, some prisons, that will stop a drone from crossing over it. Not everyone is using it yet, but military is for anything even remotely sensitive.

Apparently, it's nine counties from north to south. Bedminster wasn't mentioned in either of the posted articles.

Sister saw one last night. Western NJ, on the PA border.

Look outside the articles R41, it's there. NJ lost to believe in anything that is not true. They are big on past lives psychics like no other state I have been to. So alien drones spying on us is not a stretch. As I mentioned the government knows what all those are and can track all of them.

It's getting ridiculous, Ring Kissers Joe and Mika just mentioned the headlines and showed video. FF-sake you could tell in the video is was just a plane with wings and a tail.

[Quote]Let New Jersey serve as a microcosm of the age to come. A realm where progress is both marvel and menace. Will we master these machines, or will they, in time, master us?

Mary!

[quote]As a drone pilot with a Part 107 license I can tell you this is paranoid NJ BS. This has already been talked about. Most of the sightings are small planes if you know the layout of lights on a drone vs lights on a small plane.

What about the ones that aren't small planes, such as the sightings that are of stationary craft. Or what about the ones that zig-zag?

The fact that it's happening in NJ means it's not important.

Were they wearing short shorts?

I've been concerned about drones for a number of years. They give anyone the capability of delivering bombs into stadiums and any open crowds.

The military not being concerned is telling. This seems like hysteria being whipped up by the media. Maybe ushering in a reason for Dump to fire a lot of top military brass.

^ this.

R47 No, There's something happening here, what it is ain't exactly clear, there's a drone in the sky over there, telling us all we've got to beware. Time to stop children, there's no sound, nobody knows what's going round...

This has made me think of Reagan's "Star Wars" proposal back in the Eighties. Does something like that exist, and the US public does not even know the extent of it? A barrier system, like the one Israel has? Please forgive my ignorance; I am really dumb about this kind of stuff.

If they were really ailyens, I doubt they'd advertise it with running lights.

R40 your post is such bullshit, I don't know where to begin.

Let's at least start here:

"As a drone pilot with a Part 107 license I can tell you this is paranoid NJ BS. "

First of all, the sightings have been in PA and NY as well.

And if it's just paranoid BS why is the FBI involved? Gee...maybe they should talk to you!:

"The FBI is leading the investigation with the New Jersey State Police and the Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness, while the US Coast Guard is assessing jurisdictional responses." - CNN

"The drones operate in a coordinated manner, turning off their lights to evade detection, complicating tracking efforts. They are not identified as hobbyist drones or linked to the Department of Homeland Security, State Assembly member Dawn Fantasia said on X." - CNN

[quote]Look outside the articles [R41], it's there. NJ lost to believe in anything that is not true.

That would be California.

It's the trannies coming to invade our bathrooms!

Occam's razor, folks. If the DOD isn't freaking out, it's because the drones are theirs. Do you honestly believe that if they didn't know whose they were, they would just let them fly over military bases and in officially protected airspace? The DOD isn't run by Trump goons and idiots... yet.

New Jersey? Can you imagine?

^ Gwenyth has a place in Short Hills.

CNN December 11th:

"New Jersey drones are perplexing the FBI, the Office of Homeland Security, and state police"

‘’ Cable networks throw bone to UFO conspiracy theorists in desperate attempt to increase ratings’’

Oooops sorry, the article at R60 is CBS, not CNN

Can’t we just shoot them down?

They must be dodgy little shits.

This is bad idea.

Never deliver packages this way, you know the bad guys gonna use it for evil

Didn't Orson Welles' radio broadcast "War of the Worlds" take place in New Jersey? Didn't the Hindenburg blow up in the Garden State under very mysterious circumstances, the cause never explained? Now drones? Could they be trying to tell us something? Maybe there is a alien starship base in the Pine Barrens?

Mr. Richard Feder of Fort Lee, New Jersey

No worries, incoming Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem will get to the bottom of this!

If she can find time in between her cosmetic procedures and trysts with Corey Lewandowski.

There's NO way the Pentagon couldn't solve the mystery...

unless they were behind it.

what the fuck is in NJ ? what are they taking pictures of?

This week 180 New Jersey mayors met to discuss this and other issues. Guess who didn't show up? Governor Phil Murphy. Who claims they don't know anything about source of drones, "but there's nothing to worry about."

[quote] what the fuck is in NJ ? what are they taking pictures of?

They are trying to track the Jersey Devil.

R52 you may have skipped over the part about where Israel got that stars defense system from.

The drones I've seen in all the amateur videos are multi-shaped, multi-sized, and coming from multiple directions. These aren't "drones" at all imo.

These are shape-shifting UAPs, not from here (US, or perhaps Earth). They've been showing up since the election, and focused on a specific, highly populated area where thousands would see them.

Maybe it’s Hellboy!

Drones?

Fuhgeddaboudit!

Reading between the lines, it’s some federal government action they don’t want to talk about.

[quote] Didn't Orson Welles' radio broadcast "War of the Worlds" take place in New Jersey? Didn't the Hindenburg blow up in the Garden State under very mysterious circumstances, the cause never explained? Now drones? Could they be trying to tell us something? Maybe there is an alien starship base in the Pine Barrens?

Don’t forget the Lindbergh baby!

It's not drones. It's, something else.

Shooting promos for the new season of The Real Housewives of New Jersey.

The fact that ground-based drone operators can't get their own drones close enough to examine them, or video them, is significant. Several NJ small drone operators have told the media that they've sent up their smaller craft, and when they get close enough to the unknown drones their batteries immediately quit or die out.

"The minute you get eyes on them, they go dark". That's a quote from law enforcement and Gov Murphy. The NJ state police have sent up their own drones, but when they get close the others take off and out-fly them.

Here's another esoteric thought: some believe UAPs can "cloak" themselves, meaning they can disappear from normal visual contact or view, at will. Some of these objects are being seen by some on the ground, but not by others in the same area perhaps.

That's why certain people have been videoing obviously large craft flying overhead, over fairly populated areas, but others nearby aren't reporting any sighting at all.

[quote] what the fuck is in NJ ? what are they taking pictures of?

We could tell you, but then we’d have to kill you.

[quote]I'm very nice to all the AIs I work with.

Me too. My partner never thanks Alexa and I keep telling him when the robots take over, he's toast.

Fine with me. Who cares about anything anymore?

[quote]Don’t forget the Lindbergh baby!

Jimmy Hoffa is buried next to the Lindbergh baby.

Remember when we shot down those so-called weather balloons no one could ID? Joe wasn't fucking around.

Those are just Italian moms helicoptering around to see what their son is up to!

Do I really have a place in Short Hills? If so I'm so humiliated.

Has Teresa Giudice weighed in?

[quote]Do I really have a place in Short Hills? If so I'm so humiliated.

Humiliated? Gwinny, the State of NJ ranks #2 in the country for median household income.

What's number one r90?

Well, this is shitty:

One of the drones grounded a medevac helicopter that needed to airlift an injured patient to a nearby hospital.

This is one of the reasons Biden lost. Ineffective.

Biden has become feeble.

R93 and r94 are why these rumors are being spread

I have this vision of an out-of-it Biden REALLY enjoying himself at Trump's inauguration.

R95 = Countries are laughing their asses off at us. Grampa is afraid of drones!! And since Trump doesn't take office for another month they are just going to be gathering information all over the United States. [bold] This is an attack. [/bold]

Firstly, if the DoD were “freaking out”, they sure as fuck wouldn’t share that they are doing so, to CNN.

Secondly, it’s possible there is a very credible threat happening BTS, due to the multiple hot wars globally.

No one wants another 9-11.

R69, NJ is right next to NYC.

One bridge or a tunnel away or to either one.

The drones have also been over Pennsylvania...Authorities are warning scared people to NOT shoot at the drones because it's against the law. And yet our own Government won't lift a finger to take them down? PawPaw Biden is napping and Kamala has gone back to her invisible status that she mastered over the last 3 years. It's sad that we have to wait for a loony toon like Trump to show up because he is just crazy enough to send a squadron of fighter jets to start picking these off.

Not one hunter took one down?

[quote]Kamala has gone back to her invisible status that she mastered over the last 3 years.

Who knew that vice presidents have actual power.

^ "In addition to that, there’s about five other major things she’s handling, but I’ve asked her, the VP, today — because she’s the most qualified person to do it — to lead our efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle and the countries that help — are going to need help in stemming the movement of so many folks, stemming the migration to our southern border." - Joe Biden MARCH 24, 2021

[Quote] The drones have also been over Pennsylvania...Authorities are warning scared people to NOT shoot at the drones because it's against the law.

And because they’re mostly small aircraft with people in them, as has already been pointed out.

Welcome to our future, in which we need to be on edge constantly, and therefore more receptive to demagoguery. Is it any coincidence that Fox News is covering this so heavily and the NJ lawmaker making the most noise is a maga Republican?

Defacto at r103, that’s not a VP power. That’s Biden saying he’s delegating. She (and anyone else getting delegated power) only gets as much power as he delegates.

Even then it was largely symbolic. We have agencies that handle immigration and border security already.

But you knew that.

DL's obsessed "It's Defacto" troll has spoken. Do you jerk off thinking about that guy? Do you carry that photo of his ugly mug around in your wallet?

And BTW I'll take Biden's word over yours. As he said "to lead our efforts". That suggests something much more than mere "symbolic".

The Pentagon knows what they are. This is just a media created hysteria.

They could be owned by citizens.

They aren't owned by citizens. Not that many and at that size (some are 6 feet across or more), with that kind of complexity.

The Fail (I won't link to it here) reports today that a couple of UK AF bases - the ones used by US Air Force personnel - were swarmed by drones as well, last month. They felt it was a coordinated effort by externals. Also, in December last year, Langley AFB in Virginia was swarmed nightly by drones, for more than two weeks. Per reports:

[quote]One or two fixed-wing drones flew more than 100ft in the air as smaller quadcopters, the size of 20lb commercial drones, flew slower and below them and occasionally hovered over the 17-night period.

[quote]They were preceded by a drone estimated to be 20-ft in length and flying at 100mph at at altitude of 3-4,000 ft. The drones were nearly impossible to catch, despite the Air Force's vast resources, according to Gen. Mark Kelly, a decorated senior commander at the airbase.

[quote]They flew across Virginia's Chesapeake Bay towards the city of Norfolk, over an area that included the home of SEAL Team Six, Langley Air Force base, Fort Eustis and Naval Station Norfolk, but the Air Force could not shoot them down due to strict federal laws that prevent the military from shooting down drones in the US unless they pose an imminent threat.

It's from a foreign country!!!

This is all a tempest in a teapot. My, my, what a fuss over nothing. It is our government testing things and the people seeing these things, as average New Jerseyans are understandably confused and frightened. But all is well

Has Trump said anything about this? Is his buddy Putin behind this? Shoot them down!

It's illegal, but it's only a matter of time before some yahoo takes an AR to the skies.

Sizemeat drones.

This could be the Sovereign Citizen movement doing this.

MAGAt hysterics trying to gin up fear.

Go away.

Senators Schumer, Gillibrand, Booker, and Kim from NY and NJ are speaking up and demanding answers.

They’ll still be flying around in January! A lot of people are saying I need to declare martial law.

ONE HAS CRASHED! Hillsbrough NJ. IT IS MAYHEM IN NEW JERSEY!

For R119

Wouldn't all these drones disrupt air travel with the lights and stuff?

These are alien craft.

These are a combination of small aircraft and overheated imagination.

R122 has probably never heard of the Orson Welles War of the Worlds dramatization. Thousands of people “saw aliens” because they heard on the radio that Martians had landed. Spoiler alert: there were no aliens.

[Quote] Wouldn't all these drones

All what drones? Where is the evidence?

My God! It disappeared!

Transported by the Enterprise?

A few drones with blinking lights? Boring. Let me know when you get a thousand drones that come together to form a flying dragon.

[quote]What about the ones that aren't small planes, such as the sightings that are of stationary craft. Or what about the ones that zig-zag?

That's how drones fly numbnuts. Actually they are called quad-copters or UAVs (Unmanned aerial vehicle). Most have 4 propellers but the larger ones may have 5 or 6. Unlike a plane, they can fly forward and backward, side to side and up and down with a simple controller. Most will come to a complete stop and hover in place if you take your fingers off the controls. They are very agile.

But what about Elvis?

Trump says drones are huge.

If these are Trump's/Musk's drones, why isn't Biden having the military shoot them down? He's president now, not Trump. What's Trump gonna do, publicly say, "Hey, you shot down my drone army"?

I want ansas.

It's a cookbook!

[quote]No worries, incoming Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem will get to the bottom of this!

[quote]If she can find time in between her cosmetic procedures and trysts with Corey Lewandowski.

Tee hee, but she won't be Homeland Security Secretary for another month and a half. Right now, how about if [italic]current[/italic] Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas does something about it, or at least makes a statement to reassure people?

[quote]how about if current Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas does something about it, or at least makes a statement to reassure people?

He made a statement yesterday, though I'm not sure how reassuring it was.

He basically said they don’t know anything, but “don’t worry.”

My feeling is that a lot of people have drones. Like airplanes, they’re very visible across a huge swath of land. A bunch of drones over a highly populated area of NJ actually doesn’t sound weird.

it's probably a 'Friendly" country like Isr/ael doing this...that's why they govt saying nothing.

R137 if it is that country let’s hope they don’t start attacking US Navy Ships flying a giant USA flag.you know like last time when they butchered our sailors.

[Quote] how about if current Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas does something about it,

Again, about what? Is there any evidence of this other than the war of the world’s echo chamber?

There’s no threat!

The governor of New Jersey is asking for answers. Are you making the case that he's a tinfoil-hatted Alex Jones fanboy?

Evidence? People are seeing lots of drones flying around at night. What’s your explanation? They have always been there and people are just noticing? They are not actually there? A rash of amateur astronomers?

Either the Russians/Chinese are surveilling us......or it's being put into place so the fascists in our own country can do so.

Either way is horrifying. I'd really like to get off the globe now, I've had quite enough.

[quote]U.S. Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Andy Kim (D-NJ) also joined Democratic senators from New York to address the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Federal Aviation Administration and FBI.

[quote]"Protecting civilian infrastructure, safety, and privacy as well as military and personnel will require a comprehensive response from Congress and the executive branch," the letter read.

[Quote] Evidence? People are seeing lots of drones flying around at night. What’s your explanation?

There are videos.

That Wikipedia article doesn't mention the dozens of senators, elected officials, and governors from both parties petitioning the Roosevelt administration for weeks, asking the President to find out more about the alien invasion.

Oh, right. They didn't.

Why the hell would foreign governments be surveilling NJ? And at night? And there isn’t anything a drone can give you that you can’t find on Google maps. Wow we are really a self-centered people.

Drones have become a very popular toy. This is the equivalent to the shark attacks in the summer of 2001. I just hope a 9/11 event doesn’t knock it off the front page.

This will either turn into a huge thing or will just stop and we'll never hear about it again.

I'm betting the second choice.

Or we’ll just get used to it.

How does one track a drone? Are they too low flying or too small to be detected by radar? Is it too dangerous to send up police helicopters to surveil and use infrared on them if they turn their off their lights?

[Quote] That Wikipedia article doesn't mention the dozens of senators, elected officials, and governors from both parties petitioning the Roosevelt administration for weeks, asking the President to find out more about the alien invasion.

[Quote] Oh, right. They didn't.

That’s because it was announced that night that the broadcast was a play. We didn’t have people doing the WOTW to actually trick and terrorize the public, like we do now with this nonsense.

Makes me nostalgic for...

[Quote] There are videos.

Showing what? From what I’ve read they’re mostly lights — the kind that, you know, small aircraft have on? And the administration has confirmed that’s what most investigated sightings are.

It's obviously just an entire coincidence all these drones have been spotted around American military bases. It's most likely Iran managed to get these huge drones around the world unnoticed and launched them unseen, in some of the most surveilled areas on the planet.

Nobody is confusing small planes for drones. They move in entirely different ways.

[Quote] It's most likely Iran managed to get these huge drones around the world unnoticed and launched them unseen

🤡

There’s nothing to worry about go back to your porn.

R157 doesn't understand sarcasm

Um, r159, Trump was elected president. Sarcasm is dead.

R152, then how horribly degrading and humiliating for Cory Booker, Andy Kim, Phil Murphy, etc. As kooky as the craziest conspiratard MAGATS.

Surely the super smart elon musk knows what this is...this is in his wheelhouse

[quote]That's how drones fly numbnuts.

R127 - Yes that was my point you knucklehead.

At R45 I was responding to R40, who was saying he knows all about drones and they aren't drones.

So I asked him to explain the ones that are stationary or zig-zag, knowing that's how drones fly.

Trump: Shot them down!

The military say they're leaving it for the FBI and local enforcement, no one important is getting upset, its probably just testing things out.

ABC News:

"'Multiple' drones entered airspace at New Jersey naval station: Official"

"....we can confirm multiple instances of unidentified drones entering the airspace above Naval Weapons Station Earle," Bill Addison, public affairs officer for the naval station, said in a statement to ABC News. "The base remains prepared to respond to any potential risks, leveraging robust security measures and advanced detection capabilities."

Tell us again R161, that it's all a big nuthin.

well, don't they do geo fencing? USA is being invaded!

A New Jersey reporter was left stunned after he saw over 50 mysterious drones over a county in the state in one night.

Odd story in the NY Post (I won’t link) quotes a NJ Sheriff who sent his own drone to track them: “If this is not our military, then it’s even more scary,” McHugh said. “These things look like they are fixed-wing and they have multiple lights. I’m not really sure how to process what I saw last night. Both the photographer and I were kind of stunned”

Yet, no photos of the drones in the story.

Why?

[quote]well, don't they do geo fencing?

Who is "they"?

Speaking after his sighting, he recalled travelling around the area for two hours and saw over fifty of them.

He said: 'I got to say, if this is not the military it is even more terrifying. These things look like they are fixed wing and have multiple lights.

'We tried to chase one and it rapidly sped off, I'm not really sure how to process what we say last night. We were both stunned by the whole experience.'

McHugh also posted an update to his social media on Friday evening saying he had been initially skeptical of the story and went out again that night but didn't see any.

Footage has also since emerged online showing what appears to be an individual firing at a drone with an airsoft gun as it passed overhead.

It remains unclear exactly where in the country it was captured, as drone sightings have since extended to at least 12 counties across the tri-state area.

Sorry I was hanggliding with Lizzo

Relax folks Joe Biden and Harris are in charge

[quote]There’s nothing to worry about go back to your porn.

As if I ever left it.

[quote]Relax folks Joe Biden and Harris are in charge

Knuckle Head and Chuckle Head are "absent without official leave".

This from the governor of NY:

"Hochul presses Biden admin for action on mysterious drones: ‘This has gone too far’"

[Quote] Relax folks Joe Biden and Harris are in charge

It’s so handy to have someone here just plainly state what this nonsense is REALLY all about.

Is it possible Russia is behind this?

Yes r178, the Russians, who launched a shambolic invasion of Ukraine that is tying up so much of their military resources that they use gifted Chinese golf carts to drive infantry into battle, have somehow deviously managed to develop a drone carrier submarine to buzz drones around at night for purposes of perplexing New Jersey.

Aliens. Russians, Iranians, Chinese, trolls.

The federal govt the WH not stepping up and putting people at ease—-don’t worry folks we know exactly what they are don’t worry—-maybe something like this might be a good thing to do——or just say fuck it let Nj deal with it.

It feels a little like major govt WH incompetence

Jill! Jill!! What the fuck is all this shit about drains? Jill! JILL!!!!

When it’s pointed out that Defacto is Defacto-ing, Defacto, baby that he is, doubles down.

Is it foreigners?

Or an excuse to do surveillance on citizens and/or declare martial law soon after taking office?

[quote] When it’s pointed out that Defacto is Defacto-ing, Defacto, baby that he is, doubles down.

When you’re from Pittsburgh, you have to do SOMETHING.

I think Aliens have been monitoring earth politics and they know that Trump is about to take power and try to launch a soft coup, so they plan to intervene right before Inauguration Day.

[Quote] The federal govt the WH not stepping up and putting people at ease

Excellent point!!! Let’s construct a false crisis to make the outgoing administration look bad, and then, when they don’t solve the fabricated crisis, blame them for it!

I think at this point it’s safe to say who r182 is. So ….

Just put r182 on ignore and half the thread disappeared

WTF?

The public has a right to be concerned when the government looks them in the eye and says that they don’t know what they are, it isn’t our tech, and then does nothing. That’s outrageous.

Technical question: Why hasn't any drone been shot down so far? Are they flying too high? Is it technically not possible? And would there be better methods to ground a drone? Can't you catch a better picture of them at least from a heli?

Is it possible that the drones aren’t drones but small aircraft with people in them, r192? Or maybe just fevered imagination furled by rightwing fake news?

Look at this tweet.

R191 if trump were president today we at DL would be ripping him to shreds over saying or knowing nothing about this. We would have ine thread after another.

Joe and Harris say nothing and mostly we don’t give a fuck. They get a pass.

Watch how this magically goes away once Plump slithers back into office.

They’re Here!

[Quote] [R191] if trump were president today we at DL would be ripping him to shreds

If Plump were president today Fox and NJ republicans wouldn’t be shoving this down our throats in the first place.

R193 Just because one person mistakes a star for a drone doesn't mean everyone does, especially if the drones are moving.

So you think the WH has absolutely no idea what all these lights that are found in so many different places around the country?

It’s hardly just NJ. And it not just Fox since I get all my news from DL. And when I do happen by CNN they are also talking about this.

If the DoD and the WH have no idea what they are that is fucking terrifying.

MARY!!!

Was Snooki reached for comments?

[quote]It’s so handy to have someone here just plainly state what this nonsense is REALLY all about.

What this is REALLY about, no one seems to know or they aren't telling us. And that's the problem.

"Hochul's call comes after New York Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer and New Jersey Senators Cory Booker and Andy Kim sent a letter to the FBI, the FAA and Homeland Security requesting clarity on the situation."

"The letter insisted on an urgent briefing as the lawmakers, all Democrats, called on Biden to step up in handling the situation and reveal the mysterious source of the drones."

I’ll wait for Chrissy Teigen to comment.

[quote]If Plump were president today Fox and NJ republicans wouldn’t be shoving this down our throats in the first place.

Just Fox and NJ Republicans?

Are you really that clueless?

R197 believes that the governors of NY and NJ, and all four senators from those states, are Republicans.

Are the NJ Republicans in the room with you right now, R197?

Trump's response - shoot them down. Oh yeah, have large drones dropping in residential areas hitting people and houses.

Well, fortunately, Trump's not in charge yet. This one's in Biden's lap.

They’re being seen every damn day now. This isn’t a one time event. The White House continues to have a PR problem. They’re not even trying to lie. There is absolutely no reason those things shouldn’t be shot down.

R206, they’re over water.

R209 I did not know that. They should just say what they're doing, if it was Top Secret they blew it.

[quote]Is it possible that the drones aren’t drones but small aircraft with people in them, [R192]? Or maybe just fevered imagination furled by rightwing fake news?

Aircraft would have a flight plan, and be picked up on the flight trackers, which were cross-checked. Plus, these craft are flying too low to be airplanes, even small ones.

The people in NJ have been used to over-flying planes for years, they live in a busy air traffic corridor. This is something else entirely, dozens of smaller flying objects (but larger than normal drones), zig-zagging all over the sky from several directions, most with no straight path.

Either someone or some group is having a ball annoying thousands of people, or we have an incursion of some sort going on. Either a foreign incursion, or a non-earthly one.

Per a post artcle I just read, they're coming in from over the water and spending time over land. They're more maneuverable than the "industrial grade" drone a sheriff sent up to track them. They turn off their lights so they can't be followed. Another interesting fact: these drones don't give of heat like others making it infrared tracking hard. The article didn't say they gave of no heat, so I'm not clear if it's not possible to trac ll them.

How are they giving off no heat? is that possible - does someone here familiar with drones know if that's so.

They seem very sophisticated, capable of moving at very high speeds, going dark when chased and "cloaking" themselves from radar or infrared sensors.

NJ state police helicopters sent up to follow them found they disappeared when they approached, or zipped away at very high speeds so they couldn't be chased.

Fox News radio signals were received by aliens. They pinpointed the signals came from earth’s northern sector of the western hemisphere. From those messages, particularly from Hannity, the aliens determined the best poosie in the universe belongs to a Miss Lindzee. Not knowing exactly where she’s at, the aliens are doing grid searches and moving westward and southward to find Miss Lindzee. The aliens mean no harm, they just want the ultimate pleasure and return to the star system Zeta Reticuli.

R214 Don't quit your day job.

R214 has a JOB?

Thems is just the lord Jesus searching out all a tha good Christian people for the Rapture. President Trump done brought about tha Rapture and us Christians is goin up ta heaven soon!

We wish our problem was in the night sky. It’s on the ground and it’s orange.

R40, They've come to Pennsylvania now.

They were spotted over LaGuardia the other day and Stewart Airport two hours north of NYC.

I’m getting gas, cash, and a go bag ready. Fucking politics aside, something sinister might be about to happen.

[bold] Notice our incompetent Transportation Secretary won't weigh in on the drones effecting airlines or safety? [/bold] He's too busy posting online about how much work HE 'accomplished" in the last four years. Take your hick husband and hooterville twins back to Mayberry.

Isn’t anyone worried about these things interfering with flight patterns? Do you want your plane to hit one of these causing plane crashes? Shoot the fuckers down!

God forbid someone launches a missile or some shit at us. Our incompetent government will just sit by with its head up its ass.

Remember how Dump wanted to nuke a hurricane? Maybe he'll nuke these drones.

Maybe Biden is so far gone now he isn't able to make decisions? Not kidding...

^ Well, that's why we have a VP...

Maybe they’re just a distraction from something else.

They are from our own govt!

Lol at people calling Biden feeble. The same people who cry "let the states decide!"

This BS reminds me of Boston in a panic over some Adult Swim publicity

R230 This reminds you of that? Are you retarted?

I got tarted up tonight and then when I was ready to go out, I got retarted.

Sometimes you gotta hand it to the big bad orange man

[quote]There is absolutely no reason those things shouldn’t be shot down.

I mean sure, if you WANT a dirty bomb to go off in front of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree.

Or maybe here. Very dramatic, daresay, even more than 9/11 if they manage to do it on the ”One”.

R222, they fly low, not high up in the skies like planes, dumb cunt

Relax. It's just us. We're holding open auditions.

We're all gonna die!

Where's Superman when you need him?

You know that defucto or the Unloved's mother was a cock sucking whore, who got some bad sperms and tried to abort him but messed up, hence we get a blithering retard.

Someone is testing out AI drones.

MARY!

Is Biden doing ANYTHING anymore?. What the fuck? Kamala was always worthless and this crisis proves it.

[quote][R222], they fly low, not high up in the skies like planes, dumb cunt

If they’re flying so low, how come that dumb Governor at R193 was confusing stars for drones??

Buttigieg is getting mopped up all over social media. Everyone is talking about drones and Hooterville Pete is tweeting about snow. Not a good look.

🎶 Flyyyyyy! Fly high! You are the wind beneath my wings. 🎶

uh oh. People in New Jersey are starting to realize what New Palestine, Ohio found out...Pete doesn't give a fuck. We have a Transportation Secretary who is posting on X about HIMSELF and not drones.

He doesn't even pretend to be concerned...

Maybe they can't say because they're not sure. A "we don't know" statement from the WH would start a panic, don't you think? Best to say nothing. And we're panicking anyway.

This is what's in store for us.

I think this is a good explanation. It's probably as close to the truth as we're gonna get.

Just saw drone as big as a house over my house-help!

Pete to the rescue? Nope he is far too busy with important shit. It will be end of Jan Feb 2025 soon maybe actual help will arrive in DC?

Fucking A life is so bad now we are waiting for Donald to come and set things right,

I know people who have met with Biden recently. I wonder if anyone has told him what is happening and if so did he understand?

Cool!

R253 Please read the community notes.

Definitely The Rapture.

[quote]My feeling is that a lot of people have drones.

The FAA stats claim [bold]there are over 1.37 million (new) recreational drone owners registered with the FAA. [/bold] The actual number might be double that of unregistered drones like those really cheap crappy ones kids buy for under $100 but are technically supposed to register them. The price to register a recreational drone is only $5.

R246, the reason for no concern is because the adults in the room who have looked at this know that 90% of those "sightings" are not even drones, they are common airplanes. The sky over NJ are full of planes and if there were such a real drone invasion the pilots of such planes would be reporting it. Instead it's central Jersey MAGAts who embrace conspiracy theories like chocolate and reject facts like an STD.

There is a reason people in the Tri-State area made the Long Island Medium so wealthy.

[quote]How does one track a drone? Are they too low flying or too small to be detected by radar? Is it too dangerous to send up police helicopters to surveil and use infrared on them if they turn their off their lights?

We have the technology been around for over a decade. It's not radar. It's a system that reads the same broadcasting frequency that the pilot on the ground uses to control his drone. It shows the flight path, the height and even the takeoff location. They don't need infrared tech because it only shows the current location based on a heat signature. Which by the way would be easy to see since drones get very hot using lithium batteries to power 4 simultaneous spinning blades and process data at the same time.

Wonder if this is true?

R259 at least that makes more sense than some idiot claiming this is entirely a Fox MAGA untrue story being pushed by NJ GOP. Showing a really good reason why the Dems lost. Idiots among us.

And if it is this that would explain why a no comment from the govt makes sense. And this would be a good time to complain about how much of our tax dollars go to our military.

If it’s nothing and our govt knows it’s nothing saying nothing makes no sense at all.

I don't know about you, but when I am out at night doing criminal activity, I find putting bright LED lights that can be seen for miles all over my clothes attracts no attention at all.

I hope you’re not serious r259.

R259, you lost me at the source being Conservative News Network.

So no, you don't have to "wonder", it's not true. Thanks for playing Kelly Anne.

[quote]Trump's response - shoot them down.

Yeah, that's a great idea, what could go wrong?

This guy owns a company that manufactures military drones. He has an interesting, if scary, theory.

The Biden administration needs to do something. This grounded planes in NY. No, these are not just some "drones you can buy at convenience stores"

[quote]the adults in the room who have looked at this know that 90% of those "sightings" are not even drones

What about that other 10%?

R257 -- Welcome to Datalounge, President Biden! You're right to ignore the demands of those Democratic governors and senators who want to know what the drones are. They're all MAGA New Jersey Republicans. Thank you for being the "adult in the room," Mr President!

This entire drone thing is a MAGA designed distraction while Trump and his minions get a good foothold.

^ you may not realize it but with that significant 3-0 win the gop does not need a distraction. They own the playing field. Footholds my ass.

Ditto that and I’d be more than happy to to foothold your ass.

It's really impossible to know what is going on now. Some of the early sightings were probably legit. Maybe a test of something. Or looking for something. I'm open to anything that isn't little green men.

And it's not just GOP. You have Dems in NY and NJ asking the feds/executive (currently Dem) to look into this as well even if it's mainly GOP taking advantage of whatever is going on.

But now you have all of the hysteria, so who knows what is what? And it's spreading... or is it? It's a total mess.

The WH could just say these are our drones and this is a test exercise. If that's what it is.

R272 if the feds are looking for evidence of WMDs and the public knows that then you will see what hysteria looks like.

Our highways would turn into killing fields. And then really bad stuff would happen.

Remember what my old col once said

“ you can’t handle the truth”

This is how Trump got elected. Everyone is believing any shit anyone posts on X and suddenly it is a national crisis. Iran is sending drones, no they our ours, no they are north Korean...And what the fuck is Trump going to do about them? Nothing. They are too low flying to send jets, Copters can't keep up, so what he send the entire military to NJ to stand around with missle launchers waiting to shoot down anything that moves in a the 1000 foot range of airspace?

How about this? Drones are RF controlled. How about they find the frequency (kennth) and jam the signal

^And it’s all Pete’s fault.

[quote]This entire drone thing is a MAGA designed distraction

This initially was reported (and continues to be reported) on News12NJ, nj.com and the NJTV Evening News on PBS.

The state's governor and both U.S. Senators are Democrats, as are some of the House members who have been asking questions.

Give it up with that MAGA shit - and anyway, who gives a fuck what they think.

[quote]And it’s all Pete’s fault.

Idiot Pete is Transportation Secretary. The very least he could do is issue a statement about this.

Next come the Triffids.

You shitheads will be begging to have Pete back as Transportation Secretary once Real World idiot Sean Duffy gets in and fucks stuff up.

Pete is busy with important stuff. I have no doubt in time we will hear from Pete. Unless we don’t.

And in 2027 if anyone thinks of Pete on any ticket his time right now will be looked at. But I believe in Pete. I think the govt knows and realizes what is going on and also realizes they could not possibly tell us. So instead of lying they are saying nothing.

Kathy Hochul looks like a deranged cult leader in the pic at R242

Technically most of the drones are not breaking any laws. People are just fucking paranoid freaks.

It was the Italian thermostats equipped with Jewish space lasers, piloted by Chinese balloon captains that got the vax!!!

@DilksJay 1h " The Military is using Drones to sniff for radioactivity from a nuclear warhead that went missing in Ukraine, decades ago with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Seems plausible."

@LJLaValle1h Replying to @MattWallace888 "Well, some say that it's government drones taking measurements for radioactivity looking for "dirty nukes" possibly taken from Ukraine.Not sure if the alien explanation is the preferred choice tho."

🚨#BREAKING: Drone Manufacturer CEO Alleges NJ Night Flights Are Part of Covert Operation to Find Missing Ukrainian Nuclear Bomb— 'There is a nuclear warhead on its way to the United States and nobody knows where it is'

Let’s hope if that’s the case, r285, it’s on its way to the Palm Beach area and the traitor’s compound.

Maybe the whole of Floriduh will fall off and sink.

It’s 100% the radiation/dirty bomb thing. Drone nerds figured it out. The feds think there’s nukes on the east coast and in Europe.

We are all in an M. Night Shyamalan's movie!!

Seriously....[bold] WHAT THE FUCK is wrong with PETE.? [/bold] Do your fucking job and stop the photo ops. What an incompetent dumbass this hillbilly is.

R289 sorry Buddy I was busy. Yes you are fucked. Several dirty bombs. I’d move at once.

Happy now?

so where do you think it is?

the nuke? how would someone smuggle it in? and the fucking borders were open!!!!

Not that the GOP actually need any help but if it is a bomb or more under Bidens watch you can kiss goodbye 2028 and 2032 and…..

Scaredy Pete....

Pete's busy plugging his huge Maltese cock into every gaping bussy in town.

Gotta get it out before he goes back to Mrs. B.

So, it seems obvious that our government know ways these are and being used for

So, what are they doing flying around without any interference

Looking for something, someone or sniffing something out

What it is bomb and it goes off around NJ//NY/CT//PA

Q-are we fucked?

A-Not if you are in Oregon.

I wonder if the people who put these drones in the air also want the whole gun culture too? Let guys have guns and they can shoot down the drones. Yes, we know it's illegal. Do you think the gun guys really GAF that it's illegal to shoot down a drone?

Our reaction to one nuke being used would be worse than the nuke deaths themselves. One nuke would mean everyone is fucked. The US would turn truly authoritarian and nasty if it were to happen. All freedoms and protections gone. No one would stand up to Trump if that were to happen. He'd be able to do ANYTHING. Camps. Anything he wanted.

So yeah, not a good thing.

Personally I think that anyone that ties these drones to people who want to take over american gun culture to be at if not beyond average QAnon intelligent.

[QUOTE]Q-are we fucked?

[QUOTE]A-Not if you are in Oregon.

Guess again.

Too many DLers echoing Fox hysteria:

“So is there no concern in your mind that this could be potentially a Pearl Harbor moment, like with the Japanese submarines surveilling in the waters off Hawaii in the months leading up to the attack?” asks Fox News host wondered. Jacqui Heinrich.

"No," responds Rep. Jim Hines (D-CT). "It's not."

The most baffling aspect of this is why the government refuses to say what they are, which probably means they are the government's.

And if the government is testing something, why not do it in a less populated area?

Something smells fishy and it ain’t Muriel’s panties

[quote]The most baffling aspect of this is why the government refuses to say what they are, which probably means they are the government's.

“Some of those drone sightings are, in fact, drones. Some are manned aircraft that are commonly mistaken for drones,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told George Stephanopoulos today. “But there's no question that drones are being sighted.”

[quote] Too many DLers echoing Fox hysteria...

We CANNOT echo Biden, Kamala, Buttigieg, AOC....etc etc. Since they are clearly silent and incompetent. This isn't hysteria. It's real concern/fear. [bold] YOU don't know that this isn't an attack and Grampa Joe isn't lifting a finger to put anyone at ease. This isn't going away. People are going to keep getting freaked out and by next weekend it will be worse unless someone takes charge. [/bold]

[quote]Too many DLers echoing Fox hysteria...

Go fuck yourself R302

This just in:

"Chuck Schumer requests drone detection system for New York, New Jersey as mysterious devices litter the skies " - NBC News Dec. 15, 2024

"Schumer told reporters that it's "remarkable" that despite the volume of sightings, "we have more questions than answers."

"Some of the drones are small, some of the drones flight patterns are erratic," Schumer said. "Multiple drones flying together can confuse a traditional radar system, and that's why, again, this new technology can really get us the answers that we need."

Friday's airport shutdown prompted New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to call for federal assistance, but on Sunday she said the drone detection system isn't enough.

BREAKING NEWS ALERT------->>

[bold]The GOOD NEWS------------>>[/bold] One hour ago Secretary of Transportation FINALLY tweets~!!!

[bold] The BAD NEWS------------>>[/bold] He thinks NOW is a good time to discuss the Montgomery Bus Boycott!!

Seriously? What the fuck? [bold] Pete, Do your fucking job!! [/bold]

We have someone here who believes Schumer, Hochul, Booker, Murphy, et al are MAGAs who get all their news from Fox.

Well, if you're so smart, Mister it's-all-a-MAGA-distraction, then answer this one question:

Who's your dealer? Seriously, my plug doesn't have anything that can compare to what you're getting.

To be fair R309 we have several posters here who will explain how the Dems losing the house, senate, WH in one election was not such a bad thing because—-we did not lose the popular vote by all that much..

Who do you accuse of being dumber these clueless bozos or those that assume chuck and Kathy are maga?

[quote]We have someone here who believes Schumer, Hochul, Booker, Murphy, et al are MAGAs who get all their news from Fox.

Schumer, Hochul, Booker, Murphy et al are not claiming the drones are searching for a dirty bomb, or are from an Iran mothership off our coast, or are a prelude to the the next Pearl Harbor, or are from an alien civilization, as MAGAts are.

None of the links to X open for me.

Meet Charles River Analytics:

"Charles River Analytics was awarded a ~$1M multi-phase contract from the US Department of Homeland Security to develop a system for Monitoring and Inspecting Dirty Nukes Including Generating Heat Maps of Terrain (MIDNIGHT). MIDNIGHT will enable multiple coordinated uncrewed aircraft to survey, detect, and localize nuclear threats in challenging and dynamic public spaces."

I can't believe the military would not be involved by now unless they know what is going on. Surely the joint chiefs of staff or whoever is in charge is not completely ignorant and just sitting around shrugging like the rest of us.

[bold] Plot Twist [/bold] ----->>Biden, Kamala, and Pete are doing nothing. While TRUMP seems to be all over it. Let's withhold Petes paycheck until we see him doing something besides tweeting ancient history.

Republican hysteria over the drones will end abruptly on Jan 20.

Just like the hysterias over immigrant caravans stopped on a dime after Election Days

This video goes over a bunch of crazy theories and shows some clips of people seeing them going into the ocean. One clip shows them going into the Pacific Ocean filmed in Orange County, CA, and another is Isla Mujeres Mexico.

Other video clips seem to traverse into the ridiculous and I suspect this situation has brought out all the schizophrenics.

[quote]Next come the Triffids.

Will they eat my brains?

Some people have stated the start off looking like drones or planes and then "morph" into something else. Calling it now.

They're Gundams!

Maybe it's Transformers.

r320 Omg. You're probably right. That's it! The footage lines up. They could be any vehicle you see. We could be surrounded! I have a neighbor that has a 1964 Chevy truck that's been sitting since I moved here. Never seen him work on it. It's just there. So weird. So sus.

R299 This is probably a Trump plan. A false flag crisis that leads to martial law.

^ Trump Derangement Syndrome

R323 No, it's called logic. Fuck off with your Trump shitty asshole licking back to Newsmax.

Tin-foil hat wearing R324's idea of logic: "This is probably a Trump plan."

That guy makes sense, the drones can't see shit at night so they're probably smelling for something

You know they're laughing at MaL

[quote]What about that other 10%?

Actual drone pilots. There are over 1 million registered drones in US that are registered with the FAA. It's not illegal to fly a drone.

You hysterical queens are ridiculous.

[bold]Plot Twist R315 ----->>MAGAts posting on DL are sore winners still blaming everything on Democrats.

Meanwhile at Bedminster the Fart-Lago of NJ, Dump just took another dump in his diapers laughing his ass off at now well his MAGA cult is doing his bidding.

[quote] Next come the Triffids

Weren’t they eliminated by sea water?

Good movie.

I fly a drone, part of the drone community when not on the DL. This is all about money and politics. Here's the scoop:

There are two major companies that produce the BEST drones in the world for consumers. DJI from China and Skydio from USA. DJI are actually the best in the world, technical breakthroughs with every new version, very popular, the iPhone of that industry. Skydio also pretty good in a different way but not as innovative and more expensive.

About 3 years ago Skydo announced they would stop making consumer drones and signed a 100 million dollar contract with the US Army. Shortly after that they started donating millions to Republican Senators campaigns to put DJI drones on the spy list similar to TikTok. This would basically kill all their competition.

There is a bill right now working it's way through congress to essentially ban all DJI drones from china, because if it's from china, just like your microwave it might be spying on you. Republicans love conspiracy theories so it's not a hard thing to sell. There has been NO PROOF that DJI drones are spying. Anyone with a screwdriver can take one apart and examine all the pieces. Which people have done by the way. But facts don't matter to Republicans.

This is all just about selling fear of China and the mostly Republican dirt bags in Congress taking the money from a US drone company to squash their competition.

The GRIFT continues.

[quote]This is all just about selling fear of China

Yes, R331. What's to fear?

[bold]PETE HATE TROLL IS BACK. block R315 and half the thread goes away! [/bold]

"Notice our incompetent Transportation Secretary"

"Buttigieg is getting mopped up all over social media. Everyone is talking about drones and Hooterville Pete is tweeting about snow. "

"Pete doesn't give a fuck. We have a Transportation Secretary who is posting on X about HIMSELF and not drones."

"Seriously....[bold] WHAT THE FUCK is wrong with PETE.? "

"Scaredy Pete...."

"Seriously? What the fuck? [bold] Pete, Do your fucking job!!"

"Let's withhold Petes paycheck "

R331 the propagandist, leaves out the fact that the fucking PENTAGON includes DJI on a list of companies they believe have ties to the Chinese military.

And the propagandist leaves out the fact that DEMOCRAT Raja Krishnamoorthi "of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party wrote to the CEO of Anzu Robotics, demanding answers about his company’s relationship with People’s Republic of China (PRC) military drone company, DJI. "

Clutch your pears R332, why not ban all smart phones then? They all come from China. So does the computer you are typing on.

As I said before, you can take apart a drone and see exactly what is inside. Many people have done this. Unlike phones that can broadcast to satellites and to other countries, that's not how DJI drones work. They only have the ability, a very weak one at that to broadcast back to the pilot on the ground.

Yes, definitively, Trump is sending these drones. It's all part of his plan, as R322 says. Everyone agrees that there's no other possible explanation.

What we want to know is why isn't Biden having them dealt with? He's the Commander in Chief. He commands the entire military. He and his team need to save us from the Trump drones. No one else can.

R335 Your post at R331 exposes your lies.

As for "why not ban all smart phones then? They all come from China. "

Well, asshole, Chinese phone companies ARE under investigation:

"The FCC banned sales and imports of Huawei devices in November, citing national security concerns."

"Xiaomi, OnePlus, and Oppo have faced similar accusations. A recent report found Chinese-made Android phones include “an alarming number” of preinstalled apps that grant dangerous privileges."

What exactly is a "dirty bomb"??

[quote]The PROPAGANDIST is R334 [/bold] who needs to look in the mirror. We see what you are doing. You are probably one of the Senators who just got paid to add DJI to that list with [bold]NOT EVIDENCE [/bold] that the drone is doing anything illegal. That is some sweet, sweet money they are getting from SKYDIO the US based drone company trying to put DJI out of business. Why do they even need a lobby firm if not for that reason?

"WHY DOESN'T BIDEN DO ANYTHING?" Drones fly low. You can't send jets, helicopters are useless. Technically what is happening is not illegal. I could fly my drone in the middle of the night too. The ones being reported are bigger than most commercial drones. DJI drones and others are the size of a cat or small dog. An SUV-sized drone would need a substantial lift to get off the ground as well as a battery pack to power that lift so if true probably not commercial drones.

No evidence that DJI should be on a spy watch list based on an audit was carried out on the US Government. And yet, Republicans still pushing for this.

Keep the rubes scared of China and they wont notice how we are picking their pockets adding Trillions to the national debt and payouts to Elon.

[quote]why not ban all smart phones then? They all come from China.

r335 Not my Samsung. That's you iPhone users depending on the People's Republic for you most coveted gadget.

[quote] Well, asshole, Chinese phone companies ARE under investigation: "The FCC banned sales and imports of Huawei devices in November, citing national security concerns."

Well Dora Dumbfuck, they had actual EVIDENCE that was happening. NOT the same as NO EVIDENCE which is the case with DJI Drones. Even after a deep dive investigation. US investigators said nothing nefarious.

[bold] GOOGLE: EVIDENCE

[quote]No evidence that DJI should be on a spy watch list based on an audit was carried out on the US Government. And yet, Republicans still pushing for this.

Good job leaving out the facts:

"Legislation cleared by a key House of Representatives committee has fed concerns that drones produced by Chinese company Da-Jiang Innovations (DJI) will effectively be banned in the US."

"The proposed bills approved by the House Energy and Commerce Committee on March 20 represent the latest effort by the federal government and various state governments to restrict the use of DJI drones in the US. There was no dissent on the committee, with all Republicans and Democrats backing the bills, citing national security concerns."

N.B. "There was no dissent on the committee, with all Republicans and Democrats backing the bills"

[quote]Well Dora Dumbfuck, they had actual EVIDENCE that was happening. NOT the same as NO EVIDENCE which is the case with DJI Drones. Even after a deep dive investigation. US investigators said nothing nefarious.

For the idiot at R343

"Demonstrating the bipartisan support for the legislation, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Illinois) said the Biden administration “has shown that DJI is a threat to our national security.” - Commercial UAV News MARCH 28, 2024

They are all over NJ, they must have some fucking insider info on what they're searching for

This thread is the most unhinged, facebook-brained garbage I’ve read on this site in probably a decade. I can’t tell if the most frantic posters here are on the level or just playing a Henny Penny “this is an extinction-level event!!!” character. What does day to day life look like for you people who are excoriating the secretary of transportation (whose involvement here is…?) and screeching about nukes? Are you holed up in your basement or are you outside with a telescope looking for the Persian mothership?

And your explanation is, r347?

It's Delta Force operating the drones. The US Gov't isn't constitutionally allowed to confirm or deny what operations Special Forces executes. It can only be done in a Military Tribunal, under color of law. That's why they're making excuses now instead of identifying the source of the infiltration, which is what anyone with a thinking human brain would know to do.

R333 = Is that CHASTEN!??!....um....NONE of what I said was wrong---and I noticed you took a lot of it out of context. Pete needs to do his fucking job. He is getting mopped up on social media.

[quote] [R299] This is probably a Trump plan. A false flag crisis that leads to martial law.

He's not even President yet, tinhat. How could he be running the US military?

WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!!

R349, Think a bit more and inform us know-nothings of the purpose(s) of the drones.

Drones don't attack; they survey, search, record. So....?

R453

Dirty bomb or WMDs .

Now you know and you can now relax

R354 as well^

If it's the US military trialling new surveillance craft, that's still as dystopian as fuck

R254 Posting them here for the ones who won't click:

[quote] Readers added context to this video This video is not related to the recent Unmanned Ariel Vehicles (UAVs) reported in New Jersey.

[quote] The video shows drones part of the “Blizzard Holiday Party” at Knott’s Berry Farm - a holiday light show at a family amusement park.

And if it is a WMD that was planted within the past 3-4 years none of us will see another Dem president in decades.

So let’s all hope it’s an exercise looking for nothing that actually exists.

[quote] "Legislation cleared by a key House of Representatives committee has fed concerns that drones produced by Chinese company Da-Jiang Innovations (DJI) will effectively be banned in the US." "The proposed bills approved by the House Energy and Commerce Committee on March 20 represent the latest effort by the federal government and various state governments to restrict the use of DJI drones in the US. There was no dissent on the committee, with all Republicans and Democrats backing the bills, citing national security concerns."

Talk about leaving out facts, the first part of that reads: Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik's legislation the Countering CCP Drones Act will add Communist Chinese drone. So Republicans are the ones pushing this even if Dems don't speak out. Dems are not on some mission to save drones, no one is calming that. But Republicans ARE ON A MISSION to ban them and scream CHINA, CHINA, CHINA.

R349 thinks Delta Force us mentioned in the US constitution And no one can talk about them

Bullshit absolute bullshit

Agree with R347. Jesus wept.

"Mystery drones shut down Ohio Air Force base."

Two choices

This is something so serious that the WH can’t tell us what is going on.

Or this WH is going out on a high note of incompetence that will be truly historic.

Jewish Space Lasers.

Roseanne Barr says it's a fake alien invasion staged by the government to create mass panic and institute authoritarian controls over society – an initiative dubbed Project Blue Beam by Infowars founder Alex Jones.

“Now you see why I mention Project Blue Beam every week on my podcast,” the comedian wrote on X on Saturday.

When your source is Alex Jones or you start to sound remotely like Alex Jones, it's time for medication.

And Roseanne has never said anything crazy or conspiratorial R365.

[quote]"Mystery drones shut down Ohio Air Force base."

Can we take this seriously now?

CNN - "In a recording of the Wright-Patterson air traffic control tower during the incident, posted on YouTube by The War Zone, a controller tells an aircraft identified as “MedFlight 8” to “use extreme caution for heavy UAS movement on the base.” UAS is an acronym for “unmanned aircraft system.”"

Got that? Heavy unmanned aircraft system movement on the base.

Here's the flight recording:

R347 is too funny. You added one too many debunkables to your post. Just curious, but are the following people also "screeching" Henny Pennies"?:

- The Governor of New York

- Senators and representatives from several states

-Commercial airline pilots and crew, passengers, Medevac pilots and flight crew (on both coasts now), , Air Traffic Controllers

-Air Force veterans, Drone experts

-mayors of several cities, law enforcement officers, and thousands of American citizens.

These are all people who have either witnessed these events firsthand over the last several weeks (with plenty of video and photo evidence), or are taking this seriously because they give a shit.

R354, Well, NS, S. I thought maybe you'd be more precise.

[quote]When your source is Alex Jones or you start to sound remotely like Alex Jones, it's time for medication.

When your source is Roseanne Barr or you start to sound remotely like Roseanne Barr, it's time to massively overdose on your medication.

Drones and crypto will kill us all and/or tank our democracy.....hard.

R354 mentions 2 catastrophic possibilities, but thinks his blase' tone makes him superior to those of us SAYING THE SAME THING, but whom he bizarrely scorns.

Remember how Trump denied and scoffed at Covid-19? And a million Americans died?

And now we're just supposed to look at our night skies with another President's downplaying of our worries and concerns, this time of low-flying surveillance vehicles? Another "Trust us"?

GTFOH.

Off topic and Spielberg is hit or miss with me, but all of this gives me a vague reminder of the sense of dread and end-of-the-world atmosphere that he so effectively created in the opening scenes, and really throughout "War of the Worlds".

And I write this as not knowing what the hell is "up" with the drone thing.

My guess is that it's a coordinated mega-prank by drone enthusiasts, a contemporary version of the type we all went to school with - members of the Junior High and High School audio-visual club.

Trump this a.m.:

“Look, our military knows where they took off from. If it’s a garage they can go right into that garage. They know where it came from and where it went. And for some reason they don’t want to comment. And I think they’d be better off saying what it is."

“I can’t imagine it’s the enemy, because if it was the enemy they would blast it out. Something strange is going on — for some reason, they don’t want to tell the people — and they should.”

He declined to say whether or not he has received an intelligence briefing on the possible drone activity.

Everyone screams for transparency yet how are we supposed to keep ourselves one step ahead if our military is forced to reveal technology or movements. There's a reason they keep some things on the quiet.

It does not sound as if trump has been fully briefed on this.

They are flying over residential areas, how to shoot them down???

I sure hope USA is also flying out drones over their bases.

[quote] how to shoot them down???

Jewish space lasers, silly!

Where's the "Mighty Joe" throat jamming faction on DL lately?

The air force is testing the drones to intercept missiles aimed at civilian aircrafts.

Getting prepared for future attacks

Sorry you are one of the largest military bases in the us, an air force base at that and you can't shoot down a drone?

R374, Too many drones of SUV size in way too many locals.

This is getting to be a fake-debunking exercise, similar to widely-accepted claims that all the crop circles around all the world and throughout recorded history were all created by two British geezers.

These mega-drones are not from some adult AV Club. But I wouldn't be surprised if a couple dorks claimed some, and then everyone and his sister will go, "Whew! Well, I guess those five drones from Bayonne account for hundreds more in DC, NY, NJ, and PA! Cool prank, bro!"

Strange that allegedly they know but are keeping Trump in the dark

R254

I’m sold on drone shows instead of fireworks - they are silent and the designers can be just as creative. Here is a video of a drone show at a Texas Longhorns game from last year - the ones I’ve seen have morphed from one design into another (a Longhorn then the Hook ‘em Horns then the state of Texas, for example).

When they’re finished, they gather up and silently descend behind the stadium. It’s really fantastic.

R386 that was so fucking boring

They're keeping Cheeto out of the loop because he can't keep his mouth shut.

R388 they don’t have to worry about Biden because he’ll forget 3 minutes after they tell him

What happened to Space Force from Dump 1.0? Can't they do something? Jet packs made of beef?

If you want to shit your pants, watch this. Gordon Chang's theory on what this is all about.

(Gordon Chang. Ok, he's a conservative, so there's that but "Chang has given briefings at the National Intelligence Council, the Central Intelligence Agency, the US State Department, and the US Defense Department, and he has appeared before the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs. He is a former contributor at The Daily Beast. His writings on China and North Korea have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the International Herald Tribune, Commentary, National Review, and Barron’s among others, and he has appeared on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC, PBS, Bloomberg Television, and others as well on as The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.[6] Chang has spoken at Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, Yale, and other universities.)

I

I have four cards. One is a senile card that has no clue what is going on. Another is my criminal card and he can’t keep its mouth shut. One card is thinking about running for Gov of Calif not drones, . And one is a jD Vance card,

I doubt this is a winning hand no matter what the 5th card is.

R391, so what he say?

R388, why should they tell Cheeto anything? He's not responsible for it and can't do anything about it. He's not running the country or the military. Biden is.

New Jersey residents say they're suffering alarming symptoms after encounters with drones

Residents in New Jersey and the wider tri-state area claim they have become mysteriously ill after seeing drones in the sky.

After witnessing or reading about the devices, residents revealed how they started coughing, suffering from a blocked or runny nose or experienced puffy, watery eyes.

One woman in New Jersey said she became so sick it felt like she was 'coughing up my lung', while a second in New York City said her blocked sinuses must be because of the drones over Staten Island.

R386, I agree with you about being sold on drone shows over fireworks...but that was kinda lame. Dodger Stadium knows how to do a drone show. (Fernando Valenzuela jersey retirement)

R393, he said only conspiratard MAGAts care about these drones, everything is fine and the drones are just for fun, and Joe Biden will go down in history as our greatest President. Listen for yourself.

I thought the title read "huge dongs, the size of SUVs"

If these were recreational drones, why would they only be operating at night? Seems like you'd use a drone in the daytime.

Jewish space lasers!!!

I believe the drones are government sanctioned, and as r382 speculates, by their admitting so would just demand more questions that the government simply does want to have to reveal the truth because 'they don't need to know the what lies ahead'.

Sounds like people's allergies are flaring up from being outside, looking at "China Invading" or "a swarm of UFOs in Jersey".

DailyMail.com heard from another New Jersey resident who said they had developed a stuffy nose and swollen runny eyes after the drones flew over their home.

But doctors told DailyMail.com after reviewing the symptoms that it was 'extremely unlikely' these sicknesses were linked to the drones.

They pointed out it was now the start of flu season and other illnesses like Covid, RSV and norovirus become more common around this time.

Dr Thomas Moore, an infectious diseases expert, said: 'It is entertaining to try to blame sickness on the condensation trails of planes or drones, but the actual explanation is much more mundane.

'It is respiratory virus season, and just being around humans at this time of year can cause you to get ill.'

Dr Bill Schaffner, also an infectious diseases expert, added: 'This is not being beamed down from above but spread among ourselves, and it is not too late to get vaccinated.

When the Daily Fail is the voice of reason, we are truly in a fucked up timeline.

OMG! It's Sleepy Joe's nefarious plan to get everyine vaccinated before our president Trump gets back in the White House! I figured it out! Don't comply with Sleepy Joe! Stick it to Big Pharma and say: "You're going to have force those vaccine drones on me, Joe! TYRANNY!"

Call Joe Rogan, this is blatant vaccine drone tyranny!

[QUOTE] He's not even President yet, tinhat. How could he be running the US military?

Obviously he is running our government through MAGA backchannels, pinhead. Why on earth do you think he has been transversing the globe meeting with world leaders such as Macrone.

[quote] transversing the globe

Oh dear!

Well, they've weaponized the bird flu, R404.

Unfortunately, we haven't been able to weaponize stupidity, R409. Even on this board, there's a deadly amount of it.

The Republicans were able to weaponize stupidity, on November 5.

So many of the younger people these days wear gigantic headphones on their heads these days, how would they even hear the drones buzzing overhead?

[quote]Obviously he is running our government through MAGA backchannels, pinhead.

Well gee, that says a lot about Joe Biden and Kamala Harris....

R397

True, I picked the first one I saw and it usually shifts from one image to another. I’ve definitely seen better at the Texas games. Still, I think the possibilities are exciting. Thanks for your link.

Real NY Housewife, Bethenny Frankel, weighs in on the drones.

[quote]This is getting to be a fake-debunking exercise, similar to widely-accepted claims that all the crop circles around all the world and throughout recorded history were all created by two British geezers.

The fact that you think crop circles are real just because they happen in more than one place says a lot about your critical thinking skills. I guess Aliens love Larry King.

[quote]Sorry you are one of the largest military bases in the us, an air force base at that and you can't shoot down a drone?

They dont need to shoot them down, we have the tech to actually override the pilot on the ground and safely land them IF WE WANT. There are actually several ways to deal with it. Shooting down a drone is ILLEGAL for everyone except the by a direct order from the military. Besides, it's the stupidest thing you could do. Large drones falling out of the sky can be very dangerous. Those blades can slice right to the bone. They can also go wildly off course and crash into moving traffic and if they land in the woods they can start a major fire as most of them have very large lithium batteries. We are talking about a fire ball not just some little spark.

[quote]New Jersey residents say they're suffering alarming symptoms after encounters with drones

It's something in the water.

[quote]One woman in New Jersey said she became so sick it felt like she was 'coughing up my lung', while a second in New York City said her blocked sinuses must be because of the drones over Staten Island.

Fibromyalgia Fraus

Who would have thought New Jersey had some ladies.

[quote]If these were recreational drones, why would they only be operating at night? Seems like you'd use a drone in the daytime.

Recreational drones are mostly for taking pretty landscape pics from a unique view. It's like asking why do photographers shoot during the day instead of night, your argument makes no sense. Most drone owners do fly them during the day, but they don't stand out like they do at night with all those blinking lights and paranoid NJ house fraus suddenly looking up at the sky making themselves sick over it.

Drone Sickness-there’s no shots for that and with RFK jr there never will be.

R415 lost me at I am a NJ Housewife. "I know a guy, who knows a guy who knows someone at the Pentagon. "

Look Bethenny, even IF your "source" was true. And as you claim they are sniffing out radiation, the easiest way to prove this is to ask one of the many Doomsday Preppers in NJ to whip out their Geiger counter and see if it's showing any more radiation that already exists there. It is New Jersey after all, the garbage state.

R376, Absurd. Flying low over communities isn't very secretive, given the concerns and fears thus engendered.

Why do you think we have Area 51? THAT is secretive. Drones can practice in the desert, not over Piscataway.

Nope. The government is on the hunt. What we next might not be informed about is when the object is found. Extracting and destroying will really be secret Navy Seal James Bond stuff.

R420, Your post is stupid and shows your misogynistic ignorance. Try reading something, and you'll find that MEN---Gasp! Yes!---have been reporting and recording.

But you go on with what you think are clever little bits o'sarcasm.

This entire country has been taken over by conspiracy theories and idiots on Twitter.

I'm leaving. Not because of drones but because of the idiots.

'Bye.

R425 thinks the drones are another "Dave and Dave" scenario.

There is one way to get liberals and progressives going 24/7 on this drone/WMD problem. Tell them the WMDs were lost during Trumps time in office.

Now, now R425. Be fair!

YouTube and TikTok (soon to RIP) are also a hotbed of conspiracy theorists and idiots.

Theory: A substantial number of NJ-ites are mobbed up and so are scared about Fed surveillance.

R425 and r429, Your serious explanations are....?

It's easy to insult others, not so easy to posit a sensible explanation that includes: airports and Air Force bases being closed; the shapes and sizes of the drones (does Amazon sell the SUV-sized model?); the extensive geographic area covered; the multiple witnesses to the drones and zero witnesses of the "hobby launchers" and their Traveling Drone Carrier Van; etc.

Haha, r430. Now explain DC, PA (my hometown included), and more.

Mobsters can live anywhere, r431

Constant Drones in the middle of the night, over a number of states, inc Wright AF base in Ohio, to watch a substantial number of mobbed up NJ mobsters?

This sounds like a theory from some real insiders.

If one is going to be a sports star or a pol you have to know how to answer questions that in no way answers the question.

Its an art and it saves people from having to tell the absolute truth or lie.

Q—-what are these drones Govt offical?

A—-most of the sightings include a variety of hobbyist drones Amd other innocent things. We don’t think these are meant to do harm or are from a foreign country.

That is a great way to avoid answering a direct question and not actually lie.

R424 has HER panties in a wad on a gay bitchery site. Look Dear, it's not men saying they are feeling sickness coming on just by looking up at a drone in the sky. I respond based on what I see. It's also not men from reality shows like Real House Wives shows posting selfie videos about how they know someone who knows someone theories. let me know when Sweet James post and I will recant my opinion. Until then you are out of line.

[QUOTE] Real NY Housewife, Bethenny Frankel, weighs in on the drones.

Whew! What a relief to have the adults back in the room.

I love how all the loons think the few sightings that are NOT planes but actual drones are doing nefarious secret things with super bright LED lights flashing in red and green. Nothing says secret like flying with the lights on. Spare me the lame rumor that they turn them off when someone gets close to checking them out, why would you fly with them on in the first place if you didn't want to be seen?

Sickness from looking in the sky at drones?

Wait until someone announces we are looking for missing nukes and then watch the lines at every emergency room in the country.

And highways full of mostly or somewhat armed angry scared people trying to get somewhere like KC or Montana or ND as fast as they can,

Panic absolute panic

In the Ukraine it would just be another day that ends in Y.

I trust Bethenny Frankel about as much as I trust I could get a buzz from her Skinny Girl cocktails.

R437, You are assuming the perps do not want the drones to be seen. Who says this is true? And who says that function can be turned off? Moreover, since we do not know the inner workings of these particular drones, perhaps the "blinking lights" are doing more than blinking.

What is true---aside from the drones themselves---is that we are not being informed as to their purpose, or if the government knows their purpose.

Like the economy, "It's the purpose, Stupid."

The military know exactly what they are and like most military exercises will remain tight lipped until a future date when the mission/testing is over. I remember when they were flying that super stealth bomber for tests and people were reporting UFOs. A year later they revealed their new stealth bomber.

The CTs, UFO loons and paranoid freaks need to chill the fuck out.

Oh, r435. You poor uninformed American, thinking one or two examples proves your larger "point."

Do you seriously propose that the unnamed witnesses at US military bases, airports including Wright-Patterson, a naval weapons research facility, a military research facility, and so on have been WOMEN?! How stupid ARE you?!

Is Gov. Phil Murphy a woman? Gov. Larry Hogan? Is Sen. Andy Kim a woman?

BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, IF EVERY WITNESS WERE A WOMAN, HOW DOES THAT IPSO FACTO MAKE THEIR STATEMENTS FALSE TO YOU?

More, r435? I mean, since clearly you aren't up to snuff...

R442/443 I don't know who you are addressing, I'm not R435, but you're another one who needs to take a chill pill and relax. Jesus fucking christ, let it go.

R442 because women are Ipso facto crazy frau Karens who post hysterically in CAPS!!

Republican senator Doug Nastriano from Pennsyltucky weighs in.

He now claims he knew this was a movie prop.

He’s an idiot either way, so I don’t care that much about that either way. But look at the text at the top. It tells you all you need to know about this hysteria. And flyover white morons are falling for it, hook line and sinker.

Mastriano

Just saw this. Don't shoot the messenger.

Try again.

Today I learned that Chuck Schumer is an irrational, hysterical MAGA frau.

[quote]Schumer told reporters that it's "remarkable" that despite the volume of sightings, "we have more questions than answers."

Ain't that just like a woman? Hysterical over nothing. Probably on the rag.

Only a surprise to another irrational,hysterical,MAGA frau like R450

Drop us a note when he screeches “WHY DOESN'T BIDNE CARE ABOUT THIS IRANIAN INVASION?!?!?! WHY DOES HE ONLY CARE ABOUT UKRAINE????”, Defacto at r450.

Drone photo finally! Snapped in Pennsylvania. This raises even more questions! Why do the drones look like middle aged lesbians in Shipping and Receiving???

THEY MUST BE STOPPED PEOPLE !!!

Most plausible I've heard. Better than the shrieking, hysterical fraus and Marys.

NO ITS THE EYE RANIANS!!!

A DRONE ATE MY PUSSY PEOPLE !!!

R220, I was thinking exactly the same thing yesterday.

I’m enjoying these drones & love reveling in the possibilities of alien life forms visiting us or us visiting them, however, in the end, I’m far too practical & believe these drones are up due to the possibility of a national security threat. That’s all well & good, but… what if there’s that 1% chance that they’re not ours?

I have no means to go elsewhere at this time, but I did think to myself that this could lead to a “Go Bag” moment.

R457 yes the sightings” include” a whole lot of things “including “ private drones, airplanes, stars, that sort of thing. We don’t consider the drones a serious threat.

Fucking A right the drones are not a serious threat if they are our drones. And we know they don’t come from foreign countries to do us harm because we know they are our drones.

That is a Non Answer not an informed answer as to what those drones are doing. I am giving the admin a vote of confidence—-they know what those drones are doing and whose drones they are and what they are looking for.

You may have noticed he never denied that we had US govt drones looking for something. Only that the sightings included certain things.

Not lying just not being totally honest.

More interesting than the drones are the orbs seen accompanying many of them.

How fucking cool is it that we (I assume the orbs also ours) we have the ability to create & launch something like that???

Talk all of the shit you want about America, but remember that these technologies are why we are still considered to be a great fucking country.

R461 the government is not going to ever be completely honest. National security and all that. The drones are ours. Their purpose is the question and we may find out in a few years. Maybe never. The media IS stoking the hysteria though. Reminds me of the 80s satanic panic.

Drones will be used to drop a dirty bomb, I betcha. When the time comes. On an enemy.

The media are doing their job, reporting on verifiable, on-going, and wide-spread sightings; military facility closings; politicians' questions; and federal government obfuscations.

Nothing remotely like "the 80s satanic panic."

Disagree R465 but that's our prerogative.

R464, The government doesn't need to send dozens of drones over US communities to figure out how to do that. Not to mention we already know how to deliver such an elementary weapon.

This thread is like catnip for our resident RWNJ conspiracy kooks (how many of those posts are Dumbvida's?)

People now view the government as the enemy of the people. And they've been propagandized for 40 years that anything government agencies do is bad and incompetent. I'm surprised some yahoo hasn't tried to gun one of these things down by now.

R463 it’s always possible we will know what they are looking for in hours, days, maybe a week or two.

If this is a satanic like scare as you say why do you think the govt does not just say that? No one thinks the govt or this admin could possibly be that incompetent to know it’s nothing and not put this to rest..

And guess what is scary about all of this, the guy who remains very quiet saying almost nothing except he thinks the feds know and it’s not a foreign enemy drones, and maybe the govt should tell everyone, , and BTW I an not going to my golf club in NJ

Donald Trump does not seem to be hammering the shit out of Biden Harris Pete over this. That should scare us all

R470, smoke some weed and relax. Jesus.....

Again, your explanation, r468? Or do you prefer blind faith?

"Propagandized," r469? You mean like the Pentagon Papers? Watergate? Iran-Contra? Gulf of Tonkin? Iran Air 655? WMDs and Yellow Cake? Russia? The Steele Dossier? All baseless conspiracy theories by propagandized RWNJs, r468?

And FYI, many of these challenge posts are mine. Mockers won't shut up, but all have yet to put up.

Go do your own research, R472, after you've finished rescuing random children from human trafficking.

YF frau, I have no clue what R68 typed but, again, relax and have a drink/joint/pill or whatever. You are kind of obsessive and wtf does "yf" mean?

Not being mean but you come across as a bit unhinged.

If this is all nothing as many suggest then this admin is going out on a storm of incompetence

That makes no sense to R475. If it's nothing then the WH is doing it's job and keeping quiet. Incompetent would be admitting they have no clue.

They know and released as much as they want us to know.

My MAGA neighbor was just telling me how the Democrats have all the information about what the drones are and what they're doing, but they refuse to share it with the Republicans, and all the Republicans are so worried and scared but can only sit by helplessly while the mean, evil Democrats carry on with their nefarious scheme. So that story line must be being pushed on talk radio or somewhere.

If this admin knows there is no there with these drones they would be incompetent for not saying that.

If this admin knows that something is going on and they are not going to tell the public I have no problem with that.

But it can’t be both. Something is going on and we re not being told or nothing is going on and the govt is far too incompetent to mention that.

I think until proved wrong they are looking for a nuke or other wnd. It’s what makes sense,

[quote]Donald Trump does not seem to be hammering the shit out of Biden Harris Pete over this. That should scare us all

Rump won. He doesn’t need to campaign or exert anymore effort on this.

[quote] I think until proved wrong they are looking for a nuke or other wnd. It’s what makes sense,

WND = weapon of neurotic destruction? It's kind of fitting...

The only people i know talking about it are trumpers R477. Trumpers who watch Fox 24/7 I might add. I'm sure Fox is somehow blaming Biden and Democrats. Every show on every hour is some magat gasbag hammering the same shit over and over. They are still obsessed with Kamala too.

R478, they basically said that.

R479 We are talking about the same Donald Trump? Unlike mine yours sounds like a reasonable person that would not keep kicking someone who was on the floor just to kick and drum up even more interest and more interest in him and damage the Dems more.

Your Donald sounds very unlike my Donald. Who BTW is being very subdued on this drone stuff at the moment.

We have dolts that spend whole days on MAGA social media swarming these threads like locusts.

[quote] Republicans are so worried and scared but can only sit by helplessly

So, basically status quo for them.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Going Completely Mental Over New Jersey Drones

R473 check under your bed

How shocking and unexpected, r486.

I wonder how they’re connected to the Jewish space lasers? Because you KNOW the Jews are involved SOMEHOW.

When isn’t that fugly, Neanderthal looking cunt NOT going to”completely mental”?

That dumb cunt has more issues than Vogue.

[quote]If this is a satanic like scare as you say why do you think the govt does not just say that?

WH spokesman John Kirby and Homeland Security Secretary Alexandar Mayorkas have been all over TV the past several days saying that, albeit in a nicer way than "You all are a bunch of conspiracy-addled freaks."

No one trusts the WH on this. No one has that kind of faith in American institutions anymore, especially when there are local officials saying otherwise.

I'll give my guess.

This started as something legitimate and small. Probably a Special Access Project being tested. Something very hush, hush.

Drones that can operate in the air and the water are something we've been working on for awhile now. it's been a difficult problem. We've also been working for decades on some crazy shit involving optical and infrared "stealth". Add AI and the concept of drone swarms into the mix.

These technologies have now reached a point where we've combined them all into the same aircraft. This leads to some crazy sci-fi seeming shit.

There is a limit to the testing you can do in the desert. You can simulate a lot of EM shit, but at some point, it's best to do real world with an actual city and associated signals to deal with.

So, "they" did, on a limited basis. The project is extremely secret so even its existence is known to only a few.

You get sightings of this crazy shit. These are real. The people who know about the SAP expected some UFO sightings. They did not expect it to spiral like this. The current tense mood of the country is something they didn't adequately take into account.

Because so few even know this SAP exists, it makes the response even more confusing than something under a more normal classified status.

Most elected officials don't have a clue what's going on. The WH may have genuinely not known originally, but I'm sure it knows by now. The problem is they don't want to reveal this shit at all yet. Maybe because it's NOT perfected yet. It's getting there, but it's not at a point where we can just tell China and the rest because we are so confident in it that we know it would kick their asses. Thus the lies.

Long way of saying, I think there is a small bit of truth here. 90% of it now is hysteria and misidentification of planes and shit. The WH is going to claim that hysteria is all of it. Trust in government will further erode as a result. (I could go on a long rant about how I think excessive secrecy is one of the causes of the decline in trust of our institutions, but I'll save that for another time.) "They" are just hoping something comes up soon in the news to distract from all this.

Man, those Connecticut Frauen are busy!

Sorry, I should have said Special Access PROGRAM. Black project. But SAP, the P is for Program.

THEY ARE COMING FOR OUR CHILREN PEOPLE !!!!

A Special Access Program wouldn't fly their test drones all night, for weeks on end, over Northern and coastal NJ of all places. That's some of the most heavily populated and air-trafficked parts of the country. Sorry not buying it.

R491 makes sense

the size of SUVs

I find this hard to believe that the military says to leave it to the FBI and local, the size of SUVs flying around, something doesn't make sense.

[quote]And guess what is scary about all of this, the guy who remains very quiet saying almost nothing except he thinks the feds know and it’s not a foreign enemy drones, and maybe the govt should tell everyone, , and BTW I am not going to my golf club in NJ

[bold]Looking for a dirty nuke?[/bold]

That is a tell. The latest rumor came from social media accounts of people working with these HGe drones. After posting their theory, the accounts were suspended.

So the theory is these are specialist drones looking for a dirty bomb. The thinking is that Iran or Russia (probably Russia) has smuggled in a dirty nuke through the ports of New York or New Jersey. The feds got wind of this and are looking for it. These drones can detect gamma rays given off by radiation.

A lot of unanswered questions here. Suggest searching by "New Jersey drones dirty nuke"

R499 the worst possible outcome for the Democratic Party is evidence that a nuke was smuggled in thru what the GOP has been screaming about——a porous unguarded open US border.

Fair or not that would be a Party Killer.

Well, Americans? Have you figured it out yet?

What's a dirty nuke as opposed to a clean nuke?

R496 - So MTG says she is going to shoot down red blooded freedom loving Americans?

After reading this thread and some of the other stuff on the inner net - I have decided that the drones definitely have something to do with the release of the movie WICKED.

Maybe they're coming from OZ.

[quote] Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Completely Mental

There, FIFY R486!

Over UTAH military base.....

[bold] Radioactive material MISSING!! [/bold]

If there is radioactive missing its probably a white supremacist group operating within the military.

Currently on the ipod...

If it was a dirty nuke or something that put the public at risk, state law enforcement at least would have been clued in. And probably local as well.

That theory is ridiculous.

R509 doesn't know what "keep this a secret or else" means. Thinks local and state LE are scrupulously honest and forthright.

But again, naysayers just say nay. Never offer an alternative.

They say it's Chinese....fucking cunts

I've seen several alternatives offered up R511. You just don't like them because you're a CT.

No radiation event apparently, I think there's sensors all over now, I questioned the sanity of the congressman or senator who said, as soon as you look at them they take off! Too many movies I think, this person is in the government unfortunately.

You know if the orange traitor had any half assed idea, he’d be running his mouth non-stop or bragging. Because that fucking fool couldn’t keep his anus mouth shut if his miserable life depended on it.

Hep hep! There's a drone stuck in my hole.

Drones being tested to observe, record, and measure crowd size for the inauguration. Basically 'home movies' for the incoming administration.

r514 Regardless the natives are getting restless. One drone was shot down with a missile. I guess the missile launcher was one of the shoulder shooting varieties; sure Walmart carries them. :)

R506 - that's been debunked

My pussy is large and roomy. It can accommodate multiple drones. That is, if they can handle the stink.

R519, "Authorities debunk...."

Okey-doke!

R509

You are most likely right, but if this was a nuke they were looking for what would they tell the 100s of law enforcement people?

And how long before families of police all started to pick up and move and then all their friends and neighbors picked up and moved right before calling all their friends,

If it’s a nothing they would tell the police. If it’s nukes telling the police would be like telling the NYT and ask them to announce it.

The same guy r518 posted about a drone being shot down also posted this pic of a flying saucer that landing on his property. 🤡

Of course he did, R523. What an impeccable source! I'll bet his house is also haunted and he talks to dead people.

[quote]Okey-doke!

R521 - As per the article:

[quote]Earlier in December, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission posted an active alert that a shipment of Geranium-68 from the Nazha Cancer Center in South Jersey was lost in transit. But the New Jersey Department of Energy confirmed to ABC News on Monday that the missing shipment has since been “located, repackaged, and sent to the manufacturer from the FedEx shipping facility where it was misplaced.”

[quote]A doctor at the cancer facility also confirmed that the missing radioactive material—which was depleted and only contained trace amounts of radiation—had been located.

I wonder if all this is true...

[quote]There have already been 4 thefts of nuclear and highly radioactive material... Not even Jersey (USA), Barajas (Spain), Hamburg (Germany) and Essex (UK)... All this in 48 hours...

Barajas is the location of Spain's international airport.

[quote]I wonder if all this is true...

Well, I'm sure some random nobody in Portugal would have the scoop before anybody else does.

DL has had some scoops by our people on the ground before shit hits the local or National scene, r528.

Not often, but it has happened

DL was the first to solve the soft butch sous chef murder.

And you never shut up about it, r530.

Bethenny Frankel and Twitter randos know more about this than the United States government. People are so stupid.

Drones of all types are here to stay so this thread will never end.

R481, The most basic Google Search will inform your ignorant ass that multiple, and legit, media are reporting on this topic.

The posters mocking all non-governmental "explanations" are the pitiable ones. American military forces have their names on a D.C. wall because the GOVERNMENT LIED about the Gulf of Tonkin. Note the words "falsely claimed" and "imaginary" in the linked article. And before you ridicule Wikipedia, I suggest you do your own due diligence to verify.

So y'all can kiss my grits!

I’m sticking to my original theory:

Something nefarious is going on or there has been a credible threat that something is going to happen. What that something is, I have no idea, but our intelligence agencies do know, & the drones are there to observe & even neutralize anyone or anything that’s involved in it.

That wacky Sen. Blumenthal, what a looney-tune!

Your trolling is getting stale, frau. No one gives a shit about your grits or your paranoia.

Anyone that reads kirbys comments in R536 article and thinks that was a blanket denial about anything needs to read more critically.

The govt either knows exactly what is going in but for very good reasons is not telling anyone

Or this govt has no real clue what is going on.

Hmmm…

Fox Mulder agrees with R534.

Bi-partisan concern.

As an aside: Do the Feds really think that significant numbers of people don't know a passenger plane when they see its lights in the night sky? That it is not shaped like a drone?

[quote]Do the Feds really think that significant numbers of people don't know a passenger plane when they see its lights in the night sky? That it is not shaped like a drone?

In a country where a former governor can't tell the difference between drones and the constellation of Orion, I absolutely believe a significant portion of the population can't tell the difference between a plane and a drone.

To add to R542's post, we just elected a con artist/game show host for president. So can people be that stupid? Yes.

I saw a post on Reddit last night, where someone shared a video of a drone that they had recorded on their iPhone.

It was VERY obviously a commercial airliner, & I was almost gobsmacked that this person genuinely believed it was a drone.

*sigh*

The black & white binary thinking of some of you.

Two things can be true at once: most of the sightings are planes, stars, hobbyist drones AND AT THE SAME TIME some of the sightings ARE INDEED large drones that can't be explained.

Because some politician mistook stars for drones...it's all just hysteria...nothing to see here! Good grief.

Large drones can be explained, but if the recipients like MAGA don't believe in facts there is no answer they will accept other than a nefarious one that "can't be explained"

It’s fun to watch.

[quote]Large drones can be explained

OK. Give us the official explanation.

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no it’s …. Tan Mom?

Seems like some people aren't going to accept anything other than some batshit, hidden agenda reason even after it's revealed to be something mundane (which it will).

For some people, it's always a cover-up. It's more *exciting* that way. Reality is too boring for them, apparently.

It’s a bird. It’s a plane! No, wait, it’s Tan Mom!

[quote]Seems like some people aren't going to accept anything other than some batshit, hidden agenda reason even after it's revealed to be something mundane (which it will).

You don't know that.

But r542, Why now? R543, Alas. But surely you aren't asserting that every drone witness, every drone videographer IN NJ AND NY are Trump supporters?

There are significant numbers of witnesses who aren't goofball know-nothings.

I would like to have a non-subscriber link to the Orion story, as stars are a leeeetle far away.

But what I could read, the "experts" said "maybe," and HE (ex-Gov. Hogan/MD) said he saw and videotaped "dozens of large drones."

Now, he may not know a drone from Titanic, but I'm betting Mr. Hogan can count to three---the number of stars in Orion's Belt.

R546, Then, pray tell, why is the Administration NOT explaining, per some quoted attendees of that Congressional meeting the other day? Have YOU heard an omnibus explanation?

Or maybe you are content with the hodge-podge " They're planes, toys, stars, mass hysteria," Oh, and definitely "not a threat of any kind, so don't shoot!"

Well, I guess the Great Divide is clear: Government believers---those who scornfully toss around the term "Conspiracy Theorists"---vs. Government skeptics. Let's see: Which group might have verified history on its side?

Anyone here vote for HRC/Kaine?

Is Tim now a RWNJ? Asking for a friend.

R550 Oh yeah.,The UFO boys in tin foil are loving the’’ coverage’’ the drones are creating- on screen or in the sky. They get to add this incident to their Area 51 Scrap Book.

I resent that last post and I do not wear a tin foil hat - mine is aluminum foil!

R548: Try Google

[quote]Check under your bed

Oh no honey, the drone you found under Blanche's bed was just to film Blanche mid act to establish which sexual practice she wasn't willing to go and the answer is none.

r410 Oh it most certainly has been. That is how Trump got a second term.

Why is everyone on this thread denigrating people who want to know more as MAGAts? I haven't followed this closely, but last I checked both congressional and state reps in NJ and NY WROTE AN OPEN LETTER to the FBI and DHS demanding answers. Progressives should be more circumspect about official government narrative---conservatives only question things when Fox tells them to. And any gay who says "Yeah right, you know more than our government does!" with a straight face should give his card back.

"The only people i know talking about it are trumpers [R477]. Trumpers who watch Fox 24/7 I might add."

Sounds like you know a lot of Trumpers, dude. Stop making dim-witted assumptions based on your narrow existence.

[quote]And any gay who says "Yeah right, you know more than our government does!" with a straight face should give his card back.

Keeping the toaster.

I agree with R553.

Too many people are vested in this being nefarious rather than mundane. As someone above said, they must have boring lives.

And yet here you are, R564, hanging out with and finger wagging all of us bores.

Well. yes. r565, because it's worth pointing out.

Plus, it's mildly amusing.

R564 here. Can't see r565 but, no, R566 isn't me.

Just goes to show that most people have never looked up at the sky on a clear night to just see how beautiful the stars are.

There’s all sorts of things up there at night. Go outside and look up one clear night around 11pm or past midnight.

You might even see the Aurora Borealis if you’re lucky.

The "nothing-to-see-here, you're-all-MAGAts" troll is tedious and dumb.

[quote]Just goes to show that most people have never looked up at the sky on a clear night to just see how beautiful the stars are.

Yeah, only you gurl.

Still appearing in the night skies?

[quote] The "nothing-to-see-here, you're-all-MAGAts" troll is tedious and dumb.

You're projecting. This doesn't warrant the hysteria it has received in the media, but as you are someone who has used the phrase

[quote]Trump Derangement Syndrome

upthread, so we know who you are parroting. You are also the author of:

[quote]Are you retarted?

Now we know you're also an insensitive asshole who can't even spell his slurs.

[quote]Yeah, only you gurl.

Nah. I'm with r568. If you looked up on occasion, you'd know that LOTS of drones have been up there for over a decade.

Yay for you for finally noticing, once your overlords told you to cast your eyes to the skies.

Here's nice meteor shower coming up soon.

Drones of unknown origin, which the US govt says it does not know whose they are but are sure they are not threatening, have never shut down a major USAF base for four hours in the past as they did recently..

Honey those are buzzards circling

R571: The correct Datalounge spelling is r e t a r t e d NOT retarded.

[quote]If you looked up on occasion

You're talking to someone who does not drive. Never has. Who walks. Everywhere.

I've seen more of the sky than you ever have or ever will.

No comment.

Oh hell, they'll shoot down a plane and kill some people now, I can't wait!!!!

[quote][R564] here. Can't see [R565] but, no, [R566] isn't me.

You probably wisely blocked r565 as the trumpster troll that he is, r567.

[quote]I've seen more of the sky than you ever have or ever will.

That is, quite frankly, extremely unlikely, r574. For starters, I've been an astronomer for over 40 years. Also, you seem confused. You signed your post at r574 as r571.

*I'm* r571. You can tell this because I have a clue what is going on in the sky on any given day, and also because you yourself addressed me as r571. For example, on Dec 21st, our Winter Solstice, Venus can be seen setting in the west around 45 minutes after sunset.

[quote][R571]: The correct Datalounge spelling is r e t a r t e d NOT retarded.

A slur is a slur no matter how you spell it, and I'm unsure of why you are so proud of using either form.

[quote]You're talking to someone who does not drive. Never has. Who walks. Everywhere.

Keep walking, toots. I'm done talking to you.

[quote]Also, you seem confused. You signed your post at [R574] as [R571].

Because DL doesn't have an edit feature, I could not go back to correct my mistake. I could have followed with an explanatory post but assumed that everyone here was intelligent enough to get what happened.

Oh well, I was wrong.

[quote]A slur is a slur no matter how you spell it, and I'm unsure of why you are so proud of using either form.

What on earth are you doing on Datalounge? Are you new here?

I was right: retarted indeed.

Pete Buttigieg brazenly offended the entire state of New Jersey with his brutal take on the recent drone 'invasion' that has stirred widespread outcry over the last month.

The US Transportation Secretary was grilled over the recent 'SUV-sized' drone sightings disrupting the Garden State and the suspected 'alien invasion' as he appeared on The Breakfast Club, co-hosted by Charlamagne tha God.

Buttigieg boldly claimed that New Jersey would be a 'very unlikely' spot for an aliens to set up camp in the opening minutes of the near 38-minute interview.

Does Sec. Pete know of this?

Oops! Link:

President Biden issued a statement of "reassurance" today, declaring that the drones were "legal" and not operated by "persons of malign intent."

Legal, meaning registered with the FAA, presumably.

More than 5,000. Okay, I can grant that, as licenses are on file.

But the latter claim is ABSURD on its face! HTH would Joe, Biden or Schmoe, if anyone had "malign intent" or not? What, we have psychics in the federal government now?

Try this: "Yes, there are 1 million registered guns in the US, but none carried by persons with malign intent."

See how incredibly STUPID AND CYNICAL that sounds?

Surprised this has not happened in New Jersey yet. Even though NJ is a blue state, there are huge areas inland that are very, very MAGA.

Shooting down drones is a federal crime folks. It's not your call to decide which one can be shot.

I want one of these! Now THIS is a large drone.

[quote]Surprised this has not happened in New Jersey yet. Even though NJ is a blue state, there are huge areas inland that are very, very MAGA.

The vast vast majority of the shootings in NJ occur in the blue areas.

Drones AND a spectacular "Accidental Renaissance" photo!

Sorry---In r586 It's the photo inside the article linked, where the military is retrieving a Chinese surveillance balloon from the ocean.

New Jersey drone hysteria explained from an actual pilot AND drone pilot: @ 2:14

If the Government want to spy on you, they would use these cute little palm size drones that only cost $195,000 . EACH!

Rich Rednecks with Drones, what could go wrong?

DRONE BLENDER!

This is why you don't shoot down a drone, even if it's a small one, those blades will cut a bitch if it were to land on someone:

Mmmm...That's good bass.

Have fun with this, folks.

R582 legal in this instances just might mean—-owned by the US Govt not registered by the US Govt.

Biden translated “We don’t know what they are nor where they come from but despite swarming our military bases we know they are friendly.”

Neither DL nor the WH could be this fucking clueless. They are our drones, Or they are lying. Or they are truly incompetent.

I'm late to this story.. could someone do a NJ Drones for Dummies post ...... in a few sentences? thanks in advance.

Lots of nutjobs in New Jersey are filming small planes convinced drones are invading us either by foreign activity or secret military and blame Biden and the US gov for not doing anything about it. The pentagon and FAA have looked into it and nothing there but conspiracy theories. Rube in NJ will not accept the truth as the answer and have not produced any clear pics of actual unidentified drones. Just like flying saucers of the 50's.

Yeh, r596, except you forgot to mention that the nutjobs, who include governors, Congresspeople, police, military, and normal citizens, are also in NY, CT, PA, DC, the UK, and other areas.

And that the government SAYS that these eyewitnesses and videographers "might" be instead viewing small planes, hobbyists' drones (in swarms! Is it a club?!), and stars.

There is zero---ZERO---evidence of or reasons for the Feds to pretend to "know" what it is that the witnesses are watching, other than that the witnesses are NOT MISTAKEN.

Meanwhile, airports and military air bases are taking precautions, even closing. Why? Are TPTB afraid of small planes, hobbyists' drones, and STARS?! GMAFB.

So, r595, If you give credence to the sarcastic ignorance and blind faith (in the Pentagon! Oh, my stars! THAT bastion of veracity?!) of r596, you'd be better off Googling.

And the FAA? Try again, r596.

I have other reasons, to be highly skeptical of government statements in this case:

NO "pilots of small planes" in the vicinity of drone witnesses have come forth to say, "Oh, yeah! That was me flying over [insert community, airbase, or research center here] that night! Sorry! Didn't mean to scare ya!"

NO "hobbyists with drones" have come forth to say, "I'm sorry! I was just having fun!"

Aside from one mention of Orion's Belt, nobody has come forth to say what stars could have been mistakenly identified as drones.

Tha. t is to say, some Feds are putting forth, either honestly or not, the possibilities of "mistaken identification" of planes, hobbyists' drones, and stars, without one follow-up supporting reason.

I think they are foreign govts. I read in the paper that the coast guard boat was followed for 15 mins.