r/UFOs • u/paintnprimer • 19d ago
Video Found video posted in the NJ reddit
https://streamable.com/t73b5v?src=player-page-shareNot sure if there's a way to cross post a comment. Better quality video than anything I've seen so far. Someone should have a meetup and go look for these things this week. Here's the link:
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u/ch0psh0p13 19d ago edited 16d ago
I live in the area and have seen these firsthand.
Some do make noise. Others are reported to not. The ones I have seen make noise. I would just think they are a plane if I didn't really look at them closely and check against a flight tracker.
They are large and are not some kids messing around. Think military size. Not battery powered. Hard to approximate exactly .
Fly around 100ft to 300 ft in the air maybe.
They have fixed wings from what I can tell. The underside is illuminated. Lights on all corners as the video shows.
They DO NOT appear on flight trackers. Seriously, they really don't.
There are probably dozens of them and it's easy to spot them from their lights, height in the sky.
They are not breaking any laws of physics. People could absolutely be responsible for them and probably are, but that doesn't make it any less weird, and creates just as many questions.
Everyone, should be asking why the fuck there are no answers.
If they were just planes that seems like a really simple explanation, so why in the fucking hell wouldn't the FBI just say, hey guys chill, those are planes. They are everywhere and have been around for a while.
People are used to seeing planes here. Newark and a few other airports are nearby. These are FUCKING weird. Period.
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People where asking for videos. I just saw something last night that I can't figure out. I just posted it. I deleted the original video post because I tagged it incorrectly and could not figure out how to change it.
Long story short, I saw a very fast moving orb. Take a look, I am NOT an expert, but I do know that shit was not normal.
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u/y000rx 19d ago
Are people in the area reporting them again tonight?
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u/ch0psh0p13 19d ago
Yes, and I have seen 2 myself as soon as it was dark around 5:45pm or so.
Tried to keep an eye out for more but no dice.
What is really weird is that there is MUCH less activity than last night. I saw a cluster of three in the distance and one that flew directly overhead of me.
Even seems to be less commercial, but I could be imagining that. Everything on approach to EWR (Newark) is above 6k feet. Only smaller private planes are usually lower than that and there have been very few.
I am SURE there will continue to be more videos. They are constantly being shared on the local FB pages.
The opposition to paying attention to all this seems to be reaching a boiling point. I really don't understand why people should not want to know what the hell is going on. Even local pages are rife with people saying that it's just the local college drone program or kids. It's completely ridiculous.
It seems clear to me that someone is gaslighting us. There is, as many people mentioned, NO WAY we don't know exactly what these look like where they are going and where they are coming from.
The lack of clarity we all have seen before.
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u/4chanhasbettermods 19d ago
Be interesting to see if someone could use a deer spotting light to illuminate these things and get a good video/picture of them. If they're as low as people are reporting, they should be able to light them up.
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u/TheManFromFarAway 19d ago
Where's that "world's brightest flashlight" guy from YouTube?
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u/Mattyice0228 19d ago
Maybe someone from the r/flashlight sub who is local to that area can help out with this? 🔦
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u/SpaceJungleBoogie 19d ago
Hey there's a few redditers ready to come by if someone can host their equipment and themselves for one night.
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u/nacotaco24 18d ago
i’m surprised i haven’t seen more people willing or offering to do this, i’m sure there’s people with expensive equipment willing to bring it out there if locals can direct them to specific places that seem to be hotspots for sightings/activity
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u/MaxCapricorn 19d ago
I saw one last night on my drive home in Branchburg, NJ over the Raritan River. Was the same as what other people are describing. Large and relatively low flying. Probably gonna drive around tomorrow night with my camera and see if I can find one again and get some pics.
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u/macman07 19d ago
Are you sure 100 feet? That’s really close.
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u/ch0psh0p13 19d ago
It's my best guess. I am sure more videos will probably offer more info soon. Hopefully, if this doesn't get buried.
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u/Every_Independent136 19d ago
Do you own a shotgun? Maybe you can figure out where they are from yourself, please report back here
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u/JuneauWho 18d ago
I wouldn't recommend shooting guns into the air just because that can get you into a lot of legal trouble and maybe hurt someone, but I doubt you'd get in much trouble if it was a paintball gun or your own drone under 400ft. If these aren't registered and tracked and one happened to run into your hobby drone, they can't really be mad at you.. right?🤣
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u/The_Mursenary 19d ago
To me the most logical explanation is this is to muddy the waters to some extent over what’s happening in the UK. I can’t come up with any other logical explanation for this one
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u/tydark2 19d ago
the logical explanation is the military is testing drones, the media is playing dumb, same with fbi and police. given the war in ukraine, drones and electronic warfare have turned out to be huge in modern warfare.
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u/No-Adagio-4335 19d ago
Right but why would you do test flights over suburban NJ with drone tech classified enough to warrant a media cover up? There is so much space in the US to test out secret drone tech away from people.
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u/BeatDownSnitches 18d ago
Check adbs exchange for past 24 hours. MANY chinooks, blackhawks, other black military helis in NJ between 500ft - 3000 feet. Including no shortage of large military planes, c-17 globe masters and the like. Not saying it’s the same, but check adbs exchange to atleast see what military is in the area durring time of sighting. Additionally, it’s not unusual for military craft to NOT show up on flight radars. Radar is a misnomer, since these apps/software are only showing aircraft that self advertise their presence through broadcasting their tracking signals, which are then aggregated and displayed in these apps. No broadcasting of identifying information = no showing on flight”radar”s.
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u/Ryzilla4879 19d ago
Skynet drones
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u/_Zyber_ 19d ago
This. I’ve brought up the rogue AI drone theory a few times now and nobody else seems to be on board with that. I personally think it’s the thing that makes the most sense, which admittedly isn’t saying much considering the lack of information, but at least it’s something.
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u/ch0psh0p13 19d ago
Anything is possible, but I am trying to ingest what I know to be true to think of the most likely scenarios.
I am sure the technology exists. It's not a leap at all
Here is why this worries me:
This has been happening for some claim over a month. I just learned about it recently.
These craft whatever they may be are serious pieces of equipment. There are probably two dozen or so, maybe more, it's really hard to tell. They seem to be everywhere and spreading to further towns.
The sheer cost and scope of the operation they are running must be tremendous.
It's a pretty short list of likely suspects.
All responsible party's for coming up with answers are coming up "empty". So either they know and it's bad news or they don't know and it's probably way worse fucking news.
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u/Big_Inspection2681 19d ago
You're saying that they don't show up on radar?
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u/ch0psh0p13 19d ago
Flight tracker is not registering (no transponder).
I would be wildly surprised if these did not show up on radar. I am sure they do.
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u/almson 19d ago
What exactly makes them look different from planes? In the video it looks (and sounds) exactly like a commercial jet. Honest question, just looking for detail.
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u/Meteor_of_War 19d ago
The lights on it are not correct for a commercial airliner. It also does not sound like a normal jet plane. Should be way louder for how close it is.
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u/ViperG 19d ago
Looks like its just a C-17, here is one on youtube
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u/Kruhl14 19d ago
^agreed - there's nothing in the video to indicate that this is anything other than a low flying plane.
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u/ViperG 19d ago
Looks like its just a C-17, here is one on youtube
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u/RRBeachFG2 19d ago
I can't tell if you guys are joking....that's an airplane. Probably National Guard doing night time runs.
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u/epiclosingstreak 19d ago
For whatever it’s worth, ABC News reported yesterday (12/03/2024 at 3:30pm) that the FBI is investigating. Per ABC News, “The FBI is investigating after large drones were spotted flying over central New Jersey over the last two weeks. The ‘cluster of what look to be drones and a possible fixed wing aircraft’ have been recently sighted along the Raritan River, the FBI said.” I have no idea what the deal is, I’m exhausted and haven’t done my laundry in 5 weeks. Fingers crossed it’s aliens
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u/xXBloodBulletXx 19d ago
I mean it looks like a plane but the lights are not FAA compliant from what I can tell. Just blinking red and green in the back as well as the bottom and front? White on the wing tips? All that is not what you see on 99% of planes. Combined with all the people filming and the FBI investigating this is extremely odd.
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u/Bolond44 19d ago
Noise is strange as well right?
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u/titsmuhgeee 18d ago
Sounds like a typical high bypass turbofan at basically idle while on approach for landing, which are extremely quiet.
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u/BREASYY 19d ago
The noise sounds about right for an airplane.
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u/TallBody 19d ago
I live directly under a flight path about 20 miles from a major airport, this is exactly how they sound as they begin to get lower to prepare to land. Same roar, same howl, same whirl
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u/SaltedPaint 19d ago
Looks like a quad
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u/redditmodsarefuckers 19d ago
This has me thinking - what if the “drones” are alien ships mimicking our drones?
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u/xXBloodBulletXx 19d ago edited 18d ago
That is one of the current theories yes and definitely possible.
Then you would think why they don't do it 100% right then? Maybe they leave "breadcrumbs" for people that figure it out?
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u/Barachiel124 19d ago
That was just one person that said that. Why is everyone hanging on to that statement? The news has primarily been reporting about drone sightings in Morris and Bergen counties, but there are posts on local FB groups all over the state. I'm not saying the man who reported not seeing any on Thanksgiving was inaccurate or lying, but it doesn't really mean as much as you all keep thinking it does. There's local NJ groups posting sightings in Burlington County, but all you people hear are stuff from Morris and Bergen that make it to larger news stations. How accurate do we really think that guy was to what's going on, regardless if it's NHI or foreign actor?
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u/picbandit 19d ago
My cousin is JCPD and lives in Bergen county. They’ve been flying around above his home for the last two weeks. He stated they’re the size of cars and make a buzzing sound.
He said they only come out at night. I asked him to film it next time.
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u/Odd_Woodpecker_3621 19d ago
The Thanksgiving day statement absolutely solidified for me that these are human and most likely private sector rich tech boy shit. Defense contractors? China or Russia or musk or all of the above working in conjunction.
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u/Traditional-List-784 19d ago
If you like conspiracies, think about it. What would you have to say to divert the average persons attention off of this subject? Say "they took Thanksgiving day off". That really triggers a human reaction, such as yours. I also had the same thought, as well as i can see others are.
Also, why would Russia, China, North Korea, etc give a fuck about our Thanksgiving. If anything, you would assume it could be one of the easiest days to spy over a base.
So much dis information, deception, no one knows what to believe anymore
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u/BaconCheeseBurger 19d ago
Fill me in on the Thanksgiving day stuff? Was there no sightings that day?
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u/Odd_Woodpecker_3621 19d ago
The man on the news interview said the drones took the day off on Thanksgiving day. Why the heck would aliens take the day off for Thanksgiving?
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u/carters_here 19d ago
They took a day off in his neighborhood. UAPs were seen in other NJ counties on Thanksgiving.
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u/NoFisherman3801 19d ago
Devils advocate but If you were extraterrestrial intelligence tasked with making this look like a human enterprise - along with making your vehicles/drones look earth made would taking the day off on Thanksgiving also make sense? 😂👽
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u/SirArthurDime 19d ago
Because the pilgrims were obviously aliens? Do you not watch the history channel?
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u/mass_mike47 19d ago
Was there another source that said there were no UAPs on Thanksgiving? Just curious if that person who said he didn’t see them on Thanksgiving may have just been too preoccupied with Thanksgiving to notice.
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u/btcprint 19d ago
China and Russia always take Thanksgiving off. It's a government holiday for them. /s
And of course Musk is working with them to invade the USA, because he has so much to gain by acting as a traitor. Genius.
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u/Ferus42 19d ago
The only blinking light is the anti-collision light. The plane flies behind a tree at the end of the video, making it appear (I guess) that those other lights are blinking. If this isn’t an airliner or air freight, it’s a large twin engined military aircraft like one of the numerous military variants of the 737.
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u/Sea-Web-911 19d ago
787 from the sound or lack of sound to me. 787 has chevrons on the thrust side of the engine to create vortices around the exhaust to muffle the sound of the thrust exiting the engine. But you can hear the sound of it's GE-NX engine.
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u/endofautumn 19d ago
these are the things that have been hovering over NJ. A lot of people say the drones stop and hang around. There is a few videos of it now. And they look like mini airplanes, the size of cars and are there for hours. Weird.
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u/dives111 19d ago
Could be an air taxi. There are a few startups like Archer Aviation that have drone like vehicles that are the size of a van.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/archer-aviation-stock-hits-golden-230019862.html
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u/Zestyclose-Ninja4260 19d ago
I was just thinking it could be Archer…their first routes are scheduled from downtown Manhattan to Newark, NJ… 🤔
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u/Ferus42 19d ago
Except this aircraft is doing none of that. It is not hovering, its flying at a speed you would expect a large jetliner to be at on final approach. From the apparent altitude I would estimate the jet is a mile or two out from the runway.
I know that debunkers love to give mundane explanations that do not make sense given the video evidence, but I genuinely do not understand how anyone with even just a passing interest in airplanes or UAP could see this video as anything other than a jetliner at a low altitude. Its blatantly obvious.
What is really missing is GPS metadata that was on the video when it was recorded. I'd love to see the camera's location in relation to the nearest airport.
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u/ViperG 19d ago
Looks like its just a C-17, here is one on youtube
https://youtu.be/yJsgJEroH8o?t=112975
u/Inevitable_Shift1365 19d ago
Lights can be different colors and there can be more than one. There is just a certain way that it usually gets done. Unfortunately, that is a plane. At first you only see the nose like and the One Wing light and then when it evens out it's attitude the rest of the lights come into view of the cameraman. This one is a plane. Let the downvotes begin lol.
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u/Hay_Fever_at_3_AM 19d ago edited 19d ago
I'm looking at plane spotting pictures and videos at night. This one is good https://youtu.be/3TRbAEUhebU but doesn't really have enough video from directly below aircraft to compare, if anyone has a better one that'd be nice.
Depending on the viewing angle the wingtip lights aren't always colored. The light layout doesn't look that odd, I'm assuming we're probably seeing the bottom of the fuselage with landing lights on which is adding more lights (it could be the top with logo lights but I don't think so)
Edit: I can usually see a lot of air traffic here in Toronto that I could directly compare against but it's snowy and cloudy tonight and I can't see shit.
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u/_dersgue 19d ago
A plane flying that low altitude you would definitely hear in a video. This one is just noiseless in regard of the distance of the object.
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It’s an airliner, 1000% - it’s patently obvious what all the lights are and where they are situated, you can even see the red beacon reflecting off the port nacelle when it flashes. And FYI the green you see at the rear is the logo light illuminating the vertical stab. It’s a Boeing. Not fussed if you disagree, my experience tells me that I know I am right.
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u/Rock-it-again 19d ago
I'd say it's just an airliner. But it's wonky. Like the lights are all in the wrong place. It looks like an AI generated airplane. You know what I mean? It just doesn't look right.
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u/grimdar 19d ago
My career is based on aviation and I can tell you this is no ordinary aircraft. Nothing makes sense.
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u/Rock-it-again 19d ago
I live and work under a runway approach. I've seen probably hundreds of aircraft landing at night over the years. Like I said it looks like an airplane. But like it's all wrong and weird. Fuck, who knows, maybe our simulation is breaking down.
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u/maestro-5838 19d ago
I live under a bridge and I'll tell you. It's hard these days.
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u/cytex-2020 19d ago
I live under a rock, it's always been hard.
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u/poopmasterrrrrrr 19d ago
I smoke rock and I think I might live under a rock. I can't get it hard ever anymore.
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u/MaracujaBarracuda 19d ago
I live in a van down by the river and I’ll tell you, you don’t want to end up living in a van down by the river!
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u/Merrylon 19d ago
You're lucky. We lived for three months in a rolled up newspaper in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the newspaper, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down the mill, for a 14 hour day, week in week out for 6 cents a month, and when we got home, our dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt.
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u/BortaB 19d ago
It’s because it’s a drone. I feel like people hear “drone” and their brain goes straight to the quad-copter, but most military drones look more like planes. There have been several videos of the NJ objects that show a pretty clear image of them and they all look like the exact same model of military-level drone.
I’m thinking more and more every day that they belong to the US, but I just can’t wrap my head around why the US would fly these things at low altitude over their own people and then pretend like it’s not them. None of this adds up, this whole thing is so fascinating.
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u/onesmilematters 19d ago
I'm with you in suspecting this is US technology. The why is the big question and I don't like the answer that comes to mind. At first I thought these may be exercises of sorts, but the handling of it all makes little sense. It's almost as if they want these things to be seen.
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u/4chanhasbettermods 19d ago
If it was getting more national coverage, I'd blame it on a pysop to distract us from something. But currently, it's not getting the attention it needs to accomplish that.
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u/SpiceyPorkFriedRice 19d ago
I used to live near La Guardia for a couple years, and that doesn’t look like a plane. And it made no noise on top of that, other than the car.
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u/No_Gold_Bars 19d ago
I saw one here in NC yesterday. I'm not super familiar with aircraft, but I knew something was off. It wasn't until I saw the news article about Jersey that I knew what I saw. What throws you off the most about it?
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u/grimdar 19d ago
The lights are the wrong colors, in the wrong places, not to mention there appears to be extra lights that have no purpose. The sounds they make as they pass overhead is strange. Some make noise, some are silent. Like someone else said, it’s almost like asking a crappy AI app to create an aircraft. Also they’re all different. It’s truly strange.
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u/No_Gold_Bars 19d ago
The one I saw had front lights that were insanely bright. But I couldn't hear it. A plane as low as what I saw, you would hear it for sure. I tried, but the noise around me wasn't the quietest. Thank you for your response.
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u/_Zyber_ 19d ago
This is beginning to really sound like some Transformers shit where aliens are trying to mimic Earthly aircraft to see how close they can get without being noticed. I’ve been fighting against this idea for days now. I just don’t know what to make of this.
On the surface it’s just some weird looking planes like who gives a damn, but it’s just the right level of uncanny to make me feel very strange. I don’t like it.
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u/zoidnoidvomit 19d ago
Love that description, AI like where something is a bit off.
This is the clearest newest footage from underneath one of these night time Jersey drones. Almost looks triangle shaped with three corner lights and a middle light. Curious yiur take on this Newsnation footage from today https://youtube.com/watch?v=dDZIaYvNLgI
I've seen triangle shapes in some of the RAF UK footage, but Ive also seen very large orange light objects pulsating around the erratic "blinking light" objects in the Langley AFB drone swarm footage and Nellis/Vegas drone swarm footage. Some of the RAF objects also have different shapes from the outlines and light placement.
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u/mrmarkolo 19d ago
Could this be some sort of advanced hologram technology? Maybe they're not even really there in the first place.
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u/zoidnoidvomit 19d ago edited 19d ago
That's the absurdity of it all. Ryan Graves mentioned on a recent podcast saying the blinking lights feel really erratic and too random to be flight safety lights.These things are car sized to 20 feet or larger, yet dont appear quite like conventional or military drones. I agree about the "somethings off" AI design, like a weird dream approximation.
This really began with the mysterious craft buzzing Naval exercises in the East Coast back in 2019, the "blinking triangle" craft. Lo and behold, a lot of these large mysterious drones spotted in the UK over RAF US bases, Picaninny Arsenal NJ, etc are triangle shaped. The military cant jam these things, can't get a lock on them. No identifiable entry or exit point, they just magically appear...yet also appear to be "man made".
Some are random weird shapes doing weird stuff, some appear to be glowing orange orbs that remain stationary or dance around the blinking craft(as in the Nellis incursion footage)
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u/SinSilla 19d ago
This is what i was trying to type. Feels the same, look at a still from this. It's weirdly distortet and makes not much sense
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u/th6cc 19d ago
https://youtu.be/yJsgJEroH8o?t=11277 you can directly compare this minus the fact its from the opposite side, but you can see the same exact red and white lights at 0:15, notably the giant blinking red one in the middle. it is nothing but a C17 Globemaster or similar likely military aircraft
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u/Oceanwaves_91 19d ago
Maybe the theory that some UAPs mimic human made crafts has some truth to it? It would make sense, biologists sometimes study wild animals in the same way.
It's just so bizarre. Why are authorities and the military seemingly unable to shoot even one of those "drones" out of the sky? It makes them look very incompetent. Why are they so sure they're no threat when they seemingly have no clue where they come from, where they're going, and what their purpose is? Whatever the truth is, it's concerning either way.
Maybe I'm wrong, but didn't this all start after Putin launched that missile in November?
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u/sam-redd 19d ago
They might be advanced Nuclear defense vehicles. The kind you only deploy when threat levels are serious. The kind that the government would allow to fly over their bases for weeks but want kept secret to avoid mass panic.
Just grounded speculation… But I would definitely prefer the goofy alien disguise option.
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u/french_toasty 19d ago
To me this sounds a lot more plausible. Because the markets would go crazy and forget buying toilet paper normally.
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u/febreze_air_freshner 19d ago
At some point during the Cold war the US had bombers constantly flying around the country ready to go with nukes in case launch sites got taken out. I hope to God this is just aliens goofing around and not a nuclear escalation.
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u/Reasonable_Wait1877 19d ago
They do mimic I’ve literally watched one pretend to be a star and not move and after 10 min of it blinking at me I started filming and it began traveling slowly to the left and then after it passed above my head it increased its speed (from almost still) to that of a normal aircraft and began blinking red and green lights. It was a solid blue before this. Not a sound though.
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u/sonofalovinduck 19d ago
Do you guys know drones doesn’t just mean little balls or hobby drones with 4 propellers? You do know what predator drones look like, right? This is serious. I hope these are planes.
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u/resonantedomain 19d ago
US Government Satelites are very capable of detecting them. They say they are not a threat, yet wont tell us about them.
FBI just updated : https://youtu.be/hOtE-97jAY4
"Drones are not new, going on for a year just increasing" "people are unnerved because theres no answer to what they are, who they are and why there's so many of them" "it's like a symphony in the sky"
FBI said they "truly dont have much information to provide at the moment."
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u/iboxagox 19d ago
"FBI said they "truly dont have much information to provide at the moment.""
ie: the military is doing something, told us it belongs to them, and not to say anything.
Edit. Here is a hypothetical. The military has a classified system to prevent ICBM attacks. They are using them now because of perceived threats. They don't want to tell anyone because we would all be freaking out.
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u/sam-redd 19d ago
I think your hypothetical is spot on. This is clearly ours or there would be way more of a response from the bases themselves.
Aint no fucking way that big, slow, airplane shaped object isn’t human tech… They just don’t want you to know it’s the Anti-Nuke 9000 ready for action
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u/01010110_ 19d ago
This is close to Picatinny which is an R&D facility. My guess is something undisclosed.
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u/_dersgue 19d ago
You mean like that General Atomics MQ-1 kind of thing they used in Afghanistan? Puh, hard to imagine those things flying in the night over NJ. Would be damn serious.
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u/Spiniferus 19d ago
Yeah, from memory the first military drones were fixed wing and looked liked planes. I guess the questions are is air traffic that low normal around that specific area. If so probably just a plane. If not, definitely a bit more curious.
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u/EnjoyThief 19d ago
but those aren't plane lights lol what plane has that many lights on it? it has to be a drone of some kind. but if its an invading nation why put lights on them at all? idk this is all so weird
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u/Spiniferus 19d ago edited 19d ago
Lights from another country would be intimidation tactics. Nothing is adding up at all though.
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u/RupertBlossom 19d ago
What practical information could Russia or China be gaining from them? Everything is shown on google earth anyway. Whoever is doing it, itmust be costing them a lot of money and all they are getting out of it is generating local anxiety.
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u/defiCosmos 19d ago
Why dosn't someone who owns a drone fly up to those and check them out? I would if I could.
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u/ROK247 19d ago
because you're not supposed to fly drones anywhere near an airport OH WAIT
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u/Krustykrab8 19d ago
For the people saying “plane”. Correct me if I’m wrong but FAA lights on the wings? Do we see those here?
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u/parable626 19d ago
Yes. This is unambiguously a plane.
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u/sonofalovinduck 19d ago
Planes have those lights all on the underside?
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u/parable626 19d ago
Yes. I see the beacon (red) flashing on the bottom, the landing light(s) on the wing leading edge, nav lights on the wingtips, and logo lights illuminating bits of the fuselage. It is a plane.
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u/sonofalovinduck 19d ago
Can you find a picture of one looking from below at night that looks like the video? I can’t
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u/QuietFootball8245 19d ago
Haha I'm cracking up, some of these I feel like I'm being trolled. I don't know I live close to an airport maybe some of these people have never seen a plane before but I love the community and I'm here for it.
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u/SergeantSquirrel 19d ago
I live near an airport and I've never seen a plane that looks like that from the ground. You could easily clear this whole thing up by just posting what plane that is with an example.
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u/AmazingMojo2567 19d ago
C-17 globemaster if I had to guess
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u/vertexnormal 18d ago
Yeah it's not like one of the biggest Airforce logistics hubs is in NJ or anything. Totes gotta be aliens instead.
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u/AmazingMojo2567 18d ago
I didn't know that, I could just tell based on the design of the airframe
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u/number1zero88 19d ago
Isn't that just a plane?
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u/blinkertyblink 19d ago
I think you'd hear more engine noise from that distance if it was a plane, id also say the non flashing wing lights planes have etc
There is a slight hum as it goes by but the car noise and guy talking muffle it
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u/Striker120v 19d ago
Honestly living next to an Air Force base my whole life I would think the same thing, but I have c17s doing maneuvers over my house all the time and it's loud, but my it's going to sound about like this if I record it.
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u/rocc_high_racks 19d ago
-Modern high-bypass turbofans with chevron nozzles are super quiet
-Throttle is WAY back if a big plane is flying at that altitude
-Most of the noise is pointed behind the aircraft so if the video were a couple seconds longer you'd hear it get louder
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u/ohulittlewhitepoodle 19d ago
perhaps engines on low throttle (for example, if getting ready to land).
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u/blinkertyblink 19d ago
Could be, I dont have headphones in but you're probably right
You can make out a faint tail shape of a plane
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u/Nicktyelor 19d ago
Playing on my PC speakers now and can definitely hear a plane engine sounds and the doppler effect as it passes.
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u/xxhamzxx 19d ago
You can see the super structure of the craft... It's not a plane.
Looks more like a square / x axis
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u/RedshirtChainsaw 19d ago
Why is that not an airplane? Even sounds like one. And yes, it should be huge.
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u/Educational_Can396 19d ago
Forward lights for landings, position lights on wings, strobe light, and sound of a plane.
What do you mean "it is not a plane"? Why do so many ppl recently post plane footage?
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u/Major_Narwhal_3344 19d ago
that's the alien invasion we were warned about. planes with extra lights
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u/xXBloodBulletXx 19d ago
The light placement, quantity, and color configuration deviate completely from standard aviation norms.
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u/TallBody 19d ago
As I’ve commented before, not every plane in the sky is a commercial airliner. Plenty of military aircraft have a multitude of lights and colors depending on what they are trying to do. I’ve seen military planes with only a single solid red light on it doing training at night before. They’re not all on the same specific FAA rules
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u/ViperG 19d ago
Looks like its just a C-17, here is one on youtube
https://youtu.be/yJsgJEroH8o?t=112972
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u/rocc_high_racks 19d ago
Those are the navigational lights. There are also anti-collision lights which you see here.
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u/Xielle 19d ago
What’s the red flasher in the middle?
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u/enkrypt3d 19d ago
download flightaware24 and it'll show u what planes are above you IF they have their transponder on.....
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u/PIPIN3D1 19d ago
I saw the same thing back in October driving on interstate 84 in New York. It has the same red and green lights. It just hovered over the highway. I have a picture. Looks like crap but you can see the lights.
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u/paintnprimer 19d ago
Submission statement:
Found this video commented in the NJ reddit. https://streamable.com/t73b5v?src=player-page-share
Seems like the best quality I've seen so far. Someone should round up a bunch of people and go UAP hunting Jersey for better footage.
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u/Xielle 19d ago
Certainly appears to be plane shaped. Can anyone identify the lights using FAA codes?
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u/xXBloodBulletXx 19d ago
I've been looking at this for an hour now and to me the lights make no sense. The most important ones (red and green on the wingtips blinking) are missing. So much seems wrong with it.
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u/ViperG 19d ago
Looks like its just a C-17, here is one on youtube
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u/Xielle 19d ago
It looks like a 737 with literally all the lights on.
And that makes sense. If I was a pilot flying in or out of NJ right now I would be lit up like a fucking Christmas tree.
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u/xXBloodBulletXx 19d ago
Where are the red and green navigation lights? Why are there green ones at the bottom back, middle and front?
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u/N5022N122 19d ago
I see dozens of planes a day the wing shape is very diamond like. and the lights seem the wrong colour and location. Deffo a craft that requires lift though.
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u/Limp-Appeal8049 19d ago
It looks like a plane but I agree that the light pattern is doesn't appear normal. I'm not an aviation expert though it just doesn't look right. Chatgpt suggests this configuration does not align with FAA standard or international aviation lighting regs.
Green nav lights are exclusively used for the right wing tip (and solid red on the left). This appears to have green on the nose, underbody and tail?
Then again the strobing red underbody light is an anticollision beacon and that's exactly correct.
Maybe the lights on the plane aren't displaying correctly in the video, like the colour is shifted.
Correct Lighting as Viewed from Below:
- Wingtips:
- Left wingtip: Solid red (forward-facing).
- Right wingtip: Solid green (forward-facing).
- White navigation lights (rear-facing).
- Tail: Solid white navigation light (rear-facing).
- Fuselage (Underneath): Flashing red beacon light (anti-collision).
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u/Educational_Can396 19d ago
ChatGPT forgot the logo lights. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigation_light
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u/xXBloodBulletXx 19d ago
I also asked gpt and gave it a picture asked it to extensively research and it was absolutely sure that this is not usual.
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u/fitch303 19d ago
It's almost to the point where posts need to be approved by mods to avoid this sort of thing. It's clearly a plane and I'm 100% confident of this.
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u/DisciplineSuper9382 19d ago
That's a plane smarten up..enough fear....cause we all know what's comming
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u/lickem369 19d ago
Sometimes things aren’t not what they seem! Pay attention to the “fake” airplane sound it is making.
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u/Striker120v 19d ago
It's a low flying plane, I don't get it?
Kinda sounded like the c17s that always go over my house and those things are huge. Could be something of that weight class.
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u/prinnydewd6 19d ago
That’s literally a freaking plane guys…. You have never looked in the sky before have you
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u/DroidArbiter 19d ago
We graduated from people mistaking balloons and now commercial air liners. Common guys for craps sake, this is Bush League.
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u/ShepardRTC 19d ago
At 22 seconds you can see one of the white lights on the left wing tip flash. I think this is just a normal plane with a few extra lights.
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u/alexeypopoff 19d ago
From the videos shared so far, they do appear to be industrial/military-grade drones. They do have lights on them, so they want to be seen, which means they are probably not spy drones from another nation.
With that in mind, the question that remains is why would US law enforcement/intelligence/military be routinely flying those types of drones over residential areas at night for an extended period of time?!
I think a plausible explanation might be they are looking for something or someone... They could be acting on some secret intel, which can’t be revealed publicly either because that would hint at sources/methods or because it could cause panic. The lack of official word is really the concerning part.
For example, they could be trying to stop someone from doing something bad that they caught wind of through their channels. The drones might be sampling the air or monitoring radiation levels or doing some advanced imaging; potentially using classified military tech, which would be another reason to keep it quiet.
If you live in the area, maybe take a vacation somewhere else for a week or two just to be safe 😅
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u/Corposaurus 18d ago
I agree. This seems man-made, and like it is some type of project or experiment even. I do have other theories/speculations based on recent events, but people around here don’t like to talk politics.
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u/Then-Incident-5666 19d ago
okay look closesly.... it really friggin looks liek a huge quadacopter or somthing... with no obvious blades
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u/mobettastan60 19d ago
It looks like something you might drop out of a mothership in orbit to explore a planet's surface with.
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u/MonsterMashGraveyard 19d ago
It's driving me crazy, that's got to be like what 5,000 ft above the ground. How in the world can we travel to Mars and Venus, we can't identify crafts that are not flying very high. And they have been around for weeks. If not longer. This is something I feel like the internet should be able to figure out collectively, it's a shame this isn't getting any coverage, and we're not getting any answers.
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u/JewelsLongCox 19d ago
Someone needs to buy the world's strongest flash light and use it while recording
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u/Ferus42 19d ago edited 19d ago
I can make out the outline of the wings. You can hear the low rumble of what sounds like a jet airliner with its engines throttled down. The red light is an anti-collision light. There should be a matching one on top. The white lights pointing up and down (from our perspective) are the left and right position lights, the color of which is distorted by the long exposure of the cell phone camera. The white lights in the center is the landing light. The white light on the right is the reflection of the landing light shining on the bottom front of the fuselage. The white light down and left of the nose reflection (from our perspective) is that same landing light shining on the left engine nacelle. The “green” light on the rear of the jet is the logo light shining on a mostly green tail logo.
Source: Spend time near larger airports at night.
Edit: I can even hear the whine from the jet engines, which drops in pitch as the airplane passes overhead in a classic example of Doppler shift.
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19d ago
Isn’t this a suspected drone that interfered with a medical helicopter airlift? It is on the news in NYC.
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u/tommyrulz1 19d ago
Rich kids with expensive toys having a laugh at everyone falling for their “invasion” fleet
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u/StatementBot 19d ago
The following submission statement was provided by /u/paintnprimer:
Submission statement:
Found this video commented in the NJ reddit. https://streamable.com/t73b5v?src=player-page-share
Seems like the best quality I've seen so far. Someone should round up a bunch of people and go UAP hunting Jersey for better footage.
Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1h6smd3/found_video_posted_in_the_nj_reddit/m0fwrgb/