Thoughts? I don't want to jump the gun and 100% says it aliens/UAPs but something indeed weird is going on and it's expanded now to multiple states. Telling that the FBI and DOD have nothing for answers. Like I mentioned to a comrade on here before, we scrambled fighters over weather balloons floating around in the middle of nowhere, but for drones harassing major metropolitan areas the feds just kick the dirt and go "shucks" like there's nothing they can do?

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  • Dolores [love/loves]
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    10 days ago

    i'm sorry what is strange about people flying drones in metro areas? the expansion is easily explained by more people paying attention after the NJ hullabaloo. that people aren't usually seeing them is because there's expected flashing lights in the sky at night (planes) and most people stay in & go to sleep but now a bunch of dorks are looking for them so perfectly normal drones are getting called foreign and unauthorized. it's not like randos are checking with the FAA to see if these are registered before snapping a pic of a drone they see

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      10 days ago

      I mean it could be that simple after all, what's weird though is that the government isn't assuring the public that it's just hobbyists and now we have bozos in congress looking to blame this on Iran as I mentioned.

      • Dolores [love/loves]
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        10 days ago

        smelling an opportunity to do a propo push like the balloons, or getting their words twisted out of shape by gormless reporters--which precipitates idiot congresspeople yelling about it, then they have to 'take it seriously'.

    • Aradina [She/They]@lemmy.ml
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      10 days ago

      Thing is that the military are taking it seriously. It's not just UFO enthusiasts pointing at lights in the sky, the RAF are actively scrambling fighters to see wtf is going on.

      The conspiracy angle is that the drones are following nukes.

      • darkcalling [comrade/them, she/her]
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        10 days ago

        The military would and has taken seriously a lost weather balloon in order to hype a threat and justify more funding as well as keep the tension up. They'd absolutely invent UFOs and freak out about them even though they know they're just their own experimental aircraft in order to obfuscate the existence of such craft, get more money, keep the populace in a state of tension, etc.

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      10 days ago

      From what I can gather it's looking like a bit of both. Something is def going down in the skies but people are rushing out to film benign stuff like planes, so it's frustrating.

  • Lussy [any, hy/hym]
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    10 days ago

    Wait, can you fill me in on what’s been going on? I’ve been staring at walls, or some such shit

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      10 days ago

      Since last week drones have been spotted over New Jersey night after night just loitering around, now it's expanded into other states like NY, Ohio, Texas and the West Coast.

  • HelluvaBottomCarter [comrade/them]
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    10 days ago

    Even if it is aliens:

    • You still have to go to work
    • You still have to sit in traffic
    • You still have to clean your toilet
    • You still have to run errands

    The only time I will be excited about aliens is if they take me with them or forcefully change our economic system. Otherwise it's just going to be another historical thing that plays out on TV and gets written into books before everyone gets bored and moves on to the next thing.

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      10 days ago

      Yeah but it's interesting none the less, honestly feels like we're so much closer to disclosure than we're ever been. That's if we don't nuke Iran and kick of WWIII

  • Sulvor [he/him, undecided]
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    10 days ago

    I’m pretty sure Britain deployed jets to intercept some over RAF bases a few weeks ago, but I’ll have to find the source.

    https://theaviationist.com/2024/11/27/unauthorised-drones-continue-to-plague-u-s-air-force-bases-in-the-uk/

    F-15E Strike Eagles from RAF Lakenheath were heard and seen operating over the area during the incursions. Radio traffic heard by enthusiasts suggested that the fighter aircraft were using their sophisticated targeting pods to watch for activity both in the air and on the ground, passing coordinates of targets of interest (such as individuals and vehicles) up the chain so that police and security forces can investigate. The F-15s were supported by USAF KC-135Rs of the 100th Air Refueling Wing at RAF Mildenhall.

    I saw video claiming to show a drone evading a jet, but that seemed a little farfetched. Let me find the video.

    It's the top comment here, the YouTube account has been deleted.

  • sexywheat [none/use name]
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    9 days ago

    Ok so I'm catching up on this - weird shit, to say the least. No good footage yet, just a bunch of shitty blurry cell phone nighttime videos of lights in the sky and anecdotes about the drones being the size of SUVs, way bigger than what's normally commercially available. I am not a "UFO enthusiast" or believe in anything paranormal to speak of. I don't normally follow this shit I actually just heard of it from @SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net Part 1 post. But damn wtf is this?

    The fact that so many people are seeing and reporting these means there's likely some shit going on. Fox, CNN and others have covered it, questions have been asked to the White House press secretary, defence department , the NJ police, and the NJ governor. So IMO it's unlikely to be regular air traffic. The fuck?

    But then there's also the fact that some people seem to be uploading some obvious fakes, old videos from years ago, and others are confusing airplanes and helicopters with them (in the previous thread I even mistook a helicopter for one because it was posted to the UFO sub reddit-logo and I didn't look at it closely at all lol)

    feds just kick the dirt and go "shucks" like there's nothing they can do?

    This is fuckin strange. The military of course have tonnes of drones that are way bigger than what is commercially available. But why would they be doing this? To distract people from the newfound class unity in the wake of the UnitedHealthCare shooting? Typing that makes me feel very tin foil hat, but I'm just spitballing here. Fuck it's all conjecture at this point. I think the "Iranian drone carrier fleet" theory put forward by the-republican is a bit of a stretch, though, as cool as that would be.

    Any hexbears live in New Jersey? I'd love to hear your anecdotes.

  • OgdenTO [he/him]
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    10 days ago

    I doubt it's aliens as it is only happening over the USA. I believe it's a particularly Western human thing to follow American centrism

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      10 days ago

      Gotta push back on this because people have been seeing shit for decades now across the globe. I have a pet peeve that this only happens in america and the global north.

      • invo_rt [he/him]
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        10 days ago

        USians don't even get mainstream news about what's going on outside of the US unless it's a state department priority. Not getting reports about sightings in the sky isn't surprising.

      • OgdenTO [he/him]
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        9 days ago

        Well then I love it. I saw some reports from England -- but do you have reports from other places?

        My thought is that if it is drones, and they're only surveilling Western alliance countries (5-eyes, eg), then it's most likely intelligence related and not aliens.

    • Aradina [She/They]@lemmy.ml
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      10 days ago

      It isnt exclusive to the us. This site is just mostly English speaking, and thus you'll only see mostly Americans talking about it