Not sure the source on this but sightings of "things" have been happening arouind the globe. The other day Germany saw stuff near bases and India at an airport as well iirc https://www.timesnownews.com/world/ufos-spotted-in-china-latvia-and-new-jersey-in-last-24-hours-videos-and-photos-spark-speculation-article-115985783

Someone captured some footage last night or tonight (not sure) of a fixed wing boomerang shaped drone https://www.reddit.com/r/NJDrones/comments/1hdkkad/drone_sighting_last_night_in_neptune_nj/ very interesting as the only time I've ever seen one looking like this is used by the military.

Here's a newsnation report from on the ground https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1hdnfcq/best_report_of_the_drones_so_far/

AND

There's a drone flying outside my house tonight. I live in PA about 4 hours away from NJ. I can tell it's a drone because it's fairly small and was doing lazy circles in the sky.

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

    Strategy of tension type operations IMO. They want western audiences panicked like they were when sputnik was new. They want them to feel they NEED to do the new world war so there isn't that much resistance if they decide to pull the trigger on fighting Russia and certainly for their planned upcoming fight against China. This may be a case of one hand not knowing what the other is doing sure but it's not Iranians, it's not China, it's probably not Russia, and it's not extraterrestrial life. US just claims to have succeeded in their joint Navy-Army hypersonic weapons platform finally working so there's that too, once that's operational and they have them built up in some numbers it's go time versus China.

  • inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 days ago

    It’s probably US military or US military contractors (second more likely IMO). Normally they’d be testing somewhere remote… the fact that they aren’t suggests they need a populated area to do testing.

    Im taking bets this is some kind of new surveillance drone tech. Would not be surprised if they’re doing facial recognition shit from the sky.

    Sorry I sound insane and paranoid. It’s a strong gut feeling. If it were foreign actors it would be shot out of the sky. If it were hobbyists it would be shot out of the sky. Of course the governments gonna play dumb and be like we have no idea what this is!

    We can’t rule out aliens but I think it’s far more likely US military contractor testing out spy drones.

    • SweetLava [he/him]
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      8 days ago

      but don't they already have perfectly functioning drones for surveillance anyways? i thought it was a mix of that and 'Stingray'-type devices. Google and cell providers for triangulation and geolocation, or that thing where they find all devices/users in a given area and uncover identities for possible 'suspects'

      you're not paranoid at all (well, i sure hope i'm not encouraging any sort of delusion in the event you are), this is fairly common, esp. given all the protests and the recent high-profile case

      • inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        8 days ago

        Yeah, they already have the tech, but that’s like comparing todays iPhone to yesterdays Nokia brick. They’re both cell phones…

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

    I was watching it all unfold on Reddit yesterday and it's 90% planes.

    I'm pretty disappointed. I want to believe, but the evidence just isn't there. I think people started tuning out air traffic at some point and are only just now looking up.

    Planes look weird as fuck when landing, they seem to float around oddly and such in a way that isn't intuitive.

    I do kinda hope I'm wrong, but it's probably pure "maybe the aliens can save us" copium

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

        My favourite one was the one taken from a moving car of a plane landing where the OP stated it was recorded pointing at an airports landing approach and people were like "BUT IT'S CHANGING FROM HOVERING TO MOVING YOU FED" when it was clearly just the motion of the car causing it.

        Like the video looked pretty spooky. That plane type(forget which) is known for looking like some kind of alien mothership landing, but it's definitely a plane

        Then there's the spike in people shining laser pointers at random lights in the sky..

  • xiaohongshu [none/use name]
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    8 days ago

    I followed the link and ended up here where people say it’s a C-17 Globemaster

    https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs_Archives/comments/1hdog2n/latestclearest_drone_footage_is_a_c17_globemaster/

    Crazy what people will take as evidence of either UFOs or advanced aerial drones.

  • crime [she/her, any]
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    8 days ago

    Cool footage. Definitely still assuming it's military tech and they're pretending not to know what it is so they can get their budget to stonks-up

    I'll change my mind and believe it's posadist-nuke once Xi confirms, since obviously any extraterrestrials trying to make diplomatic contact rather than doing interplanetary imperialism would start with the leader of the most advanced society (obviously disqualifies capitalist ones). I'd also accept confirmation from people who work with elephants, marine mammals, other primates, corvids, or fungus.

  • coeliacmccarthy [he/him, they/them]
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    8 days ago

    Apocalypse: From Middle English apocalips, from Latin apocalypsis, from Ancient Greek ἀποκάλυψις (apokálupsis, “revelation”), literally meaning "uncovering"

  • Dolores [love/loves]
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    8 days ago

    THEY'RE PLANES THEY'RE ALL FUCKING PLANES we need to shut new jersey down and investigate what they are teaching in their schools, this is beyond embarrassing.