I had a similar thought when watching a news story about the drones. One of the objects was pretty clearly a fixed-wing aircraft that did not look unusual in any way. There is so much air traffic in the NJ/NY area that these things are probably pretty easy to explain away. People are just paying attention to the sky more due to the news and social media coverage and are noticing things that they previously wouldn’t have paid any mind to.
USA Drone Panic | people noticing stars, aircraft, drones Everywhere all at once
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Mulberry Heel
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From my reading of UFO history, the same thing happened with UFO sightings - if there was a wave of UFO sightings in an area then people would start reporting to the press and Air Force and local police that they were seeing things that later turned out to be perfectly normal objects, including airplanes.
ColdBlueSteel
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Are they over Dook campus as well?
Carolina Fever
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I liked the spy balloons better.
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With tensions rapidly rising over an apparent drone invasion sweeping some states, New Jersey Senator Andy Kim set out to seek answers.
The Democrat did a ride-along with local cops to get to the bottom of the mystery with a “deeper analysis” of the growing perplexing drama. …
Alarm has been building for weeks with the numbers of drone sightings soaring with no explanation.
As well as New Jersey, drones have been spotted in been spotted in California, Massachusetts, Florida, Wyoming, Maryland and New York. …”
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“… He also shared a video showing lights skidding across the night sky near Round Valley Reservoir at 9:20pm.
“I don’t discount others may have seen actual drone activity, and not all I saw is fully explained by flight paths, but much of it was,” said the concerned politico.
“And I think the process through which I got confirmation points to the kind of explanation we need from gov authorities to address the public’s concern.” …”
“… He also shared a video showing lights skidding across the night sky near Round Valley Reservoir at 9:20pm.
“I don’t discount others may have seen actual drone activity, and not all I saw is fully explained by flight paths, but much of it was,” said the concerned politico.
“And I think the process through which I got confirmation points to the kind of explanation we need from gov authorities to address the public’s concern.” …”
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'This has gone too far': Drones temporarily closed runways at NY airport, governor says
'This has gone too far': Drones temporarily closed runways at NY airport, governor says
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul's statement comes among a rash of reported drone sightings and reassurances from federal agencies.
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“New York Gov. Kathy Hochul in a Saturday statement said runways were closed at the New York Stewart Airport for about an hour Friday night due to nearby drone activity and called on Congress to strengthen oversight of drones.
Hochul's statement comes among a rash of reported drone sightings, concern from some politicians and reassurances from federal agencies. …”
Carolina Fever
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Maybe this is like when those people took over the roads in Durham riding ATVs but with drones.
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Once again, the L.A.P.D. is asking Los Angelenos not to fire their guns at the visitor spacecraft. You may inadvertently trigger an interstellar war.
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Once again, the L.A.P.D. is asking Los Angelenos not to fire their guns at the visitor spacecraft. You may inadvertently trigger an interstellar war.
Very close to 100%. You really think some evil superpower that is intent on spying on us is using FAA compliant lighting on their super secret fleet of highly illuminated drones? Or the martians that decided to come visit have the same rules regarding placement of red and green lights on their spacecraft that we have on all of our aircraft? It is hysteria.
JCTarheel82
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This has been my thought all along. America has become impossibly stupid.
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And many of our elected officials play right along and feed the frenzy.
We’ve long been impossibly stupid. The Internet and social media lets us easily share and spread our stupidity.
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I do think this story is indicative of a shift in legacy media decisions about what to cover, too — if it is getting major engagement on social media, why should legacy media be left out, no matter how ridiculous? They are bleeding viewers/readers and need a new model to avoid extinction.
