Massive 'drone swarm' in and around New Jersey: UFO flap, govt tech, or mass hysteria?

[Joe]

FAA release last month announcing drone exercises over a military base in NJ. It was posted in mid-Nov and run time of exercise is Nov. 25 - Dec. 26th. So expect another 10 days of "UFOs" over NJ.

 

[Ina]

My 0.00000000194 BTC.
There are two narratives the Greer one, aliens are good and the establishment one aliens are a threat.
Both narratives are tested at the moment on the population.
Should the population respond with fear, then, alien threat is the way the establishment will use to create the state of emergency required to invoke cog and perhaps Lockdown 2.0 ( and leave the newly elected president at his current home). By far the cheapest way.
Should the population respond with curiosity and lack of fear, there will be plan B.

All this drone jikamajika is nothing more than a crude psytest.

 

[Joe]

My 0.00000000194 BTC.
There are two narratives the Greer one, aliens are good and the establishment one aliens are a threat.
Both narratives are tested at the moment on the population.
Should the population respond with fear, then, alien threat is the way the establishment will use to create the state of emergency required to invoke cog and perhaps Lockdown 2.0 ( and leave the newly elected president at his current home). By far the cheapest way.
Should the population respond with curiosity and lack of fear, there will be plan B.

All this drone jikamajika is nothing more than a crude psytest.

That might be a small part of the equation, like a sideline, but it's pretty clear at this point that this was an MIC test of drone tech.

 

[Niall]

If those racing drones can really do what is shown in those videos it is freaking insane what even conventional ones can do nowadays. It’s very impressive!

Consider also past incidents such as these:

Mysterious drone that led two helicopters on a 100mph chase for an hour has vanished without a trace ​

24 June 2021

A mysterious drone that led authorities on a high-speed chase through the skies of Arizona is now under investigation by the FBI.

The incident saw a Customers and Border Protection Helicopter alert the Tucson Police Department that a drone was flying too close to their vehicle after it orbited the chopper several times.

This then escalated into an hour-long chase between the drone and two helicopters with the drone reportedly reaching speeds of up to 100 mph.

The drone at one point was said to have entered restricted military airspace at the David-Monthan Air Force Base. It soon vanished northwest out of the city and into the night and the authorities have been unable to locate who was operating the drone although officials now believe it was launched five miles south of Tuscon.

More on the same incident:

Radio Transmissions From Police Helicopter’s Chase Of Bizarre Craft Over Tucson Add To Mystery​

20 August 2021

...the helicopter crewman notes that the drone maintained a speed of 75 knots in a 30-knot headwind. “So you think it was a drone?” the Tucson tower employee asks during the call. “Yeah was definitely a drone,” the TPD helicopter crew member replies. “I just couldn’t tell you – I couldn’t give you its dimensions as it was moving… too sketchy for us to… I assure you it was not a quadcopter, and it was the most advanced drone we’ve dealt with over the last decade here. Its abilities were pretty incredible, um, I just – I can’t tell you exactly its size.”

Another description of one of the Tuscon drones:

New Details Emerge On The “Highly Modified Drone” That Outran Police Helicopters Over Tucson​

1 June 2021

Last night, there was one just east of KTUS at about 1200’ AGL cruising eastbound. It passed about 30’ away co-altitude with a police helicopter flying the opposite direction. Helo made a 180 turn to give chase. The quad copter was described as approximately 5 feet long by about 3 feet wide, with a single green flashing LED light. It continued east into KDMAs airspace and began orbiting the base over the parallel taxiway near the fighter jet ramp. TUS and DMA towers were unaware of it, as was U90 [an FAA approach tower] controllers. The operator apparently realized by this time that the drone was being followed, because it then proceeded northwest at high speed and climbing, with the helo and another LE helo in trail. The copter began to climb and flew out of the TUS area about 50 miles to the northwest of town into the middle of nowhere desert out by the mine west of KAVQ. It was last seen climbing through 14,000’ and into the undercast, where it disappeared. The helos remained in VMC [Visual Meteorological Conditions] obviously, and one hung around for about an hour, to see if it would reappear descending, or if there was any vehicles driving through the middle of nowhere as either the operator or someone to potentially recover it. Neither appeared. U90 informed their FAA chain of command about it, but that’s as far as I’ve heard so far.

Interesting in both the range and the altitude, both control-wise in terms of line of sight, as well as battery life as it comes to the endurance of the thing. The concerns with it being around air traffic and a near mid-air, as well as it being over an Air Force base with security sensitive aircraft, are all all concerning. Definitely not something commercial off-the-shelf that one would buy at the local store.

A year earlier in 2020:

Attack of the drones: the mystery of disappearing swarms in the US midwest​

18 April 2021

When groups of sinister drones began hovering over homes in America’s Midwest, the FBI, US Air Force and 16 police forces set up a task force. But the drones vanished. Did they even exist?

At twilight on New Year’s Eve, 2020, Placido Montoya, 35, a plumber from Fort Morgan, Colorado, was driving to work. Ahead of him he noticed blinking lights in the sky. He’d heard rumours of mysterious drones, whispers in his local community, but now he was seeing them with his own eyes. In the early morning gloom, it was hard to make out how big the lights were and how many were hovering above him. But one thing was clear to Montoya: he needed to give chase.

As he approached the drones in his car, they “took off very fast” and Montoya tried to follow. He confesses hitting 120mph before losing track of them. “They were creepy, really creepy,” he says. “I don’t know how to describe it, but it’s almost as if they were watching us.”

That night, Vince Iovinella, deputy sheriff at Morgan County Sheriff’s Office, received more than 30 calls from locals reporting drones “zipping around all over the place” – Iovinella himself saw one with red, white and green lights that he also tried to chase. “It outran me,” he recalls.

And in August this year:

Germany investigates drone flights over industrial park​

22 August 2024

Prosecutors in northern Germany cited "the suspicion of espionage activity for sabotage purposes" when confirming the probe. This follows "repeated" drone flights over "critical infrastructure." [...]

Prior to Thursday's limited comments from prosecutors in Flensburg, two of Germany's most-read news outlets, Bild and Spiegel, had both reported on the case.

They said repeated drone flights over the area had been observed since August 8.

The reports cited police specialists as theorizing that the drones, with high flight speeds, could be Russian military espionage vehicles.

Spiegel reported that police drones, which tried to follow the mystery observers back out to sea, could not match flight speeds in the region of 100 kilometers per hour (around 60 miles per hour). As a result, police had reportedly turned to the Bundeswehr military for help.

 

[Joe]

A couple of years ago, a bunch of starlink satellites were hit by a GM storm and caused them to fall. Vid of the event caught by astronomers.

In total, 260 came down.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1551434933285052416

 

[Joe]

This from Trump is closer to reality than "UFOs"

https://twitter.com/x/status/1868000735360905364

 

[Ben]

Appearing, hovering then leaving / turning off. The patterns make it seem like they are either searching for something or Mapping something.

Most of these objects appear to be of 3d origin, yet something about this whole episode does not read as business as usual.

They probably are, in this thread:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1868047362691912186

It is claimed that this is partly a simulated response to a 'dirty bomb' type scenario. Some of these drones are designed to sweep an area, in coordination, searching for radiation signatures. The public reaction to it is surely also being studied.

 

[Laurentien2]

Live Beach webcam:

• Live Sea Bright Beach webcam in New Jersey has captured portal? Link

here the same phenomenon was posted in october in this post

Post in thread 'Sol (Sun) and its phenomena'

Oct 22, 2024

Just dropping these here because I found it interesting.
My friend shared this photo that she saw on Facebook, claimed to be taken during the auroras on 10/10:
Of course people were making jokes about mushrooms and aliens, and at first glance I thought it was the dumbest photoshopping I’d ever seen. But then I zoomed in on that odd little shape. Some said “lens flare,” and some said “STEVE.” And some said “comet.” But I got the distinct feeling of plasma - maybe just a part of it or maybe just a second in time of a plasma blip.

I got curious, and I tried googling various...

• pinkfreud

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and my reply at the time in the following post.

Post in thread 'Sol (Sun) and its phenomena'

Oct 22, 2024

Just dropping these here because I found it interesting.
My friend shared this photo that she saw on Facebook, claimed to be taken during the auroras on 10/10:

Thanks for sharing this image as it brought memory from 2010 as me my wife and daughter witnessed something similar but to a much larger scale. What made me do the connection is the color purple in the inner circle and as for our observation, it look like the opening of a portal and crossing into our reality of some object. In our case, it was a huge triangular UFO that entered our reality. As for what crossed in this...

• Laurentien2

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[Persej]

I think that Joe is suffering from "flock of geese" syndrome.

FAA release last month announcing drone exercises over a military base in NJ. It was posted in mid-Nov and run time of exercise is Nov. 25 - Dec. 26th. So expect another 10 days of "UFOs" over NJ.

OK, but these sightings started before November 25th.

A couple of years ago, a bunch of starlink satellites were hit by a GM storm and caused them to fall. Vid of the event caught by astronomers.

These drones are not falling down, but hovering.

Interestingly enough, that US congressman who made the 'crazy' Iranian claim may not have been far from the truth. What he missed was that the op was simulating an "Iranian attack" - and the response to it - rather than it actually being an Iranian attack.

And what was the response to it? Letting the drones do whatever they want? That's not how you defend your country.

 

[Ricardo]

I think that Joe is suffering from "flock of geese" syndrome.



OK, but these sightings started before November 25th.



These drones are not falling down, but hovering.



And what was the response to it? Letting the drones do whatever they want? That's not how you defend your country.

(eh, defend ? )

 

[Anya112003]

An update from Bethlehem, PA. I saw a drone last night. It was diamond shaped, with white and red lights hovering above NW Bethlehem. Reports from the area disclosed sightings from Bath, Coopersburg, Bethlehem, Bethlehem Township and Palmer Township. Some drones were large, some small, individual drones and clusters, stationary and some zipping about. Mayorkas can say they are planes but I live near an airport and these are not planes.
The local airport, Lehigh Valley International Airport, had military exercises this weekend. Saturday air traffic was normal. Starting about 6 PM I heard a lot of helicopter traffic and that traffic continued until dawn. I didn't stay awake all night, but I did wake up several times to hear the helicopters. Air traffic is back to normal. Skies are cloudy and we are expecting snow tonight.
Some residents are very upset. I have been a member of this forum for years so these shenanigans are an interesting development. Now if I see Lizzies, Nephilin or Muldar and Scully I will be totally freaked out.

 

[Mark7]

FAA release last month announcing drone exercises over a military base in NJ.

If that was the extent of the public announcement, it was fairly lame. Not many people check with the FAA. It should have been announced in the local media, was it not? Real aliens/UFOs have even more cover now, just hang a few flashing lights and they are good to go.

 

[Ina]

If that was the extent of the public announcement, it was fairly lame. Not many people check with the FAA. It should have been announced in the local media, was it not? Real aliens/UFOs have even more cover now, just hang a few flashing lights and they are good to go.

"mostly American" public I would like to add. When I'll see the same 'drone coverage' anywhere in Africa my questions would probably follow. So far my opinion is that there is a bigger world out there. Pathetic.

 

[iamthatis]

I think that Joe is suffering from "flock of geese" syndrome.



OK, but these sightings started before November 25th.

What's the timeline? Does anyone know when this swath of sightings began? According to published gov plans, the Replicator Program began Sept 2023:

Replicator ‘on Track’ to Field Thousands of Cheap Drones Within Months

The Replicator program will produce thousands of cheap drones by August, the deputy director of the Defense Innovation Unit said.

www.airandspaceforces.com

The first iteration of the Pentagon’s Replicator initiative should achieve its goals of providing thousands of cheap, autonomous platforms in all combat domains by July 2025, the deputy director of the Defense Innovation Unit said Dec. 12.

Aditi Kumar, speaking at the Hudson Institute, said Replicator—the signature initiative of Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks—was planned as a two-year campaign and, after starting in September 2023, should meet its objectives on time.

“We’re in good shape” to provide “multiple thousands of attritable, autonomous systems in multiple domains” within eight months, Kumar said. “Our acquisition enterprise is sprinting, and our commercial vendors are sprinting, to pull these off of the production lines and get them into the hands of the warfighter.”

More specifically, this was written in Sept 2023:

Replicator Drone Effort Part of Pentagon ‘Culture Change,’ Not a New Program, Hicks Says

Pentagon No. 2 Kathleen Hicks said Sept. 6 that DOD needs no new money to carry out its Replicator plan for thousands of new drones.

www.airandspaceforces.com

Within the next two years, the Pentagon plans to field thousands of drones in the sea, in the air, and possibly on land to counter the large size of China’s military under its new Replicator Initiative. And the Department of Defense’s No. 2 official insists the DOD needs no new money to carry out that plan.

“Replicator is not a new program of record,” Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks, who is heading up the effort, said Sept. 6. “We’re not creating a new bureaucracy and we will not be asking for new money in [fiscal 2024]. Not all problems need new money.”

The goals for Replicator are extremely ambitious: “multiple thousands” of drones in “multiple domains” within the next 18-24 months. However, the Pentagon does not have a budget passed for the 2024 fiscal year, which begins at the start of next month.

And what was the response to it? Letting the drones do whatever they want? That's not how you defend your country.

According to the articles above, a second major goal in this exercise (if it's only a 3D exercise) is to develop counter-drone operations.

Replicator was also meant to improve and speed up the Pentagon’s acquisition processes, Kumar added, and the fact that the it will meet its deadline is a positive sign on that front.

A second iteration of Replicator, dubbed Replicator 2 and announced by Hicks in September, is “going to be focused on doing exactly the same thing,” but this time focused on a counter-drone capability.

 

[ranger]

It seems not only America is affected by these, US base in Germany has them too: Mysterious Drones Spotted Over Main US Military Base In Europe