By now, unless you've been living under a rock you probably have heard about the drones flying in the skies of New Jersey since mid-November 2024. Countless number of reports and videos have been filed by the public concerning these sightings . These are some of the possibilities of their origin:
1. A company from the United States is testing a new model of their drones.
2. The United States Airforce is testing new types of drones.
3. A foreign drones company, like the one in China, is testing a new type of drones.
4. A foreign country, like Iran (China, Russia, or North Korea), has decided to spy on us by sending their drones over our land.
5. Extraterrestrial 'drones' are being launched in our skies to study us and spy on our facilities, including military installations.
6. A group of hoaxers decided to celebrate the new year early.
7. Small recreational and civilian planes going on their ways to perform their assigned duties.
8. Mass hysteria.
Items 1, 2, and 3 above are very unlikely as these types of tests are not done over populated areas. Item 4 is possible, however none of the countries capable of sending drones over our land is willing to do so for internal or external reasons. Iran's capabilities are greatly depleted by their confrontation with Israel. Russia is busy with its war in Ukraine. China is trying to mend its relationship with us and unwilling to ruin these efforts in the near future. Foreign drones are usually bigger in size and can be manipulated easily from the ground by operators well-trained in flying them. During the recent war in Lebanon, Israeli military drones were flying over Beirut, the capital, 24/7. They were recognizance drones, and we are not in the state of active war with any country.
The last three possibilities (items 6, 7, and 8) are probable, and it appears item 7 is the current thinking concerning these sightings. An untrained eye can easily confuse a small plane with a relatively good size drone, the size of a family van.
However, anyone planning to fly a drone in the United States, regardless of the size of the drone, must receive an approval from the FAA before launching the drone in the air. Drones, by regulations, cannot completely switch off their lights and operate in the dark. These drones seem to be hard to pursue and when choppers tried to pursue them they sped up and disappeared.
All that leaves us with is item 5. These drones appear not to care about our regulations at all. They are flying over civilian and military instillations alike. They are large in size than your average drone bought from Amazon---much larger, like 100 times larger.
So far, these drones are spotted over the skies of New Jersey. Would they expand their surveyance territory to include New York, Massachusetts, Washington, D.C., Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, or Florida? Would they become more numerous in number and larger in size?
The public needs answers. Perhaps if one of them is downed then we can study this from a more scientific point of view. Otherwise, all the items listed above remain hypotheses waiting to be explored. A hypothesis is an unproven proposition. Thus, none of the above explanations is the answer unless the real answer is found, if ever.
