'Mystery Drones' Flying Over New Jersey? Here's What We Know

I do love a good old fashioned media panic where we extensively report on what people are saying without doing even the slightest research and hey look, now even more people are saying it so it must be true. Sure we could geolocate the footage and see that the grainy video of the drone with aircraft lights nearby is right where you would expect to see the passenger jet far away that’s flying towards you for landing, but some random blogger said it was a drone on social media so it must be a secret drone doing unspecified evil, while lit up with a bunch more lights than the FAA requires.

Even better when it comes up on Fox News right before congress pushes though a bill they were already working on to make it even harder for anyone but cooperations and the police to do aerial photography because it might be a problem someday.

I mean i’m sure that some of them are real drones statistically, you are in one of the densest areas on the continent at a time where everyone from wedding photographers to Amazon is flying, but could we please get some solid evidence about the situation before reporting instead of calling paraphrasing a few TikTok videos breaking news.

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I do love a good old fashioned media panic where we extensively report on what people are saying without doing even the slightest research and hey look, now even more people are saying it so it must be true. Sure we could geolocate the footage and see that the grainy video of the drone with aircraft lights nearby is right where you would expect to see the passenger jet far away that’s flying towards you for landing, but some random blogger said it was a drone on social media so it must be a secret drone doing unspecified evil, while lit up with a bunch more lights than the FAA requires.
Even better when it comes up on Fox News right before congress pushes though a bill they were already working on to make it even harder for anyone but cooperations and the police to do aerial photography because it might be a problem someday.
I mean i’m sure that some of them are real drones statistically, you are in one of the densest areas on the continent at a time where everyone from wedding photographers to Amazon is flying, but could we please get some solid evidence about the situation before reporting instead of calling paraphrasing a few TikTok videos breaking news.