# Drones over New Jersey **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 6, 2024, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drones-over-new-jersey/1011243 "2024-12-06T04:05:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drones-over-new-jersey/1011243/101 "2024-12-14T22:30:17Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/sXT4JBq6Rb4/maxresdefault.jpg "Mystery drones: ‘Banfield’ experts spot craft in three states | Banfield") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXT4JBq6Rb4) ---
**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drones-over-new-jersey/1011243/102 "2024-12-14T23:34:54Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > [NJ county sheriff sends own drone up to follow mystery flying objects](https://nypost.com/2024/12/14/us-news/nj-county-sheriff-sends-own-drone-up-to-follow-mystery-flying-objects/) From that article: > "If this is not our military, then it’s even more scary,” McHugh said. “ **These things look like they are fixed-wing and they have multiple lights.** I’m not really sure how to process what I saw last night. Both the photographer and I were kind of stunned.” FIxed-wing and multiple lights? Oh my God, you’ve spotted an airplane! > A fed-up New Jersey sheriff said he tried to track the mystery drones swarming the skies above his county — but they “easily” evaded the effort. Since there are even single engine piston planes that go well over 250 mph, I’m shocked that your “industrial grade” drone couldn’t keep up. ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drones-over-new-jersey/1011243/103 "2024-12-14T23:53:49Z")
> [@OldOlds](#): > > Except the only social media I’m on is LinkedIn. What’s the Dope? Chopped liver? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drones-over-new-jersey/1011243/104 "2024-12-14T23:55:36Z")
In the world of social media, yes, it’s chopped liver. Or, in other words, it doesn’t amount to a hill of beans. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drones-over-new-jersey/1011243/105 "2024-12-15T00:12:33Z")
@OldOlds But we like pictures. Especially pictures of our new drone overlords. (First you have to upload them to someplace like imgur though.) ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drones-over-new-jersey/1011243/106 "2024-12-15T00:21:21Z")
Please make it stop. [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/yA9WYJH.png "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/yA9WYJH) [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/ZYMJfKt.png "Imgur: The magic of the Internet") ](https://imgur.com/ZYMJfKt) ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drones-over-new-jersey/1011243/107 "2024-12-15T00:30:33Z")
Someone’s going to get killed because of an idiot firing their AR-15 into the sky in an attempt to shoot down Betelgeuse, aren’t they? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drones-over-new-jersey/1011243/108 "2024-12-15T00:35:14Z")
I wouldn’t want to be piloting a helicopter in the area right about now, that’s for sure. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drones-over-new-jersey/1011243/109 "2024-12-15T01:26:01Z")
The reddit drones group isn’t happy > /r/Drones temporary lockdown. > > We’re currently experiencing a deluge of Stupid in the community due to some media hysteria, and I’m tired of playing whack-a-mole with all the idiotic posts. I’m shutting this place down for at least a week or until the malarkey blows over. Please don’t bother asking to be an approved user. Message me your conspiracy theories and I’ll ban you. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drones-over-new-jersey/1011243/110 "2024-12-15T02:23:58Z")
Whoa! Now **that’s** what I call aggressive modding. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drones-over-new-jersey/1011243/111 "2024-12-15T03:25:18Z")
Obviously the operators of the Iranian mothership have hacked the reddit mod’s account. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drones-over-new-jersey/1011243/112 "2024-12-15T04:05:01Z")
It’s time to deploy the flatbed trucks loaded with speakers and start playing Slim Whitman. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drones-over-new-jersey/1011243/113 "2024-12-15T15:51:03Z")
Isn’t Trump’s Bedminster golf club in NJ known as “The Summer White House”? How long after the inauguration before it’s announced that the federal government will be funneling millions to it for “drone defense”? ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drones-over-new-jersey/1011243/114 "2024-12-15T16:12:27Z")
I would think that drone defense is something already covered as part of standard protection for the POTUS and that no “announcement” would be forthcoming. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drones-over-new-jersey/1011243/115 "2024-12-15T16:22:07Z")
But this is Trump and his main purpose in life is to enrich himself (and amass authoritarian power and then get revenge on his “enemies”). Augmenting “Drone Defense” will just be a public excuse to give his property taxpayer money, whether it’s needed or not. Trump’s going to milk his term for all it’s worth. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drones-over-new-jersey/1011243/116 "2024-12-15T16:35:26Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > Isn’t Trump’s Bedminster golf club in NJ known as “The Summer White House”? How long after the inauguration before it’s announced that the federal government will be funneling millions to it for “drone defense”? Most presidents’ private homes have required security upgrades because the president and family visits it during holidays, so perhaps not unusual. And it’s a bit ironic that Donald Trump called Mar-A-Lago his “Winter White House” since that’s exactly the [purpose](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/history-mar-a-lago-180965214/) for which Marjorie Merriweather Post intended when she offered it to the US Government; as an official presidential retreat. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drones-over-new-jersey/1011243/117 "2024-12-15T16:36:47Z")
Shining a laser at an aircraft is a federal crime with fines up to $11000 USD per violation (increasing for multiple incidents to over $30000). I’m sure that woman and her husband will be ready to pay up immediately. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drones-over-new-jersey/1011243/118 "2024-12-15T16:39:27Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Whoa! Now **that’s** what I call aggressive modding. Let’s not give our mods any ideas … ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drones-over-new-jersey/1011243/119 "2024-12-15T16:46:39Z")
We’re not rowdy like those redditors. ---
**Author:** ![Section\_Maker\_Jupe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/section_maker_jupe/32/1424_2.png) [@Section\_Maker\_Jupe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Section_Maker_Jupe)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drones-over-new-jersey/1011243/120 "2024-12-15T17:00:44Z")
funny discussions on the drones(r/technology)…main drone sub is still closed [Reddit - Dive into anything](https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1hen9td/the_new_jersey_drone_mystery_may_not_actually_be/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drones-over-new-jersey/1011243.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drones-over-new-jersey/1011243.md?page=7)