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OT: I Have never see a drone

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I’ve been seeing them all this week since I first looked up. How to spot these “drones” vs a plane or helicopter at night:

Drone: 2 bright, camera bulb-like flashing white lights on both “wing tips”. The white lights are brighter than any other plane white lights, almost like super white LEDs, and they “flash” like a camera flash, they don’t “blink” like a plane’s lights.

The lights only flash “once” per instance, i.e. if you see the lights flicker say 2-3 times quickly, that’s a helicopter or Cessna.

They have a red blinking light in the middle/bottom.

Download the FlightRadar app to make sure there are no planes in the area of the sky where you’re looking.

Best to see by bodies of water - reservoir particularly, or by the bay/ocean.
You also described the pattern of airplane lights - not sure how I should decipher a "flash" vs "blink", considering brightness and pattern can change depending on the angle and distance its being viewed from:
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Also remember when looking at flight radars that planes at high altitudes can be seen from many miles away - for example, I can see planes at 8,000' over Watchung from my 2nd floor window here in East Brunswick...
 
NSA is apparently reporting that they are picking up a lot of signal interference in areas where drones have been reported hovering or flying around suburban NJ neighborhoods. Apparently, some of the drones are "listening" in on wifi and bluetooth signals.

So all you folks who keep seeing drones around your neighborhoods probably ought to avoid some of your favorite internet activities for awhile.
I think this thing is wildly overblown, certainly bordering on hysteria. But I'm 100% sure there needs to be some better regulation and thinking about drones and how they can be used maliciously, and have countermeasures. If we get some common sense done rules in place that would be a big positive.
 
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This is how mass hysteria works.


So while looking for drones I happened to see some birds. God damn, so many birds! Pooping. Spreading disease. And are we sure there aren't any spy birds like the Russian spy Beluga Whale? How can we know. Now I see birds all the time, I can't stop noticing. Some of them are huge. One bird looked really weird. I looked it up and it was a Ring-Necked Pheasant native to China! It's a non-native invasive species!

Why hasn't the government done anything about this? Either they know what is going on and they are hiding it, or they don't know and they are incompetent.

Until I get an explanation I'm going to post here everytime I see a bird.
 
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I think this thing is wildly overblown, certainly bordering on hysteria. But I'm 100% sure there needs to be some better regulation and thinking about drones and how they can be used maliciously, and have countermeasures. If we get some common sense done rules in place that would be a big positive.
It is more than just bordering in hysteria. It’s full blown hysteria. Which is hysterical.
 
So while looking for drones I happened to see some birds. God damn, so many birds! Pooping. Spreading disease. And are we sure there aren't any spy birds like the Russian spy Beluga Whale? How can we know. Now I see birds all the time, I can't stop noticing. Some of them are huge. One bird looked really weird. I looked it up and it was a Ring-Necked Pheasant native to China! It's a non-native invasive species!

Why hasn't the government done anything about this? Either they know what is going on and they are hiding it, or they don't know and they are incompetent.

Until I get an explanation I'm going to post here everytime I see a bird.
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Government conspiracies? Yes, yes it is.
Nah, it's defective Drones Santa got from Craig List that he didn't check out before sending to the Jersey area.
They were supposed to have cloaking devises included but a bunch he received did have that cloaking feature working properly and Santa had to use them hoping the drones over Jersey wouldn't be noticed and if seen would be thought of as ET coming back and bringing some friends with him.
Santa has been using drones since his elves spaceship was shot down when it was flying over Roswell NM in 1947 and the elfs in it were captured then imprisoned as spies .
You think he just sits on his ass in the North Pole off-season.
No he's gathering information on us anyway he can and drones now are his main source of info so:
"he sees us when we are sleeping
he knows when we're awake
he knows if we've been bad or good
so be good for goodness sake"
Now the mystery has been solved
It's Santa the spy behind the drone scare and he also uses them to deliver his coal to the naughty boys and girls so there's more room on his sleigh to carry presents for the good little boys and girls.
 
You literally were fishing for some deeper explanation as to why I edited my 2 sentence post. The answer to why I edited my post is: who cares?
lol that's a "conspiracy"-asking you what your edit to a post directed at me was for? I think your tinfoil hat is a little too tight. What else you got?
 
Per Pentagon Press Secretary, Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder on Dec17:

"DOD is sending additional resources to Picatinny Arsenal and Naval Weapons Station Earle — both in New Jersey — to better enable the installations to detect, track and monitor drone activity, Ryder said. Commanders can use the recently released counter unmanned systems strategy to craft their responses to any incursions. "


https://www.defense.gov/News/News-S...ncursions-taken-seriously-dod-spokesman-says/
 
Per Pentagon Press Secretary, Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder on Dec17:

"DOD is sending additional resources to Picatinny Arsenal and Naval Weapons Station Earle — both in New Jersey — to better enable the installations to detect, track and monitor drone activity, Ryder said. Commanders can use the recently released counter unmanned systems strategy to craft their responses to any incursions. "


https://www.defense.gov/News/News-S...ncursions-taken-seriously-dod-spokesman-says/
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so confused, now we are going to shoot down Drones that might not exist but if the do are definitely harmless? and if we shoot them down or have no fly zones does that mean their is no nuclear material in those areas?
 
Per Pentagon Press Secretary, Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder on Dec17:

"DOD is sending additional resources to Picatinny Arsenal and Naval Weapons Station Earle — both in New Jersey — to better enable the installations to detect, track and monitor drone activity, Ryder said. Commanders can use the recently released counter unmanned systems strategy to craft their responses to any incursions. "


https://www.defense.gov/News/News-S...ncursions-taken-seriously-dod-spokesman-says/

This is how you throw a bone to the crazies
 
I believe that aliens are searching for a reason why we don't have self service gas.
Those aliens should ask my 80 year old aunt on a cold and wet day like today when she pulls into a station for some gas.
 
Those aliens should ask my 80 year old aunt on a cold and wet day like today when she pulls into a station for some gas.
But then they'd rightfully point out the 80-year-old aunts in 49 other states, some of them much colder and wetter, getting along okay.
 
But then they'd rightfully point out the 80-year-old aunts in 49 other states, some of them much colder and wetter, getting along okay.
No they're not. I regularly get complaints from 80 year old aunts who lack quality options for H&B. And often, when they make such complaints, they also mention that they really wish they didn't have to pump their own gas.
 
But then they'd rightfully point out the 80-year-old aunts in 49 other states, some of them much colder and wetter, getting along okay.
Having pumped gas as my first real job many moons ago and worked through weather like I described above, I find it hard to believe that they get along okay in those other states. I didn't really get paid that well for the gas pumping, so I'm also guessing it wasn't a big financial boon for the gas stations when they went to self-service.
 
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