Stupid people in NJ look up at the night sky for the first time, believe every moving light is a drone

[Keef 851]

10 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Which is why they probably know more about what’s going on that we do. 

I agree with this 100%.  There's definitely some overreacting and folks misidentifying shit going on, but there's also clearly something going on in the background they aren't telling the public (could be benign, could be with good intentions, could be totally prosaic, etc.).

[Dbeasy 15524]

Why doesn’t everyone just admit they don’t know shit about fuck?

[nineliveslost 2963]

1 hour ago, Dbeasy said:

Why doesn’t everyone just admit they don’t know shit about fuck?

Hey hey hey.  That would destroy this site 

[956 Worldwide 35500]

Not a lot of mystery drone sightings the last few days because it’s too cloudy on the east coast to see airplanes. 

[ConferenceRoom 6210]

Or the aliens can't/won't fly IMC.

[DaysOff 8157]

My folks came down to visit and celebrate an early Christmas together, so the old man naturally had that Fox News bullshit on the tv the entire time.  The amount of brain rot he is dealing with thanks to watching that crap is incredible, and I can't believe how many old folks sit around with that stuff on the tv at full volume for hours per day.  It's just as bad for them as social media brain rot is for the kids, and it's sad to see the old and the young so susceptible to the same type of manipulation.  I live with a small amount of fear of getting old and sucked into that shit.   My dad would have never watched that crap until he got too old to recognize it for what it is, and now they have their hooks in him.
 Anyway, about 75% of the FOX coverage was about these stupid fucks mistaking airplanes and drones for aliens, or government spies, or whatever stupid notion will get the simpletons worked up.  Are other news outlets fanning the flames of this nonsense too, or is mostly FOX manipulating their older and addlebrained viewership?  I don't watch cable news of any kind, so I'm curious if this is something that is being driven by all outlets because it's easy ratings.

Going to my mother's apartment for Xmas. I'll be deleting that channel while she's in the can. Some poor kid technician from time Warner cable is going to get an earful.

[atomheartbevo 90535]

2 hours ago, Keef said:

I agree with this 100%.  There's definitely some overreacting and folks misidentifying shit going on, but there's also clearly something going on in the background they aren't telling the public (could be benign, could be with good intentions, could be totally prosaic, etc.).

Them being around Picatinny Arsenal - they literally do research for shit the soldiers carry individually, as well as stuff deployed with them at the company/battalion level (but still portable), so they are going to have stuff that is years from being used by the typical soldier - that's going to include the latest in night-vision and infrared, various electronic sensor equipment,  It's  not Camp Swift outside of Bastrop using hand-me-downs from the Army. 

Now it could always be that somebody got one of the human-sized drones, I mean VTOL vehicles from Pivotal (and these videos weird me out because I don't see how they are doing what they are doing) and they do have anticollision lights and have a car-sized footprint.

 

 

[wildcat09 29542]

Whole lotta talk about a shadowy (((they))) from people on this. I wonder why.

[Captainant 28356]

3 hours ago, Keef said:

I agree with this 100%.  There's definitely some overreacting and folks misidentifying shit going on, but there's also clearly something going on in the background they aren't telling the public (could be benign, could be with good intentions, could be totally prosaic, etc.).

No shit there's something they aren't telling the public lol. When the F117 was being designed and tested there was a huge slew of UFO reports, and the government response then was very similar to what it is now. 

Plus ya know, all the """UFO's""" have had FAA-compliant lighting so I'm gonna put my chips on the government testing new equipment and not aliens or adversaries. We shot down a fucking balloon with an F-22, I don't think we'd sit on our laurels for an aerial assault

[Hank Kingsley 21589]

We are entering the chem trails phase of modern technology. Cool. 

 

[bolverk 30226]

59 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Them being around Picatinny Arsenal - they literally do research for shit the soldiers carry individually, as well as stuff deployed with them at the company/battalion level (but still portable), so they are going to have stuff that is years from being used by the typical soldier - that's going to include the latest in night-vision and infrared, various electronic sensor equipment,  It's  not Camp Swift outside of Bastrop using hand-me-downs from the Army. 

Now it could always be that somebody got one of the human-sized drones, I mean VTOL vehicles from Pivotal (and these videos weird me out because I don't see how they are doing what they are doing) and they do have anticollision lights and have a car-sized footprint.

a) Kinda cool.
b) Not sure how it flies with those itty-bitty propellers, but I ain't no aeronaut or whatever.
c) You mean they gotta back up to land or land backward? Great, now all those fucknuts who insist on backing up into a parking space will clog up traffic at our nation's airports.

[Gatorubet 30620]

12 minutes ago, bolverk said:

c) You mean they gotta back up to land or land backward? Great, now all those fucknuts who insist on backing up into a parking space will clog up traffic at our nation's airports.

I don’t really agree with FEMA camps, unless you use them to arrest and house those people indefinitely.

 

[Texasborn91 1081]

I’m in the camp of it being the military testing these drones and letting the public make a fool of itself to discredit any actual phenomenon that is still going on in the future. 

[Pam Cummings 9822]

30 minutes ago, bolverk said:

c) You mean they gotta back up to land or land backward? Great, now all those fucknuts who insist on backing up into a parking space will clog up traffic at our nation's airports.

Holy shit is this annoying. Just pull into a fucking spot. When did everyone start needing to back in?

[Frank Drebin 5820]

[Texasborn91 1081]

15 minutes ago, Pam Cummings said:

Holy shit is this annoying. Just pull into a fucking spot. When did everyone start needing to back in?

Make the sacrifice of backing in so it’s easier to pull forward when leaving. Dumb fucks don’t pay attention when they are backing out

[David Dennison 19435]

 

[wildcat09 29542]

America is just too stupid for a democracy. I guess we gotta make me dictator.

[Samson's Wig 3222]

To be fair, there is an IQ cap for anyone running for state senate.

[Ted Lange 16332]

27 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

 

 

 

[Pescado_Rojo 19546]

56 minutes ago, Pam Cummings said:

Holy shit is this annoying. Just pull into a fucking spot. When did everyone start needing to back in?

I don't do it all the time, but I drive a full sized pickup with a backup camera with lane assist and it's actually easier to back into a tight spot than having to make a 3 or 5 point turn to go head first. I mostly try to just park at the back of the lot, though. Those 100 extra steps might do me some good. 

[aggie08 21730]

1 hour ago, Pam Cummings said:

Holy shit is this annoying. Just pull into a fucking spot. When did everyone start needing to back in?

Holy shit this is annoying. Just back into a fucking spot, so you can pull right out when you leave. Instead of backing up 3 feet to see if there's anyone behind you. Then another foot. Then another. Then slowly backing out the rest of the way.

Edited 2 hours ago by aggie08

[CHIEF 5194]

2 hours ago, Captainant said:

No shit there's something they aren't telling the public lol. When the F117 was being designed and tested there was a huge slew of UFO reports, and the government response then was very similar to what it is now. 

Plus ya know, all the """UFO's""" have had FAA-compliant lighting so I'm gonna put my chips on the government testing new equipment and not aliens or adversaries. We shot down a fucking balloon with an F-22, I don't think we'd sit on our laurels for an aerial assault

 

This is kinda where I'm at. But, I possibly think there could be something going on that they  just can't tell the public, like a "for sure" dirty bomb threat that the intelligence agencies can't disclose without panicking the public. I mean, "radiation detection" has been floated out there. Maybe these drones have such good detection systems, they are scanning planes on final approach and taxiing. As for the lights? Maybe an FAA hangup. It could also be testing radiation detection drones for when Russia collapses and all of their arsenal gets pillaged and goes to the highest bidder. Run the drones in during the initial chaos and confiscate anything you can find.

It may be a kinda like a MIB movie, where we come close to annihilation every day, and we are completely oblivious to it, as the intelligence agencies eliminate the threat and we never know.

CHIEF

Edited 2 hours ago by CHIEF

[Pam Cummings 9822]

7 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

Holy shit this is annoying. Just back into a fucking spot, so you can pull right out when you leave. Instead of backing up 3 feet to see if there's anyone behind you. Then another foot. Then another. Then slowly backing out the rest of the way.

Find a spot where you can pull through then. Why do we need to block traffic going both ways to back into a spot. I dont get it. Ive never had issues backing out of a parking spot. You just wait for it to be clear and.....back out.

[BabaYaga 15518]

16 minutes ago, CHIEF said:

 

This is kinda where I'm at. But, I possibly think there could be something going on that they  just can't tell the public, like a "for sure" dirty bomb threat that the intelligence agencies can't disclose without panicking the public. I mean, "radiation detection" has been floated out there. Maybe these drones have such good detection systems, they are scanning planes on final approach and taxiing. As for the lights? Maybe an FAA hangup. It could also be testing radiation detection drones for when Russia collapses and all of their arsenal gets pillaged and goes to the highest bidder. Run the drones in during the initial chaos and confiscate anything you can find.

It may be a kinda like a MIB movie, where we come close to annihilation every day, and we are completely oblivious to it, as the intelligence agencies eliminate the threat and we never know.

CHIEF

Simplistic answer - these are civilian people fucking with everyone else.  It's too on the nose for military.  Why put lights on and make them so visible to everyone else and raise the obvious subsequent questions?  I'd think if they were military, at the very least they'd have IR visibility options and no lights to make them obvious targets.  Were any of them in a flight path for the airports?  They didn't seem all that high, but I haven't followed this much either.

[Evil Bill Obrien 3489]

1 hour ago, David Dennison said:

 

It would be funnier if it wasn't so concerning that we have elected dipshits like this all over the country...

 

[Redneck Mutha 8156]

18 hours ago, Ted Lange said:

I have asked and so have several others.   It never gets addressed.   I guess Aliens can cross the universe, but only with FAA required safety lights.

Aliens: Travel in stealth mode with no lights?

[aggie08 21730]

2 minutes ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

It would be funnier if it wasn't so concerning that we have elected dipshits like this all over the country...

 

Counterpoint: collectively, we are dipshits. Representative government and all that.

[CHIEF 5194]

19 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

Simplistic answer - these are civilian people fucking with everyone else.  It's too on the nose for military.  Why put lights on and make them so visible to everyone else and raise the obvious subsequent questions?  I'd think if they were military, at the very least they'd have IR visibility options and no lights to make them obvious targets.  Were any of them in a flight path for the airports?  They didn't seem all that high, but I haven't followed this much either.

That's why I think there was a hangup with the FAA. Pilots and air traffic controllers would be panicking if they were seeing things on their radar with no visual confirmation. Military was put in a "no win" situation on that. You couldn't keep this under wraps, pilots and air traffic controllers aren't going to sit on that information.

CHIEF

[Brisketexan 106559]

43 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

Holy shit this is annoying. Just back into a fucking spot, so you can pull right out when you leave. Instead of backing up 3 feet to see if there's anyone behind you. Then another foot. Then another. Then slowly backing out the rest of the way.

The problem with this take is the following fact: 100% of people who back-in park say "I'm super-good at it, I can get it done in an instant," but 99% of them are dead-fucking wrong.  

Signed, someone who regularly gets stuck in a parking lot waiting while someone takes 20 minutes to execute their 300-point back-in parking maneuver and blocks the whole fucking lane.

I don't know when this became such a thing, but it's fucking maddening, because for all the "it's safer and faster" bullshit I hear....I must have the worst luck on earth to always get stuck behind the guy who just can't seem to pull it off without adjusting his angle 5,734 times.

[C-Man 27673]

The drones are making people in NJ sick. (Forreals.)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14198585/new-jersey-drones-resident-mystery-health-symptoms.html

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Residents in New Jersey and the wider tri-state area claim they have become mysteriously ill after seeing drones in the sky.

After witnessing or reading about the devices, residents revealed how they started coughing, suffering from a blocked or runny nose or experienced puffy, watery eyes.

One woman in New Jersey said she became so sick it felt like she was 'coughing up my lung', while a second in New York City said her blocked sinuses must be because of the drones over Staten Island.

DailyMail.com heard from another New Jersey resident who said they had developed a stuffy nose and swollen runny eyes after the drones flew over their home.

But doctors told DailyMail.com after reviewing the symptoms that it was 'extremely unlikely' these sicknesses were linked to the drones.

They pointed out it was now the start of flu season and other illnesses like Covid, RSV and norovirus become more common around this time.

Dr Thomas Moore, an infectious diseases expert, said: 'It is entertaining to try to blame sickness on the condensation trails of planes or drones, but the actual explanation is much more mundane.

'It is respiratory virus season, and just being around humans at this time of year can cause you to get ill.'

Dr Bill Schaffner, also an infectious diseases expert, added: 'This is not being beamed down from above but spread among ourselves, and it is not too late to get vaccinated.

'I don't think we have to worry about a relationship between the drones and symptoms of people down below.

'We are at the beginning of respiratory virus season, and a lot of people will start to develop coughing, sneezing and not feeling well just by co-incidence.'

People's reports come as unexplained drone sightings have mounted throughout the Northeast, which have been spotted over military bases and airports in recent weeks.

The FBI, White House and officials from other agencies have said there is no evidence the drones pose a threat to public safety.

An official from the FBI added: 'I think there has been a slight over-reaction.'

Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas added: 'If there is any reason for concern, if we identify any foreign involvement or criminal activity, we will communicate with the American public accordingly.'

In one case, a woman in the tri-state area posted about her illness on TikTok with the caption: 'I'm not saying it has anything to do with the drones, but I'm also not NOT saying it has anything to do with the drones.'

In the video, she said: 'Do you live in the tri-state area and are you sick like me? 

'My sickness started out as pains like everywhere, my entire body hurt, my hair hurt... and then it just kept morphing into different stages.

'I had the water works dripping from my nose where I went through two boxes of tissues in as many days, where all I could do was kinda go from the couch to the bed and back again... and then we moved on to the stuffed up sinuses.'

In another video posted yesterday, Andrea — an artist in New York City's Lower East Side — also linked her illness to the drones.

'I'm sick with this sinus congestion because of the drones over New Jersey and Staten Island, it's pretty close to here. I think that's what it is. 

'Every night I am feeling worse and worse, and last night was like the worst night of them all, and it turns out the drones were shooting, they were shooting, I think that's what caused my sinus infection.'

And in a third video that New Jersey resident Shawna posted, she said: 'Anyone else really f****** sick and coughing up a lung right before Christmas and it didn't start happening until the drones showed up?'

Illnesses tend to surge around this time of year because of a mixture of people staying indoors more to beat the cold and mixing more over the Christmas and New Year periods.

Latest surveillance suggests about 5.4 percent of Covid tests were detecting the virus in the week to December 7, up from the 3.9 percent a month ago.

Hospitalizations for flu-like illness are also rising, up 14 percent to 3.3 percent of patient admissions in the week to December 7 compared to 2.9 percent two weeks beforehand according to data.

And there are also similar upticks being detected in cases of RSV and norovirus.

New Jersey is also one of the eight states in the US that are now recording 'moderate' levels of flu-like illness, a sign the state's flu season is starting to take off.  

Dr Moore added: 'Just breathing can actually cause someone to exhale invisible droplets that can travel at least 18 inches from someone's face, while speaking can cause the droplets to travel three feet.

'These droplets can carry respiratory pathogens like viruses, and can then be breathed in by others causing an infection.

'At the same time, the cold weather causes people to spend more time crowded together indoors, raising the likelihood that they will breathe in the droplets and get an infection.'

He said the symptoms people were describing sounded similar to the flu or another respiratory infection.

The drones first appeared over New Jersey's skies more than a month ago, and are now spotted every night — occasionally more than 50 at any one time.

Biden has tasked the federal Government with establishing the cause of the apparent 'swarms', and has struggled to offer an explanation.

The aircraft have been spotted in coastal areas, around the Picatinny Arsenal and over Donald Trump's golf course in Bedminster.

 

[jimmyjazz 46944]

1 hour ago, Pam Cummings said:

Holy shit is this annoying. Just pull into a fucking spot. When did everyone start needing to back in?

Driven in downtown Austin lately?  There are probably 1K or more reverse-angle parking spots.  It's a higher density version of parallel parking (but it does occupy more of the roadway).

[Ted Lange 16332]

9 minutes ago, C-Man said:

The drones are making people in NJ sick. (Forreals.)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14198585/new-jersey-drones-resident-mystery-health-symptoms.html

 

Hey boss, cant come to work this week, I got the Dronevid.

[Brisketexan 106559]

11 minutes ago, C-Man said:

The drones are making people in NJ sick. (Forreals.)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14198585/new-jersey-drones-resident-mystery-health-symptoms.html

 

My BIL went to med school at UTMB.  They had an easy screening question for when the crackpots came in: "oh....does your hair hurt?"  When they got the inevitable "yes, it does!", they knew that they could shuffle that one off to the crazy pile.

That article is CLASSIC mass hysteria shit.  "A rash of people are reporting that the mysterious aircraft are making them have to pee when they wake up in the morning!"  Fucking post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy, on a mass level.

Edited 1 hour ago by Brisketexan

[aggie08 21730]

17 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

The problem with this take is the following fact: 100% of people who back-in park say "I'm super-good at it, I can get it done in an instant," but 99% of them are dead-fucking wrong.  

Signed, someone who regularly gets stuck in a parking lot waiting while someone takes 20 minutes to execute their 300-point back-in parking maneuver and blocks the whole fucking lane.

I don't know when this became such a thing, but it's fucking maddening, because for all the "it's safer and faster" bullshit I hear....I must have the worst luck on earth to always get stuck behind the guy who just can't seem to pull it off without adjusting his angle 5,734 times.

That's fair. Back-in parkers should only get one shot at it where, as long as they don't hit another car, that's good enough, even if you can't open a door. Then sit there and wait for an opening to adjust your initial shitty job.

But people are selfish and suck, so I too have experienced the "wait for me until I get it just right" guy.

[elguapo 4619]

If you want to back in park then drive around the lot until there isn't anyone behind you, otherwise you can go fuck yourself!

[Macanudo 13242]

4 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Them being around Picatinny Arsenal - they literally do research for shit the soldiers carry individually, as well as stuff deployed with them at the company/battalion level (but still portable), so they are going to have stuff that is years from being used by the typical soldier - that's going to include the latest in night-vision and infrared, various electronic sensor equipment,  It's  not Camp Swift outside of Bastrop using hand-me-downs from the Army. 

Now it could always be that somebody got one of the human-sized drones, I mean VTOL vehicles from Pivotal (and these videos weird me out because I don't see how they are doing what they are doing) and they do have anticollision lights and have a car-sized footprint.

 

 

So the aliens are doing Picatinny rails?