New Jersey Drones

[Moontanman]

7 minutes ago, TheVat said:

And it was said!  

 

I am sorry @TheVat, I missed your remark. 

[TheVat]

4 minutes ago, swansont said:

The “drones” Maryland Governor Hogan filmed recently were stars in the constellation Orion

He being a politician, I would expect them to be below the belt.

2 minutes ago, Moontanman said:

10 minutes ago, TheVat said:

And it was said!  

 

I am sorry @TheVat, I missed your remark. 

I didn't mind.  Always nice to find a fellow mind making the same connection.  I miss plenty of posts meself.

[Moontanman]

It would appear that Trump is getting involved... it's gonna be alright now, only he can solve it and will solve it in a way never before seen!

[swansont]

5 minutes ago, TheVat said:

He being a politician, I would expect them to be below the belt.

There’s that, but more that it’s people who don’t often look up at the night sky and are unfamiliar with what you see. There’s a reason Venus is often mistaken for a UFO.

And it’s even worse these days with all the starlink and other satellites. Now that I have relatively dark skies around me I’ve seen a bunch of them an hour or two after sunset 

[TheVat]

5 hours ago, DeepBlueSouth said:

or better yet, catching them in some sort of net snares, which as an Cajun, I do not know why we have yet to use against drones. 

Hehe. Well the net we are presently using seems to catch only rumors, hearsay and other unreliable narratives.  Not being of the Arcadian persuasion, I can't imagine the skill level needed to deploy physical nets for something high flying but you never know.

[swansont]

Saw an uncorroborated report of someone shining a laser at one, and someone else found that a FedEx flight was flying past at the time, making it a federal crime. Panic and stupidity are a bad combo.

 

[KJW]

5 hours ago, swansont said:

Saw an uncorroborated report of someone shining a laser at one, and someone else found that a FedEx flight was flying past at the time, making it a federal crime. Panic and stupidity are a bad combo.

Trump says the drones should be shot down, not point a laser at them. A bullet probably wouldn't reach a plane.

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[DeepBlueSouth]

20 hours ago, Moontanman said:

It would appear that Trump is getting involved... it's gonna be alright now, only he can solve it and will solve it in a way never before seen!

he makes a big people statement threatening to blow something up if it all doesn't stop, then quietly calls up his special friend in the east and suddenly the drones go away. /sarcasm

13 hours ago, KJW said:

Trump says the drones should be shot down, not point a laser at them. A bullet probably wouldn't reach a plane.

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no, not the kind of guns most americans like to play 1930's gangster with or whatever the feck it is they do with them... [someone is shooting one of them off outside here in the valley right now, maybe they saw a drone flying in all this foggy rain] perhaps we can use dart guns loaded with some sort of bleach to inject the drones.... that'll definitely do something, right...? he did keep us safe from that one balloon, kinda I guess [kidding that wasn't him]

20 hours ago, TheVat said:

Hehe. Well the net we are presently using seems to catch only rumors, hearsay and other unreliable narratives.  Not being of the Arcadian persuasion, I can't imagine the skill level needed to deploy physical nets for something high flying but you never know.

bolas snares, haha. and best of all, they can be fired from something quite similar.... to a GUN!! [cos that's the whole point of life in this country, ooh shiny long thing that go boom boom YAY]. just be mindful of Venus. all of my life I said, "there's no way an educated person could ever confuse the Evening Star with a craft, it just seems beyond the pale". fast forward to me quitting smoking in October and having nicotine withdrawal psychosis:

"hmm... one of those rich kids must be flying a drone up on the mountain. that thing must be HUGE."
[45 minutes later]
"OMG I have been staring at the planet Venus for almost an hour.... it DOES happen!"

[swansont]

The Geminids meteors peaked a few days ago. I wonder if that had any impact on these sightings.