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Drone crashes into NJ homeowner’s backyard — as panic over mystery sightings grips state
NYPost ^ | 12 13 2024 | Jack Morphet and Patrick Reilly

Posted on 12/14/2024 3:21:53 AM PST by yesthatjallen

A drone fell out of the sky and crashed into a New Jersey homeowner’s backyard Thursday night — prompting the town’s mayor to even drive to the scene to survey the site himself.

The aircraft smashed down in a residential area of Pequannock Township in Morris County around 8:45 p.m. Thursday, according to police and dispatch audio.

Officials determined the craft was “a hobby or toy type of drone” and “not a large commercial or military grade drone,” the Pequannock Police Department told The Post

It comes on the heels of New Jersey cops warning of possible “copycats.”

“What we think is it started as some sort of Picatinny Arsenal base surveillance drill or operation but once it exploded online, this became a copycat situation,” one Garden State police chief theorized.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: drones; hobbists; newsfromgroversmill
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Now they're going to be tracking down the 'mystery drones' and find out they're flown by hobbyists and claim they're "copycats".

Copycats of what? All the other hobbyist flying drones? LOL.

1 posted on 12/14/2024 3:21:53 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

37 days until we are rid of this vile Administration, with its scumbos like Mayorkas, Wray, Jake Sullivan and the now less than ambulatory Nancy Pelosi. Think of the damage they have done here.


2 posted on 12/14/2024 3:25:34 AM PST by laconic ( )
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To: yesthatjallen

My drone is as big as a bus. Will I need a permit for that?


3 posted on 12/14/2024 3:38:56 AM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: yesthatjallen
once it exploded online, this became a copycat situation,

That's my theory.

What is more noticeable, a drone flying at night with flashing lights or a drone in the daytime while everyone is too busy scurrying around doing their daily activities to notice them?

The reason they're not flying in the daytime is because the hobbyists are either in school or working their day jobs.........

That's my thought and I'm sticking to it.

4 posted on 12/14/2024 3:45:30 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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“Officials...” 🧐🤨

The “hobbyist” regulation requires the drone to remain in the physical sightline of the operator on the ground.

And it can’t get to be the size of a dining room table or small car like the ones being reported.

This story includes a generous dollop of gaslighting.


5 posted on 12/14/2024 3:51:58 AM PST by one guy in new jersey
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Surely there must be some amateur, hobbyist or professional videographers who see the opportunity to test their night vision capabilities.


6 posted on 12/14/2024 3:53:49 AM PST by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
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To: yesthatjallen

A weather ballon


7 posted on 12/14/2024 3:55:37 AM PST by Recompennation (Don’t blame me my vote didn’t count)
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Exactly - wouldn’t put it past the government to do some false flag drone crashing so people think it’s all just people playing around - meanwhile, there’s stories about an Iranian drone ship out there....


8 posted on 12/14/2024 3:57:52 AM PST by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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> wouldn’t put it past the government to do some false flag drone crashing so people think it’s all just people playing around <

Good thinking. And it’s really sad that we have to consider such a thing. It’s not us being paranoid. It’s that our lying government has completely destroyed its reputation.


9 posted on 12/14/2024 4:10:28 AM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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and the now less than ambulatory Nancy Pelosi

She’s not going anywhere...she was re-elected.

She will be a back bencher, thank God...but we will still have her drunken babble breathlessly reported by MSM buttlickers.


10 posted on 12/14/2024 4:19:48 AM PST by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: yesthatjallen
The more things change...


11 posted on 12/14/2024 4:23:15 AM PST by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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To: one guy in new jersey

“And it can’t get to be the size of a dining room table or small car like the ones being reported.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilENO7awW_Q

“Officials” might be wrong on this one.


12 posted on 12/14/2024 4:24:01 AM PST by Fireone (Americans have had enough. (build the gallows))
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No pictures of the crashed drone?


13 posted on 12/14/2024 4:24:15 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (Today's "conspiracy theory" is tomorrow's conspiracy FACT.)
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Someone must have winged it. Gun control.


14 posted on 12/14/2024 4:27:51 AM PST by Kudsman (Hey,, Democrat,,leave them kids alone!)
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Or they crashed a hobby one to try to let people believe that’s what they are.


15 posted on 12/14/2024 4:52:10 AM PST by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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To: yesthatjallen

The government saying they can’t do anything about the ones over new jersey is a lie. A drone flying into area 51 would be shot down in 3 seconds. This is a government sponsered spy program.


16 posted on 12/14/2024 4:56:14 AM PST by Ikeon ( Why don't they, do what they say? Say what they mean? One thing leads to another. )
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To: Ezekiel

July 8. 1948
I was in the 3rd grade just toddling along.
Time keeps moving along be it good or bad.


17 posted on 12/14/2024 4:59:41 AM PST by deport
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Ocean County Sheriff Michael Mastronardy said his officers sent up a drone to track a mystery aircraft said the device 'easily' evaded them.....said it has been struggling to track the flying objects as 'they don't give off heat' like regular drones.p>


18 posted on 12/14/2024 5:07:51 AM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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What did the mayor think he’d accomplish driving out there besides a photo op?


19 posted on 12/14/2024 5:22:33 AM PST by albie (U)
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To: Adder

No.

She is out of action forever


20 posted on 12/14/2024 5:26:07 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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