The latest footage of bizarre drones in New Jersey captured several craft orbiting each other over Somerset County, while at least 12 counties have reported sightings.
The video, released this week, shows three ‘mystery drones in the air’ as two move extremely close as if they are interacting with each other and the third hovered for ‘about 15 minutes.’
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy said Monday night that the drones are ‘very sophisticated, explaining: ‘The minute we get eyes on them [the drones], they go dark.’
‘I don’t blame people for being frustrated,’ Gov Murphy continued, adding that he had spent most of Sunday coordinating on the issue with both the White House and the US Department of Homeland Security in the hope of getting answers.
He said that the state received 49 sighting reports on Sunday night alone, with hundreds of locals sharing experiences on social media platforms.
On Monday, Picatinny Arsenal, the Army facility in Morris County, confirmed it has had 11 sightings of ‘UFOs’ over in its airspace in recent weeks.
The sightings, which began in November, have included reports of multiple craft flying over the same areas each night and reports of ‘car-sized’ drones, the kind not usually used by hobbyists, over some areas.
New Jersey state senator, Jon Bramnick (R-21), is now calling for a limited ‘state of emergency’ banning all drone usage authorities can determine who is responsible for the eerie night flights.
The latest footage coming out of New Jersey has only added more questionsl to this bizarre UFO wave. ‘What in the world is happening?’ the woman taping the display can be heard saying, as a pair of glowing red lights orbits comes close to a white UFO before drifting away
Edits in the 40-second video, which was also posted to Instagram, appear to reflect a montage of the event’s most impactful moments. ‘Update,’ the videographer says in the clip’s finale, ‘that mystery drone up there is still there. It’s been like maybe 10-15 minutes. It’s still there’
‘Guys, I just found three mystery drones in the air,’ the woman filming the scene reports in the clip, posted to social site X.com by the account UAP Reporting Center.
‘This is wild,’ the woman says, as the two circling white lights disengage in midair, with one seeming to dart quickly to the right. ‘That was moving quick.’
Edits in the 40-second video, which was also posted to Instagram via the account @ufo_life_, appear to reflect a montage of the event’s most impactful moments.
‘Update,’ the videographer says in the clip’s finale, ‘that mystery drone up there is still there. It’s been like maybe 10-15 minutes. It’s still there.’
UAP Reporting Center is not affiliated with the similarly named nonprofit National UFO Reporting Center, which has coordinated on UFO case reports with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for decades.
Nevertheless, several more new videos taken in northwest NJ near the Pennsylvania border also show multi-color drone-like crafts — including one lit up like a Christmas tree with at least eight lights ranging from green, white, red and orange.
Posted by an auto tech to the Facebook community group ‘New Jersey Mystery Drones – let’s solve it,’ the apparently fixed-wing drone was caught on tape last week above Pohatcong township in Warren County, NJ.
The witness also captured images of a stationary and hovering UFO with four bright green lights above the same northwest Jersey area.
Significantly, the fixed-wing mystery drones with red, white and green lights resemble craft witnessed over sensitive US military bases over the past several years
‘I have about 15 minutes worth of different videos before I stopped recording and to my horror have counted AT LEAST 30,’ the witness said in a Facebook post. ‘in a complete radius approximately 10-15 miles away.’
The witness wrote that he saw at least five coming from Easton, Pennsylvania area to the northeast headed southeast towards the Flemington, NJ area.
One witness, also in the Pohatcong area, could not contain their alarm of what they were seeing late on Sunday, writing to the group: ‘From the front and back yard of my house I saw dozens, maybe hundreds from my house through out the night.’
‘These are not man made drones. These are huge,’ the witness insisted. ‘I feel like there’s nothing we can do […] We are being watched and We are being invaded.’
‘My opinion I guess but I know what I’ve been seeing,’ this Pohatcong noted.
The witness’s more practical description of Sunday’s UFO drone swarm, included some craft ‘just hovering bright white lights,’ others that were ‘silent and floating past,’ and some that were ‘very loud and look like a plane.’
The altitudes also varied, the witness said: ‘There [were] lower and higher UFOs.’
Speaking at a bill-signing event in Princeton, NY, Gov Murphy hoped to allay concerns of witnesses fearing the worst from these unexplained sightings.
‘Homeland Security, FBI, Secret Service, our State Police, authorities at all levels of government,’ the governor said, ‘we don’t see any concern for public safety.’
‘Having said that,’ Gov Murphy admitted, ‘it’s really frustrating that we don’t have more answers as to where they are coming from — and why they are doing what they are doing.’
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‘These are apparently, as I understand it, very sophisticated,’ Gov Murphy said of the UFOs. ‘The minute we get eyes on them [the drones], they go dark.’ According to one NJ local, this above image depicts roughly nine of the drones flying in from the Atlantic Ocean on Dec 5th
Significantly, the fixed-wing mystery drones with red, white and green lights resemble craft witnessed over sensitive US military bases over the past several years.
For at least 17 nights in December 2023, for example, swarms of noisy small UFOs were seen ‘moving at rapid speeds’ and displaying ‘flashing red, green, and white lights’ within the highly restricted airspace over Virginia’s Joint Base Langley–Eustis.
Gov Murphy encouraged citizens to report their sightings to the FBI and expressed concern about the UFO drones potentially probing ‘sensitive targets and sensitive critical infrastructure.’
‘We’ve got military assets; we’ve got utility assets; we’ve got one of the president-elect’s homes here,’ he noted.
Murphy also asserted that reports of ‘a couple of rumored downings’ of the drones were unsubstantiated. One, he said, was a toy and the other was never located.
NJ state senators, the mayors of 21 local towns, and the state’s representatives in Washington have been demanding more answers, more quickly.
NJ Congressman Chris Smith said he was on Long Beach Island this week investigating the mystery with Ocean County Sheriff Mike Mastronardy.
‘The tepid response from our state and federal agencies so far is totally unacceptable,’ Rep Smith said.
‘The people of New Jersey deserve swift and bold action on the part of our state and federal agencies to investigate, assess, and address the situation immediately and to alleviate the growing concerns of our community.’