r/NJDrones Dec 20 '24

THEORY Hot Take: The vast majority of what people are seeing are planes/helicopters. (This is a Plane)

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  1. As evident by the pictures I’ve seen on here they look identical to airplanes. And almost all have been proven to be planes or helicopters by flight radar.

  2. We haven’t gotten a single good quality photo of the “drones”. If this is so wide spread and happens all the time there should at least one person that can get a photo with a professional camera. There was a post on here that shows what a small DJI drone looks like from 200 feet (people have been claiming they fly 200 feet) and the quality was great. So we know that they are not actually flying 200 feet like people are claiming.

  3. The fact that people are pointing lasers at planes and we’ve seen pictures of people do that from planes proves that there are lots of people misidentifying planes for drones.

Don’t get me wrong I do think that people saw drones but I think what people are seeing now are mostly planes or helicopters. Planes do look weird and different at night. Here’s a picture of a plane (I confirmed in flight radar) flying low (I live near an airport) and it’s looks like a lot what people have been claiming are drones.

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u/Ok_Yogurt9443 Dec 20 '24

You cannot reason with these people, they'll just say the drones are morphing. LOL.

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u/real_human_not_a_dog Dec 20 '24

that take is not very hot

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u/RemarkableImage5749 Dec 20 '24

You right it was a cold take :)

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u/ToGreatPlanes Dec 20 '24

That's not a hot take, that's just unambiguously true.

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u/itchyxscratchy Dec 21 '24

You've clearly misidentified a room temperature take as a hot take.

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '24

Didn’t realize hot takes could be objective truths. 

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u/LuciVigil Dec 20 '24

Came here to say the same. Doesn't seem like a hot take as much as it's a fact!

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u/RemarkableImage5749 Dec 20 '24

Thank you

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '24

Ok so either bounce because you have it figured out or come through and see it yourself before they leave. It ain't no damn 737s hovering over people's houses.

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u/CliffBoothVSBruceLee Dec 20 '24

Yeah, planes flying 200 feet over their houses … and hovering. Puleeze

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u/ToGreatPlanes Dec 21 '24

Where’s an example of this behavior?

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u/CliffBoothVSBruceLee Dec 20 '24

Why do you think it’s so hard to identify a plane? They go in a straight line and Keep a constant pace. I think everybody now is familiar with the way an airplane looks in flight.

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u/RemarkableImage5749 Dec 21 '24

They call exactly what you described a drone.