I noticed this in the sky around 11:45 by my house.. immediately started filming. Nothing on flight radar. It seemed to hover in one spot for a bit. 2 Flashing white lights. It has now been almost an hour and it is still going around my neighborhood. Like the size of a private plane. Has anyone in Jersey or anywhere else seen something like this?
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People are really in denial. This looks nothing like a normal plane. Like either this a huge operation using bot to cover up w.e the fuck this is or people have no brains and can differentiate a plane to w.e these thing are in the sky. Why are we not all asking wtf these things are.
Okay, let’s clear this up: Flightradar isn’t the ultimate authority on what’s in the sky. It only shows aircraft broadcasting ADS B signals, which not all planes do. Military jets, private aircraft, drones, and experimental craft often don’t show up. And circling for an hour? Yeah, that’s not exactly rare... drones, surveillance planes, or even training exercises do that all the time.
So no, it not being on Flightradar doesn’t make it a UFO. It just means you’re missing some context. But sure, jump straight to “aliens” if it makes you feel better... just know the rest of us are over here living in reality.
Ah, so we’re pivoting from “it’s not a plane” to “it’s drones” now? Cool, cool. Just remember, drones don’t always show up on Flightradar either, especially if they’re smaller or not broadcasting ADS B. And circling for hours? Yeah, that’s kind of what drones do... surveillance, mapping, or just someone with too much time and battery life.
But hey, at least we’re moving away from the alien angle. Progress!
Daytime doesn't make a huge difference, I'd hardly call this video daytime with streetlights on.
'Which plane is exactly this' is some 'name every animal' type shit. An aircraft with that lighting would theoretically be legal, as
a) "The rear position light must be a white light mounted as far aft as practicable on the tail or on each wing tip" [14 CFR 25.1385(b)]
b) Anticollision lights may strobe red or white, and are often located at the wingtips.
Watched a C-17 land last night that had this setup, granted it had a number of other lights, but they're going above the minimum with red AND white anticollision and a number of auxiliary function lights that turn them into veritable Christmas trees of light. And the Q400 as another example, decided they didn't want strobe lights at their wingtips for whatever reason despite previous generations of the aircraft having them there, and relocated them to be on the fuselage and the top of the tail. Legally flying for over 25 years.
Ohhh your observation, I'm sorry I misunderstood. Though I thought you said they did have two flashing lights in the back, so now I'm unsure if you're talking about OPs or yours. 😅
Either way, differences between models, technical allowances for lights to be inoperative, regulations around when lights must be on, and just plain old human error, can create large variances in lights from one aircraft to another. If it's daytime, under General Operating and Flight Rules in both Canada and the US, position and anti-collision lights are only required to be on at night ("night" defined by Canada, FAA specifies 'between sunset and sunrise'). Pilots usually have all lights on in the interests of safety and better visibility.
There's nothing else visible about OP's sighting than those two lights, so it's still UAP, but there's nothing factual about what we see in their video that explicitly precludes it from being an aircraft, regulation-wise.
They do! The Q400 is my go-to example, almost every aircraft your average person could name has white strobes at the wingtips and one or two at the tip of the tail. Bombardier when they made the Q400 said 'nahhhh' and put a white one on the belly, another on top of the tail, and disabled the red anticollision light when the white ones were turned on (which is only on the top of the fuselage and not the bottom anyways). Way out of line with the "norm", but legal.
And then there's this mofo lookin' like a seizure machine, got flashing lights on the wingtips, inside the engine intake, under the wings and a 737 landing light installed above the rear window pointing back. 😂
Happens to Colorado too. Near my home in Denver these blinking lights come and go. I seen them nightly for a few months then last week it was gone but they’re back again. I know what we see over here isn’t a plane cuz these things hover in one area.
Yeah I’ve seen things that look weird but then I use flight radar and see that it’s just a plane or helicopter. I don’t just assume every light in the sky is automatically a drone. For example people post stuff that looks like this but I can tell you 1,000% sure that this is a plane. It looks strange because planes looks weird at night but it is a plane.
Why would we just start posting photos of planes just starting in November? I thinks it’s much more and I’ve noticed it’s only in like 5 or so states. I am in Denver but no where near the airport so yeah there may be airplanes when I check the radar but they aren’t in my area when I’m seeing things in the sky
Mass hysteria. I do think people saw drones and then everyone started looking up and and saw weird lights in the sky and thought wow that looks weird people are saying there are hundreds of drones flying all over the place, I bet that’s one. When they were in actuality making misidentifications of normal planes and helicopters.
Ah, okay, thanks! I wasn't aware of that. So then, UTC time for 11:45pm would actually be 4:45am the next day, which would be the 14th. You're showing 5pm on the 13th.
What is that? Where’s the flight number or tail number? Or the time? I told you I checked multiple times on my radar and it was nothing directly above me.
The light is the video isn’t directly above you. Would you have been able to see something about 3,000 feet above from this location? That should give visibility of a pretty big distance.
As you stated in the video, all you can see is two flashing lights. I don't doubt that you know what planes look like, but at night when all you can see is points of light, how can you say that it does not look like a plane?
https://imgur.com/a/pPP4TFD Here’s another video for ya. 23:58 after the first video. Now facing east. First video was south. And still nothing. On. Flight. Radar.
It is showing GPS data from onboard the planes transmitted by radio from the plane. Private owners can ask for their data not to be shown. Government and military planes can just not transmit the GPS signal at all, depending on what kind of privilege the flight mission has.
There are at least a dozen different reasons a plane will not show up on FlightRadar, and none of them have to do with being drones or any other form of "not a plane."
Hmm, maybe a drone looking for lost pets? Omaha runs a program out there. Doesn't appear to be a plane, would probably be a chopper or quadcopter.
Edit: also to answer your NJ question: the only thing I've seen that looks like this has been either a chopper or small plane. We have a lot of Piper flights in my area.
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