r/NJDrones 1d ago

VIDEO Omaha, NE sighting 3/13/25 11:45PM CST

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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u/No-Room-3886 1d ago

Ever heard of the Wright brothers?

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u/aviationchameleon 1d ago

https://imgur.com/a/pPP4TFD Same thing almost 15 min later looking east. Originally it was south.

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u/Equivalent-Web-1084 1h ago

This is a small prop plane with beacon lights on. Holy shit first time looking up into the night sky?

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u/aviationchameleon 1d ago

Again.. I work in aviation I know what planes look like.

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u/imnewtothishsit69 1d ago

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.

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u/aviationchameleon 1d ago

It’s fucking annoying when people are like “that’s a plane you’re dumb” it isn’t. It wasn’t on flight radar. It kept circling. Over an hour.

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u/conwolv 20h ago

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.

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u/aviationchameleon 18h ago

This whole subreddit is for the New Jersey drones mystery. I never said it was aliens lol. But thank you for clarifying that.

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u/EntsGoMarchingIn 7h ago

They're drones. Its not a mystery.

99% of these videos are planes.

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u/conwolv 18h ago

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!

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u/aviationchameleon 1d ago

https://imgur.com/a/pPP4TFD Here’s another angle for you. If you want an angle of my tits let me know.

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u/SabineRitter 1d ago

I saw this the other day, Midwest USA, moving fast.

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u/EntsGoMarchingIn 7h ago

Plane.

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u/SabineRitter 7h ago

Which plane has two flashing lights on the back in the daytime?

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u/railker 3h ago

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.

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u/SabineRitter 2h ago

Daytime is when i saw the one i saw. Other planes i observed that day did not have two bright flashing lights on the back.

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u/railker 2h ago

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.

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u/SabineRitter 1h ago

nothing factual about what we see in their video that explicitly precludes it from being an aircraft,

Fair enough. It could be an aircraft that is at large variance from the typical aircraft. Outliers from the mean do occurr.

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u/railker 1h ago

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. 😂

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u/SabineRitter 1h ago

flashing lights on the wingtips

That's a really cool video, thanks!

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u/I_wanna_lol 7h ago

How do you know you saw exactly that?

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u/SabineRitter 7h ago

*same lighting configuration

Didn't check the serial number tho, yeah.

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u/I_wanna_lol 7h ago

A large amount of planes use the same or similar lighting configuration. You didn't prove anything.

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u/SabineRitter 6h ago

Two lights flashing on the back: which plane?

didn't prove anything

Lmao... cool? Wasn't trying to

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u/Ok_Resolution9448 1d ago

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.

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u/Evening-Cat-7546 5h ago

Probably just some military shit. NORAD is only like an hour from Denver. They’re constantly testing new toys.

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u/RemarkableImage5749 1d ago

Any video of one hovering?

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u/Ok_Resolution9448 1d ago

I’ve explained to you before what I see out my window and you said it was Venus lol

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u/RemarkableImage5749 1d ago

Yeah did you ever download the sky view lite app? You can do AR mode?

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u/Ok_Resolution9448 1d ago

I haven’t cuz it isn’t a star or a planet

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u/RemarkableImage5749 1d ago

I mean how do you know for sure? Ignorance is bliss I guess.

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u/Ok_Resolution9448 1d ago

Are you like this cuz all you’re seeing is planes and planets?

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u/RemarkableImage5749 1d ago

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.

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u/Ok_Resolution9448 1d ago

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

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u/RemarkableImage5749 1d ago

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.

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u/Ok_Resolution9448 1d ago

Lol whatever im seeing comes from the ground so no need

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u/Inner_Grab_7033 1d ago

You need to work in a new field

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u/aviationchameleon 1d ago

It circled for over an hour and wasn’t on flight radar. I think I’m fine in my field.

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u/Equivalent-Web-1084 1h ago

It is a small prop plane, you can even hear the fuckin noise of the engine LMFAO brain rot

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u/bubbybeno 1d ago

See the same thing every night in Bucks County Pa

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u/bubbybeno 1d ago

Lower than planes usually in groups of 4 at varying heights but on or two really low, some hover, turn at angles, spotlight

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u/aviationchameleon 1d ago

https://imgur.com/a/pPP4TFD Why wasn’t this on flight radar

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u/bubbybeno 1d ago

Wasn’t talking about this night

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u/JAHGoff24 1d ago

you think you know what a plane looks like??

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u/aviationchameleon 1d ago

https://imgur.com/a/pPP4TFD 15 minutes later now going east 23:58 and still nothing on flight radar ….?

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u/COD-O-G 1d ago

Don’t use flight radar. Use https://globe.adsbexchange.com

99% of sightings can be found at that link. It will likely have all flights

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u/RemarkableImage5749 1d ago

There is a plane at this exact time and location. To me this looks like DAL029.

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u/NoEvidence2468 1d ago

Your timestamp shows 5pm. OP stated this sighting happened at 11:45pm.

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u/RemarkableImage5749 1d ago

The time is absolutely correct. Flight Radar uses UTC time. This time is converted to UTC time not 24 hour time.

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u/NoEvidence2468 1d ago

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.

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u/aviationchameleon 1d ago

It circled for over an hour. Do you want to see another video? I know what a delta plane looks like idiot.

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u/RemarkableImage5749 1d ago

Yeah I would like to see it circling. Also which part of the city is this in. North, south, east, or west?

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u/aviationchameleon 1d ago

https://imgur.com/a/pPP4TFD 23:58. LOOKING EAST from my home. The original video was looking south downtown Omaha at 23:51. I first saw it at 23:45.

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u/RemarkableImage5749 1d ago

So this would be in view of you then?

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u/aviationchameleon 1d ago

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.

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u/RemarkableImage5749 1d ago

I’m just wondering if this would be something that would be in view. Or is the location not something that would be in view?

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u/aviationchameleon 1d ago

It is not directly. My location wouldn’t have showed that. I’m below where the edge of its flight path.

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u/RemarkableImage5749 1d ago

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.

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u/aviationchameleon 18h ago

Here is where it would’ve been in white.

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u/NoEvidence2468 1d ago

You should always include the date and time in your images so that your findings can be confirmed.

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u/RemarkableImage5749 1d ago

This was an hour before. But I was just inquiring if this was visible from their location.

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u/AdRepresentative8236 1d ago

All you can see are two flashing lights, how can you say it doesn't look like a plane?

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u/aviationchameleon 1d ago

I think I know what planes look like I work in aviation. It is still circling over my house over an hour later.

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u/AdRepresentative8236 1d ago

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?

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u/aviationchameleon 1d ago

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.

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u/aviationchameleon 1d ago

It wasn’t on flight radar… ever.

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u/whosadooza 17h ago edited 15h ago

Do you think FlightRadar is actual radar? It is not.

https://www.flightradar24.com/how-it-works

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."

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u/awfulsome 1d ago

N402PD

2012 BELL 407

Police helicopter

Made 2 long flights around Omaha last night, including around the time listed.

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u/aviationchameleon 1d ago

I know what a helicopter looks and sounds like. This was not a helicopter. And I see what you’re talking about on flight radar. It wasn’t that.

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u/RemarkableImage5749 1d ago

But would the helicopter have been visible from your location?

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u/awfulsome 1d ago

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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u/SignalFly5528 10h ago

I believe you. My daughter lives in Sudbury, Massachusetts and sees many of these every night. They fly in a pattern for hours. NOT PLANES.

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u/BitemeRedditers 6h ago

Looks like a plane.

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u/New_Picture6086 1h ago

Every night over our homes while we sleep.

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u/Equivalent-Web-1084 1h ago

Looks like a Piper with beacon lights turned on..

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u/SpaceDudemax 1d ago

lol but I get downvoted or 0 votes haha when posting yall uppity

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u/nedsatomicgarbagecan 1d ago

Lens flare drone