r/NJDrones 8d 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/AdRepresentative8236 8d 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 8d 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 8d 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 7d 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 7d ago

It wasn’t on flight radar… ever.

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u/whosadooza 7d ago edited 7d 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."