Why hasn't anyone shot down one of the New Jersey drones?
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And the debris that would fall over NJ – in peoples’ back yards and over shopping centers and schools….
Seems idiotic to shoot down drones and kill people on the ground as a result.
Well, I did say it was a no brainer!
On the other hand, this is a made-for-ESPN name for a basketball team: The New Jersey Drones.
Here is my “conspiracy theory” reasoning. No one knows who is behind the drones or what is in them. What if they shot down the drones and there was some kind of plague or disease inside of them that would rain droplets down on innocent civilians, killing or sickening millions?
On the news, they said it’s illegal for a regular Joe person to shoot them down.
Chris Christie said he thinks it’s going to lead to vigilanteism, because someone is going to get pissed and take matters into their own hands.
@jca2 I agree. I suspect they are flying targets waiting for someone to shoot at them, so the law can swoop them up.
The drones, are just a clever distraction.
The real threat, is tunneling under our feet!
Not shooting it down is the correct brainer.
I think it is very odd for drones to be flying around at night. I know a lot of people who have drones, and I can’t think of them having any video of night time flights. I’m sure you all have seen that I am hopeful it is going to be a holiday drone show.
A week ago my mom said the government should shoot one down or capture one and then we will know more about them. LOL. Makes sense. I wonder if they could capture a drone? Maybe send a helicopter to drop a net and grab one.
Shooting one down wouldn’t be as easy as it sounds. Depending on how high it is in the air, the bullets may or may not have enough ummph to get to the drone and you could end up with bullets falling back to Earth. Then you have the question of being able to hit one. I heard that some of those are the size of a car. But try shooting a car that is half a mile away and is moving. It isn’t all that easy. And you end up again with bullets coming back to Earth if you miss. If you manage to hit it, you could cause it to fall to Earth and be responsible for any damage done as it falls. And likely the feds would try to find you to charge you with terrorist charges or some such nonsense if you managed to hit one.
It’s a Federal crime to shoot down a drone.
I would think the government can get a very close up view of the drones and also follow them back to their owners.
You might want to fly a drone at night if you are using a thermal camera and are looking to do an informal census of homeless/unhoused living on the street in cold weather.
You would fly at night to do an informal urban wildlife study of animal behaviors and movements: bat populations, bird roosting, coyote, fox, rat concentrations.
^All good answers. But why wouldn’t someone come forward to say that it’s them?
Maybe they didn’t get permits. Or didn’t want people to know they were doing the survey.
It could even be a roofing contractor looking for potential customers by studying heat loss from houses and buildings. “Check it out! 123 Cherry Lane is leaking heat like sieve! They need a new roof.”
@LuckyGuy Roof drones would be daytime. Funny, a friend of mine who is an engineer and his latest part of his career was an expert witness in court cases for structural collapses and construction problems. He has a drone and noticed during one flight a large grocery store had a problem with their building. He went to tell the store and they barely batted an eye. No thank you, nothing, It was like the manager didn’t even understand what he was saying. He tried.
A couple of gut feelings: (not supported by any evidence)
1) the US government knows exactly who is flying these drones, and why. They haven’t admitted it because the reason, whatever it is, is not something they want publicized. So that suggests something nefarious.
2) why the east coast and mid-Atlantic states? Easy. They voted democratic. Somehow these drones and their surveillance are connected to politics and voting strength. Don’t know how or why (yet) but there is a connection.
3) Why at night? As someone else said, the drones can use thermal sensing to spot human bodies. (or drug labs, or ???)
Will we find out? Eventually. One of them will crash. It won’t be China or North Korea that is flying the drones. It will be some governmental agency.
Can we jam their signal? Is that illegal?
@filmfann no they cannot shoot them down !
Here is what changed – - – FAA in 2023 allowed drones to fly after dark !
All the sightings are after dark ! DUH !
I still think some drones are FBI checking up on cash deliveries to Trump at Bedminster Resort. by foreighn governments !
I mean, some politicians have practically been calling on people to shoot them down. I would attempt it and then say I was concerned about Chinese or Iranian spy craft.
This honestly just sounds like the balloon saga all over again.
The ones in question are not operating on regular drone frequencies so systems designed to shut them down are not working. They’re also sending out the same jamming signals so regular drones cannot intercept them (people have tried). Whatever frequencies they are using are unlikely to be FCC approved. That being the case, they’re flying illegally regardless if they’re in restricted airspace or not. Clearly not mass hysteria, “slight over reactions” or other bullshit. We are just not being told the truth, full stop. Beyond that is pure speculation.
Someone on Twitter mistakenly saw Orion’s belt as a group of drones…
Someone on Nextdoor was wondering why they could see the moon at 3pm
Not surprised we are losing touch with outer space.
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