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PCIntern

(27,895 posts)
Sun Dec 22, 2024, 11:10 PM Dec 2024

Just saw something out my back window

South Jersey at the shore. Severe clear sky.

Two flying crafts, red lights or glow in the middle of each, converging at high speed. Changed direction suddenly, no curved arc. Wife saw it first - no noise as they passed by. Gone in a few seconds.

Not saying what it was or wasn’t. No bullshit. Too cold to stand outside and watch for any length of time. Watching now from kitchen window.

One craft is back and it looks like a jet is chasing it -we are proximal to NAFEC. FAST! Gone….

We know what the F-16’s sound like even at night. They are a constant down here. The first viewing definitely was not a fighter. The second, yes. Could not discern distant sounds because inside the house.

Not BSing. Moved awfully fast for a propeller-driven aircraft IMO.

Now another, likely over the ocean much higher and FAST.

And another round…jet following and as it caught up, the jet seemed to drop in altitude , disappeared behind houses.

It is an atypical night sky visualization- think what thou wilt.

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Just saw something out my back window (Original Post) PCIntern Dec 2024 OP
Sounds (and probably looks too) pretty interesting, my dear PCIntern! CaliforniaPeggy Dec 2024 #1
My wife is a sort of skeptic. PCIntern Dec 2024 #2
I'm not surprised. Sometimes skeptics convert fast and easily! nt CaliforniaPeggy Dec 2024 #5
My husband was until he saw a few... Bluethroughu Dec 2024 #8
Hoo nose? PCIntern Dec 2024 #24
This message was self-deleted by its author Iggo Dec 2024 #3
Is local news reporting it? questionseverything Dec 2024 #4
WOW! elleng Dec 2024 #6
I believe they did. arthritisR_US Dec 2024 #12
Wow! LoisB Dec 2024 #7
I've heard accounts that there are high altitude ones going mac 25 IbogaProject Dec 2024 #9
heard where? Happy Hoosier Dec 2024 #33
Some one who works in emergency preparedness not a prepper but actual Gov consulting IbogaProject Dec 2024 #37
Y'know, if you ask your friends if they've ever seen a UFO Seinan Sensei Dec 2024 #10
OK I WILL ASK Katcat Dec 2024 #11
LOL - fair enough Seinan Sensei Dec 2024 #16
Aliens bringing a book to Earthlings: "To Serve Man"? BlueWaveNeverEnd Dec 2024 #13
Keep your hopes up. usonian Dec 2024 #20
lol BlueWaveNeverEnd Dec 2024 #23
Based on the title I thought maybe Santa got an early start. StarryNite Dec 2024 #14
It's from the Simpsons NoRethugFriends Dec 2024 #19
No camera? Yikes. usonian Dec 2024 #15
my neighbor and friend saw one two nights ago NJCher Dec 2024 #17
My friend, wondered why her do was barking at the back door Mossfern Dec 2024 #26
I hear helicopters above my home all the time.. wnylib Dec 2024 #28
Helicopters over my house are not usual Mossfern Dec 2024 #31
So what do you think the helicopters are doing? wnylib Dec 2024 #32
I have no idea Mossfern Dec 2024 #34
I'd go with the most ordinary explanation. wnylib Dec 2024 #36
Wasn't there just recently a slew of news reports about this? calimary Dec 2024 #18
First Snooki, now this. Hasn't New Jersey suffered enough? nt Buns_of_Fire Dec 2024 #21
"Watch the Skies" Mike 03 Dec 2024 #22
The Thing from Another World, released April 6, 1951 Mariana Dec 2024 #25
Just ten days ago, a bright white light with a red light in the center was seen in the evening here in Western PA. n/t John1956PA Dec 2024 #27
Where in western PA? Closer to Pittsburgh or to Erie? wnylib Dec 2024 #29
Forty miles north of Pittsburgh. John1956PA Dec 2024 #30
Oh. Too far away for me. If it was close to Erie, wnylib Dec 2024 #35
One of the facebook groups I follow was talking about something very similar Sugarcoated Dec 2024 #38

Bluethroughu

(7,215 posts)
8. My husband was until he saw a few...
Sun Dec 22, 2024, 11:41 PM
Dec 2024

Up, down, right, or left...nothing Convention air craft can do. Speeds not even possible for jet fighter.

Maybe you saw the real deal, but the ones we saw were only one white round light per craft.

Response to PCIntern (Original post)

IbogaProject

(5,492 posts)
9. I've heard accounts that there are high altitude ones going mac 25
Mon Dec 23, 2024, 12:04 AM
Dec 2024

Whew, wonder what it is all about.

IbogaProject

(5,492 posts)
37. Some one who works in emergency preparedness not a prepper but actual Gov consulting
Mon Dec 23, 2024, 05:17 PM
Dec 2024

He is under the impression there is a concern for trouble in a container which are being scanned at night, but they could just walk around the ports and do that unless the container got further into our country.

My uninformed opinion is there is a plot to stage a fake alien invasion to allow for martial law. Personally I don't believe in aliens and Rosewell happened just after the first Nazi scientists came after the war.

Seinan Sensei

(1,291 posts)
10. Y'know, if you ask your friends if they've ever seen a UFO
Mon Dec 23, 2024, 12:24 AM
Dec 2024

A large percentage will say yes, they have

Seinan Sensei

(1,291 posts)
16. LOL - fair enough
Mon Dec 23, 2024, 12:49 AM
Dec 2024

No, not really
Certainly not on the order described in this thread
But several trusted and sober-minded friends, when asked, say they have
That is, they saw SOMETHING which they could not IDENTIFY

usonian

(22,900 posts)
20. Keep your hopes up.
Mon Dec 23, 2024, 04:03 AM
Dec 2024


Nothing here in the Sierras, but there's no dinner guest like the boy from Bedminster here.

Maybe Kanamits like unhappy meals.

StarryNite

(11,942 posts)
14. Based on the title I thought maybe Santa got an early start.
Mon Dec 23, 2024, 12:37 AM
Dec 2024

But nope, not a joke. Things really are getting weird. Please keep us posted on anymore sightings.

NJCher

(42,179 posts)
17. my neighbor and friend saw one two nights ago
Mon Dec 23, 2024, 01:07 AM
Dec 2024

This is Northern NJ, Essex County. He was in the Whole Foods parking lot, looking for a space when he spotted it above the store. He tried to get his window down so he could take a pic with his iPhone but wasn't able to. He said it was hovering above the WF and then quickly rose up into a cloud. I should have asked him for the color of the lights.

Yours sound considerably more exciting.

Mossfern

(4,569 posts)
26. My friend, wondered why her do was barking at the back door
Mon Dec 23, 2024, 07:16 AM
Dec 2024

She went outside - and yup. There was a "drone". We live next door to Montclair in Verona. We've also been hearing helicopters above our house. We live a couple hundred feet from the lake.

It's gotten to a point that people are taking it as a matter fact occurrence.

wnylib

(25,355 posts)
28. I hear helicopters above my home all the time..
Mon Dec 23, 2024, 07:46 AM
Dec 2024

I'm in a small city with one hospital. When someone needs special care that's not available locally, they are flown by helicopter to a larger city hospital, usually to Buffalo.

The local hospital is about 8 blocks away from my apartment building.

Mossfern

(4,569 posts)
31. Helicopters over my house are not usual
Mon Dec 23, 2024, 12:38 PM
Dec 2024

Typically it's for tracking a criminal ....
I live on a County park.

Mossfern

(4,569 posts)
34. I have no idea
Mon Dec 23, 2024, 12:48 PM
Dec 2024

At times I prefer to live in my own little world.
There are too many other important things to worry about and I'm about at my limit

If aliens want to kidnap me, I would consider it a cool adventure. If they're gathering information about me through some sort of spying - cool too. If it's Musk spying on me, then I'll paint a "Fuck You" on my roof.

My sincerest hope it that the helicopters are tracing populations of deer for the next cull in February.

wnylib

(25,355 posts)
36. I'd go with the most ordinary explanation.
Mon Dec 23, 2024, 01:01 PM
Dec 2024

I read about a saying in medicine that I can't quote exactly, but its meaning is that when you encounter symptoms, rule out the usual diseases before leaping to the rare ones. If you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras. (Unless you're at a clinic in Africa. )

calimary

(88,695 posts)
18. Wasn't there just recently a slew of news reports about this?
Mon Dec 23, 2024, 01:17 AM
Dec 2024

Very recently, like in the last couple of days or so.

Mike 03

(18,690 posts)
22. "Watch the Skies"
Mon Dec 23, 2024, 04:22 AM
Dec 2024

tagline for Close Encounters of the Third Kind (released December 14, 1977)



John1956PA

(4,675 posts)
27. Just ten days ago, a bright white light with a red light in the center was seen in the evening here in Western PA. n/t
Mon Dec 23, 2024, 07:21 AM
Dec 2024

John1956PA

(4,675 posts)
30. Forty miles north of Pittsburgh.
Mon Dec 23, 2024, 08:09 AM
Dec 2024

Three people whom I know to be reliable witnesses saw the object. It remained stationary in the southwestern sky for over half an hour. It finally ascended out of sight. It was about five times as bright as Venus, which is bright in its own right this month.

wnylib

(25,355 posts)
35. Oh. Too far away for me. If it was close to Erie,
Mon Dec 23, 2024, 12:53 PM
Dec 2024

I might get a glimpse since I'm in western NY. But the skies here are always so cloudy or snow filled that we often can't see the moon, let alone drones or UFOs. This would be a poor place for a drone performance to get our attention.

Sugarcoated

(8,234 posts)
38. One of the facebook groups I follow was talking about something very similar
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 02:11 AM
Dec 2024

The Sea Isle group, I think

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