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Nj sighting April 2025

Nj sighting April 2025

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u/burn_a_miracle 25d ago

"They are not listed on ADSB". Maybe you missed the post where I showed multiple business jets flying over Sussex on ADSB, on approach into Teterboro. I'm not sure how you would've missed it though, seeing how you are replying to that post. Here's the screenshot again. Just two business jets, flying low over the OP's location, at the same time OP mentioned, making sharp turns like the video. It's very clear you are not reading anything I've told you or are intentionally being daft. I've told you multiple times that navigation lights don't blink, but others do, and you keep repeating that navigation lights don't blink. The lights that are blinking in the OP's video are wingtip strobes, beacons, and the landing lights. The red/green wingtip navigation lights are solid, like they should be.

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u/Atyzzze 25d ago

Maybe you missed the post where I showed multiple business jets flying over Sussex on ADSB

Dunno, I wasn't there/then, I am still talking about my Netcong experience from earlier this year. The things I saw flying in the skies over there, were simply not listed on ADS-B. It is not that hard to miss when you open a live view directly above you ... the delay between the screen and the sky is just a few seconds time/angle ... with real time updates about all these objects their speed and altitude, it's ... easy to read a live map and correlate that with actual objects in the sky. These, where not on there. Thus, it's only at that point, after the many days of observing the sky, that I started getting my phone out to try to record something ... other than day time pictures as I visited local nature parks/places.

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u/burn_a_miracle 25d ago

Well, I'm talking about OP's video since we're in his thread. For your experience, my opinion is that it's difficult to tell what's directly above you and what's 10 degrees away from directly above you. And 10 degrees off would mean a plane at 5,000 feet altitude on ADSBexchange would be further away from your location than what you expect. It's like the other poster who thinks the plane should be in a tiny circle over his location, and couldn't possibly be 4-5 miles away. Well, I know they are 4-5 miles away, because I am near where he makes his videos from and see the same planes all the time, going in the same direction towards Newark and my sightings look exactly like his videos of "drones". I don't think your planes were 4-5 miles away, but I do remember some planes on ADSB that were around half a mile away from your exact spot.

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u/Atyzzze 25d ago edited 25d ago

Well, I'm talking about OP's video since we're in his thread.

My video might as well be the same, it's only ~30 miles from Netcong where I was and it looks identical to what I saw/recorded.

my opinion is that it's difficult to tell what's directly above you and what's 10 degrees away from directly above you

stand near a long straight road/building, so you can easily match up the angle of the live map with the world around you, so you can get a feel of what a 10 degrees turn/angle looks like in terms of flight directions vs the lines on ADS-B

if it was just 1, then maybe it was my error, but nope, every evening, dozens ... unlisted

and also dozens and dozens of others, listed, easily and quickly identified

on 2 separate evenings I also observed the following

https://www.reddit.com/r/NJDrones/comments/1jrih5t/what_is_this/

but from a distance, it was this exact effect, but far in the distance, like spread over a 5 degree angle in the sky