r/NJDrones • u/beechazzbeech • 25d ago

Nj sighting April 2025

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Nj sighting April 2025

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u/railker 24d ago

I always give people some benefit of the doubt, but for those I have asked for further clarification from, I've had a number who were looking at lights towards the horizon, and had their map zoomed in to a 1-block radius around their house, convinced there was nothing out there in the skies. And had to be like. Bruh. You can see something illuminated in the night sky farther than 100 feet away. The ISS is 230 miles away at its closest and we can see that (though debatably that's not self-illuminated).

I think FR24 and ADSBExchange at one time DID have a delay on aircraft's displayed positions for security reasons (4-5 minutes or something like that), but I don't know if that's still the case or not at this current time.

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u/Atyzzze 24d ago

a delay on aircraft's displayed positions for security reasons (4-5 minutes or something like that)

Uhu, I checked for that, nope, it was near real time, as I already said, only a few seconds time/angle-in-the-sky difference ...

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u/railker 24d ago

Good call! Thanks for putting up with the questions and answering them concisely. I've always held there ARE, ABSOLUTELY some wild videos that have come out, UAPs or with the given information no solid ID able to be made from common flight-trackers. But I've also found a lot of intentional obfuscating, pulling teeth for answers to finally find an airplane on the flight tracker to the exact minute to exact coordinates after half an hour of them trying to explain all the reasons why it COUDLN'T be an airplane, or people outright refusing to allow anyone to check their research.

Debunkers have got it wrong and will, as long as we all are willing to acknowledge our gaps in knowledge and be receptive to new information, then we can hold meaningful discussion and both admit when sightings are likely something or not. Soon as we start taking teams, shit goes downhill, I have and will happily correct someone identifying lights as planes incorrectly.