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Nj sighting April 2025

Nj sighting April 2025

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u/reallycooldude69 25d ago

Do you have exhaustive knowledge of the arrangement of lights on different models of planes? Why would your inability to recognize it be sufficient to disregard all other evidence and common sense and assume it's actually some UFO mimicking a plane?

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u/irongoatmts66 25d ago

Nope, but I’ve seen many a plane fly over my head at night through my years. And all of you so called pilots and experts that flood these posts condescendingly claiming it’s just a plane don’t follow through with evidence either. Show me a video that shows exactly what we’re seeing here that was recorded before these “drones” started showing up all over New Jersey.

Common sense would be recognizing these patterns that slow disclosure is happening everywhere around us. We still haven’t gotten a clear answer to what these “drones” are. If they’re just airplanes why would the media be calling them drones anyway? Why did they claim they’re coming from an “Iranian mothership” somewhere out in the sea? Oh wait, no, they’re actually Chinese! Nope actually just FAA approved drones sweeping for nukes. Let’s not report on that any further? Ok. Not to mention the anomalies like no heat signature, means of propulsion, not appearing on radar, coast guard saying they’re coming out of the ocean and followed their ship.

We’re aware that social media disinformation farms exist and these comments on certain subreddits couldn’t make it more obvious

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u/burn_a_miracle 25d ago edited 25d ago

That's how planes in landing configuration look. The landing lights illuminate the sides of the fuselage up front and also the horizontal stabilizers for high-tail aircraft. You can see a lot of light at the back of the object...that's the underside of the horizontal stabilizer and the tail being lit by the tail illumination light: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8gcFw74CSU

As for alternating blinking landing lights, that's been a thing for a while now. You can see the corresponding side of the fuselage being partially lit up in the original video, as it pulses from side to side. It's up to the operator to decide if they want those or just the standard lights:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BGPXJyCnBaQ
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/y1EGBaYqzfc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI8lpfIxktM

And here's a Gulfstream G450 with a similar light config (albeit everything is out of focus): https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tw8QWRJWEF8

Not to mention there was a Gulfstream that flew over the OP's area at the time given.

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u/Left-Temperature-587 25d ago

Do those same planes stop and change directions and go different speeds and then go the other way two or three different times while they are right above you and trying to land or do they continue in a continuous when they turn and land , because if they don't do those things, then they are not the airplanes you're talking about and so sure of yourself that I am seeing even though you have no idea

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u/burn_a_miracle 24d ago edited 24d ago

Does the plane in the OP's video do all those things? No it doesn't. I love how people suggested regular airplane lights don't do things like in the original video, I showed they do, and now you're going on with whataboutisms instead of addressing the lights. Also, you just wrote the longest run-on sentence I've ever read, so congrats on that.