Drones overhead tonight (many)
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Has anyone even considered that maybe, just maybe, Santa has acquired AI technology and is now seeing who's naughty or nice?
This this was actually an interesting bit of news, bc this is what would be actually happening all over if there were any real drone sightings, by pilots....
BREAKING... Drone activity shuts down Stewart Airport - Mid Hudson News
NEWBURGH – The runways at New York Stewart International Airport near Newburgh were shut down for about an hour Friday night because of drone activity in the airspace and Governor Kathy Hochul is furious. “This has gone too far,” she said Saturday. Stewart is a commercial, corporate and general...midhudsonnews.com
However, from this article....
Drone sighting temporarily shuts down runways at New York airport
A frustrated Gov. Kathy Hochul has called for federal assistance after the latest drone sighting hampered air travel Friday night.
abcnews.go.com
Officials at Stewart International Airport, located roughly 60 miles north of New York City, said they shut down their runways for an hour after the Federal Aviation Administration alerted them that a drone was spotted in the area around 9:30 p.m.
"There were no impacts to flight operations during the closure," the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said in a statement.
Stewart is a pretty quiet airport, like dead quiet compared to ewr or jfk.... So there was nothing going on in this hour the shut down the runway.... And the reports came from the FAA so were they passing on a public report? No traffic so they had no pilot reports? Interesting on its face but not really any meat there
Cole
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This is probably not how I would promote my business with government contracts...
pibbles
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This this was actually an interesting bit of news, bc this is what would be actually happening all over if there were any real drone sightings, by pilots....
However, from this article....
Drone sighting temporarily shuts down runways at New York airport
A frustrated Gov. Kathy Hochul has called for federal assistance after the latest drone sighting hampered air travel Friday night.
Officials at Stewart International Airport, located roughly 60 miles north of New York City, said they shut down their runways for an hour after the Federal Aviation Administration alerted them that a drone was spotted in the area around 9:30 p.m.
"There were no impacts to flight operations during the closure," the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said in a statement.
Stewart is a pretty quiet airport, like dead quiet compared to ewr or jfk.... So there was nothing going on in this hour the shut down the runway.... And the reports came from the FAA so were they passing on a public report? No traffic so they had no pilot reports? Interesting on its face but not really any meat there
Do you think the pilots can see your pile of pallets in the woods on approach to Stewart?
mfennell
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About a month ago, my colleagues were requested to bring our equipment and software to [REDACTED] at a site in [REDACTED]. This was before it was in the news. Call it mistaken airplaines all you want (and that's probably a lot of the sightings) but something is definitely going on. Another former coleague was recently at [REDACTED] for a test event with his company's system. They saw drones every night. I believe him. Yes, he knows what flightaware is.
I have not seen any. I'll allow that being directly under a jet in the pattern looks an awful lot like a drone ... until you hear it.
The whole thing sent me down the drone rathole. DJI has an agricultural devision that makes crop dusters that can carry as much as 50kg. Small friends and a 50kg weight limit result in predictible mayhem.
I have not seen any. I'll allow that being directly under a jet in the pattern looks an awful lot like a drone ... until you hear it.
The whole thing sent me down the drone rathole. DJI has an agricultural devision that makes crop dusters that can carry as much as 50kg. Small friends and a 50kg weight limit result in predictible mayhem.
serviceguy
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Karate Monkey
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This looks like a job for @UtahJoe
that said i call BS that they were running full afterburner for any extended period of time over NJ. that would put them well over the Mach1 limit over US landmass.
mfennell
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Guy on other forum saw NJ Air National Guard F16s coming back from a flyover at the Eagles game. D'oh!
mfennell
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to @shrpshtr325 's point, Other Forum Guy said he heard them and ran outside - he wasn't hearing them until they were gone if they were really on afterburner.
Paranoia runs deep but I'm still rolling with my earlier post. Something is going on...
Here is the actual statement
FBI Newark’s statement from yesterday’s WH call. A very good read on the situation.
We have visual observation teams deployed at various locations throughout the state of New Jersey, to include our military installations, conducting video radar analysis, alongside with our partners, which have determined all large fixed-wing reported sightings have been manned aircraft.
We established a tip line, and in that tip line process, the process approximately 5,000 tips — have received 5,000 tips through that national tip line. And of those 5,000, less than 100 leads have been generated and deemed worthy of further investigative activity.
We have conducted dozens of interviews, and collected and reviewed multiple videos, and that analysis of those videos is ongoing.
We have also conducted intelligence analysis in comparison to other activities. We are working actively with our law enforcement partners all over the country to bring equipment into our AOR to assist with tracking and identifying drone activity.
We have consulted with our counterparts in other regions that have experienced similar sightings. We established a tip line to collect additional information about these and other drone sightings. We have and continue to actively investigate leads, searching out the most relevant information, doing interviews, and responding to reports of downed UAS.
The reported down UAS so far have been relevant — have not been relevant to our investigation. We are consulting with experts in the field of unmanned aircraft. Most of the reports of UAS have originated from the ground, with very, very few reports of UAS activity from pilots of manned aircraft. And that was the origination of our investigation, opening of our investigation with New Jersey State Police (inaudible).
In overlaying the visual sightings reported to the FBI with approach patterns for Newark-Liberty, JFK, and LaGuardia airports, the density of reported sightings matches the approach patterns of these very busy airports, with flights coming in throughout the night. This modeling is indicative of manned aviation being quite often mistaken for unmanned aviation or UAS.
The combination of efforts so far as noted above, to include technical equipment, tip line information, and noted consults has found — has not found any evidence to support large-scale UAS activities.
It is important to note, though, that they’re without a doubt — without a doubt have been UAS’s flying over the state of New Jersey. With nearly a million registered UAS in the United States, there’s no doubt many of them are owned and operated here within the state.
The national airspace is designed to be as minimally restrictive as possible. And all indications are these UAS operators are operating within the parameters established for their use in that airspace. This is not to say the FBI does not believe UAS’s are used for criminal or other nefarious activity, and it is well known to us that criminals breaking the law do, in fact, use UAS to support their actions.
The FBI will continue to investigate all allegations of criminal activity involving UAS, and we’ll continue to work with our partners to defend and disrupt criminal and national security threats. Thank you.
