Drones & drone swarms

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🛸 Case · 15 min read2024 New Jersey drone sightingsThe 2024 New Jersey drone sightings were a wave of reports of unidentified drones flying at night that began in New Jersey in mid-November 2024 and spread to New York, Pennsylvania, and other states. An FBI-led investigation reviewed more than 5,000 reports a…🗓️ Event · 12 min readUSS Russell drone swarm logsThe USS Russell drone swarm logs are U.S. Navy deck logs and related records from July 2019.

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🟠 OrbsGlowing balls of light — the most-reported shape of all.1,820 sightings🔺 Black trianglesLarge, silent, triangle-shaped craft, often with a light at each corner.620 sightings🛸 Saucers & disksThe classic flying saucer, from 1947 to today.497 sightings💊 Tic TacsWhite, wingless, pill-shaped objects like the one Navy pilots filmed off California in 2004.300 sightings🔗 Formations & lights in a lineSeveral lights moving together in a line or formation — Starlink trains are a common cause, which the Sky match checks.210 sightings☄️ FireballsBrilliant moving lights and green fireballs — many turn out to be meteors, which the Sky match checks against NASA’s re…67 sightings