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Saturday night (8th December) we headed out armed with a near-infrared modified Canon R5 shooting in 8k. This was paired with a 50mm f0.95 starlight lens. The goal was to capture enough light to be able to silhouette the body of the drones against the sky behind for model identification.

The first shot was the clearest and closest we got to one, though we confirmed a few more suspect sightings that evening further away shown in the other clips.

For reference clips at 2:32, and 2:58 we're landing aircraft, I left these in here to show how similar these drones can look when you're not close enough to get a good reference point.

The first chase shown in the video was of a drone 10miles south west of Picattini Arenol, hovering almost silently over chester township in Northern New Jersey and was slowly flying north east in the direction of the military base. Google maps link of the location this clip begins recording at: https://maps.app.goo.gl/QrfpwtioHijX4B1h7

It was hard to gauge the sound it made while hanging out the window of the car, however, I can say it definitely was not a conventional helicopter, as this would have been far louder at this close range.

We saw two more hovering over the highway driving back which I tried to record, unfortunately, this was shooting through tinted windows and I lost a lot of light needed to silhouette the body of the crafts against the sky. Clip at 3:09 was a confirmed hovering drone.

One of these was over highway 80 near Denville, and the other was over highway 287 near Morristown.

Another drone is shown flying completely silently over Hillsborough, we only just caught this as it was flying off, but this one had no sound whatsoever, dead silent. This one seems to resemble a cesna in profile but flight radar didn't show any marked aircraft at the time.

Note that in all cases (excluding clips at 2:32, and 2:58) where the vehicle was identified to be hovering we weren't able to match it to any marked craft of flight radar.

IMHO these are US military made and operated large airframe VTOL drones. If they were foreign adversary drones there's no reason the US wouldn't be able to shoot them down. These are large drones, in many cases the size of small passenger aircraft and cars. I can't see a foreign player sneaking thousands in and operating them covertly from within the middle of the state with no military response at all.

Why choose to operate these so overtly; navigation lights, so low, over the highest population density state in the entire country. If they were simply testing some prototype this would not be required or make sense. I think there is some agenda here to gauge public perception of mass drone/uap incursions. The remaining question then would be: for prosaic incursions, or truly anomalous nhi vehicles.