Reported drone sightings at night in New Jersey and along the East Coast have sent lawmakers into a panic and spurred demands for an investigation, although federal officials continue to say there is no cause for alarm.
Unsatisfied with assurances from public officials, internet sleuths have set up a Facebook group dedicated to solving the unexplained drone sightings reported over New Jersery. 'New Jersey Mystery Drones – let's solve it' currently has over 49,000 members, up from 39,000 late Thursday, the Associated Press first reported. Members of the public group are posting photos and videos of purported drone sightings and commenters have supplied various theories to explain what is happening.
She told the AP she first posted photos online last month wondering what the objects were and became convinced they were drones when she saw how they moved and when her son showed her on a flight tracking site that no planes were around. Now she’s glued to the Mystery Drones page, she said. “I find myself — instead of Christmas shopping or cleaning my house — checking it,” she said. She doesn’t buy what New Jersey's governor said, that the drones aren’t a risk to public safety. Gov.
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