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We never did find out what those drones in New Jersey in 2024 were, did we? One Republican congressman seemed convinced at the time that he'd been informed:

BBC: Mystery New Jersey drones not from Iranian 'mothership' - Pentagon

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crrwz91wqd9o

It's certainly a theory / narrative that keeps appearing in the media.

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They were flying over military installations, if they were anyone else's drones, they would have been shot down like the weather balloons that spook the government from time to time.

Foreign drones surveilled a military base here and they didn't shoot any down.

Maybe the US reacts differently, but in Europe most military bases have been scouted by Russian drones, and afaik none were shot down.

I've seen the reaction to people flying their toy drones too close to military assets, they send men out with machine guns and megaphones, confiscate the drone and sometimes press charges.

They were Palantir apparently.

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