Welcome to It Could Happen here. I'm Garrison Davis. I hope you've been enjoying the holiday season I know I have. Or at least I've been trying to. It's difficult because I keep getting distracted by this funny feeling. Like there's something watching over me up in the sky, something buzzing around.

And at first I thought this might just be Santa's sleigh. But then I realized, no, no, no, no, no.

This is actually a drone. And oh boy, am I not the only one? Dron fever is just sweeping the

nation right now with the New Jersey drone panic, somehow

making headlines based on unconcerned and very disputable reports. The New Jersey drone thing

isn't real. This is mass hysteria. Almost all of these incidents of UFOs, UAAPs, or mysterious drones are actually just like

regular airplanes going to the airport, airplanes that you can track online via flight radar.

These aren't nuclear scanning drones.

These aren't secret government military projects.

These are either like legal, registered, hobbyist drones in some cases,

but really just mostly airplanes. A few weeks ago, there was a really cloudy day over the

New Jersey coast, and that day, all of the drone sightings stopped because you couldn't see

up in the sky. You couldn't see the airplanes.

But yeah, the New Jersey drone panic isn't real. The reason why there's blinking lights flying over

LaGuardia is that those are airplanes taking off and landing at an airport. This whole panic was

boosted by unconfirmed social media reports and local news sites trying to gain clicks.

And somehow this just broke through into the national mainstream discourse.

But fears over invasive drones isn't necessarily unfounded.

Though the ones that you should be worried about aren't UFOs or nuclear scanning drones, but are

actually police drones, which are becoming all the more commonplace. More and more cities this

year have adopted police drone programs. So for this episode, I'm going to rerun my episode

from early in 2024 about police drones.

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