The Drones of New Jersey and ABC News pays up.

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I'm Rich Lauerine.

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So, Jim, we have this ongoing saga over drones,

cited over New Jersey, or at least first, now states all over the union, mostly in the northeast,

but there was a report the other day. They're being cited in California as well. All sorts of theories about what might

be going on here, some sort of secret government test, a Iranian ship, drone ship off our shores,

sending drones to surveil our sensitive military and national security sites all in New Jersey

for some reason, or there are all sorts of

other theories. What do you make of it? Well, Rich, as we know from many years of history, all of the

hottest trends always start in New Jersey and then work their way out from there. So I wrote

Monday's morning jolt about this and I came up with like four possible explanations.

And I think it's a combination of at least two of them, maybe three.

The first one is the idea that these are the U.S. government's drones that people are spotting.

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