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I'm an executive producer with IHeart Podcasts and How the Tech Are You?

It's time for the tech news for the week ending on Friday the 13th in December of 2024.

So, let's start off with something kind of spooky.

For Friday the 13th, apparently, for a few weeks now, folks in New Jersey have been reporting strange aircraft flying overhead, particularly along

coastal regions. Most of the reports have referred to the aircraft as drones, though various

authorities have said that at least in some of these cases, that's a misidentification.

They say that many of these reports are actually about your run-of-the-mill manned aircraft,

just plain planes, so to speak.

But numerous citizens have said there have been many instances of drones flying overhead.

And we're talking like big ones, not your little bitty quadcopters, but much larger drones.

And no one has really come forward with an official explanation as to what's going on or who's

behind it. And when there's a lack of information, there will always be a surplus of speculation.

We humans don't like to have big unanswered questions, right?

So if we don't have an answer, sometimes we just invent one.

And that includes one claim that the drones launch from an Iranian mothership.

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