What Next TBD | Drones!??!!!?!!!

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4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Reports of flocks of drones, flying overhead nightly, are coming in from New Jersey down to Maryland. Are they UFOs? Nefarious foreign powers? Something even more pernicious? Something even more banal? Guest: Jon Ostrower, editor-in-chief of The Air Current. Ben Mathis-Lilly, Slate senior writer Want more What Next TBD? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.6	964 sightings of SUV-sized drones have been recorded across New Jersey,
0:40.3	some of which have even been over critical military infrastructure.
0:43.8	Woo boy.
0:45.5	That breathless TikTok comes courtesy of the British tabloid, The Daily Mail.
0:51.2	This next one is from former real housewife, Bethany Frankel. So this is unsettling.
0:57.2	It's the upside down. One party that I just spoke to saw four aircrafts in Mamath County,
1:04.8	mammoth beaches, New Jersey, and one was a plane and three were drones flying low.
1:11.3	Gigantic. Over the last few weeks, people all over And one was a plane and three were drones flying low, gigantic.
1:17.8	Over the last few weeks, people all over New Jersey have become obsessed with drones,
1:25.9	or what they say are drones, things, lights, items in the sky at night.
1:28.0	I've never seen them. Wow, they just passed on. Yeah. I've never seen them.
1:29.3	Wow, they just passed in trouble. Yeah.
1:29.5	I've never seen them before.
1:31.7	New Jersey Senator Andy Kim went out on patrol with local cops
1:35.8	and saw something flying around.
1:39.2	Former Maryland Governor Larry Hogan
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