What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Drones!??!!!?!!!
Slate News
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
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
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| 1:00.2 | 964 sightings of SUV-sized drones have been recorded across New Jersey, |
| 1:03.2 | some of which have even been over critical military infrastructure. |
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| 1:22.6 | So this is unsettling. It's the upside down. One party that I just spoke to saw four aircrafts in Monmouth County, Monmouth Beach, New Jersey, and one was a plane and three were drones flying low, gigantic. |
| 1:31.9 | Over the last few weeks, people all over New Jersey |
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