2001: Drone Hysteria

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Javier Leiva

True Crime, Society & Culture, Technology

4.7 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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People panicked when a swarm of mysterious drones appeared in New Jersey’s night skies. Were they military? Foreign spies? Aliens? But buried under all the hysteria was one theory that refused to die: Birds Aren't Real. Yeah, that old internet conspiracy claiming birds are actually government surveillance drones. But here’s the thing—what if the joke isn’t as silly as it seems? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:58.9	People in New Jersey are concerned and demanding information after a wave of mysterious drone sightings.
1:03.7	Since last month, dozens of drones mysteriously hovering in the skies at night.
1:05.7	You've seen the news footage.
1:08.3	Mysterious drones hovering over New Jersey. At first, it was just a few, and then it seemed like drones appeared all over the northeast.
1:14.6	That is not an airplane. It looks like a spaceship.
1:17.6	Not a plane. That is a drone in the airspace.
1:21.6	Definitely not planes. And there were too many of them. There's no way planes could fly that close together.
1:26.6	Every day, all we could talk about was drones, drones, drones. But nobody knew who was flying them.
1:32.5	Could it be civilian? Surely not, right? Some of these drones were reportedly the size of cars.
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