14:33 EST 15 Dec 2024, updated 14:35 EST 15 Dec 2024
Drone fever is sweeping New Jersey, as new data shows residents have reported more than 1,000 sightings of the flying objects across the state in less than a month.
Some 964 incidents have been logged in total since the first sighting on November 19 up until December 13, according to statistics collected by the state’s Office of Emergency Management and shared with the New York Post.
Yet despite the startling volume of apparent sightings – which have prompted locals to shoot into the sky and even sparked the closure of an airport in neighboring New York – officials are yet to provide answers about who or what is behind the drones.
As the flashing objects continue to circle the skies above New Jersey and beyond, theories about the source have proliferated in the homes of lawmakers and residents below – from Project Blue Beam to foreign conspiracies.
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