They're as loud as lawnmowers and as big as a large car, only appearing after dark and captured on blurry videos that have gone viral on social media. And they've managed to rattle Americans who don't expect to see mysterious flying objects in their skies that even the Pentagon cannot explain.
![[Swarms of drones have been spotted in the skies of New Jersey for weeks, sparking officials to call for a 'limited state of emergency']](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/16/00/93178869-14195931-Mystery_drone_sightings_all_over_the_country_Trump_complained_on-a-28_1734308911120.jpg)
Not since a startlingly realistic 1938 Orson Welles radio adaptation of H.G. Wells' The War Of The Worlds convinced thousands of listeners that a Martian invasion was actually taking place has there been so much concern – and confusion – about unidentified flying objects over the US.
![[Charlie Kirk, a conservative political activist who has been at Trump's Florida home, Mar-a-Lago, and is reportedly advising him on his second White House term, wrote on X: 'We are f****d']](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/16/00/93179097-14195931-Charlie_Kirk_a_conservative_political_activist_who_has_been_at_T-a-30_1734308911129.jpg)
The sightings started over New Jersey nearly a month ago and have since spread to other parts of the US. Initial confirmations that they were drones reassured the more superstitious that they were not, at least, extra-terrestrial and carrying little green men.
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Then, last Thursday, White House national security spokesman John Kirby complicated the picture when he told reporters that images suggested many of the reported sightings were actually of manned aircraft. The consensus, however, is that America is being buzzed by scores of drones – but who sent them, where from and why remains tantalisingly mysterious.
![[A mysterious 'glowing orb' seen hovering in skies above New Jersey - where most of the drones have been documented]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/16/00/93161777-14195931-A_mysterious_glowing_orb_seen_hovering_in_skies_above_New_Jersey-a-32_1734309871766.jpg)
Critics have urged the US government to say what it knows as soon as possible.'. The sightings started over New Jersey nearly a month ago and have since spread to other parts of the US - pictured are the drones over New Jersey. Swarms of drones have been spotted in the skies of New Jersey for weeks, sparking officials to call for a 'limited state of emergency'.
