Drones 'the size of buses' are still invading New Jersey... as experts reveal why crisis has gone silent
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While official reports of eerie drone-like UFOs dropped over the holidays, New Jersey residents are still coming forward with bizarre encounters. Two witnesses in Manalapan Township, for example, videotaped a bus-sized, 25- to 50-foot-long black triangle UFO that they saw 'pull off a high g [force] maneuver over a residential area' just days before Christmas.
![[On December 21, 2024 at around 7:10pm in Atlantic City, one witness told NUFORC that they documented 'a strange flying saucer' that 'appeared to shake and change shape, but always returning to its original disc shape' (still image from the witnesses video submission above)]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/02/20/93686419-14244707-image-a-47_1735848328954.jpg)
The sighting, which lasted at least one minute, ended with the object zooming 'in the general direction of McGuire [Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst]' — matching a persistent pattern of 'drone' UFO incursions over US bases in recent years. Another New Jersey skywatcher recorded what they described as a classic 'flying saucer' with an 'aura or haze around object' just three miles off the coast of Atlantic City.
![[The two Manalapan witnesses who saw a 25-50 foot 'black triangle' UFO from little more than 400 yards above them along County Route 527 described the craft as 'silent' despite flying so 'quickly' that they initially thought it was a jet (above their second photo to NUFORC)]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/02/20/93686421-14244707-image-a-45_1735848304354.jpg)
And still more Garden State witnesses now say they saw as many as 20 to 30 drones just this Wednesday night, which 'kind of hovered and all looked like miniature aircraft,' in an account posted to Facebook. 'Very disconcerting for sure,' one witness said.
![[Experts have said that many of the drone sightings were actually manned aircraft as seen in this image]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/02/21/93686417-14244707-_To_people_who_have_not_seen_these_live_and_just_look_at_photos_-a-18_1735852944195.jpg)
Some experts attribute the drop in official reports to law enforcement to expanded drone flight bans by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) across the tristate area. But others, including former chief of the FBI's counter-drone unit Rob D'Amico, believe most of the sightings were errors and 'hysteria' to begin with, suggesting that the decline might be nothing more than a case of the 'mystery drone' fever breaking.
