Mysterious possible drone sightings across the East Coast have prompted calls to shoot down the unidentified aircraft. But shooting at drones is dangerous, illegal and may bring unintended consequences.
Mysterious possible drone sightings across the East Coast have prompted calls to shoot down the unidentified aircraft. But shooting at drones is dangerous, illegal and may bring unintended consequences.
Three airplanes and Venus, right?
That’s what it looks like to me.
Just ask Elon wtf he's playing at now!
I don’t blame the people in Jersey for doing this. Drone sounds get annoying fast
Sounds like a job for MAGA
The military, Congress and local officials don't know what they are but MSM knows they're drones? When Wright-Patterson Airbase, one of the most highly protected bases in the US cannot stop an incursion, they shouldn't be called "Drones".
Why don't report real news?! Stop gaslighting us. We're not buying it!
Be careful. Do shoot them done .
Also, shooting at the orion belt would be sort of pointless. The closest star is 800 light years away. At 800 m/s for a bullet, vs 300,000,000 m/s for light, it will take 300,000,000 years for the bullet to get there. I'll be well dead by then.
Federal law stipulates anyone who “sets fire to, damages, destroys, disables, or wrecks any aircraft” in US airspace is subject to fines or up to 20 years in prison. Why you shouldn’t try to shoot down a suspected drone www.cnn.com/2024/12/16/u...
The idiocy of even considering shooting them down over a populated area, is infuriating. What happened to people that they no longer think of consequences??
WE ARE THE STUPIDEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD
USA! USA!! USA!!!
People like that are why we can't have flying cars
Shoot at my drone for flying over your house? Go ahead. You probably have homeowners insurance. I have a lawyer who will take your house from you. I'm through arguing with stupid people, I sue 'em. It's a boomed business these days.
I’m here to remind you of the ongoing Class War that has been happening for years. Also, a reminder that it was only a problem when the Working Class fought back.
A complete failure of our ludicrously expensive ‘defense’ department. Either own up or clear the area. Enough of this ‘we don’t know’ BS
When will someone investigate the mystery vehicles travelling down our nations highways every night! They do not appear to be a danger... so far. What ARE these mystery cars and trucks?
FAFO
Stop following and reporting on mElon and the elected felon’s distractions! Report this, then follow the suggestion provided. Oh and don’t broadcast the inauguration carry MLK tributes. Carry on
Tired of hearing about drones!
Since night flying restrictions were lifted, I've been pondering legitimate reasons why night flying is done. So far, the only one I've thought of is celebratory displays, in lieu of fireworks. Or maybe chasing fleeing criminals in police chases?
Just the latest distraction
It really is. More people need to see it this way
There would be a few aeroplanes and helicopters shot down. Most of them will just be shooting at various constellations though.
How do these idiots propose to shoot down the constellation Orion? Using their AR-15s?
I, for one, welcome our drone alien overlords.
This is funny, anyone who understands anything about guns knows there is zero chance of hitting a moving drone at 500' attitude. This also shows how useless the police and security agencies are. In reality they have no idea what to do. Outsmarted by a few drones.
why are ppl so concerned?-?/ its not like drones are a new thing. and u cant even hear them most of the time so noise isnt a problem. are ppl just bored?
Well it's more of what could be on that drone I mean have you seen the Ukraine battles and their drones we've also got drones with cameras drones with flamethrowers those are cool we have multiple different accessories we can put on drones so they're worried about those I think
Okay did you just glaze over what I said it's not about the drone it's about what's on it in that picture you have two drones that could be potentially used to violate somebody's privacy and has been used
Little pink handguns for you and me.
The drones seem to be US aircraft with FFA required red & green lights to protect us during heightened emotions with Russia & Iran. Leave them be & stop all your drama CNN. Our people are stressed out enough right now.
The only way you get rid of those drones is by removing of all those corrupted sneaky republicans!
I read we haven't had a clear image of these drones , it's all blurry, so there are drones out there .
It is already well established that Bigfoot is piloting all these drones.
I guess we wouldn’t be seeing them if YOUR new president hadn’t pissed off everyone he comes across
Go ahead and shoot em down, theyre basically begging for it. This is america
“Stick around after the break. CNN has an EXCLUSIVE interview with with the leader of the MAGA Militia that has stepped up to defend us from this unknown threat and who, thanks to his God Given Second Amendment RIGHTS, can do it.”
Shooting at things you can't identify is never generally speaking a particularly good idea. But hey, America ...
So will putting your head in the sand.
All action has consequences, not always what you want.
I don’t need CNN to tell me this.
And yet you read it.
Didn’t read it. Saw headline only. Common sense could have wrote that.
I shot one down years ago at the Black Tusk provincial park. Some idiot was flying it around and I had my slingshot with me and it only took three tries to knock a propeller off and send it tumbling into the gravel
And a lot of them could be airplanes or just someone's Amazon delivery.
Corporate media is dogschitt, just re-vomiting what the billionaires tell them to. You are not believed and in fact, the non-mouth breathers believe the opposite.
Evidently officers shot at drones as there was a video of many misses
Just think about it. If they're Aliens they've come along way? What weapons do they have and what will they do if you shoot at them. Also they're just planes or drones stay calm and carry on.
Ah yes the genius idea of shooting down car sized drones over populated areas 🙄
Americans will shoot at anything they don't understand.
The government knows what going on. It is some sort of distraction!
The end is near on 20th.
Mass amount of morons do not recognize aircraft flight patterns and do not know how to use simple websites to track flights in the area. There, more information than CNN bothers to track. 🖕
Heck they can't even shoot a good pic of them!
They're 99% planes. People are just idiots.
Well you shoot everthing else so what’s a few more drones?
CNN has zero credibility. Fascist appeasing traitors.
“Fascist appeasing traitors”!? You need to cut back on the coffee buckaroo.
You need to get real about fascist American media.
May be Russian drones?
Please tell me this is sarcasm.
No, they are Russian drones. Russians just mind fucking Americans. Just wait when Trump starts, fun times ahead...
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All very well. So private citizens shouldn't shoot down drones, for safety reasons, but perhaps the government could launch an investigation into them.
Yeah says the stable genius!
Use jammers to force the drone to go back to their starting point. You can build one yourself. I personally think drones are awesome but should respect others privacy.
And our moron president elect wants them shot down. A lot he cares about his population.
Yea it’s not like the govt has ever made a mistake before let’s let them shoot down “drones” in civilian airspace what could possibly go wrong.. I’m running out of transportation options here 🤦♂️🤦♂️
What happened to CNN? It used to be a reputable news site and channel
Why is CNN here. They just spread lies. I've seen the videos and live near an airport. Passenger and commercial aircraft.
Learn how to identify aircraft. 97% of these sightings have proven to be passenger airlines.
Could it just be drones delivering Christmas presents??? Occam’s Razor y’all.
Yeah, some little kid playing on the front porch a mile and a half away dies when the bullet that missed comes down. It's also what's wrong with discharging firearms to celebrate this or that.
Is that why they don't show up on good cameras?
No. That's because they're probably airplanes.
Can this story just go away, it's just a bs distraction from what's happening in the News about the United Healthcare. People were starting to come together against the tyrants and Mysteriously, "ahh drones in Jersey". Pathetic
Shooting at drones is dangerous. Bullets fired into the sky will come back to earth putting others at risk.
Yup, need a laser for the heights these things are at. Which we do have the tech for.
Ive seen that microwave beam countermeasures have been developed to deal with them.
Not to mention being silly: “I see something I dont understand and it’s not a threat to me: Let’s shoot it”.
They’re shutting down commercial airports. They shut down because of the threat of a crash.
Shooting at the mysterious East Coast drones isn't the solution - it's illegal and could lead to accidents. Isn't it time we used #Crypto principles like transparency for better airspace management? Let's talk about secure skies and secure investments! #Drones
The headline should read donald trump told his supporters to shoot down the drones.
The NO DUH article of the day.
It's a PSYOP for God's sake!
Particularly when they are manned aircraft. But CNN, you helped create this hysteria and now you can’t try to real it back in.
Well honestly I'mma have to say that's stupid if they were over like a forest or planes or even just a empty property maybe shoot them down but you have to know what you're doing but not over a crowded area use a net launcher if you absolutely have to it's just as effective and less dangerous
And if you don't have to shoot them down leave them alone
Especially since most of the “drone”™️ sightings are airplanes
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Hey CNN, maybe cover the protests that started by Luigi's bravery. Your attempt to distract the populace yet again is further proof that you are a traitor to the working class
Worst case scenario those drones are actually American military assets and the person who shoots them down gets federal charges. Those things are flying over our airspace why wouldn’t we assume we’re just testing some of our own stuff?
They do that out in the desert, not over densely populated areas.
Until now 😏
I imagine ER Christmas Eve: “Patient’s last name Reindeer, first name Rudolphtherednosed, gunshot wound to gluteus maximus, hard landing trying to fly under radar. BP 95/60, heart rate 110, respirations 18. Conscious, 4+ nasal erythema. FYI Santa in waitingroom screaming I’M NOT A FUCKING DRONE!”😳
“Sorry kids, your presents are delayed because some moron in Cherry Hill watches Rogan & shot at the sleigh swearing it was an alien from Alphamale Centauri or an Iranian drone or NASA looking for Zelensky nukes. He almost clipped Santa & nearly schwacked poor Rudolph too.” 😳😳
What next, are people going to start shooting at cars for being parked outside their houses? Drones are a thing, people, and just because they are flying overhead doesn’t mean you can just “shoot it down”! #BSOverload
Yes very dangerous when it’s actually a passenger aircraft carrying a couple of hundred people.
lol... what a caveman move. Me no undertandee. BANG BANG!
there are unintended consequences for not letting the people know what’s going on. It’s also super funny you said “Unintended Consequences” when speaking of guns….. has anyone else read the book of the same title by John Ross?
Hey stupid people do stupid stuff
The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street
You can’t shoot down stars, in outer space.
Can’t you block the signal instead of shooting? If they aren’t military grade they are local and a bunch of kids are laughing their butts off at all of these conspiracies. As long as they aren’t in aircraft pathway, who cares. Until someone knows shut up about it.
Sadly here in Kentucky people will shoot at clouds if they have extra ammo. The gun culture has lost its collective mind.
Because what goes up must come down
Ya think? For every projectile (Bullet) shot into the air it must come down along with the thing they're shooting at if they hit it. Morons and guns...
BURN THE WITCH!
Catch the drone and if it weighs less than a duck…
Cue the song " in the air tonight " by Phil Collins 😂
Why are guns always the first go to for Americans?
Y'all leave my drones alone. They're delivering supplies to homeless tent cities since all you fucking cowards let them die in a tent.
All bullets that go up and don’t lodge into something come back down. We don’t need to be hurting each other.😌
So I can’t shoot at things that flyover my house? Thanks CNN for that “Breaking News”.
@cnn.com stop trying to be relevant- you’re not!
CNN is pushing this ridiculous story for all its worth, and Sen Richard Blumenthal, maybe hungry to get on TV, got on board this morning saying he is worried. More fiddling while Rome burns a bright MAGA orange.
The American Military has a bunch of ways to bring down drones. If this were really a national security issue, the drones would be down and identified by now. Looks, smells, and sounds like “Wag The Dog” to me.
cnn can bring back little donnie lemmon and assign him to get to the bottom of the drone mysteries. You know that a right wing conspiricy is behind the whole thing. I'll bet you little donnie could even find some klan involvement.
What's the betting that #USA will shoot down an airplane, thinking it's just another drone?
its large military reconnaissance drones. over here in EU same sightings over US bases and critical infrastructure like pipelines, and weapons plants that produce arms for ukraine.. the BBC and many others point to a "state actor" , thats publicly accepted. would be political suicide in the US lol
Are they flying illegally?
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That was a good article - thanks for posting it.
You are welcome.
The only drones are the ones sitting in your board room.
Without Lying, Projection and Hypocrisy, tRump has no ideas
I notice that right-wingers are afraid and left-wingers are curious.
These drones indicate just how vulnerable the US homeland is. The military/industrial machine has concentrated on bigger, faster and more of everything at the expense of the small, cheap, deadly drones. We've seen in Ukraine how effective they can be, both large and small drones.
Yes, they even avoid cameras.
The government knows more than it leads on. As always, leaving the civilians in the dark, causing more harm and panic than good instead of just saying: "Hey, we're testing stuff!" Go on, try flying a drone over a military base or over the white house. See what the fuck happens.
What comes up must go down. One of these drones could do serious damage if it fell on a car or a house.
A study in mass paranoia... 🤔
We can be sure that America will make a mess of this.
My two cents… Drones could come from military bases in NJ. They are testing something. But should warn. Also small aircraft and regular flights on clear nights. Suddenly noticed. If it was something threatening it would be dealt with Relax.
So this is what CNN decides to focus on? With the whole world in turmoil and terrible, terrible president that stole America. With Musk at almost half of one trillion dollars and our Democracy becoming an oligarchy.. Drones on the coast are the least concerning.
It's what the US voted for.
Well, that's a nice easy repeatable sentiment that offers blame and accusation while washing one's own hands of the situation. Half of the U.S doesn't know what it voted for, and the other half didn't vote for this.
It is what it is,and too people like myself overseas,the US voted for him.Inaction is just acceptance and resignation,therefore those who 'don't know' are irrelevant too.The majority voted for Don and elections are always the governments too lose.The government failed to understand the mass.
It’s the hard truth , continued change for our great nation seems to come after the hardship this president will bring
Lets hope it's one the US can recover from.
They blah blah blah him at a football game for hours on Sat. 🤷 President Biden and First Lady were helping kids. No coverage.
This is so scary!
Some of them will be shooting at Orion’s Belt, Because you’re 17th in education. Clowns.
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Don't talk about the CEO's, guys. We got "drones" in the skies.
I would like the Air Force to shoot just one down, then identify exactly what it is and where it came from.
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If some idiot does this I hope the debris lands on their heads.
Hysteria
It's like you have people who could figure out what these are and you don't.
What’s the point of bearing arms if you can’t do shit like that
We have clearly lost our sanity in this country. Who goes outside and just shoots at things?
I see plenty of people saying "Oh you poor fools, it's just small aircraft. Don't you dare shoot them or point lasers at them". As if we haven't spent our entire lives looking at aircraft. Shits weird - Don't fucking try to tell people they're imagining it.
It's just a little soft gaslighting...they think we ought to be used to it by now. 🤨
May bring unintended consequences? Like finding out where they came from, what photos they took, and the why? Well I guess let them keep flying, as it stops you focusing on more frightening things going on, e.g. Trump's administration. Just saying.
No like bullets and debris raining down once Bubbas start shooting at the sky
Darn Bubbas and their guns lol I was thinking more the air force, or professionals to take them down safely. Need to find out in a more physical way than 'intelligence' what these drones are all about. If intelligence has found out what they are doing, then tell us rather than leave us in the dark
People are stupid
Your network is a fucking embarrassment. Do us all a favor and just fold up shop.
Yet you still made an account.
What’s my Bluesky account have to do with CNN’s journalistic malpractice?
Go back to Twitter if you don't like it here.
You think Dems like CNN? It’s full of Republicans
Thank you.
Dude nobody trusts CNN
That’s absurd. The news division is just that - news.
It's not just news if you actually pay attention anyways most news places feed a lot of propaganda
Ok - so where do you get your information? I'm always curious when people on social media put forth a distrust of all mainstream media sources.
I get my information from all over but here let me give you an example so you know how like most mainstream media talk about school shootings right well how many of them have you seen talk about a successful defense being done with a firearm
Tell me the specific example of a successful defense against a school shooter with a firearm, and I'll tell you if the media reported on it.
Or abortions you see the media's talk about their killing the children but never how they can be useful instead it's just fear-mongering failing report on things that fit their narrative if it doesn't fit they don't report
I dunno. I think it looks and sounds a lot like Fox News these days. I quit watching it a few years ago.
I don’t watch it either. But that’s the difference - the “show” is mainly a bunch of personalities sitting around and stirring up arguments, and talking heads interviewing certain folks who engender controversy. The written stories are basically news reports.
Twitter is full of right wing clowns. Now they are here too. lol
You first clown. I love it here. I hate CNN. We have Trump partially due to their journalistic malpractice. So with all due respect, go fuck yourself.
The government is known to ignore public outcry time and time again when it's something they are responsible for. Don't shoot down the drones people, pretty sure that's how you get the black SUV's in front of your house and a knock at the door.
This, they are probably suveilling for someone or something that would be politically ugly to reveal, or compromise the operation. That thing being DISGUISED ALIENS LIVING IN A SUBURBAN HOUSE IN NEW JERSEY.
If this were happening in Dallas I wonder how many people would have been killed by falling bullets?
It is with the utmost shame and humility that I look back and see that I ended that sentence with a question mark. I am going to take some time to reflect and discuss it with my family. I am confident that I will emerge from this a better person.
Oh pa-leeeese. Can’t you just simply write a head line that says shooting a drones is insane! There are no circumstances where shooting at lights in the sky anywhere in NJ is NOT IN—SANE!
…and illegal.
I feel like I'm one of the few people, if not the only person, who doesn't give a rat's ass about these so called drone sightings.
I don't either.
And I don’t know of anyone who is vaguely interested in this story.
You’re not alone. It’s clickbait from a dying media outlet.
It's clickbait at best and misdirection from the real issues like confronting corporate greed.
Absolutely.
Ditto
Ridiculous news and a shameful chapter in CNN's history.
This is my thinking as well
That's why the military should shoot one down. Their reluctance to address the issue beyond saying "there's no immediate threat" makes them complicit in gaslighting the public. If it's NOT a foreign adversary and there is NO threat to the public, then it MUST be our government.
Having to explain to Americans that shooting guns can have consequences is on point.
The US was willing to shoot down a civilian plane on 9/11/01. 🤷🏼 www.history.com/news/septemb...
yknow unforeseen consequences and aliens is not something i like being in the same sentence
Take one of these: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeCf... Then, get up behind the drones and shoot them down!
That’s very cool. I presume it’s still in the testing stage as he didn’t go more than 3m above the ground.
They. Are. Planes. Don't. Shoot. At. Them. You. Morons.
The authorities should shoot down a few of the more suspicious drones and track them back to their owners .This nonsense from CNN about the dangers of shooting down a drown seems like Truman show level propaganda.
"We don't know what it is, let's shoot at it" Is exactly how intergalactic war starts and how humans end.