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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/candypettitte on 2024-12-09 14:52:45+00:00.

This is a fairly helpful breakdown of what is currently known about the drone situation in New Jersey. However, I think the framing on the post is wrong.

It’s clear that there is some event happening, but we don’t yet know who is responsible or why. That’s perfectly fine, and it’s great for people to want more information and to try to get it. It’s good the police and media are looking into it. Is it a foreign adversary? The U.S. government? Only time will tell.

But that is actually a separate question from the “mass hysteria” question.** There can be both a real event and mass hysteria arising from it.**

Let’s assume for a second that not only is the NJ drone event happening, but that the drones are actually alien intelligence. Even in that case, not every video posted here purporting to show these drones will actually be showing the drones. Not necessarily through malice, mind you, but many people will be trying to get video of these objects and, to an untrained eye, even a normal passenger jet might look unusual for someone who doesn’t look up all that often.

The fact that there are videos of planes doesn’t mean the NJ situation isn’t happening. It just means those videos of planes are from well-meaning but ultimately wrong people.

Where the mass hysteria comes in isn’t that the drone situation isn’t happening, it’s thinking that every blinking light in the sky is part of it. Don’t turn off the critical part of your brain just because you want something to be true.

There have been a lot of videos posted here recently that show airplanes, helicopters, or even plastic reflecting balls on power lines. That doesn’t mean UAPs are fake or whatever. All it means is those videos aren’t showing them - and that should be OK!