Footage has emerged of what appears to be a ‘UFO‘ hovering in the skies over New Jersey before suddenly accelerating away, leaving onlookers lost for words.
In a short 13 second clip posted to social media, a white light blinks in the sky before suddenly vanishing.
In the footage, which was shot on Sunday night close near Atlantic City, family members are heard discussing what they are witnessing before the object suddenly disappears.
‘It just vanished!’ one said. ‘I just watched it through the telescope.’
The footage was sent to Tim Janicki by a friend.
‘I was starting to lose interest in these #drones #orbs until I received this video from our friends who went out tonight down by the bay. I don’t trust random videos I see on X… but this is 100% real (wait till 4 sec mark),’ he wrote.
The footage generated some comments online, many agreeing that what the family witnessed was extremely unusual.
The video is the most recent in a long line of mysterious drone sightings that have been reported flying over New Jersey and across the eastern U.S., sparking speculation and concern over where they came from and why.
‘You can see it didn’t just disappear but took off with incredible speed, there’s a small flash of light to the left as it leaves. Humans can’t produce the energy required to go that fast, especially from standstill,’ wrote one.
Footage has emerged of what appears to be a ‘ UFO ‘ hovering in the skies over New Jersey before suddenly accelerating away leaving the family who were watching lost for words
In a short 13 second clip posted to social media, a white light can be seen blinking in the sky before suddenly vanishing
‘Yeah this is appears to be another genuine one. Exactly what I filmed in the UK. The light dims and moves off left and upwards. If you want me to frame by frame enhance send me the original. I’ve got a lot of experience doing this analysis for my own sighting,’ added another interested observer.
‘Send this to some proper Professors. They can make the math if it’s moved at all and just freeze in time while the Earth keeps moving. I have a feeling they are just traveling back in time and keep recharging their batteries here on our Nuclear Energy and travel further back,’ a third suggested.
‘Note: it didn’t vanish, it took off at impossibly high speed diagonally up and to the left of frame (about 10 o’clock angle). Using your own logic, we shouldn’t believe this video,’ added a fourth.
‘This is exactly how the orb I saw flew away. That’s why I said nothing can move like that. No flight system we have right now can go from stationary to warp drive in an instant. These flight characteristics are… Well beyond light years beyond us,’ said another, transfixed.
Last week the Federal Aviation Administration temporarily banned drone flights in 22 areas of New Jersey and 30 areas in New York, mostly in and around New York City and on Long Island, where critical infrastructure is located.
FAA officials said federal security agencies requested the flight restrictions, which are effective through mid-January.
The FBI, the Homeland Security Department and state agencies have been investigating, but officials say there has been nothing so far to suggest any drones have posed a national security or public safety threat.
A wave of footage has emerged of the drones since they were first spotted last month including this footage from Bernardsville, New Jersey
Several drones appeared to be flying over Randolph, New Jersey earlier this month
Authorities say many of the drone sightings have actually been legal drones, manned aircraft, helicopters and even stars.
President Joe Biden ruled out anything nefarious about the flying objects.
Despite federal officials’ comments, many state and municipal lawmakers have called for stricter rules about who can fly unmanned aircraft – and for the authority to shoot them down.
Dozens of witnesses have reported seeing drones statewide since mid-November, including near the Picatinny Arsenal, a military research and manufacturing facility, and over President-elect Donald Trump’s golf course in Bedminster.
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, a Democrat, has said drone-detection equipment supplied by the federal government has yielded little new information.
He declined to describe the equipment except to say it was powerful and could even disable the drones.
The growing anxiety among some residents is not lost on the Biden administration, which has faced criticism from Trump for not dealing with the matter more aggressively.
Swarms of drones have been spotted in the skies of New Jersey for weeks, sparking officials to call for a ‘limited state of emergency’
In recent months New Jersey has been ravaged by thousands of unexplained drone sightings, as over 5,000 reports of unusual drone prevalence have been filed with law enforcement
White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said the federal government has yet to identify any public safety or national security risks.
The federal government has deployed personnel and advanced technology to investigate the reports in New Jersey and other states, and is evaluating each tip reported by citizens, he said.
About 100 of the more than 5,000 drone sightings reported to the FBI in recent weeks were deemed credible enough to warrant more investigation, according to a joint statement by the Department of Homeland Security, FBI, Federal Aviation Administration and Department of Defense.
Speculation has raged online, with some expressing concerns the drones could be part of a nefarious plot by foreign agents or clandestine operations by the U.S. government.
Drone activity earlier this month led to an hourlong closure of runways at New York’s Stewart International Airport, about 60 miles north of Manhattan, a four-hour closure of air space around Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, and the arrests of two men in Boston accused by police of flying a drone too close to Logan International Airport.
Trump said he believes the government knows more than it is letting on.
‘Let the public know, and now. Otherwise, shoot them down!!!’ he posted on Truth Social.
U.S. Sen. Andy Kim, a New Jersey Democrat, said he has heard nothing to support the notion that the government is hiding anything. He said a lack of faith in institutions is playing a key part in the saga.
‘Nothing that I´m seeing, nothing that I´ve engaged in gives me any impression of that nature. But like, I get it, some people won´t believe me, right? Because that’s the level of distrust that we face,’ Kim said.
Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut last week called for the drones to be ‘shot down.’
