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Originally Posted by flatbutt
"something" was spotted over my neighborhood last night. Given my proximity to Picatinny I find it hard to understand why it would be permitted IF it was in fact unauthorized.
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I live here in roughly the same area and we get quite a bit of general aviation traffic, especially from the local airfields that include flight training centers.
In my area it's also not that uncommon to see and/or hear medivac helicopters on their way to Morristown or one of the other major hospitals.
So maybe the drone the size of a car was perhaps the size of a Cessna 172 or an air ambulance?
Unfortunately these days a lot of people don't know much about light aircraft and think everything in the air is either a drone or an airliner.
Also, there is a national guard helicopter facility next to Picatinny, and a Blackhawk helicopter would make for an impressive sized "drone".
I do have to wonder how many people who reported seeing "drones" checked a flight tracking app before reporting their sighting.