The UFO Phenomenon

Military firm admits to causing UFO flap over New Jersey last year

By T.K. Randall
October 21, 2025 ·  49 comments

Image: AI-generated (Bing AI / Dall-E 3) Social media had been awash back in November 2024 after hundreds of sightings of mysterious objects above the state of New Jersey generated alarm and curiosity in equal measure.

The Office of Emergency Management recorded 964 sightings in total spanning two months.

So great was the concern over the phenomenon that even the White House got involved in attempting to allay the public's fears.

"We have no evidence at this time that the reported drone sightings pose a national security or a public safety threat or have a foreign nexus," National Security spokesman John Kirby said at the time.

"The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI are investigating these sightings, and they're working closely with the state and local law enforcement to provide resources using numerous detection methods to better understand their origin."Fast-forward almost a full year and now we actually do know their origin - a private (and unnamed) military contractor that had been conducting exercises to trial its new airborne hardware.

"You remember that big UFO scare in New Jersey last year? Well, that was us," one of the firm's employees reportedly admitted to a crowd at a recent event.

They went on to explain that they hadn't needed to disclose their work to the public because they had a private government contract.

The device being tested had allegedly been a type of manned aerial drone.

"When it turned you almost completely lose sight of it," the employee continued.

"Which is why I think people were seeing this up in the sky and why there were reports of people seeing it and saying it disappeared."

Source: Mail Online | Comments (49)

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