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REPORT: Military Contractor Shares New Details On Last Year’s Viral Drone Sightings
A private aerial contractor has reportedly taken responsibility for the swarms of mysterious drone sightings that were reported across vast swaths of New Jersey and surrounding regions last year.
Speaking at the Army’s UAS and Launched Effects Summit at Fort Rucker, Alabama this past in August, the unidentified company revealed during a panel discussion that one of their manned aerial crafts was responsible for the widespread panic that gripped the nation starting last November, an attendee told The New York Post.
“You remember that big UFO scare in New Jersey last year? Well, that was us,” an employee of the unnamed contractor reportedly claimed during the panel discussion. The contractor went on to reveal that their aircraft were over skies in the Garden State “test out their capabilities,” the employee claimed, adding that they were not required to disclose their activity to the public because of a private government contract.
A video provided to The Post shows a roughly 20-foot across, four-winged aircraft zooming through the skies just above a tree-line, drawing attention from dozens of soldiers on the ground. “I thought it was the military testing something out on the other side of the base,” one witness, a military veteran and drone expert located not far from Fort Rucker, told the outlet.
“It feels like it’s a UFO because it defies what you’re expecting to see,” they said, adding there was an “uncanny valley feeling” when watching it quietly travel through the sky. “When it turned you almost completely lose sight of it,” the source said of the scene at Fort Rucker.
The video provided to The Post appears to bear similarity to the objects that were repeatedly seen over New Jersey skies last winter.
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— T R U T H P O L E (@Truthpolex) December 13, 2024
Is this strange aircraft responsible for the drone and ‘UFO’ scare in New Jersey? https://t.co/A2qJcltIc3 pic.twitter.com/39t3TUjTmk
— New York Post (@nypost) October 18, 2025
All conference attendees were approved by senior military officials at Fort Rucker, which enacted strict rules for participation, including the exclusion of any drone or craft containing any Chinese-made parts, the attendee revealed.
“It would definitely have to be cleared,” they said, adding, “Somebody was 100% in charge of coordinating that.”
Reports of drone sightings in New Jersey began on November 13 over the area surrounding Picatinny Arsenal, a major U.S. Army hub in Dover, New Jersey, which primarily focuses on research and development via its CCDCAC armaments center. Sightings continued throughout the next several weeks, many of which have been attributed to copycat actors once the story went viral nationwide.
The craze sparked a number of widely circulated theories from members of Congress and the public alike, including an “Iranian mothership” launching drones from off the Atlantic coast, a hunt for missing radioactive material, and extraterrestrials.
