NJ uap mystery is a replay of what occurred in Colorado in 2021!

https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/next/next-with-kyle-clark/similarities-drone-sightings-in-new-jersey-and-colorado/73-8a6f4a35-eda7-4d9d-a34c-2860f4ae2b8f: Drone sightings in New Jersey show a lot of similarities to mystery drones seen in eastern Colorado in 2020 We never really got an answer as to who or what was behind the drones in Colorado. By Marc Sallinger (9 News) 3 min. readView original COLORADO, USA — All the people panicked about mysterious swarms of drones in the skies above New Jersey shouldn't turn to Colorado for help solving the mystery because there are still no answers for the drones that showed up over the state's Eastern Plains four years ago. The reported drones in New Jersey are strange. Residents and officials have expressed concerns after reports of dozens of unknown "nighttime flights" started last month. The story also feels strangely familiar to what we saw in eastern Colorado in 2020. The Colorado Department of Public Safety (CDPS) tallied more than 110 reports of drones between November 2019 and January 2020. Some were determined to be small hobby drones; others were planes. The department only said there were no instances of illegal drone activity. No official final report was ever released on whether there was a large swarm of drones flying over northeastern Colorado. There are many similarities between the drone sightings in both states, starting with reports from eyewitnesses. Four years ago, eastern Colorado resident Haley Harms described the drone's sound as a high pitch. "Like an engine that wants to blow up," Harms told 9NEWS in 2020. Recent reports out of New Jersey are similar. "I look to my left and see two big drones. They were propeller-driven going very slowly," a witness in New Jersey told NBC News. In addition to the drones' reports, the questions lawmakers are asking on the East Coast today are like the ones previously asked in Colorado. In 2020, a drone task force led by the Morgan County sheriff that included the Federal Aviation Administration was formed to try and track down the mysterious drone sightings in northeastern Colorado. Colorado Governor Jared Polis demanded answers, though few were ever released to the public. "To me, this is no longer a novelty. I think we need to figure out what’s going on before any accident occurs," Polis said in January 2020. Similarly, roughly 100 mayors and state representatives met in New Jersey this week to try and get answers to questions about the drones posed by their constituents. NBC News reports that, on Wednesday, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy hosted a virtual meeting in which state officials and a Homeland Security representative briefed local officials on the issue. At a hearing in Washington, D.C., the previous day, the FBI said it did not have many answers yet. "We are not attributing this to an individual or a group yet. We’re investigating but I don’t have an answer for who’s responsible for that," said Robert 'Wes' Wheeler Jr. with the FBI. So far, there isn't much information about what the mysterious drone sightings are — and there never really was an answer here in Colorado, either. On Jan. 9, 2020, CDPS Executive Director Stan Hilkey released a statement as part of the department's "updates" about the suspicious drone activity in the northeastern part of the state. "The public has been worried about the reports of strange drone activity. Our duty is to be responsive to community concerns and to investigate suspicious activity, and so we mobilized our teams to look into this," Hilkey said. "Despite all of the reported activity, we are still unaware of any crime being committed. While I can't conclusively say we have solved the mystery, we have been able to rule out a lot of the activity that was causing concern. We will continue to remain vigilant and respond as new information comes in." We never really got an answer as to who or what was behind the drones in Colorado. and this report from back then: https://www.9news.com/article/news/weird/drones-reported-two-eastern-colorado-counties/73-cb32a47c-39fc-4df9-a1a1-d2b3a292eb9b At least 16 drones were spotted over Yuma and Phillips Counties flying at higher altitudes. By Janet Oravetz (9News) PHILLIPS COUNTY, Colorado — More than a dozen drones have been spotted flying over two eastern Colorado counties during the overnight hours, and their appearance is a mystery, according to a Facebook post from the Phillips County Sheriff's Office. Deputies have been investigating multiple reports of drone sightings in the county over the last week, according to the Dec. 20 post. On that day, according to the post, deputies with PCSO and the Yuma County Sheriff's Office tracked the drones. They tracked more than 16 drones between the two counties, and according to the post, don't believe anything malicious is going on. PCSO said the drones have been flying at higher altitudes and are following up on leads and reaching out to state and federal agencies to pinpoint the exact nature of their activities. The post also asked members of the public to call communication centers if one of the drones flies onto their property or appears to be looking into windows. A deputy will be sent to investigate, although PCSO said only there's been just one report of a drone getting close enough to look through a window. Anyone who believes they've located one of the drones should also contact the sheriff's office so they can conduct a forensic evaluation to identify the owners and take the appropriate actions. At least 16 drones were spotted over Yuma and Phillips Counties flying at higher altitudes.

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Drones, planes or UFOs? Americans abuzz over mysterious New Jersey sightings

CHATHAM, N.J. (AP) — That buzzing coming out of New Jersey? It’s unclear if it’s drones or something else, but for sure the nighttime sightings are producing tons of talk, a raft of conspiracy theories and craned necks looking skyward. Cropping up on local news and social media sites around Thanksgiving, the saga of the drones reported over New Jersey has reached incredible heights. This week seems to have begun a new, higher-profile chapter: Lawmakers are demanding (but so far not getting) explanations from federal and state authorities about what’s behind them. Gov. Phil Murphy wrote to President Joe Biden asking for answers. New Jersey’s new senator, Andy Kim, spent Thursday night on a drone hunt in rural northern New Jersey, and posted about it on X. More drone sightings have been reported in New York City, and Mayor Eric Adams says the city is investigating and collaborating with New Jersey and federal officials. And then President-elect Donald Trump posted that he believes the government knows more than it’s saying. “Let the public know, and now. Otherwise, shoot them down!!!” he posted on his social media site. But perhaps the most fantastic development is the dizzying proliferation of conspiracies, none of which has been confirmed or suggested by federal and state officials who say they’re looking into what’s happening. It has become shorthand to refer to the flying machines as drones, but there are questions about whether what people are seeing are unmanned aircraft or something else. Some theorize the drones came from an Iranian mothership. Others think they are the Secret Service making sure President-elect Donald Trump’s Bedminster property is secure. Others worry about China. The deep state. And on. In the face of uncertainty, people have done what they do in 2024: Create a social media group. The Facebook page, New Jersey Mystery Drones — let’s solve it, has nearly 44,000 members, up from 39,000 late Thursday. People are posting their photo and video sightings, and the online commenters take it from there. One video shows a whitish light flying in a darkened sky, and one commenter concludes it’s otherworldly. “Straight up orbs,” the person says. Others weigh in to say it’s a plane or maybe a satellite. Another group called for hunting the drones literally, shooting them down like turkeys. (Do not shoot at anything in the sky, experts warn.) Trisha Bushey, 48, of Lebanon Township, New Jersey, lives near Round Valley Reservoir where there have been numerous sightings. She said she first posted photos online last month wondering what the objects were and became convinced they were drones when she saw how they moved and when her son showed her on a flight tracking site that no planes were around. Now she’s glued to the Mystery Drones page, she said. “I find myself — instead of Christmas shopping or cleaning my house — checking it,” she said. She doesn’t buy what the governor said, that the drones aren’t a risk to public safety. Murphy told Biden on Friday that residents need answers. The federal Homeland Security Department and FBI also said in a joint statement they have no evidence that the sightings pose “a national security or public safety threat or have a foreign nexus.” “How can you say it’s not posing a threat if you don’t know what it is?” she said. “I think that’s why so many people are uneasy.” Then there’s the notion that people could misunderstand what they’re seeing. William Austin is the president of Warren County Community College, which has a drone technology degree program, and is coincidentally located in one of the sighting hotspots. Austin says he has looked at videos of purported drones and that airplanes are being misidentified as drones. He cited an optical effect called parallax, which is the apparent shift of an object when viewed from different perspectives. Austin encouraged people to download flight and drone tracker apps so they can better understand what they’re looking at. Nonetheless, people continue to come up with their own theories. “It represents the United States of America in 2024,” Austin said. “We’ve lost trust in our institutions, and we need it.” Federal officials echo Austin’s view that many of the sightings are piloted aircraft such as planes and helicopters being mistaken for drones, according to lawmakers and Murphy. That’s not really convincing for many, though, who are homing in on the sightings beyond just New Jersey and the East Coast, where others have reported seeing the objects. For Seph Divine, 34, another member of the drone hunting group who lives in Eugene, Oregon, it feels as if it’s up to citizen sleuths to solve the mystery. He said he tries to be a voice of reason, encouraging people to fact check their information, while also asking probing questions. “My main goal is I don’t want people to be caught up in the hysteria and I also want people to not just ignore it at the same time,” he said. “Whether or not it’s foreign military or some secret access program or something otherworldly, whatever it is, all I’m saying is it’s alarming that this is happening so suddenly and so consistently for hours at a time,” he added. ___

Mystery "drones" sighted over capital in DC, west coast, US compound in Germany and UK

via Newnation.com Drones over New Jersey: What we know so far What do the drones look like? Inganamort, whose district includes a quarter million constituents, said he and his family have seen the drones for four weeks. On Friday, as he walked into his office, he said he saw multiple hovering overhead. “There were three drones zipping around our neighborhood and above this office building as I walked in,” Inganamort said. “I expect to see several on my way out.” The former mayor of Chester Township isn’t the only eyewitness to dozens of drones. NewsNation’s investigative reporter Rich McHugh reported seeing at least 50 during an investigation with the Ocean County Sheriff’s Department Thursday. “When this story first came out a few weeks ago, as a resident of New Jersey, as a journalist, I didn’t pay much credence. I thought it would turn out to be a bunch of pranksters, and this would all be over by now,” McHugh said Friday. “The experience I had last night, however, changed the way I feel about this story completely. What I saw was more sophisticated than I ever imagined.” New Jersey drone sightings: Lawmakers press for more briefings NewsNation crews filmed some of the mystery drones in Red Bank, New Jersey, which is about 50 miles south of New York. McHugh described them as looking like u- or v-shaped, fixed-wing aircraft about 8 to 10 feet wide with colorful and white blinking lights. “Definitely not an airplane, but what was it?” McHugh said. The Ocean County Sheriff’s Department said the drones do not emit heat like regular drones, which is why they’re able to evade detection — something law enforcement hadn’t experienced until now. Sheriff Michael Mastronardy told NewsNation that his officers identified 50 drones coming off the coast. He invited White House officials to come to New Jersey: “Come see what we see.” “If this is not our military, then we need answers,” McHugh said, also describing the objects as “creepy” and “moving at a different pace.” Feds not being fully transparent about drones: Ross Coulthart New Jersey lawmakers spot drones The federal government has offered little explanation, angering current and former lawmakers, some of whom have seen the drones. Former New Jersey Gov. Larry Hogan captured video of what he identified as drones over his home in Davidsonville, Maryland, 25 miles east of the nation’s capital. U.S. Sen. Andy Kim, D-N.J., posted a firsthand video of drones in Clinton Township, New Jersey, this week. Officials say they received unconfirmed reports of drone sightings over LaGuardia Airport, in New York. The FBI said it has received more than 3,000 reports since Nov. 18, and there has been an average of 92 sightings daily across half a dozen states. Drone sightings across multiple states Reports have surfaced in eastern Pennsylvania as well. “It’s as if they migrated over,” said Dr. Katherine Ramsland, a forensic psychologist and NewsNation contributor. “I called a couple of friends, and we were texting each other as all of us seeing them in different areas.” She, too, saw blinking lights. “I saw one going west. It was red, red blinking lights … another one was coming toward it from the west, going east, and then the westward one suddenly turned around and went into formation with the one going east turned green, the lights turned green, and then yellow,” Ramsland said. She said it “couldn’t possibly” have been a plane, as it was turning fast and hovering too close to be one. There wasn’t any noise, she said. Scott Rouse, a NewsNation contributor who is a behavior analyst and body language expert, describes the ones he saw in Oak Ridge, Tennesee, as round with something spinning on top. He said he saw around 30 of them Assemblywoman Dawn Fantasia, R-N.J., wrote in a social media post that the drones spotted in her state measured up to 6 feet in diameter and sometimes traveled with their lights off. Fantasia said that the first sightings took place Nov. 18 and have continued every night since. She said the reported sightings typically take place between 6 and 11 p.m. and reports range between four and 180 sightings per night, she said. She estimates that there are typically an average of 92 sightings per night and that conservatively, 2,500 sightings have been reported since they began. Two lawmakers representing the Jersey Shore region of the state reported that a dozen drones were spotted near Barnegat Light and Island Beach State Park, which are located in Ocean County. In those cases, WJAR reported the drones were seen following a U.S. Coast Guard lifeboat. A Coast Guard spokesperson told WJAR that “multiple low-altitude aircraft” were reported near one of the Coast Guard’s boats. Russia targets Ukrainian infrastructure with a massive attack by cruise missiles and drones According to the WJAR report, drones are legal in New Jersey for recreational and commercial use. However, they are subject to local and Federal Aviation Administration regulations. Drone operators must be FAA-certified, the report said. New Jersey lawmakers, including U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, have expressed concern and frustration over the federal government’s lack of transparency on the issue. “We need to know what’s going on over our skies,” Booker said, according to WJAR. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said he does not believe the drone sightings pose any threat. However, Murphy’s office announced Friday that it has contacted President Joe Biden about concerns over unmanned aircraft systems in and around New Jersey airspace. In the letter, Murphy wrote that more federal resources should be devoted to the matter since state and local law enforcement in his state are limited in dealing with unmanned aircraft systems. Another lawmaker, Sen. Andy Kim, reported seeing drones while on patrol with local law enforcement. Kim said he witnessed white, red and green lights appearing in groups of five to seven at a time. Kim wrote in a series of social media posts that he knew the lights were not associated with aircraft because the objects did not appear on the FlightAware tracker. In New York City, residents in the Bronx and Queens have reported seeing multiple drones as well as sightings being reported over LaGuardia Airport, The New York Daily News reported Friday. The New York City Emergency Management Department said in a social media post that it has not received any official reports of drone activity, but is aware of the reports of the sightings near the airport. The report indicated that the drones took off once police reported on the scene in the Bronx. Police also reported that sightings had taken place on Staten Island. In Maryland, residents in Bowie have released videos of drone sightings to local media organizations. Autumn Stasulli and her family told NewsNation affiliate DC News Now they were out looking at Christmas lights when they spotted flashing red and green lights. She said she saw between three and five drones the size of SUVs that were making loud noises. She told the station that there were “just drones all over the place.” She added that it appeared that military jets were in pursuit of the drones and that she is concerned about where the aircraft may be coming from. In a social media post, Gov. Larry Hogan reported that he witnessed dozens of large drones Thursday night over his home in Davidsonville, which is located 25 miles outside of Washington, D.C. Hogan wrote that the drone activity lasted about 45 minutes. Midwest Residents in Northfield, Minnesota — located south of Minneapolis-St. Paul — have reported seeing mysterious flashing lights over the night sky. Deborah Wagner and her daughter told Fox 9 that the lights were hard to track. “We started trying to follow them, but they just won’t be followed,” Wagner said, adding that the lights just seemed to disappear. Her daughter, Chrissy Grady, tried to capture video of the orbs with her cellphone, and the video showed the objects hovering before disappearing. “Are those UFOs? Are they a government thing?” Grady asked. West Coast Similar sightings have been reported in southern California, where residents spotted seeing colored lights. Colin Rambo, who lives outside San Diego in Lemon Grove, told CBS 8 that he witnessed seeing “a bunch of red lights floating in the sky.” Rambo told the television station that he was driving when he saw what he called a fleet of “red glowing orbs.” Over five minutes, Rambo reported seeing at least 25 of the orbs. In Temecula, which is located in southern California’s wine country in Riverside County, residents reported seeing large drones hovering over the community. One resident said the objects were the size of a car. Texas bill would allow Bitcoin to be used for taxes, donations They’ll be going just straight one direction, and then, just all of a sudden, they’ll just zig or zag and keep going, or turn around, and just break really quick,” the man said. Local sheriff’s officials said the drones did not belong to the department. Camp Pendleton, a Marine Corps base north of San Diego, told the station it had received several reports of drone sightings from local residents. A spokesman for the base told CBS 8 that the base did not have any drone activity planned when the sightings took place. International Unidentified drones have also been spotted over four Royal Air Force bases in England, which has prompted the British government to request military assistance, the U.S. Air Force said. Air Force officials said that “small” drones continue to be spotted in and around the four British military installations since Nov. 20. None of the activities interrupted base operations, officials said. In a statement, the Air Force said that the objects have ranged in size and configurations and that the U.S. Air Force is working with host-nation officials and mission partners to endure base personnel. Reuters reported that drones have also been spotted at the U.S. Air Force base at Ramstein in Germany this month. Sources told Reuters that German officials have not determined who is operating the drones. They had, however, ruled out the possibility that the drones were operated by amateurs.

Hydrogen powered ferry results in twice the CO2 emissions of existing ferry

https://cleantechnica.com/2024/12/12/hydrogen-ships-are-seeing-same-pattern-as-all-hydrogen-fleets/ Yhe hydrogen is produced in Germany, and trucked to norway at a great carbon impact. By contrast, delivering electricity to the 80 or so electric ferries doesn’t require any diesel trucks driving four days back and forth, doesn’t leak any green house gases and doesn’t lose 80% of the energy that’s put into it to electrolyzer efficiency, liquification energy requirements, boil off and leakage. They plug in at the docks using Norway’s 30 grams CO2e per kWh electricity, 10% of the carbon intensity of German’s because of all the hydropower. Those 80 ferries are vastly reducing the greenhouse gas emissions of ferry trips, and at much lower expense and complexity. An MF Hydra size ferry powered by batteries charged with Norway’s green electricity would likely emit about 50 tons of CO2e per year dam-to-wake, a huge improvement over diesel and a massive improvement over hydrogen. This is on top of the very significant energy cost differences of making hydrogen at Germany’s higher electricity rates, throwing away most of it between electrolyzer, compression, liquification and fuel cell inefficiencies, compounded by so much of it leaking. Industrial electricity rates are roughly double in Germany and about five times as much is required per kilometer of ferry movement, so energy costs are about ten times for the hydrogen ferry as for comparable battery electric ferries. These really weird energy costs, waste and distances are par for the course for hydrogen fleet trials by the way. When Canada trialed hydrogen buses at the Whistler Blackcomb ski resort starting with the 2010 Winter Olympics, green hydrogen was trucked in from Quebec, 4,500 kilometers away, requiring about the same amount of diesel burnt just to deliver the hydrogen for the distances the buses traveled. It’s hard to say how the MF Hydra got through business casing, but one assumes it wasn’t a rational and clear decision, and inevitably the ferry will be converted to much cheaper battery electric like the rest of Norway’s fjord-crossing fleet. The MF Hydra example is a good one because this article was triggered by the bankruptcy of Norwegian company TECO, with its hydrogen fuel cell technology for maritime applications. The filings were driven by financial strain, including a bankruptcy petition from the Norwegian Tax Authority and difficulties securing capital. The company cited delays in Norway’s zero-emission regulations for cruise ships as a factor that hindered market opportunities. I assume that zero-emission regulations were looking at the reality of hydrogen value chain emissions and that was a problem for the firm. After all, in the best possible case scenario, a ship running on green hydrogen made with Norway’s electricity would cost three to four times as much to fuel and have three to four times the emissions per kilometer traveled. That’s before leakage, which makes things worse. The redundantly named H2 Barge 2, formerly known as FPS Waal, began operating on the Rhine between Rotterdam and Duisburg in 2023. The retrofitted, 200-unit, 140-kilometer route, container cargo vessel features six 200kW fuel cells from Ballard Power Systems. The project faces challenges, including high operating costs, limited hydrogen refueling infrastructure, and delays in regulatory frameworks supporting hydrogen adoption. As a reminder, there are two 700-unit container ships powered entirely by batteries covering 1,000 kilometers on the Yangtze with swappable, containerized batteries sprinkled up and down the river at ports.

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