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A viral video making rounds on social media platform X, purportedly showing a drone over New Jersey skies on December 15, 2024, has been proven to be misleading. The nighttime footage, which captured a mysterious aircraft and garnered more than 400,000 views, is actually a much older recording.
🚨 JUST IN: Mystery drones in New Jersey are CHINESE SPY DRONES, according to House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair McCaul
You’ve gotta be KIDDING ME.
“I believe they're spy drones. The PRC, communist China, is very good at this stuff. We know they bought land around military… pic.twitter.com/YwWL8ZKUH4
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 17, 2024
Research reveals the footage first appeared on YouTube in 2008, depicting what was labeled as a European Black Project Aircraft. The same viral video resurfaced in 2009 under the title “UFO Top Secret Black Project,” with commenters noting its repeated misuse in various false claims over the years.
The claim’s credibility is further undermined by the absence of any mainstream media coverage regarding drone sightings in New Jersey associated with this particular footage. A fact-check published by India Today on December 17, 2024, confirmed the video’s origins predate the alleged New Jersey sighting by more than 15 years.
The Biden administration called Russia downing a U.S. drone "unprofessional."
Truly striking fear in our adversaries, much like they did when Biden's NSC referred to the Taliban as "businesslike and professional." via @OutnumberedFNC @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/IsFmFuHi4j
— Kayleigh McEnany (@kayleighmcenany) March 15, 2023
For context, black projects are highly classified military or defense initiatives that governments keep under strict secrecy. Several nations, including the United States, United Kingdom, China, North Korea, and Russia, are known to maintain such confidential defense programs, as documented by Wikipedia.
