Boomerang shaped craft in Neptune, New Jersey. (added NYC object)

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In this thread,
The user uploads a video of a boomerang shaped craft out of Neptune N.J.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/NJDrones/comments/1hdkkad/drone_sighting_last_night_in_neptune_nj/






His words:

This was sent to me by a colleague around 11 p.m. last night (12/13), and it's the clearest footage of a drone—or something similar—I've seen yet off a cell phone. The object doesn't seem to have the shape of a normal airplane (boomerang), and they described a low humming sound it made that was barely noticeable.

Can anyone help identify this? Could it be a specific type of drone, military tech, or something else entirely?
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It appears to have no discernible tail section, looking like a flying boomerang.
Other users have speculated it to be a Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel.
Would like to hear what you guys think.

EDIT

I'm adding an additional boomerang object sighting (with no lights this time) on the same day, over in NYC. I didn't want to make another thread.


Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1hdv3o7/my_friend_just_captured_this_over_nyc_121324/




 
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The "boomerang" may simply be the wings of a jetliner in steep ascent, i.e. pitched up, which puts the wing tips below the wing roots. The tail may simply not be lit?

With location and time, I'm confident there'd be a flight track found for it.
 
Mendel said:
The "boomerang" may simply be the wings of a jetliner in steep ascent, i.e. pitched up, which puts the wing tips below the wing roots. The tail may simply not be lit?

With location and time, I'm confident there'd be a flight track found for it.
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It also seems like the craft is missing a typical nose.
 
Here one guy posted his meaning and he was not alone:

The second screen is the direct sighting of the aircraft. Than it makes a turn. First screen is the aircraft from behind, third screen is from the back of the aircraft, before it dissapears over the roof.

The hole video has no sound. The poster did not reacted why there is no sound.

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"I think this may be a C-17. It has a thick, highly swept wing, two large wingtip landing lights with two less powerful lights near the middle of the wing, and what looks like four large, very far forward mounted engines. The engines are well illuminated by the landing lights especially as it's overhead. The high wing and lights mounted far from the wing roots also explain why the front of the aircraft isn't very well illuminated.

When the camera is shaking as it flies overhead the red and green navigation lights become visible as well. Being a military plane would also explain the lack of logo lights.

It's difficult to say where it could have been going without any additional information, but I'd suspect that this was a C-17 from McGuire either by the 305th or 514th air mobility wing, possibly to or from one of the nearby smaller airports like Lakewood or Ocean County.

The C-17 is capable of operating from very short runways for its' size but may be limited by the smaller airport's weight limit for runways and taxiways. If OP would provide a time and direction of flight it may be possible to figure out exactly what it is and where it's going. Also video with sound but OP doesn't seem keen to acknowledge any comments asking for that which is pretty suspicious."



Perhaps an other user here could do a comparison to a landing C17 transport aircraft.
 

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Thanks for the replies guys. Interesting, I have never seen such an illusion before where it looks like only the wings are flying in the sky. But thats why I posted it here to get a better understanding.
 
I'm unclear about the OP. The original poster on Reddit states:
The object doesn't seem to have the shape of a normal airplane (boomerang)

Are they suggesting that the "normal" shape of an airplane would be a boomerang, and the craft in the video is not?

Or are they suggesting that the craft in the video is boomerang-shaped, therefor not normal?
 
I have found 2 US aircraft with that wing shape: Boeing C17 and the C5 Super Galaxy

What could be fixed better?
 

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Jack Mallory said:
I'm unclear about the OP. The original poster on Reddit states:
The object doesn't seem to have the shape of a normal airplane (boomerang)

Are they suggesting that the "normal" shape of an airplane would be a boomerang, and the craft in the video is not?

Or are they suggesting that the craft in the video is boomerang-shaped, therefor not normal?
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Look in my last screen out of the video or the last second of the viewing of the video, before the aircraft dissapears. I think, that I can see there 2 engines, maybe 4. In the Video between 39-42 sek.
 

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From the footage in post #13, I have enhanced one frame a little bit to make the aircraft features stand out more. What is unique about the C-17 lighting is the reflection of the wing tips landing lights on the turbines, and the red anti-collision light reflection on the main landing gear pods. By comparing with the aircraft in the footage, it looks like the C-17 is a very good match (I have mirrored the frame from the "drone" footage to match the orientation of the reference frame):

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source: https://pembrokeshire-herald.com/75...rcraft-spotted-flying-low-over-pembrokeshire/
 
substantials said:
In this thread,
The user uploads a video of a boomerang shaped craft out of Neptune N.J.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/NJDrones/comments/1hdkkad/drone_sighting_last_night_in_neptune_nj/




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His words:



It appears to have no discernible tail section, looking like a flying boomerang.
Other users have speculated it to be a Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel.
Would like to hear what you guys think.
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This is an airliner, with signal lights. No more really needs to be said about it.
 
john.phil said:
From the footage in post #13, I have enhanced one frame a little bit to make the aircraft features stand out more. What is unique about the C-17 lighting is the reflection of the wing tips landing lights on the turbines, and the red anti-collision light reflection on the main landing gear pods. By comparing with the aircraft in the footage, it looks like the C-17 is a very good match (I have mirrored the frame from the "drone" footage to match the orientation of the reference frame):

source: https://pembrokeshire-herald.com/75...rcraft-spotted-flying-low-over-pembrokeshire/
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Possibly this C-17 from McGuire AFB that was flying around Neptune quite low on the evening of the sighting...

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Shouldn't that be ~4AM 13DEC UTC to allow for time zone of EST? I thought it was twin engined too but if 11pm EST then it might be FFT1978, AIRBUS A-321neo, which flew over Neptune at 11:16pm on 12th Dec or if at 10:59pm, then MXY749 (AIRBUS A220-300). Poster said 13/12 at 11pm but it was posted Friday early evening so a mistake, I presume. (Lastly, ad hominem, but Reddit poster has a history of esoteric topic interests like astral projections and more icky things.)
 
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Shouldn't that be ~4AM 13DEC UTC to allow for time zone of EST? I thought it was twin engined too but if 11pm EST then it might be FFT1978, AIRBUS A-321neo, which flew over Neptune at 11:16pm on 12th Dec or if at 10:59pm, then MXY749 (AIRBUS A220-300). Poster said 13/12 at 11pm but it was posted Friday morning so a mistake, I presume. (Lastly, ad hominem, but Reddit poster has a history of esteric topic interests like astral projections and more icky things.)
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Yes, however I intentionally didnt take time zones into account - all we know from the original post is that the video was received by the poster at 11pm, so it had to have been taken before then.

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flarkey said:
Yes, however I intentionally didnt take time zones into account - all we know from the original post is that the video was received by the poster at 11pm, so it had to have been taken before then.
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It's really up to them to provide a time to confirm or contradict.
All we can say at this point is, "it could've been that plane", and you've done that succinctly.
 
The receiver of the video seems to be based in NJ so would be going on EST and mixed up his dates. In any case, the video is stripped of sound and looks over-compressed which puts it in low information zone, and as flarkey and others on Reddit! have said, looks like a plane.
 
to state the obvious, the green dot is a camera lens reflection of the moon

there's a boomerang-shaped white wisp moving left-to-right

it might be a side-lit wisp of cloud/fog

some reddit commenters (edit: and @flarkey) think it could be a flock of geese
 
substantials said:
Strangely enough, another boomerang looking object was seen on the 13th as well, over in NYC, this time with no lights at all.


Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1hdv3o7/my_friend_just_captured_this_over_nyc_121324/


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Added it to OP, didnt want to make a new thread.
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The blue-green dot in the sky is 100% a lense flare effect, caused by the bright light in front of you, not any kind of craft. Here a comparing to another picture in the night, where you can see it better
 

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The blue-green dot in the sky is 100% a lense flare effect, caused by the bright light in front of you, not any kind of craft. Here a comparing to another picture in the night, where you can see it better
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I know. I was interested in the dark boomerang object gliding across the sky. it might be hard to make out depending on the screen/brightness/contrast of your device.
 
john.phil said:
From the footage in post #13, I have enhanced one frame a little bit to make the aircraft features stand out more. What is unique about the C-17 lighting is the reflection of the wing tips landing lights on the turbines, and the red anti-collision light reflection on the main landing gear pods. By comparing with the aircraft in the footage, it looks like the C-17 is a very good match (I have mirrored the frame from the "drone" footage to match the orientation of the reference frame):

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Good job! Maybe we should create here a file, where all crazy wing shapes, like the C17 must be collected with its lights for next "boomerang objects."
 
I'm trying to remember if I ever looked at a video on my phone,
to discover that somehow the audio was missing. :rolleyes:

Also, if we weren't currently in a crazy wave of drone hysteria,
how many would think that that looked more like a drone, than a plane? (definitely not me).

ETA: Lastly, in a country where literally millions of us own & fly drones, the general concept of seeing one
is incredibly mundane. Now, "dozens" in the sky, "the size of cars" ?!? Well, that really would be interesting...
and, of course, precisely zero such footage has been offered, despite all the wild claims...
 
Hmm for some reason I no longer have the option to edit my OP, i was going to add a line about how the second video is about the dark object, not the lens flare. But for some reason I no longer have the option to edit the OP.
 
substantials said:
Hmm for some reason I no longer have the option to edit my OP, i was going to add a line about how the second video is about the dark object, not the lens flare. But for some reason I no longer have the option to edit the OP.
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I discovered this recently myself. As explained by Mick, there's a limited window of time (not sure how long it lasts) to edit a post before that feature is disabled (besides mods). This is to prevent contextual changes to a post after comments to the original have already been made.
 
Jack Mallory said:
I discovered this recently myself. As explained by Mick, there's a limited window of time (not sure how long it lasts) to edit a post before that feature is disabled (besides mods). This is to prevent contextual changes to a post after comments to the original have already been made.
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Ah ok. Maybe I should have made another thread about that dark boomerang object, I just didnt want to make too many threads.

edit: Eh, I just went ahead and made a new thread for it because its a different sighting and I did some further video analysis on it as well.
 
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flarkey said:
Possibly this C-17 from McGuire AFB that was flying around Neptune quite low on the evening of the sighting...
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The person who published the footage made an update:

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My colleague who sent the video said that it came from almost due east, traveling west. He's about a quarter mile from the ocean in Neptune, N.J. The time was between 10:55 and 11:10 pm on Thursday, December 12th.
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/NJDrones/comments/1hdkkad/comment/m22we6x
 
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john.phil said:
The person who published the footage made an update:

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Guitarland OP

My colleague who sent the video said that it came from almost due east, traveling west. He's about a quarter mile from the ocean in Neptune, N.J. The time was between 10:55 and 11:10 pm on Thursday, December 12th.
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/NJDrones/comments/1hdkkad/comment/m22we6x
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The time and location don't quite match the C-17 but the track direction does. Is it possible there was another one not on ADSB at the time? I think it's more likely the time and location are not being reported accurately which is why i wanted to find the house in the video.
 
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