Claimed sighting of large drone, Montclair, New Jersey, 29th November 2024.

[TEEJ]

As per Mick's request for new threads to discuss specific sightings. The following News Nation video features an interview with Evan Cutler who is a Montclair, New Jersey resident. Evan Cutler is a writer and producer for On Patrol Live. A network that follows police departments live for social media.


Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLJrYbcIkiI


Evan gives a detailed account of what he believes was a large drone the size of a school bus or two car garage over Montclair, New Jersey. His Instagram also gives a detailed account. He published one image of this sighting.

From the detail provided I believe that I have narrowed it down? Evan in the video states that he was returning from work at 0030 am. The sky in the image appears to be a bit bright for the wee small hours, but possibly flash and street lighting is having an effect?

Instagram post on the 2nd December has the sighting day as Friday. That would make it

Friday 29th November

0030 EST would be 0530 GMT/UTC

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/DDDolWEt5zq/


From

https://www.instagram.com/evancuts/

I believe that he is witnessing a departure from Newark Liberty International Airport.

Filming location Grove Street, Montclair Google map link

https://maps.app.goo.gl/ixtfQQbKP5dY39HE6

ADSBExchange playback link for TAP212 Airbus A321 flight. An Airbus A350 departs a few minutes later.

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?replay=2024-11-29-05:28&lat=40.767&lon=-74.087&zoom=11.0

Filming location distance from airpor approx 9.89 miles.

 

[FatPhil]

The following News Nation video ...

Is it time to start referring to them as Weekly World News Nation, given their reliability?

 

[Mick West]

Dropping the flight track and the location into Sitrec
https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?cu...om/1/Montclair News Nation/20241212_221104.js

Because it's turning towards him it will look very bright, and not moving for quite a while (you can play with it in Sitrec). It's about 10-12 miles away.

 

[TEEJ]

Thanks, Mick. Excellent work!

 

[TEEJ]

Evan Cutler gave an on camera interview and provided some more details.

He narrowed down the time as being nearer to 0040. This explains why he only saw one aircraft departing out of Newark Liberty and narrows it down to being the second Airbus. That was the Airbus A350-9 departed after the Airbus A321.


Source: https://youtu.be/S7k8vB_XPNA&t=5m09s


Friday night about 1240 at night I'm coming home from work..... driving into Montclair. All of a sudden right over the horizon I see what I looks like the full Moon. .... all of a sudden this Moon is starting to move to the left and heading towards me ... not the Moon maybe it is a plane? Not a plane way too big and way too low in the sky and its the middle of the night. Not a helicopter .....
There are further snippets of the Evan Cutler interview in the video.

Video of a A350-9 departing. As the aircraft turned after departure Evan Cutler would have seen the bright lights of the aircraft as he described low on the horizon. He initially thought was a full Moon.


Source: https://youtu.be/Gg8euAvx0YA?t=113

 

[Jack Mallory]

He says "I've been a bird watcher since 4th grade."
Great, another "trained observer."

Two grown men, and this is the photo they provide? In 2024?

 

[Z.W. Wolf]

I arrive in Montclair, New Jersey, and I see the full moon. I'm thinking, "Well, it can't be a full moon since the full moon was two weeks ago."

 

[Mendel]

Two grown men, and this is the photo they provide? In 2024?

"vampire qualities that make it unphotographable" had me similarly doubting

I couldn't do my homework because a vampire bit me

 

[Z.W. Wolf]

I'm calling shenanigans. This guy has an IMDB page. He's a TV show producer.


https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0193916/

In case anyone thinks I've got the wrong Evan Cutler...

https://www.linkedin.com/in/cutlerevan

 

[NoParty]

I'm calling shenanigans. This guy has an IMDB page. He's a TV show producer.


https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0193916/
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In case anyone thinks I've got the wrong Evan Cutler...

https://www.linkedin.com/in/cutlerevan
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Well, Cutler does immediately reference his program, "On Patrol: Live"
so he isn't hiding that he's a producer. But he could be seeing the interview as an opportunity to plug it...

 

[Z.W. Wolf]

Friday night, about 12:40 at night, I'm coming home from work on the TV show I produce - On Patrol: Live...

And he just happens to be wearing an On Patrol: Live cap... C'mon.

And btw, to give it a little weirder twist. While On Patrol: Live is listed on IMDB, Evans is not credited anywhere on the show's IMDB page, nor is the show listed on his personal IMDB page.

His last IMDB credit is Live PD - 2016-2020. Maybe an oversight...?

 

[Ann K]

Is this the case of another auto-focus (phone?) camera being unable to zero in on a small dot in the middle of a featureless sky? (The alternative would seem to be a manual focus camera whose operator realizes that things look larger when they're out of focus. ) Either way, I doubt that "vampire" qualities are involved, but the connection with secret Russian documents is gilding the lily just a tad too far to make him sound believable.

 

[TEEJ]

Is this the case of another auto-focus (phone?) camera being unable to zero in on a small dot in the middle of a featureless sky? (The alternative would seem to be a manual focus camera whose operator realizes that things look larger when they're out of focus. ) Either way, I doubt that "vampire" qualities are involved, but the connection with secret Russian documents is gilding the lily just a tad too far to make him sound believable.

Source: https://youtu.be/PgXSUMaDo6g?t=53

 

[Calter]

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Isn't he talking about something that happened on the 29th? At that point the last full moon would have been on the 15th (so two weeks before)

But anyway, it's always convenient how UFOs (or Drones in this case) get super close and super low (like in this case, 150 feet of the ground while being 40 feet by 40 feet in size), yet they always run away when the person is about to take a picture. One would think if they don't want to get a picture taken, they wouldn't even get close to begin with, and if they are so nonchalant and don't mind it then at least one clear picture should exist.

 

[Ann K]

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Source: https://youtu.be/PgXSUMaDo6g?t=53

Thanks ...but while interesting, it has no relationship to current sightings of lights in the sky.