Hackettstown, Warren County, New Jersey - Claimed drone sighting, 21st December 2024.

I looked into this one for a while when it was posted on Reddit, I figured that place was likely the area it was filmed from as its the highest point and the video shows them looking down on a town.

But I couldn't correlate the location to ensure the witness was being accurate. It's still unclear exactly where the car was parked.
 
I looked into this one for a while when it was posted on Reddit, I figured that place was likely the area it was filmed from as its the highest point and the video shows them looking down on a town.

But I couldn't correlate the location to ensure the witness was being accurate. It's still unclear exactly where the car was parked.

This in the bottom right looks like this Target and car park.

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I wondered if it was viewed from the spot labelled "Park and Ride" there but the Street View images show Target and the town hidden by trees from there.

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Yes there's a whole succession of planes approaching Newark from the west at the time of the video.

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Sampling of three tracks dropped into Google Earth, compared to the video:

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The Bing Maps IO think has the best reference to geomatch the video to the location, then angle is still a little off and the black line is a bar on the fence at the viewpoint but these 2 houses match imo

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The Bing Maps IO think has the best reference to geomatch the video to the location, then angle is still a little off and the black line is a bar on the fence at the viewpoint but these 2 houses match imo

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Those look like the ones I highlighted above, but I think those were wrong, as the view behind them is too far north.

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I think we are looking further left, with this house being the one on the right in the video, and the one to the left being hidden behind the trees.

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Looking at the 3D view, that's this one with the solar panels on the roof. The background view matches better.

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I still can't really work out what the thing with purple lights is though. May actually just be a nearer house with Christmas lights?

In which case your house ID might be right and the view is slightly further north?

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I think your house is is the more likely candidate, the purple sign is confusing but it could just be someones Christmas lights as you say.
 
Yes there's a whole succession of planes approaching Newark from the west at the time of the video.
One has to admire her certainty: "I did use flightradar24 to check. There were zero planes in my area". Maybe if she'd have looked at the sky in the direction of her nearest international airport she'd have been able to verify whether there were any planes up in the sky without even needing to check FR24?
 
To know about this very specific viewing point that's so unique to the area we were able to find it based on minimal information makes think they know where to go to find planes on approach.
 
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