An interactive map of UFO sightings has revealed shocking new reports of drones in New Jersey and other states, suggesting this bizarre mystery is still unfolding.
The map, created by UAP tracking website Enigma Labs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena), shows hundreds of sightings recorded as recently as January 7 across multiple northeastern states.
The mysterious drones along the East Coast appeared in November, with 22 people reporting to Enigma starting on the 20th. But that number had risen dramatically to 347 by December 31.
A drone ban was imposed from December 18 to January 17, with the average number of reported sightings dropping by 43 percent, according to Enigma Labs.
New data shows that 36 sightings were recorded during the week of January 1, almost half of which were in New Jersey.
The recent sightings come as President Trump said Monday he will tell “the people” the truth about the drones.
“Why don't we figure it out right away,” he said while in the Oval office. 'I can't imagine it being an enemy, otherwise people would be puffed up [it].
“Maybe they were testing things. I don't know why they wouldn't have said what it was.'
The Biden administration had assured the public that the sightings posed no threat, dismissing most of them as hobby drones, commercial aircraft and even stars.
The Garden State still appears to be the epicenter of activity after the first sightings in November, when eyewitnesses reported “car-sized drones” flying over a military base and President Donald Trump's golf course.
But since November, hundreds of other reports have surfaced in the Northeast and beyond several southern states, including Virginia, Kentucky and the Carolinas.
The most recent drone sightings recorded by the UAP tracking site occurred in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
On January 5 around 7:10 PM ET, an unnamed person reported two orbs slowly moving across the sky over Marlton, New Jersey.
“They were pulsating and appeared to be lower than a star,” the eyewitness wrote to the UAP tracking website EnigmaLabs.io (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena), which created the map.
Videos in the report show a plane appearing to flash a green light and a round blue orb high in the sky.
That same day around 10:55 PM ET, an eyewitness in Muhlenberg, Pennsylvania reported an “airplane-like ring of light changing direction.”
'It looked like it was simulating an airplane at first, but then turned into a ring of light and changed direction. Never seen anything like it. Are these the drones people are talking about?' wrote the eyewitness.
A video shows a single plane with a flashing yellow light on one side flying over a shopping center.
Around 3 a.m. ET on January 7, an eyewitness in Yaphank, New York reported “three lights moving rapidly toward the southeast.”
“As I got out of my vehicle, I saw some lights in the sky moving at a very fast pace. Initially there were three lights, one behind the other. Video shows only two, with one disappearing from view,” they wrote.
In the video, two distant lights appear to move across the night sky.
A video taken around 7:10 PM ET on January 5 in Marlton, New Jersey shows a plane that appears to be flashing a green light flying overhead, as well as a round blue sphere high in the sky
A still image of the sphere was also included in the report from Marlton, New Jersey
Another video, taken on January 5 around 10:55 PM ET in Muhlenberg, Pennsylvania, shows a single plane with a flashing yellow light on one side flying over a shopping center
'Was a bit low in the sky compared to other sightings in the past. No sound heard, no red/green aviation lights observed. A very high speed was observed traveling from the northwest to the southeast,” the eyewitness wrote.
The first drone sightings occurred in November over the US military's Picatinny Arsenal and newly elected President Donald Trump's golf course in Bedminster, raising concerns that the drones are part of a spying campaign.
Indeed, the unidentified aircraft have been reported over multiple US military locations in New Jersey, Massachusetts, Texas, Virginia, Ohio and even US bases in Germany and England.
In December, Trump claimed that “the government knows what's happening” when asked about bizarre phenomena during a press conference.
His drone report could come as early as today, as he recently said the American people are “going to find out” what's behind the drone activity on January 21.
Marchhe White House said the sightings near or above Department of Defense (DoD) installations “are not new.”
“DoD takes unauthorized access to its airspace seriously and is coordinating closely with federal, state, and local law enforcement authorities as appropriate,” the statement continued.
Numerous car-sized drones first appeared over New Jersey in mid-November and have since been reported by eyewitnesses throughout the Northeast
The Department of Homeland Security, DoD, Federal Aviation Administration and the FBI released a joint statement on the issue in mid-December.
The agencies said the sightings were “a combination of legal commercial drones, hobbyist drones and law enforcement drones, as well as manned fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters and stars incorrectly reported as drones.”
But many are still not convinced by this statement and still fear that the drones are controlled by one of the country's foreign adversaries such as China, Russia or Iran.
Such theories have been advanced by lawmakers like Michael McCaul, R-Texas, who has claimed that some of the unidentified aircraft are Chinese “spy drones.”
“We need to identify who is behind these drones,” he told reporters ahead of a classified briefing to members of the House Intelligence Committee.
“I believe they are spy drones and the [People’s Republic of China] and communist China is very good at this kind of thing. We know they bought land around military bases. This would be very consistent with their policies in recent years,” he said.
Exclusive polling from DailyMail.com and JL Partners shows that many American citizens share these concerns.
This was evident from the poll Nearly half (45 percent) of respondents believe the bizarre activity was more than just recreational or normal drone use, with the majority (26 percent) of those respondents pointing to foreign surveillance.
But 19 percent of Americans believe the sightings are nothing more than hobby drones, and 18 percent say they are “normal flying activities that have been exaggerated.”
Despite the outpouring of concern, the Pentagon has denied that a foreign country was behind the mysterious drones, even though they have been repeatedly spotted over sensitive US military locations.
White House national security spokesman John Kirby said in December that there are more than a million drones registered in the US and that “there are thousands of commercial hobbyist and law enforcement drones that are legally in the air on any given day.” , suggesting that the sightings were likely. one of these.
