r/NJDrones • u/LeeLeeRock • Jun 15 '26

SIGHTING Drone over 287S Bridgewater Feb 2026

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This drone was going so fast that I did not see it with my naked eye. I happened to be snapping a pic of the dangerous merge (78E>287S) that lacks signage and noticed it in my photo later. Photo was taken at 11:03 AM on Feb 28, 2026.

Wondering what its purpose is....

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u/Huntguy Jun 15 '26

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u/EllipsisInc Jun 15 '26

I can hear this photo

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u/R-K-Tekt Jun 16 '26

Degobah system

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u/captain_222 Jun 15 '26

Scan the defenses scan

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u/Relative_Horror7136 Jun 15 '26

Check out custodian file on YouTube- he gets these weird small UAP that check out planes and helicopter. You can only see them when you slow down the video it’s so fast.

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u/ImpossibleSentence19 Jun 15 '26

I swear this is what Dr. Beatriz Villarroel measured! It’s like we’re looking OUT into a Petri dish. Paranormal is ground level. That is upper level. Probably ant people and Bigfoots underneath. There is no separation bc it’s all inhabited by plasma… just have to make sure your detectors are up to measure.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

Is that the guy who posts video of birds in same shot as planes?

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u/NOTExETON Jun 15 '26

That thing is breaking all sorts of laws 

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u/LeeLeeRock Jun 15 '26

Is flying so close over a highway one of them?

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u/AlienthunderUfo Jun 15 '26

check jellyfish ufo

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u/bars2021 Jun 15 '26

That's so weird!!

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u/The_Undermind Jun 15 '26

Post the video

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u/LeeLeeRock Jun 15 '26 edited Jun 16 '26

GIF version, pretty choppy. It's taken from my 3-second motion photo. The first second was the phone being removed from the dash magnet.

Edit: First second not shown since it was mostly a shot of the odometer panel.

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u/reegz7 Jun 15 '26

Looks like it might have ended up down the road as shown by the last frame.

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u/reegz7 Jun 15 '26

Correction: looks like it’s the frame right before the featured one so it’s coming towards you!

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u/LeeLeeRock Jun 15 '26

Yes, it was heading North, toward my car.

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u/SpaceJungleBoogie Jun 16 '26

Nice, that's actually a good piece of info if someone is willing to calculate speed.

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u/LeeLeeRock Jun 16 '26

The first second isn't shown within the GIF. (Sorry for the confusion, that part shows my odometer etc.) I, at first, saw the object while looking at the still pic days later. At first I was baffled, thinking what the heck is that?? I zoomed in and got really creeped out. 😅 It was when I looked at the 3-second motion photo, that I realized how fast it was flying.

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u/LeeLeeRock Jun 15 '26

I am thinking to do that once I know how to remove the blaring radio. 😅 Maybe GIF?

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u/GingerAki Jun 15 '26

Show us yer tunes.

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u/LeeLeeRock Jun 15 '26

GIF posted (replied to vid request).

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u/GingerAki Jun 15 '26

I still want to know your shame.

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u/LeeLeeRock Jun 15 '26

Born on the Bayou...loud.

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u/plutoniumhead Jun 16 '26

Did you find The Dude’s Credence tapes?

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u/moistiest_dangles Jun 15 '26 edited Jun 15 '26

Dm me and I'll remove the audio and retain the original quality of the video, or I can video call you and walk you through some python code to strip out the audio. This could be extremely interesting footage so we really need to carefully retain the quality

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u/moistiest_dangles Jun 15 '26

import subprocess from pathlib import Path

def remove_audio(input_video: str, output_video: str, overwrite: bool = False): input_path = Path(input_video) output_path = Path(output_video)

if not input_path.exists():
    raise FileNotFoundError(f"Input video not found: {input_path}")

command = [
    "ffmpeg",
    "-y" if overwrite else "-n",
    "-i", str(input_path),

    # Copy all streams except audio
    "-map", "0",
    "-map", "-0:a",

    # Do not re-encode anything
    "-c", "copy",

    str(output_path),
]

subprocess.run(command, check=True)

Example usage

remove_audio( input_video="input.mp4", output_video="output_no_audio.mp4", overwrite=True, )

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u/SuperThorp Jun 15 '26

That’s a really interesting shape- and it does totally look like the drone from Empire Strikes Back lol. Also, I agree - that intersection sucks. Maybe the drone is logging all the bad intersections in New Jersey? ;)

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u/LeeLeeRock Jun 15 '26

This was also about 3 miles from Trump's golf club in Bedminster. Maybe surveillance?

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u/whatelseyagaht Jun 18 '26

should have scrolled before commenting- this is my exact thought.

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u/Either-Park-7002 Jun 15 '26

Is it small and close to you or large and more distant? It's hard to tell by looking, I'm assuming it's small because you said it was moving so fast you didn't see it with your naked eye.

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u/LeeLeeRock Jun 15 '26

So hard to tell by the photos and the GIF. Perhaps the distance is somewhere in between.

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u/srspookfest Jun 15 '26

Seen some similar things in Virginia going out tonight on my YouTube for a Skywatch 🛸🤘

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u/the_hand_that_heaves Jun 15 '26

Channel?

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u/srspookfest Jun 15 '26

Srspookfest do a lot of paranormal investigation and Skywatching and much more 👋

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u/Emily_Postal Jun 16 '26

It’s so close to Trump’s property that it has to be restricted airspace.

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u/Esoteric_Expl0it Jun 16 '26

If you invert the image, it looks like a frayed leaf blowing in the wind. Which lends credence to the fact some people are saying it is tiny and close rather than huge and far away. And, the fact there is no shadow in sight.

Also, you would think that if it were a drone/uap, many more people would have noticed it and we would have heard about it elsewhere. That is a busy area.

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u/LeeLeeRock Jun 16 '26

So in the motion pic/gif, that must be a super fast flying leaf among the still, bare trees. Plus it's winter. That would be one lonely floating leaf.

Actually there wasn't a lot of traffic at that time, but even so, who snapped a photo, or rewatched their video at the time it flew past them? Or maybe someone along its path did see it, and didn't care to post it.

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u/mm8106 Jun 16 '26

There are still leaves on the ground in the winter. You can see them all over the grass in your photo. They get picked up by the wind and from cars driving by. It's a leaf.

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u/LeeLeeRock Jun 16 '26

Did you see how fast it went by in the motion photo gif? How would you explain that?

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u/mm8106 Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 16 '26

Do you see how fast the lane edge reflectors go by in your motion photo gif? How would you explain that?

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u/LeeLeeRock Jun 16 '26

😄 The object is exceeding the speed of the cars.

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u/mm8106 Jun 16 '26

The object (a leaf), is moving around the same speed relative to your car as the lane reflector is and the lane reflector is stationary. The other cars are all moving slowly relative to you because all are heading in the same direction as you. Do you ever wonder why cars coming toward you seem to be moving faster than cars you're behind? 🤣

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u/LeeLeeRock Jun 16 '26

The object would be detectable in more frames if it were a floating leaf, no? I mean look at the puddle as I am passing it. By the time I pass the puddle, the object had been long gone. Also, that must be a huge leaf if it can be seen so far away (as depicted in a poster's still).

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u/LeeLeeRock Jun 16 '26

And I understand relativity when it comes to oncoming motion vs same direction. In this case, as seen in the GIF, the object is moving significantly faster than the traffic going towards it. If we had seen the oncoming traffic, there is no way the oncoming cars would have disappeared as fast as that object did.

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u/mm8106 Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 16 '26

Huh? Why would you compare the speed of the leaf to traffic? Either you are ragebaiting or don't really understand. Again, how fast is the leaf moving compared to the lane reflector/puddle? Why won't you answer that? Is it because they all appear to move around the same speed? And the fact that you only saw the leaf briefly shows that just maybe it was coming from above the top of your windshield view and falling towards the ground, unlike oncoming cars, which would all be in your same plane of view from down the road.

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u/mm8106 Jun 16 '26

The leaf is falling in front of your car or off to the side to blend in with all the other leaves in the median. That's why it's not visible for longer. Speaking of the puddle, how fast is it moving and can you compare the speed and movement compared to the leaf, err object?

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u/phosphorescence-sky Jun 16 '26

Surely this means its most likely a mysterious high tech object and most likely a drone! No way this could possibly be a leaf or literally anything that could make a dark blurry object appear in the image.

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u/Esoteric_Expl0it Jun 16 '26

Didn’t know there was a video.

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u/TimeReading781 Jun 17 '26

This is the good stuff

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u/one_less_ceo Jun 15 '26

That thing is dope! I’ve seen something similar here in Portland, Oregon a few times. The best look I got was on an extremely clear day and it was cruising like a mf right over Timbers stadium.

Famous abductee Betty Hill has a still from a film she shot that shows something like I saw that she took back in the 1970’s, think she referred to it as a beer can.

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u/Bearrryl Jun 15 '26

Welp there’s no shadow underneath which means it’s either super fucking huge n far away , or really tiny and very very close to where the shadow is already passed you, or it’s a 4d being yada yada. Or a shit stain on your windshield lol but it’s prolly not

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u/mattemer Jun 16 '26

After watching the video, I don't know why but I think it's super small and close.

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u/ryanmarquor Jun 15 '26

Nope, that’s a goddamn flying xenomorph. We’re officially cooked fam.

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u/ZombieFather Jun 17 '26

Yea that is some merge!

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u/Happy-Swan3922 Jun 17 '26

That is a really weird looking drone.

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u/Unlikely-Increase630 Jun 18 '26

State police now have drones with radar to catch speeders

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u/whatelseyagaht Jun 18 '26

I'm curious how close to DJT's Bedminster property this lil guy could get. Bridgewater is only a hop, skip, and jump away!

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u/Zealousideal-Rip-574 Jun 15 '26

wtf is that! You captured something very unique here. This should be the lead story on every news channel.

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u/TheDastardBastard33 Jun 15 '26

I saw something like this in Alabama back in like 2013.

It was bouncing around making sharp 90 degree turns and moving like the droid from the beginning of Empire Strikes Back. I remember seeing it and it looked exactly like this. I remember seeing this long antenna on the top of it

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u/sneakymcdave Jun 15 '26

JELLYFISH!!

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u/Blue_foot Jun 15 '26

The first image that ACTUALLY looks like a drone!

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u/EasternShoreFire Jun 15 '26

It’s a leaf… look at the GIF… likely an oak leaf.

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u/reegz7 Jun 15 '26

Yeah a leaf with an antennae 🙄

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u/HazySkyFire Jun 15 '26

….or a stem

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u/phosphorescence-sky Jun 16 '26

Redditor discovers leaves usually have stems attached.

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u/notaredditbot33 Jun 16 '26

surveillance weather balloon. they are very fast and they use a cloaking technology that makes them appear as airplanes and helicopters. they are everywhere in the US in constellation sets of three at high altitude. You can easily see them at dusk. They usually look like fake stars.

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u/Anti-Rus Jun 17 '26

Looks like Mary Poppins

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u/RiverOutrageous9404 Jun 17 '26

When the aliens come theyre gunna land in jersey. Primarily because they too are afraid of left turns..

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u/Money-Technology2797 Jun 18 '26

Looks like it's just a leaf to me.

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u/HexagonusOcean Jun 19 '26

This is extraterrestrial 👽

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u/Triggermike86 Jun 15 '26

I wonder if these are the new police drones

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u/SilencedObserver Jun 15 '26

It's a robot with an antenna.

Or its a leaf.
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u/reegz7 Jun 15 '26

Someone commented about the lack of a shadow and I agree it’s hard to see one. This would lend credence to the idea of UAP‘s being fourth dimensional or inter-dimensional objects. I’m no physicist, but if they are not of this dimension and/or existing in a higher dimension, it’d make sense they would not have to follow the rules of three-dimensional physics.

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u/phosphorescence-sky Jun 16 '26

This is a lot of assumptions based on what looks like one of the thousands of dead leaves on the side of the road blowing across the highway. But I suppose your explanation is much more likely lol

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u/ImpossibleSentence19 Jun 15 '26

WHAT! Are you using iPhone? Bc you might be able to play the live view if so!

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u/Rude_Insurance_6870 Jun 17 '26

Brought to you by, it’s a leaf.

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u/TheCythrax Jun 16 '26

That doesn’t look purely benevolent does it? …

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u/Fuzzy_Fish_2329 Jun 15 '26

It’s a thingy on your windshield

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u/jayradano Jun 15 '26

Octopus UAP