For the past two months or so, northern New Jersey has been buzzing. No, it’s not a bunch of Mancunians having top nights out, nor a swarm of murder hornets (though that wouldn’t be the most outlandish explanation posited), but a swarm of a different kind…
Strange lights in the skies of New Jersey have been captured on blurry mobile phone videos and uploaded to TikTok and YouTube in their droves since mid-November. The lights move quickly, sometimes in groups, sometimes on their own – often blinking, but not always – and then they vanish without a trace. What could they be? Where could they be coming from? What is their purpose? As you might imagine, there have been a lot of theories.
What are they?
I have seen some wild ideas on this front. Could they be alien craft visiting our planet? Well, probably not. Interstellar travel, even for a super-advanced alien civilisation, would be incredibly taxing on resources, fuel, time, and effort. The suggestion that Marklar is travelling here from lightyears away, and setting off at a time before humans and chimpanzees had separated on the evolutionary tree, seems unlikely. For their intention, once the reach Earth, to then apparently be “lets muck about in the sky over New Jersey, but never land or try to interact with these chimps in cars” would be an incredible waste of time and energy.
Might they be inter-dimensional beings? No, because dimensions are not the multi-verse. We don’t live in a comic book, and that word doesn’t mean what authors frequently want it to mean. Interesting work has been done to study extra dimensions, but they are not mirror universes and beings do not live in them and travel here. The same goes for orbs. Nothing would “travel” here from an extra dimension; it would already be here, it would just be impossible for us to see with the naked eye.
Perhaps they are angels, or even demons? It’s hard to know what to say about that one, except to tell you to go consult a theologian or two and come back to me when you’ve decided on which one you think they are. Then demonstrate to me how you reasoned that out, because I struggle to see a valid enough argument for “they got zooped here by magic to do holy good flying/unholy evil flying” to take an opposing stance on.
Or are we actually dealing with giant drones? Well… no, probably not. Some might well be drones, but a great number of these videos – once details of the date, time, location, and direction that the camera is pointing are provided – turn out to be nothing more outlandish than planes, helicopters, satellites or (in at least one case) a zoomed in video of the planet Venus on a low-quality camera. The excellent UFO/UAP researcher and skeptical writer Mick West has done a superb job of tracking down many of these cases, to illustrate the mundane reality behind the scare stories.
Where did they come from?
I feel we have touched on these points already. They did not come from a parallel universe, because that isn’t a thing that exists. If you need more information on that, I suggest you reach out to a physicist and not an article in a magazine. They did not come from space (ditto). Some YouTubers and Facebook posters have suggested they came from an advanced civilization living under the sea, but I can’t say I have seen any evidence for that beyond “they came in from the coast.” If that were enough, then we could equally fear that all boats came from under the sea.
Videos of the lights disappearing down towards the Atlantic are just examples of forced perspective – they don’t show the lights under the water, they don’t show ripples in the water of something breaking the surface. The best you could do is say that they have moved beyond the horizon, but equally they might have moved lower to the surface and switched off their lights, or the angle of their trajectory might have obscured the lights from your viewpoint.
Which leads us to the more terrestrial answers, and here is where I should admit that I don’t have an answer. There have been some suggestions that these mystery lights are coming from foreign nations. The US government has already pushed back on the idea of an “Iranian mothership” controlling these craft, but the idea that a foreign state could be in control is not entirely beyond the realms of possibility. Doing so could easily be considered a hostile act and, potentially, an act of war, so the risks would far outweigh the benefits of the activity for hostile states working against the US.
The suggestion that these are military craft controlled by the US DOJ is not entirely without merit. But they’d have to have made the choice to test them over highly populated areas, which would seem badly thought out. There are large swathes of land across the continental United States where these tests could be carried out without rousing suspicion from the general public. I hear Nevada is quite good for this type of thing – I think they’ve got a number of Areas of land around there…
One last theory has suggested that these things are controlled by a shady cabal of individuals or a secret New World Order. Have you heard of Project Blue Beam? If not, that’s because it is a unfounded conspiracy theory that NASA is actually a front for a shady “one world government” to take over the world using a fake UFO invasion… or they could literally just be aircraft and satellites that people are misidentifying out of a want to see something interesting or score internet points.
Why are they here?
Maybe they are here to take over the world! Or to bring about the Christian rapture (but only in relatively small area of the north-eastern United States)! Perhaps this is the scouting party for our soon-to-be alien overlords, or the Iranian/Chinese incursion into the USA! All terrifying, if true. Or maybe, just maybe, there is no “they.” Maybe this is just a string of misidentified planes, planets, satellites and stars. There are lots of videos appearing, true. But not lots of videos of the same thing from different angles. And maybe that is because, from a different perspective, these lights in the sky become something very normal.
