JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The mysterious drone sightings in New York and New Jersey have landed in Jacksonville after a teen noticed a questionable plane within the sky.
Ava Ludwig seen one thing out of the atypical on the drive dwelling together with her mother Thursday evening.
“I assumed it was a star,” she stated. “However [my mom] was like, ‘Oh my gosh, it’s completely one these drones that we’ve been listening to about.”
Ludwig has a member of the family who lives in New Jersey who stated she’d seen the mysterious drones there.
“That may be a fully loopy coincidence if it was,” Ludwig stated. “I began digging a bit extra into it and simply wanting on the movies and searching on-line and seeing what different information retailers have posted. I don’t know precisely what to consider it.”
News4JAX aviation skilled Ed Sales space stated the sightings may very well be a sheriff’s helicopter or a medevac helicopter.
Drone laws require that the operator stays within the line of sight of the drone. Additionally they have to remain beneath 400 toes.
Sales space will not be satisfied what Ludwig noticed was a drone.
“You see these are the 2 wing ideas. The wing ideas have strobe lights on them. That’s both a coaching airplane, an airliner on method to Jackson Worldwide, yeah, to be any variety of issues, it’s not a drone,” he stated whereas watching Ludwig’s video.
Sales space additionally stated the navy does function unmanned drones which might be the scale of small commuter jets, nevertheless it’s additionally unlikely that’s what was within the sky Thursday evening.
Whereas it’s unclear what was flying within the sky, Ludwig and her mother weren’t the one ones in Jacksonville who noticed it.
“There’s so many theories flying round about it, however I suppose hopefully extra will come out, and hopefully extra folks noticed it. Perhaps received another movies or angles,” Ludwig stated.
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