Comments by "Jersey Shore Drone Services" (@jerseyshoredroneservices225) on "" video.

It's practically impossible to guess what the requirements would be because we don't know anything about the drones. The regular drone regulations that almost everybody seems to think would apply are for small unmanned aircraft systems, less than 55 pounds. Government aircraft fly around busy areas all the time without transmitting ADSB
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Whether it was this NASA project or something else there are many reasons why they might do it at night but one simple reason is to encounter less air traffic and to make it easier to avoid flying directly over people or moving vehicles on the ground. Depending on what regulations are flying under they may be prohibited from flying directly over people or moving vehicles.
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@lgnfve Really? Where's the video?
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If I understood Alex he described that corridor as the launch and land area, but not that the drones were required to stay within that area.
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I think it would be more accurate to say New York airport shut down because people saw something in the sky near an airport. Doesn't mean that they saw something within the controlled airspace or that the drone did anything wrong.
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To avoid being targeted? To yield to manned aircraft as required by law?
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@sandboxx A very similar event happened over California and just off the coast back in 2019, there's an article about it on the war zone, if you search. More recently similar events happened over at least Colorado but I think other places as well. Maybe ask NASA about all those events while you're at it...
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Lakehurst, just two syllables.
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@jimashtube Your outlook presumes that both are trying to avoid each other. However in the case of somebody pursuing a drone they may intend to collide with it or attack it in some other way. In that scenario it makes perfect sense to make yourself less visible.
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@jimashtube Unless they're flying information there's no good reason 41 aircraft to be approaching another in that situation. If your aircraft is being approached like that in the dark by an unknown aircraft you can assume they're up to something nefarious and take measures to be a more difficult target.
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