Mysterious drones are ‘changing time’ on clocks in New Jersey as locals fear they’re being targeted by UFOs

As waves of loud, car-sized mystery drones continue to buzz over New Jersey, one family reported that the craft changed time on their car’s clock.

The family of Morris County locals said they were following one of these seemingly terrestrial UFOs in their vehicle, only to experience the odd effect on their car’s electronics as the unexplained craft ‘hovered above them.’

‘The clock in their car changed time,’ according to one Fox News reporter who spoke to the unnamed family. ‘They say the clock went back to normal after they drove off.’

While local law enforcement in Morris County has issued a statement asserting that ‘there is no known threat to public safety’ at this time — the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued a ban on drone flights over sensitive areas in state.

Last Tuesday, the FBI described the sightings as only ‘possible drones’ and ‘a possible fixed wing aircraft’ in its efforts to get to the bottom of the night flights.

But residents within the eight-and-counting New Jersey counties where the strange craft have been sighted are also taking matters into their own hands with over 17,000 trading notes on the sightings in a dedicated Facebook group. 

One local software engineer, who specializes in radio communications, believes the temporary alteration of the car’s clock is a clue to the origin of these mystery drones.

‘Many newer cars get their clock time from GPS satellites since that’s one of the most accurate time signals you’re going to get in a vehicle,’ the engineer, Rich Dunajewski, posted to the Facebook group. 

‘If these are using GPS jamming or spoofing,’ Dunajewski explained, ‘then it’s plausible the car would follow the signal and change the clock to match whatever signal is coming from the drone/plane.’

‘So don’t think aliens,’ the engineer continued, ‘think foreign actors using electronic warfare methods.’

Dunajewski noted that GPS spoofing onboard these mysterious aircraft would also explain the car clock’s return to normal time.

‘Once you’re out of range of the spoofed GPS signal, the clock will reacquire the real GPS signal with the correct time,’ he said in his Facebook post.

While some locals are not buying it, with one saying, ‘We need to accept that these are not just “drones,” these are UFO/UAP,’ other experts did agree with Dunajewski.  

A contractor with the FAA’s Office of Communications, David Lombardo, cosigned the ‘radar jamming or GPS spoofing’ theory, writing: ‘It’s very likely that these drones have some sort of electronic interference capabilities.’

While Lombardo said he did not believe that ‘the FBI wouldn’t get involved if a bunch of drones were just pissing people off,’ the FAA contractor also confessed that he currently saw no evidence actual law-breaking yet. 

‘Nothing that these drones have done appears to be criminal or really against any rules, so far as I know. I mean, they’re being weird… there’s no crime in being weird.’

But retired police lieutenant Tim McMillan argued that the drones fit a pattern of Russian psychological warfare operations internationally.

Lt McMillan reported that both the mysterious drone flights over New Jersey mirror a 2022 incident in which drones flew over sensitive sites in Sweden just as the European nation was considering joining NATO. 

‘This recent drone wave is likely in response to the West green lighting Ukraine to use ATACMS inside Russia,’ the retired police investigator posted to X. 

Last month, the Biden White House granted the Ukrainian military permission to unleash American-made Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) across the Russian border — allowing them to strike military targets up to a range of 186 miles.

Neither Moscow, nor local amateur drone pilots, nor any other actors terrestrial or extraterrestrial, has claimed credit for the unusual flights over New Jersey, however.

If proven to be a covert invasion of sorts, it would the first in this part of the Garden State since British troops sparred with American colonists over 240 years ago. 

‘I grew up in Morris County,’ one local resident posted on X, ‘and this is the most exciting event since the Revolutionary War.’ 

‘Anyone wonder why New Jersey?’ another resident asked. ‘That in itself is a mystery. Why not another State?’ 

The anonymous family who reported their car clock’s reaction to this eerie and unexplained aircraft were just some of the new witnesses to speak to Fox News about this ongoing wave of UFO sightings.

One eyewitness told the network that they saw a ‘parade’ of the drones, some as big as compact cars, roaring over the sky in procession.  

‘The drones just keep coming,’ another witness said, ‘one after another.’

While the FAA has taken the most direct action suggesting malicious intent, prohibiting drone flights over Trump’s golf club until last Friday and above Picatinny Arsenal until December 26, other officials have been more cautious in their language.

Law enforcement officials in Morris and Somerset counties issued a joint statement describing the extent of their collaboration on this ongoing investigation.

‘The subject County Prosecutor’s, Sheriff’s and Emergency Management Offices, our respective municipal police departments, working in close cooperation with the FBI-Newark, the New Jersey State Police and The New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness, seek to reassure the public that we will continue to monitor and investigate the drone activity,’ the two county’s Sheriff’s Offices said.

Post to social media site X, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy echoed similar words to calm the public. 

‘I convened a briefing with [Biden’s Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas] @SecMayorkas, senior officials from [the Department of Homeland Security] @DHSgov … and members of our congressional delegation to discuss reported drone activity over parts of North and Central New Jersey,’ he wrote.

‘There is no known threat to the public at this time,’ the governor said.

Nevertheless, New Jersey residents have been encouraged to report any sightings, videos or photos they may have of the UFO drone flights to the FBI, via phone at 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324) or online via tips@fbi.gov.