Talk:2024 United States drone sightings

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On 16 December 2024, it was proposed that this article be moved from 2024 New Jersey drone sightings to 2024 Northeastern United States drone sightings. The result of the discussion was moved.

On 18 December 2024, it was proposed that this article be moved from 2024 Northeastern United States drone sightings to 2024 United States drone sightings. The result of the discussion was moved.

Terminology used by sources

In an effort to better understand how reliable sources are describing these sightings, I did a keyword search on the article's current references. Here are the results:


Term	Count
Drone sighting	130
Mass hysteria	17
Mass panic	7
Confirmation bias	5
Mass delusion	2
UFO flap	2
Mass psychogenic illness	2
Social panic	1
Social delusion	1
Shared delusion	1
Social contagion	1
Epidemic hysteria	1
Moral panic	1
Mass sociogenic illness	0
Mass psychogenic disorder	0

Based on this, I'm going to update the lead to replace "social panic" with "mass hysteria". I don't think that's an accurate term, but it's more representative of what sources are saying. – Anne drew (talk · contribs) 01:41, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Worldwide. At least UK, Germany and Denmark

See german YouTube Channel Lpindie. Above Military and commercial and private Places. German Police Units inclusive Helikopter Units could not find out who or what is it but they counted multiple drones (always in swarms).

the Lemma should be changed to worldwide respectively not limited to US Foerdi (talk) 10:41, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Check out these articles:

For what it's worth, I think those two articles should be merged together into 2024 drone sightings in Europe - see this discussion. – Anne drew (talk · contribs) 02:30, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Title, again

Hey all, not a formal move discussion, but I want to gauge the support for moving this article to New Jersey drone sightings or New Jersey drones. For one thing, there have been additional reported sightings into 2025 according to reliable sources. Secondly, recent news coverage seems to be favouring the "New Jersey" phrasing. Nearly every article published today that I came across uses the term "New Jersey" in the title.

I get that this event occurred across the US, but I believe WP:COMMONNAME is the relevant policy here. – Anne drew (talk · contribs) 00:01, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

To avoid recentism, we can also look at the longer term trends:

Comparison 1, Comparison 2

Search trends favour the "New Jersey" phrasing. – Anne drew (talk · contribs) 00:49, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Trump says NJ drones were 'authorized' after suggesting Biden kept public 'in suspense'

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/leavitt-reveals-nj-drones-authorized-faa-white-house/story?id=118187426

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3nx1kd9q1o

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2025/01/28/trump-white-house-says-new-jersey-drones-were-not-the-enemy/78000711007/

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5111126-donald-trump-new-jersey-drones/

https://www.nbcnews.com/video/white-house-confirms-n-j-drones-were-authorized-by-faa-230472261949

A Plumbing I Will Go (talk) 01:47, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks to User:Anne drew for adding it. A Plumbing I Will Go (talk) 20:19, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Update needed

The Trump administration just revealed the cause.[1] Rc2barrington (talk) 03:30, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It has since been done. A Plumbing I Will Go (talk) 20:17, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]