Name: Mysterious Drone Sightings | December 13, 2024
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It is Friday, December 13th, and this is the last show of 2024.

We hope you get lots of friends and family time over the holidays, the most wonderful time of the year.

We start our final show of the year with some peculiar happenings in New Jersey, where weeks of unexplained drone sightings across the state have prompted a joint federal and state investigation.

The Federal Aviation Administration, or FAA, says the sighting started on November 18th near Morris County, New Jersey.

There isn't a clear description of the airborne crafts.

They often appear in clusters high in the sky when it's dark, but they've been reported to be about six feet in diameter, which is of course larger than the typical size of a drone that you might see someone flying as a hobby.

Residents there are understandably freaked out.

They've frequently seen the drones hovering overhead and have noticed they seem to be hanging over critical sites like U.S. military research facility or even over President-elect Donald Trump's golf course in Bedminster.

This has escalated the security concerns of federal and state officials and even prompted the FAA to issue temporary flight restrictions over the properties.

While New Jersey's Governor Phil Murphy has said there is no known threat to the public, some state lawmakers briefed at the New Jersey State Police headquarters this week are demanding more transparency into the investigation.

CNN's Josh Campbell has more on this mystery that's baffling folks all across the country.

I think the creepy part is not that it's just a drone, that they're so large.

Growing frustration and demands for answers from New Jersey residents over a mystery in the skies.

Weeks of mysterious nighttime drone sightings across the state, including near military sites and other critical infrastructure, has left some residents unsettled.

Their their wingspans are probably six feet across.

Eyewitnesses say these spotted drones are much larger than those used by hobbyists.

It spun around 180 degrees, went back out the other way, then it kind of looped around.

A task force of federal, state and local law enforcement is now investigating, briefing concerned lawmakers Wednesday.

Asked by CNN for comment on these sightings, the FBI said in the statement, witnesses have spotted the cluster of what looked to be drones and a possible fixed wing aircraft.

They're asking anyone with information on the origin of these drones to call police.

Now, authorities say there's no known threat to the public.

But despite that, one congressman from New Jersey said that he's been told by sources that drones are being launched from an Iranian ship.

It's off the east coast of the United States of America.

The Pentagon quickly shutting down those claims.

There is no Iranian ship off the coast of the United States and there's no so-called mothership launching drones towards the United States.

Through which state are sound waves unable to travel?

Sound waves need to travel through a medium and there are no particles of matter present to vibrate or transmit sound waves in a vacuum.

All right, if you could have any superpower, what would it be?

Teleportation, invisibility, time travel?

Might be a good question to ask each other and give you reasons why.

Well, if levitation is something that you think would be extraordinary, it may soon become ordinary.

Scientists haven't quite cracked the code on moving objects with the mind, but they may be on to the next best thing, moving objects with sound waves.

Our Nick Valencia shows us how a London-based startup is using sound to one day maybe revolutionize everyday practices in science.

Levitating liquids and objects using just sound waves, sounds out of the ordinary, even magical, but a London-based startup says this could be revolutionary.

We've been working on acoustic levitation for the last decade or decade and a half.

We've always been looking and exploring at ways in which we can float objects in midair using ultrasound and it was always a blue sky idea until about a year ago when some of my co-founders were saying, oh, maybe there's a commercial opportunity for this.

Acoustifab has perfected the ability to pick up a droplet or a small particle, adjust it midair, then move it to a specific location, doing all of this with only using sound waves.

The new technology uses a range of tiny speakers set at 40 kilohertz to generate the sound waves, outside of the audible range for humans.

The magic trick is we time the turning on and off of each individual speaker precisely.

So when we turn them on and off at different time intervals, they create a pattern and we can computationally, using acoustic holography, shape the sound field in the far field however you want.

So for example, we can make them all come together to a point and we can make transducers from the bottom and from the top come to two different points that are half a wavelength apart.

Then if you put an object there, it's going to be held in place.

Acoustifab has been demonstrating their sound levitation kit at tech fairs around the world.

They say research labs can buy a basic kit for academic use starting at $3,100.

When you think of professions that might require simulator training, maybe you'd think of airline pilots, special ops in the military, maybe a surgeon.

Practicing critical skills in a controlled environment without real world risks has become a safe and reliable training method across a number of professions.

Well, did you know that there is one city using simulator training for snowplow drivers?

The city of Nashville feels it's important that their snowplow drivers down south are ready to roll, even if there isn't any snow to practice on.

Complete with power steering, plow control and a salt spreader.

It's just like you're driving a snowplow, but it's all a simulation.

I can kind of control all aspects of what's going on in the cab right there.

It has ways on there we can make it the road slicker, you know, sun glare.

It's Endot's new technology that allows both new and experienced snowplow drivers a safe way to practice without wasting gas.

They can get up here and train and not, you know, not be burning fuel and then also not be putting them at risk of being on the road, putting themselves at risk and putting, you know, everybody else on the road.

Safe enough that even we were allowed to test it Now this controls your plow right here.

Today's story, getting a 10 out of 10 all aboard.

Jingle bell rocking the rails on a blinged out six car train in Chicago, helping to make a Feliz Navidad with the annual holiday train.

Santa will deck the halls with more than 100,000 lights to help you have yourself a merry little Christmas.

And Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer and friends, well, they're along for the ride helping to bring joy to the world.

You see, CTA employees will deliver around 400 holiday meal baskets to local charitable organizations.

It is time to close out this last show of 2024.

So follow me at KoiWire on Instagram and TikTok.

I'll be posting and replying, looking to share some holiday fun with all of you.

Now, our last shout out of 2024 goes to Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School in Dubuque, Iowa.

My team, we all wish you many blessings and hope you finish this year strong so we can take boundless energy into 2025.