Is New Jersey the New Area 51?

As you may have almost certainly heard, New Jersey has recently become the epicenter of aerial-object obsession, some might say panic. Mysterious drones, or planes, or maybe extraterrestrial spycraft depending on your view, seem to have been lighting up the night sky for the past month, and theories about their purposes and origins abound.

“I think it’s like — they’re, like, trying to see what’s going on with the public,” one woman speculated on television. “It’s almost like a census. I don’t know, is that a weird conspiracy theory?”