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November 2024 – January 2025
A separate period, and a separate verdict: from 13 November 2024 the United States ran a national drone-sighting episode centred on New Jersey and the Northeast — thousands of night reports over homes, reservoirs, Picatinny Arsenal and Naval Weapons Station Earle — which federal investigators closed in substance within weeks: over 5,000 reports examined by the FBI, FAA, DHS and DoD jointly, with a joint statement finding no evidence of threat or anomalous activity and the sightings resolved in the main as authorized drones, misidentified manned aircraft and routine objects; in January 2025 the incoming administration stated the aircraft were primarily FAA-authorized drones. Indiana's own winter episode was different in kind and far away: in January 2025 the Indiana Department of Homeland Security and county agencies in Adams, Allen, Jackson and Jay counties — the state's east — investigated drone activity over farms quarantined for highly pathogenic avian influenza, warning residents not to shoot at the aircraft and routing reports to county emergency management, with many reports found unfounded. For St. Joseph County and this ground, the Tribune and WNDU record and the state reporting of December 2024–January 2025 were searched: no drone case, cluster or official report names Granger or either township. The drone era, tested as its own period and not merged into the UFO record, leaves this ground exactly where the file era left it — watching a national story that happened somewhere else.
From the national record of the 2024 drone sightings (the joint DoD/DHS/FAA/FBI statement and the January 2025 administration statement, as compiled in the open reference record) and the Indiana Department of Homeland Security release of 31 January 2025 on the Adams/Allen/Jackson/Jay county activity. Searches shown in the article.