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November 2024 – January 2025 · Run B #175
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, and a joint DoD, DHS, FAA and FBI statement finding no evidence of threats or anomalous activity, the sightings resolved in the main as authorized drones, misidentified manned aircraft and other 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 reported near farms quarantined for highly pathogenic avian influenza, warning residents not to shoot at the aircraft, routing reports to county emergency management, and finding some reports unfounded, with the FBI and FAA monitoring alongside the state. For St. Joseph County and this ground, the state reporting and the Tribune and broadcast record of December 2024–January 2025 as reached were searched: no drone case, cluster or official report names Osceola or Penn Township. The drone era, tested as its own period and not merged into the UFO record, leaves this ground where the file era left it — watching a national story that happened somewhere else.
The national record of the 2024 United States drone sightings (the joint DoD/DHS/FAA/FBI statement of December 2024 and the January 2025 administration statement, as compiled in the open reference record); Indiana Department of Homeland Security release of 31 January 2025 on the Adams/Allen/Jackson/Jay county activity, as carried by Indiana broadcast and press (WYGB; WANE via NewsLocker). Searches shown in the article.