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The recent series of UFO and drone sightings across the United States, especially in the Northeast, has law enforcement and American citizens on high alert. That includes the New York Police Department (NYPD), which recently experienced their own strange story involving a large, mysterious drone.
According to a New York Post report and a video shared on social media, the New York Police Department came into possession of this large, mysterious drone after an email tip.
The drone, which appears to measure approximately six-feet in diameter, was reportedly discovered by the NYPD on the sidewalk at Fifth Street between Market Street and Morris Avenue in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
As officers were investigating, a passer-by said he worked in the building that houses the headquarters of the drone’s manufacturer — which he identified as Amogy Inc., a sustainable energy startup working to use ammonia as a renewable fuel source, including for aerial vehicles.
Amogy CEO Seonghoon Woo would later tell police, according to New York Post sources, that the drone was owned by his company. He also reportedly claimed that the drone was inoperable and had been placed on the sidewalk after a company party about a month ago.
An Amogy spokesperson told the New York Post that the drone was used in a demonstration of its clean energy technology three years ago. The spokesperson also added, “NYPD took possession of it for a brief period. Amogy cooperated fully with NYPD and the drone has since been returned to the company after NYPD determined the drone was not a threat.”
According to the X (Twitter) account, @ShadowofEzra, BlackRock – the world’s largest asset manager – is one of Amogy’s investors. Other investors in the research and product development company include Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund, AP Ventures, SK Innovation, and Aramco Ventures.
A large drone owned by Amogy Inc., a research and product development company, was recently discovered in Brooklyn by the NYPD.
BlackRock is one of the company’s investors.
Amogy, has has attracted significant investments from Amazon's Climate Pledge Fund, AP Ventures, SK… pic.twitter.com/rBAdjhBDaS
— Shadow of Ezra (@ShadowofEzra) December 16, 2024
Many people commented on the New York Post’s story and on X, questioning the explanation for the large drone being found just sitting on a sidewalk, supposedly for a month, in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
“Found in front of the building that houses the headquarters which he identified as Amogy, Inc., a sustainable-energy startup working to use ammonia as a renewable fuel source, including for aerial vehicles.,” one person wrote, emphasis theirs. “It sat out there for a month. You can’t make this stuff up.”
“I wouldn’t be surprised if these are Chinese spy craft like the spy balloon a couple years ago which the Biden administration at first denied even existing, then said it posed no threat and finally admitted what it was before a symbolic destruction of it after it had fully completed its mission of collecting and electronically sending photos and data back to Beijing,” another person commented.
“‘Hey, let’s just throw a commercial drone in the street to make people believe that they aren’t the government’s drones they’re seeing. We’ll let someone find it and then have the police take pictures with it thinking they’ve cracked the mystery,'” someone else wrote on X sarcastically.
“Not one single person believes this was left on a sidewalk a month ago. NOT ONE!” read another comment.