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  "excludes": "Quoted source passages and linked articles remain the copyright of their publishers; they are included as short quotations for verification. Linked media and satellite images remain the rights holders' property; no image or video licence is granted by this dataset. Fonts (SIL OFL) and map data (Natural Earth, public domain) keep their own terms. City and region names in automatically published dossiers are checked against GeoNames (geonames.org, CC BY 4.0). Drone drawings and animations are schematic illustrations of a type, not evidence about any incident."
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 "locationNote": "lat/lon are the dossier's own approximate coordinates (see locationPrecision) and are empty when the incident location is unknown. referencePoint {lat, lon, level, name} is a display reference only: a fixed point in the named city (GeoNames), region (its administrative seat), sea or country (Natural Earth label point), derived at build time. It is not a geolocation, not an estimate of the incident location and may change when the dossier's place becomes more precise: reference point; incident location unknown.",
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  "url": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23345422",
  "note": "Citable weekly snapshot (CSV + JSON) archived on Zenodo; this DOI always resolves to the latest version."
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  "id": "newark-airport-drone-report-2019-01-22",
  "title": "Newark arrivals paused after nearby suspected drone reports",
  "place": "Newark",
  "country": "United States",
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  "date": "2019-01-22",
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  "summary": "Arrivals at Newark Liberty International Airport were briefly paused on 22 January 2019 after pilots reported an object thought to be a drone near Teterboro. Drone presence was not independently established.",
  "impact": "The FAA reported an arrival pause and delays to some departures for Newark. United Airlines described its operational impact as minimal. No full-airport closure duration is established here.",
  "evidence": "TIME relays separate FAA and airline statements. AOPA reports the operational response and its own aviation-security specialist’s doubts about visual identification. These are distinct reporting and operational origins, with shared pilot reports rather than two technical detections.",
  "unknown": "The reported sighting was near Teterboro; Newark is the affected airport, not a proven drone position. AOPA describes takeoff disruption as well, while TIME specifically describes arrivals: no claim that every operation stopped. Source publication on 23 January UTC is consistent with the 22 January local-evening event. No device count, type, operator or physical damage established.",
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    "url": "https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2019/january/23/flights-disrupted-after-drone-reports",
    "published": "2019-01-23",
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    "label": "TIME: FAA and United Airlines statements",
    "url": "https://time.com/5510249/newark-airport-drone/",
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   "note": "Only published archive records with an editorial entity mapping; unassigned records excluded. Not all real-world incidents or a common cause. No same-day matching."
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   "note": "Official aggregate claims, not independently verified kills. Parts are included only when explicitly sourced and sum to the reported total. Catalogue countermeasures are not incident evidence.",
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  "url": "https://droneincidents.com/incident/newark-airport-drone-report-2019-01-22/",
  "citation": "DroneLedger, “Newark arrivals paused after nearby suspected drone reports”, dossier newark-airport-drone-report-2019-01-22, revision 1, updated 2026-10-16. https://droneincidents.com/incident/newark-airport-drone-report-2019-01-22/",
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    "date": "2026-10-16",
    "at": "2026-10-16T00:40:15.826+00:00",
    "note": "Curated dossier created after checking the cited sources line by line."
   }
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