Drones, Lies, and Secrecy

This page is about a rash of drone sightings on the east coast in December of 2024.  Numerous people saw several different types and sizes of small aircraft, they shot video with varying degrees of skill and video quality, and reported what they heard or didn't hear.

Right away the official explanations didn't add up, and it became quickly apparent that the government was lying to us again.

You won't learn the whole truth about this until after January 20, 2025.


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      Abuse of power

      Domestic surveillance

      Leftists think you're stupid

      Leftists lie about everything

      Joe Biden lies about everything

      Chinese surveillance of the U.S. mainland

      This sounds like something the FBI would do






Timely news and commentary: This is an original compilation, Copyright © 2024 by Andrew K. Dart


If the Drones Are the Feds, They Violate Private Property Rights.  Constitutional attorney Kris Anne Hall said that if these are government drones, they are violating our private property rights!  She wrote the following on X and linked to a Fox News article citing a former CIA officer saying the drones could be tied to a classified exercise:  ["]If these are government drones then our private property rights are being violated...["]  The airspace directly above private property, specifically below 500 feet (and 400 feet in Florida), should be recognized as part of an individual's personal domain, deserving an expectation of privacy.  This argument stems from both property rights and privacy concerns in a modern context.  Historically, property ownership extended "from the heavens to the center of the earth," granting landowners control of the airspace above their land.  While the advent of aviation and federal regulations curtailed this notion, the principle remains relevant at low altitudes.

The Editor says...
If the whole fiasco is just an "exercise," it would have been conducted in New Mexico or Guam or the middle of nowhere.

Throw us a drone bone.  Authorities" and "officials" say they don't know what exactly they are or who is flying them, but purport to believe the sightings are probably just a mixture of mistaken identification, hobbyist's machines, and natural atmospheric phenomena.  Now tell us the one about the three bears.  Bad — or incompetent — actors want to hide the truth.  Decent people often do not want to believe the truth.  That one simple dynamic can be enough to spell disaster.  Though I have a hunch, I do not claim to know what is going on with the drones... or who is controlling them.  But I do know the government is not telling us the truth.

This Is Getting Ridiculous.  Paul Joseph Watson comments on Drone Gate.  [Video clip]

Radiation levels in New York spike as mysterious drones terrorize the Northeast.  Radiation levels have spiked in New York City, fueling conspiracy theories that the drones terrorizing the Northeast are searching for a missing nuclear warhead.  The emissions, clocked by GQ Electronics' Geiger Counter World Map, were detected near the Bronx and Upper West Side Wednesday.  The application shows a radiation reading of 1048 counts-per-minute (CPM), i.e. how many particles were detected, in the Bronx:  higher than normal background radiation.

Department of Defense doubles down, says drones are not US military assets.  The Department of Defense (DOD) doubled down on Tuesday, saying the increasing number of possible drones being reported in places like New Jersey and New York are not U.S. military assets, adding that the vast majority of the unmanned aircraft are likely used by hobbyists for recreational purposes.  Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder fielded numerous questions from reporters about the drones during a press briefing on Tuesday, but he remained clear that the drones are not DOD assets nor are they part of any experimental programs.  He said there are more than a million drones registered in the U.S., and on any given day there could be about 8,500 drones in flight.  The vast majority of the drones, Ryder noted, are likely used by hobbyists or are for recreational purposes.  Then there are commercial drones that could be used for architecture, engineering, farming or law enforcement, he continued.

So It's The Chinese Who Are Behind The Drones?  Drones continue to be a hot topic.  Everyone wants to know why we can't catch the people behind these sightings coast to coast.  But, wait, is that true?  Are we really not catching anyone in the act?  In July, a Chinese national graduate student was convicted for taking drone footage of Huntington Ingalls Industries Newport News Shipbuilding.  He was sentenced to six months in prison.  Fengyun Shi was flying the unmanned aircraft outside the 65th Street and Huntington Avenue Entrance of HII Newport News Shipbuilding when he got it stuck in a tree.  The SD card showed footage captured of U.S. Navy vessels or vessels intended for use by the Navy, according to court documents.  His arrest came after unidentified drones had been seen over nearby Langley airbase for 17 days straight.  According to his plea agreement, Shi bought the drone on January 3rd in California and arrived in Norfolk the next day from San Francisco.  He flew the drone over BAE Systems Shipyard on January 5th but did not take any photos.  On January 6th, Shi's drone got stuck in a tree near NNS and he asked someone who lived nearby to help him get it down.  The resident asked Shi where he was from, and he replied that he was from China.  The resident then called the police.

Drones spotted near at least 17 military bases located next to Chinese-owned land in US.  At least 17 military bases adjacent to Chinese-owned farmland across the US have experienced a rash of drone sightings in recent weeks, The [New York] Post has learned.  Mysterious drones have been reported near military bases in Hawaii and by installations in Utah, California, Maine and Florida — among other facilities scattered throughout the country.  The Post previously identified 19 military bases that lie close to farmland bought up by Chinese-owned companies — a situation that has worried China analysts, who feared the Communist country would use the land to spy on US military operations.  All of those facilities apart from Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota and Joint Base San Antonio-Camp Bullis in Texas had reports of drones either attempting to fly over their bases or nearby, according to local reports.

Michael McCaul Claims Aircraft Flying over Country Are Chinese 'Spy Drones'.  House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) on Tuesday said "based on my experience," the aircraft flying over the country are Chinese "spy drones."  "We need to identify who is behind these drones.  My judgment based on my experience is that those that are over our military sites are adversarial and most likely are coming from the People's Republic of China," McCaul told reporters on Tuesday.  [Advertisement]  "I believe they're spy drones and the PRC and Communist China is very good at this stuff.  We know they bought land around military bases.  This would be very consistent with their policy over the past couple years," the Texas Republican continued.  [Advertisement]  [Advertisement]  "They seem to think that most of them are American-based commercial.  It's the ones over the military bases that I can't explain and they can't either," McCaul added.  The House Foreign Affairs chairman chided the Biden administration for telling lawmakers that they do not know who is operating the drones, many of [which] are flying over military bases.

FAA temporarily bans drones in parts of New Jersey, notice threatens 'deadly force' for 'imminent security threat'.  The Federal Aviation Administration issued a ban on drone operations in several areas of New Jersey until Jan. 17, unless operators are granted special permission from the government due to "special security reasons."  Uncrewed aerial drones have been lighting up the sky at night in New Jersey and nearby states for weeks, since about mid-November, leading to concern from residents and speculation online.  Some had demanded answers from local and state officials for answers[.]  "At the request of federal security partners, the FAA published 22 Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFRs) prohibiting drone flights over critical New Jersey infrastructure," the FAA said in a statement Thursday.  The temporary flight restrictions, which are set to last until Jan. 17, have been implemented beginning Wednesday in the following locations: [...]

'Spy drones' from China are likely cause of unexplained aircraft wreaking havoc over US, House foreign affairs chair says in bombshell claim.  House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul said Tuesday he believes that some of the unidentified drones spotted above New Jersey and New York are "spy drones" from China — after Biden administration officials insisted many of the sightings are innocent commercial aircraft.  "We want answers but the response I'm getting is 'We don't know whose drones these are,'" McCaul (R-Texas) told reporters before executive branch officials offered a classified briefing to members of the House Intelligence Committee.  "I was with the NASA administrator, Bill Nelson, he said that these drones have been reported over military sites, military bases.  I would not think those are friendly.  I would think those are adversarial," McCaul said.

The Editor says...
If they are military drones, they would naturally be over military bases.  But are they American drones or Chinese drones?  Since they aren't being shot down, they must be American.

Oh, So We Might Have Chinese Drones Buzzing Overhead.  The drones above American airspace that's set social media ablaze continue, but it's not a conservative media fascination.  We have Democrats now witnessing this phenomenon.  Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) caught some spooky images.  Journalist Michael Shellenberger obtained an audio recording of a Biden White House conference call with mayors, who were infuriated at the administration's lackadaisical response.  It's disinterested, to say the least, with one mayor claiming a drone the size of a car hovered over their house.  Now, we might have Chinese spy drones humming overhead.

NJ Governor Wants All You Peasants To Chill Out Over Drones.  [Scroll down]  How do people calm down when there is zero explanation as to what the drones were doing and who's they were?  Does Murphy now know something that he is not saying to We The People?  The people do have a right to know, so, no, they do not need to chill out, they need answers, not patronizing placation. [...] How would they know that the people weren't in danger when they didn't know anything about the drones?

New Theory:  NJ Drone Sightings May Be "Nuclear Sniffers" Following Elevated NYC Radiation Levels.  The founder of an aerospace company specializing in military-grade drones published a video on the Chinese social media platform TikTok, sharing his thoughts on the mystery drone sightings in New Jersey.  His expert opinion is alarming, leaving many wishing that Paul Krugman's theory about an alien invasion was true instead.  "I spoke to a gentleman a few months ago, who was trying to raise the alarm to the highest levels of our government ... about this one particular nuclear warhead that he physically put his hands on ... that was left over from Ukraine ... and he knew this thing was headed towards the United States," Saxon Aerospace's John Ferguson stated in the video.  He continued: "Everyone knows that this administration is pushing to get into war with Russia."  "Let's back up a few years ... remember when those drones were mysteriously flying across I-70 from Colorado to Nebraska to Kansas and then to Missouri?  Well, it was believed that those drones were looking for radioactive material that came up missing in the US," Ferguson noted.  [Video clip]

The Last Lie?  [Scroll down]  But that changed November 5 — people can now actually say what they think publicly.  The Biden team — and, specifically, the deep state puppet masters who control it — does not seem to have gotten that message and are getting very frustrated that people are not automatically believing them anymore.  Leading to the very simple question — are the insultingly absurd public pronouncements on the New Jersey drone mess their last lie?  The officials have reacted in a way that is somewhat akin to going to a doctor to ask about a new mole you found on your thigh and the doctor saying 'I have no idea what that is, but it's perfectly safe."  Exactly how would you react to that?  Exactly how the people in New Jersey are reacting.  And the public is not having it and trying and loudly to call their bluff:  [Video clip]

Footage Recorded From A Flight From Chicago To Newark Shows Many UFOs/Drones All Around The Plane.  These are all short clips from a lot of video I took during my flight from Chicago to Newark on 12/16/24.  The flashing blue lights were interesting because I was not actually able to see that with my naked eye.  The flight was UA2359.  [Video clip]

Multiple Drone Incursions Confirmed Over Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.  Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in southern California experienced multiple drone incursions over its airspace the past several days, a facility spokesman told The War Zone on Tuesday morning [12/17/2024].  Between Dec. 9 and 15, "there were six instances of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) observed entering Camp Pendleton's airspace, with no threat to installation operations," Capt. James C. Sartain, a base spokesman, told The War Zone in response to our query on the matter.

The Editor says...
Obviously a cover story.  Hey — look at California, everybody!  Please ignore the activity on the east coast!

Biden Seals His Legacy As Worst President In History.  Consider what Biden managed in a few short weeks. [...] The mysterious appearance of drone swarms around the country has showcased the ineptitude of Biden's administration, which has attempted to: 1) tell Americans that they must be mistaken, 2) reassure everyone that the drones pose no threat and 3) admit that it has absolutely no idea what's going on with these drone flights.  The administration's muddied responses sparked bipartisan outrage.  New York's Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul complained that "this has gone too far" after drones temporarily shut down runways at New York Stewart International Airport.

Concerns About Drones Have Not Been Allayed.  On February 13, 2023, John Kirby appeared with Karine Jean-Pierre at a press conference to "explain" in diplo-speak the reasons for our shooting down the Chinese spy balloon. [...] He has recently outdone these bloated, ambiguous, and ridiculously self-serving comments with public comments about the massive, regular appearance of drones.  Responding to questions raised on he "Today Show" about the sighting of so many drones — with some drones being described as large as refrigerators or even SUVs — he tried to project a confident, pleasant image as he asserted that these sightings posed no security threat and that that 5000 sightings had already been investigated.  To this writer and to other experienced observers of human puffery, he clearly was putting on a false face as he attempted to appear at once like an authority (he holds the title of "Admiral") and a regular guy [...] With this in mind, we can see that the question of whether or not these drones pose a danger to the people of New Jersey, New York, and elsewhere dovetails with the questions of the present Executive Branch's incredible incompetence.

The New Jersey drone story is a Rorschach test.  It seems to me that the likeliest explanations are:
  [#1]   There are drones and they are run by the government, testing out some capability or another that requires being used in a semi-urban area.  Perhaps testing out the ability to find weapons of mass destruction.
  [#2]   There are drones flown by the government actually looking for reported weapons of mass destruction, and they don't want to panic people about a potential danger.
  [#3]   There are drones flown by an adversary (a la Chinese spy balloon, which they also downplayed until caught), and they don't want people to blame the government for obvious failures.
  [#4]   There are drones flown by the government, and they really are doing a psychological experiment to see how people respond both the the drones and to the government messaging.
  [#5]   There were drones, and now everything reported is noise generated by people being hyperaware of the possibility of drones.
  [#6]   There never were drones, and this is just one of those stories that got rolling, and now people see drones everywhere.

The Editor says...
Here is another possibility:  Maybe this is an elaborate trap, orchestrated by the FBI, just like the incitement at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, where the feds agitated the crowd and then arrested everybody who was anywhere near the "riot" that the feds themselves drummed up.  Maybe the feds are trying to entice the vigilantes into hunting down suspicious "enemy" drones with their own "convenience store" drones.  Why would the government do this?  To pave a path toward outlawing drones, especially drones with cameras, which the feds probably find very annoying, and to identify those who are most willing to defend themselves.

Sorry, team Biden — Americans don't trust you on the drones or anything else.  Gaslighting as usual, the White House is telling Americans freaked out by the drones hovering ominously over parts of New York and New Jersey:  Everything's fine!  Just trust us!  Since the first known spotting Nov. 18, at least 3,000 sightings have followed in New Jersey alone, and it's spread to Staten Island and The Bronx.  Guesses as to what's going on proliferate, some more believable than others:  more Chinese surveillance, launches from an Iranian mothership parked off the East Coast, and so on.  Is this a case for Fox Mulder and Dana Scully?  Pushed by local leaders to address exactly what the heck has been happening in US airspace for nearly a month, National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby had the nerve to brush off concerns.  "Many of the reported sightings are actually manned aircraft that are being operated lawfully," he insisted, and there's no evidence the UFOs pose a threat.

Give states the power to shoot down drones, says Homeland Security secretary.  The US Homeland Security secretary has said states need the power to shoot down drones following criticisms of the government's response to sightings across the East Coast.  Alejandro Mayorkas made the comments after state officials in New York and New Jersey said that Joe Biden's administration had failed to get a grip on the issue.  Kathy Hochul, the New York governor, said drone activity had closed down the runways at Stewart International Airport.  "We want state and local authorities to also have the ability to counter drone activity under federal supervision," Mr Majorkas told ABC News programme This Week on Sunday.

The Editor says...
Mr. Mayorkas wants the states to take the risks and the liability if anything goes wrong, but only "under federal supervision."  The explanation seems obvious:  He wants all the control and none of the blame.  TnV0cyB0byB5b3UsIG1pc3Rlci4=

John Kirby Basically Admits All Those Drones Freaking People Out Is The Federal Gov.  White House official John Kirby says after his extensive "assessment" of the drones, he can confidently say the drones are totally legal, lawful, and perfectly normal.  In other words, yes, the federal government is behind this.  [Video clip]

Feds know what mystery drones are but are too scared to tell us, claims New Jersey senator.  The government knows what the mystery drones flying over the East Coast are, but are too scared to tell us, a New Jersey senator has sensationally claimed.  Sen. Jon Bramnick called for a state of emergency as he derided what he said was a lack of government transparency over the unexplained drone sightings.  'Whatever these drones are doing, the government really doesn't want us to know,' he told NewsNation on Saturday, urging the DoD to 'come clean with the American public' following a string of appearances since November. 'There must be something going on that they can't tell us because they're so fearful of what the public's gonna do when they hear what the drones are doing,' the Republican senator claimed.

Iran's new massive drone ship left home port last month — and went weeks without being spotted.  A newly minted and massive Iranian drone carrier was captured in new satellite images sailing in the Persian Gulf this week — the ship's first reported sighting since leaving its home port for the first time in mid-November.  The satellite images taken Thursday by commercial operator Maxar Technologies shows three Iranian drone ships in the waters off the country's coast as theories have swirled in the US that Iran could be behind the mysterious drone sightings across the tri-state area, according to Business Insider.  Iran's new carrier — the Shahid Bagheri — is a converted shipping container that was outfitted to support drone operations and was last seen on Nov. 12, when it was captured by satellite imagery sitting in Bandar Abbas, the report said.

Here's Why We Can't Trust the Biden Administration Over 'Drone-Gate'.  Alejandro Mayorkas, the Secretary of Homeland Security, recently appeared on CNN to address the growing concern over the mysterious drone sightings across New Jersey, New York, Maryland, and near Washington, D.C. His comments, however, were a striking display of government ineffectiveness.  When Wolf Blitzer pressed him on what Americans should make of the sightings, Mayorkas repeated the same dismissive response: "We have not seen anything unusual.  We know of no threat or of any nefarious activity."  Rather than addressing the concerns with urgency, Mayorkas suggested that many sightings were "mistaken identity," implying that people were confusing drones with small aircraft, and blamed multiple reports of the same drone for inflating the problem. [...] Does anyone believe this is caused by some kid with a store-bought drone?  Mayorkas himself doesn't seem to have a clue, either; he's just trying to convince the public that nothing sinister is going on.  But, clearly, they don't know one way or the other, and if the government cannot determine what is flying above some of the nation's most densely populated and strategically important areas, how can they claim there's no threat?

President Trump Highlights Ridiculous Nature of Drone Story.  President Trump notes, "Can this really be happening without our government's knowledge.  I don't think so!" via his Truth Social account.  And of course, the simplicity of calling out a nonsense fear narrative doesn't fit the PERT chart. [...] Of course, the U.S. military know what these drones are and exactly what they are about.  Occam's Razor applied essentially links back to this press release from 2023:  "[...] This agreement is a significant accomplishment and will demonstrate the NARTP's ability to facilitate aviation research," said NARTP Board Chairman Mark Loeben, a retired Air Force major general and current American Airlines captain.  "USTRANSCOM and AMC are major players in aviation.  Their interest in working with the NARTP helps to advance both the development of the NARTP and the emerging aviation industry in New Jersey's Atlantic County."

The Destruction of the Government's Credibility.  Right now, swarms of drones on the eastern seaboard are captivating Americans each night. [...] Something's going on.  Maybe amateur pilots are pulling a prank.  Maybe Russia, Iran, or China wants us chasing our tails.  Perhaps Putin is reminding war hawks in D.C. that expanded missile strikes into mainland Russia come with a price.  Or maybe Joe Biden and his Deep State handlers are keeping Americans distracted from the nauseating stench of White House pardons, unchecked inflation, and the growing prospect of WWIII. While disparaging the drone sightings as a form of public hysteria, Mayorkas took the opportunity to push for greater government authority over drone operations in the United States.  So perhaps the whole thing is just another Intelligence Community psy-op meant to scare Americans sufficiently (à la COVID) to justify new government powers. [...] If the U.S. Army had told Americans in 1947 that it had recovered alien remains and technology near Roswell, New Mexico, most people would have accepted the announcement as astonishingly true.  Eighty years later, neither the White House nor the Pentagon is seen as trustworthy.

Wild Up-close Footage Of One Of The UFO/DRONES From Inside An Airplane.  This drone/UFO invasion saga gets stranger and stranger by the hour.  [Very brief video clip]

A Glowing Orb In The Arizona Sky Seems To Shoot Down A Drone That Flies Too Near To It.  Some sort of strange orange orb or UFO in the Arizona sky seems to have downed what looks like a man-made drone that was surveilling it too closely.  [Video clip]

The Editor says...
[#1] The smaller drone wasn't shot down; it probably collided with the larger one.  [#2] If the small drone was investigating the larger one, where is the footage from the small one?  [#3] Here are a few tips for UFO photographers:  If you are shooting pictures of a UFO, or anything else, keep the subject of interest in the center of the picture, and don't say anything while you are recording.

Drones spotted over Air Force base in southwest Ohio.  Wright Patterson Air Force Base had to close its airspace late Friday night and early Saturday morning because of drones flying in the area, reports say.  Robert Purtiman, a spokesman for Wright Patterson, confirmed to WCPO Channel 9 that the drones first were spotted near the air base late Friday night.  The incident comes as concerns build over repeated sightings of drones in New Jersey and New York.  "To date, installation leadership has determined none of the incursions impacted base residents, facilities or assets," Purtiman tells WHIO Channel 7.  Airspace around the military base base blocked for about four hours because of the drone sightings, WHIO reports.

The Editor says...
Now our enemies around the world know how to cripple a U.S. Air Force base:  Fly a few inexpensive drones over it, and the USAF brass will shut it down for you.

Police heatmap shows shocking scale of drone activity in New Jersey county as mystery deepens.  An eye-opening heatmap exclusively shared with DailyMail.com shows the shocking scale of apparent drone activity in one New Jersey county as the mystery aircraft continue to shuttle through the skies.  The Garden State has been at the epicenter of the recent flurry of flying objects which have baffled experts and concerned local lawmakers — as the central government flounders to provide concrete answers about what's going on.  A whopping 964 incidents have been logged in New Jersey since the first sighting on November 19 up until December 13, according to statistics collected by the state's Office of Emergency Management and shared with the New York Post.

Are they copycats, vigilantes, private eyes, or internet fame seekers?
Two men arrested for hazardous drone operations near Logan Airport.  Two men were arrested on Saturday night in Boston after a hazardous drone operation near Logan Airport's airspace.  Boston police say 42-year-old Robert Duffy, of Charlestown, and 32-year-old Jeremy Folcik, of Bridgewater, are facing trespassing charges.  Additional fines or charges are potentially forthcoming, police added, pending the outcoming of the ongoing investigation.  According to police, an officer detected a drone operating dangerously close to Logan International Airport around 4:30 p.m. and was able to identify the operators' position on Long Island, part of the Boston Harbor Islands.

100 percent false:
Mayorkas: 'We Are Limited in Our Authorities' to Incapacitate Drones.  Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Sunday on ABC's "This Week" that his agency was "limited" in its authority to shoot down drones.  Mayorkas said, "There are thousands of drones flown every day in the United States, recreational drones, commercial drones.  That is the reality, and in September of 2023, the Federal Aviation Administration, the FAA, changed the rules so that drones could fly at night, and that may be one of the reasons why now people are seeing more drones than they did before, especially from dawn to dusk.  So that is the reality, but I want to assure the American public that we are on it.  We are working in close coordination with state and local authorities, and it is critical, as we all have said, for a number of years, that we need from Congress, additional authorities to address the drone situation.  Our authorities currently are limited, and they are set to expire.  We need them extended and expanded."

The Editor says...
About 98 percent of the article above is a transcript of the ABC show, "This Week."  Breitbart News is really good at reporting other people's reporting.

Christie: Without Federal Information 'Drone Vigilantes' Are Going to 'Start Taking them Down'.  Former Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) said Sunday on ABC's "This Week" that given the absence of government information on the drone sightings in New Jersey, individuals will soon become "drone vigilantes" and "they'll start taking them down."

The Editor says...
Again, about 98 percent of the article above is a transcript of the ABC show, "This Week."

Feds to deploy 'state-of-the-art' detection system to NY as drone swarms have experts baffled.  New York Sen. Chuck Schumer on Sunday called for the federal government to deploy recently declassified radar technology to finally identify the mysterious swarms of drones alarming the tri-state region.  The Senate Democratic leader addressed mounting frustration at the response soon after Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that the feds were finally "deploying a state-of-the-art drone detection system" to New York.  Hochul did not elaborate on exactly what that system was, nor how or where it would be used, but stressed that the area still needs more help to address the baffling sightings.

CEO of Government-Backed Drone Company Drops Shocking Insight on New Jersey Crisis.  In a shocking revelation that has left social media ablaze and even caught the attention of podcast king Joe Rogan, John Ferguson, the CEO of Saxon Aerospace LLC, has delivered a bombshell theory on a series of mysterious drone sightings.  Ferguson, an expert in the field of unmanned aerial systems (UAS), believes these drones are not operating with nefarious intent but are likely searching for something critical on the ground.  Speaking in a now-viral TikTok video, Ferguson shared his professional insights into the growing phenomenon, speculating that these unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are part of a classified operation aimed at recovering a nuclear warhead that allegedly disappeared in Europe and could be en route to the United States.

The Editor says...
If that's what all this is about, the feds should spill the details on nationwide TV, offer a million-dollar bounty for the warhead, or radioactive material, or whatever it is, and tell us all about the Islamic terrorists they suspect are now in possession of it.  But they won't because they are afraid to say "Islamic terrorists" on TV.

Biden's final days in the Oval Office offer a perfect metaphor for everything that was wrong with his tenure.  As he prepares to slink out the door, Biden's final days in the Oval Office offer a perfect metaphor for everything that was wrong with his tenure.  He pardoned his convicted-criminal son after vowing not to and his mass commutations included one for a judge convicted of taking kickbacks to send juveniles to for-profit detention facilities.  The judge was in Scranton, Pa., meaning Biden even betrayed distraught parents in his hometown.  How's that for a legacy?  His most recent dereliction fits another pattern.  Just as he paid no attention to raging inflation, the open border and the decline of America's global standing, Biden has gone missing as swarms of drones spark fears among millions of Americans on the East Coast.  Biden has said nothing, Vice President Kamala Harris has disappeared since losing the election and the White House offers only bland assurances that there's nothing to worry about.  But asked who is behind the noisy, bright and large drone presence expanding night after night, the administration says it doesn't know.

Drones, Drones, Drones — What Is Happening?  Belleville, New Jersey, Mayor Michael Melham [...] stated during an interview, "On the way here, I was on the phone with my OEM team and we now have guidance coming from the state.  And that guidance does say two different things.  First of all, if there is a downed drone in our vicinity, we're immediately to call the bomb squad of our county, and, second, our fire department has been instructed to make sure they wear HAZMAT suits."  The interviewer, Harris Faulkner, then asked, "So, if something falls out of the sky that people have seen... you're to treat this [like] more than a plane crash, it's treated like an attack on the homeland?"  Melham answered, "That is correct because they're not quite sure if there's a payload or not, and that's what we were told during our briefing on Wednesday."  Later, Melham said, "it sounds like it might very well be our highest-level government, it might be government assets that are being deployed as a countermeasure."

NJ lawmakers want drone shot down, inspected by feds: 'Can't we bag at least one'.  A New Jersey lawmaker want a drone — and he wants one now.  Republic Congressman Chris Smith is demanding The Pentagon shoot down one of the nearly 1,000 drones that have been spotted above the Garden State since Nov. 19, so answers can be had.  "Why can't we bag at least one drone and get to the bottom of this?" Smith asked during a Saturday news conference in Seaside Heights.

The Editor says...
Big mistake.  Do your own investigation, and leave the feds out of it.  Don't let the FBI investigate the FBI.  If several of these drones are shot down, we will soon find out if they are federal property.

[Drone] crisis spreads to four more states.  Mysterious drones terrorizing residents from coast to coast have now been spotted in California, Massachusetts, Florida, Wyoming, Maryland, New York and New Jersey — as a former CIA staffer has waded in on what may be causing them.  Now, the inexplicable issue has reached a boiling point as President Joe Biden remains silent — refusing to address the mounting crisis, fueling country-wide fear and confusion.  Terrified residents on the West Coast, specifically in Riverside County, California, are the latest to have spotted the flying objects in the sky after questions were first raised about drones in New Jersey airspace.  This comes as former CIA operations officer Laura Ballman revealed her chilling theory that the drones lighting up multi-state skies may be a 'classified exercise.'  She told Fox News Live that the drone sightings are 'extremely unsettling,' and shared her theory that they may be part of a technology 'test,' orchestrated by the Biden Administration.

Of Drones, Druze, and Pardons.  There's been a lot of buzz thus week about the appearance of SUV-sized drones over the Atlantic Coast states, particularly New Jersey.  They exhibit some characteristics not previously observed and speculation is rampant.  The most commonly voiced of these that they were launched by Iran from a ship parked off our coast, but that doesn't seem true.  I'm inclined to accept the speculation of Scott Adams, Dilbert's creator, and a man who has spent a great deal of time exploring psychological tools of persuasion:  ["]This is a good week to practice your lie detections skills because we know the government is lying about drones.  For example, Mayorkis says, "... no evidence of anomalous activity."  Right.  It's not "anomalous" to Mayorkis because he knows what the truth.  (I assume is our military.)  John Kirby says the sightings they could confirm were all regular airplanes.  That's pure weasel.  The government also says they are investigating, with the FBI, etc.  That's also probably true, but only because whatever is happening is not being shared to every part of the government.  Watch for overly specific answers.  That's how normies (non-psychopaths) lie.["]

Dronegate ballooning out of control.  The drones are all over now, not just in New Jersey.  And they're creating problems.  According to New York's Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul, drone activity forced runways at New York's Stewart Airfield to shut down Friday night.  As I recently wrote, Dronegate is becoming ever more pervasive — and absurd.  Yet, White House officials have heretofore deemed any and all suspected threats from the drones to be "not credible," and said many sightings are likely just of planes.  Call me a skeptic, but I don't believe them.  Any member of the Biden administration.  Ever.  About anything.  Track record, you see.  Admittedly, I am not generally considered to be an aviation 'expert,' but I doubt an airfield would be shut down because of plane sightings!  In fact, this would rather defeat its purpose.

Wild online conspiracy theories suggest mystery drones are part of Project Blue Beam plot.  Project Blue Beam is a conspiracy theory dating to the 1990s that claims global elites, including government and military organizations, are planning to use advanced technology to stage celestial events in order to manipulate the world's population.  The theory has recently found traction again online as commentators such as [Roseanne] Barr claim that the US government could stage an alien invasion as a pretext for imposing authoritarian rule.  The outlandish theory is among many that have been amplified over the last week in the vacuum of information left in the wake of the Biden administration's failure to tell the public where the drones are coming from or who is behind them.

The Great Drone Scam.  The MSM floods their newscasts with reports of drone-terrified citizens ready to head for the hills over the latest media-induced scare.  The word "drones" is now synonymous with "doom."  This is simply a media-driven scam. [...] The claim that these small drones are gathering secret intelligence is ridiculous:  95% of the sightings are in airspace with no restrictions.  Any aircraft, from a kid's drone to a 747, can fly over most of America 24/365 and take all the pictures they want.  There are Restricted and Prohibited airspaces, such as around airports, D.C., and some military bases, but 95% of American airspace is a free-flight zone.  Add to that military photo satellites, and it's obvious there is no tactical value to these drone overflights. [...] Finally, to turn the whole thing into a complete farce, Congressman Van Drew now claims these mystery drones were launched from an Iranian mystery ship parked in the Atlantic.  It's too bad that no one can find this ship during the day.

Martha MacCallum: 'Why Not Just Take One Down and Figure Out What's Going On?'.  In a jaw-dropping interview with Fox News' Martha MacCallum, White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby struggled to provide clear answers about a bizarre and alarming series of drone sightings in New Jersey.  MacCallum, unimpressed by Kirby's evasions, grilled him relentlessly on why the administration hasn't even bothered to shoot down one of these drones to uncover their origins.  Instead of providing clarity, Kirby fumbled through talking points about "policy options" and "inter-agency conversations."  His repeated refrain of "we don't know" underscored what critics have described as the Biden administration's signature approach to crises — delay, deflect, and deny.  During the interview, MacCallum confronted Kirby over his outrageous claim during the White House press briefing, where he brushed off more than 3,000 reports of "car-sized drones" as mere misidentifications of helicopters or airplanes.

Ridiculous: Mayorkas Says 'There Is Nothing They Can Do About the NJ Drone'.  Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas insisted that there is nothing the federal government can do about the recent New Jersey drones because he has no "authority."  He told concerned Americans that the drones are not threatening to the United States, stating that they are most likely just "convenience store drones" or "planes."  [Advertisement]  "We can't just shoot a drone out of the sky," Mayorkas told CNN.  "They're very, well, maybe drones in the sky, of course, but those are commercially available.  One can go into a convenience store and buy a small drone."  [Tweet with video clip]  However, social media users weren't buying his claims.  [Five tweets]  [Advertisement]  This comes as New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) joined elected officials in demanding that the Biden Administration take action as questions regarding the drones remain unanswered.  In a letter to outgoing President Joe Biden, Murphy urged him to direct federal agencies to investigate the origin of the drones and provide Americans with transparency.

The Editor says...
[#1] The claim by Secretary Mayorkas that there's nothing he (or the government) can do about unidentified drones is a transparent lie.  All Mr. Mayorkas has to do is authorize the local police sniper teams to shoot down a few sample drones and trace them back to their owners:  If these drones have propellers and batteries, they also have serial numbers.  [#2] If this guy is in charge of "homeland security," we're all up the creek.  [#3] The drones are only being seen over heavily gun-controlled New Jersey and New York.  That should tell you something.  These stunts would not last very long in Oklahoma or Texas.  [#4]  Yes, one can go into some stores and buy a drone, but the little hobby drones that are available off the shelf are too small for anybody to notice.  The drones at the core of this issue are apparently very large, and designed to get lots of attention.  [#5] The drones are performing the same function as the Covid-19 pandemic:  "to keep the populace alarmed — and hence clamourous to be led to safety."  (Look it up.)  Nobody is being harmed by the drones, just irritated and (for those who watch CNN) somewhat frightened.  These incidents are just a distraction.  They occupy the headlines so there will be no room for other stuff, like the latest Biden scandal:  pardoning crooked judges, drug dealers, and pedophiles.  (I'm certainly wasting a lot of time writing rebuttals like this.)  [#6] If the mystery drones were not government property, they would have been decisively dealt with by now.

White House Spokesman Kirby Denies Drone Incursions Despite NJ Military Base Confirming 11 Breaches.  Biden's White House is downplaying reports of unauthorized drone activity over military installations in New Jersey.  National Security Council spokesman John Kirby categorically denied any confirmed incursions, dismissing over 3,000 reports of "car-sized drones" as mistaken sightings of helicopters or airplanes.  Kirby's assurances, however, directly contradict statements from military officials at New Jersey's Picatinny Arsenal and Naval Weapons Station Earle, both of which have confirmed unauthorized drone breaches in recent weeks.

NJ Mayor:  Drones Should Be Taken Down, There's Refusal to Do So Even When They Go Out to Sea.  On Thursday's broadcast of CNN's "OutFront," Belleville, NJ Mayor Michael Melham stated that the drones around the state have to be taken down and stated that there were briefings "that we've had Coast Guard working with our New Jersey State Police, our helicopters have seen them.  We asked, well, when they go out to sea, are we going to shoot them down?"  And they were told the drones wouldn't be taken down due to fears of what might be on them.

The Editor says...
That tells you something:  The "homeland security" people won't act because they are afraid of the unknown.  They won't do anything "due to fears of what might be on [the drones]."  What might that be?  If the aircraft are carrying weapons, that's even more of a reason to take them out.

FBI to frustrated Congress: 'We just don't know' who is behind mystery drone flights in NJ.  As reports of mysterious drone flights continue in New Jersey, local officials have expressed "pure frustration" about the lack of updates from the FBI and other federal agencies about their investigations.  In Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, some members of Congress were equally frustrated by an FBI official who repeatedly told them the bureau had not yet identified an individual or group that may be responsible for the deluge of drone sightings that have gained a national spotlight while fraying nerves in the Garden State.  At the hearing, U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzalez (R-Texas), asked "You're telling me we don't know what [...] these drones in New Jersey are?"  Robert Wheeler Jr., assistant director of the Critical Incident Response Group for the FBI, replied, "That's correct."

The Editor says...
Doesn't the FBI have its own aircraft?  The FBI knows exactly as much as it wants to know, because the FBI leadership is not stupid.  If the drones are owned and operated by China or Iran, and the committee known as "Joe Biden" tells the FBI to look away, then the FBI knows nothing, at least until after Trump is inaugurated.

[A] Congressman Warns [an] Iranian Mothership Lurking Off [the] Coast [is] Responsible For [the] New Jersey Drone Scare.  Republican Congressman Jefferson Van Drew of New Jersey, a member of both the House Judiciary Committee and the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, told Fox News' Harris Faulkner around noon that government sources have informed him that mysterious drones in New Jersey skies at night originate from an Iranian "mothership" stationed off the US East Coast.  "Here's the real deal Harris .... and I've gotten to know people.  And from very high sources, very qualified sources, and very responsible sources... I'm going to tell you the real deal:  Iran launched a mothership — probably about a month ago that contains these drones and is off the US East Coast," Van Drew said.  Van Drew continued, "Know that Iran made a deal with China to purchase drones — motherships and technology to go forward.  The sources I know are good."  He emphasized, "These drones should be shot down," adding the military "is on alert with this."

Is a Foreign Adversary Flying Drones over New Jersey?  For the past four weeks, car-sized objects have been reported flying over critical infrastructure and military assets in New Jersey.  They come from the ocean, appearing around sunset, and sometimes turn off their lights.  Residents demand answers, but despite scrambling for information, state and local authorities say they remain largely in the dark.  But on Wednesday [12/11/2024], Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) offered what he said was "the real deal" explanation of the mysterious drones. [...] Yet in a matter of hours, the Pentagon dismissed his claims out of hand.  "There is no Iranian ship off the coast of the United States and there's no so-called 'mothership' launching drones toward the United States," said Sabrina Singh, the Pentagon spokeswoman.  "We're going to continue to monitor what is happening, but at no point were our installations threatened."  But if the government doesn't know the drones' origin or purpose, how can it be so sure the reported drones aren't a threat?  And if they do know, why aren't they being more forthright?

The Editor says...
The only thing worse than incompetence is fake incompetence.  It would not surprise me to learn, someday, that some three-letter government agency was behind the drone flights, for the purpose of creating an "emergency" to impede or prevent the inauguration of President Trump.




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