Posted on 12/11/2024 7:35:30 AM PST by bitt
The mysterious drones that have been tormenting New Jersey residents for weeks could be part of a top-secret government program, security experts told The Post Tuesday — as lawmakers push for answers over the troubling sightings.
The feds have been mum about the daily drone activity in Morris, Passaic, Bergen and Hunterdon counties and beyond since the gizmos were first spotted on Nov. 18.
But several experts said the US government might be behind the unsettling flights — which could be part of a super-secret military program meant to test new hardware before it hits the battlefield.
“My first guess is these are potentially government programs kept within what’s known as a ‘Special Access Program,’ which is purposely put together to keep even the most cleared people out — it truly is to keep it secret,” said Clint Emerson, a retired Navy SEAL and owner of security company Escape the Wolf.
“That’s why the government’s like, ‘We don’t know.’ They’re being truthful,” he said, adding that the circle could be as small as a dozen officials. “They don’t even know the program exists.”
Emerson said it’s impossible to know what the drones might be doing — but he suspects the secret is the technology they’re carrying, not the devices themselves.
“It could be different types of collection capabilities — so, different types of cameras, like high-definition, infrared or thermal,” he said.
A second payload, for instance, could be hardware that grabs all the cellphone data in a given environment.
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See who comes crying that someone shot their drone.
So a whole article about a guy who knows just as much as my two dogs..
Or who just gets "disappeared."
Not too damn secret if they’re doing it in broad daylight...
That is why they aren’t testing them in the south, lol
JMO, YMMV
Send up a chaser drone with gps and follow them to where they land - can't be that difficult.
Microwave spying through people’s roofs. Messing with the electronics in people’s cars. RC-12 type data collection. The possibilities are endless.for domestic spying.
Why would you fly your super-duper top secret air drones over civilian airspace that you do not control?
Any pi$$ed off Jersey Goomba with a shotgun could render your hush-hush project completely disclosed.
It doesn’t make sense...
Exactly!!
Nice guess, but, but, they’re showing up all around the planet.
If you are testing the payload that no one can see, it doesn’t matter whether it is daylight or not or who is watching, they won’t know if they are eavesdropping or just using ground penetrating radar or some other gizmo.
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Why don't they just stay dark then? Why advertise their presence with lights?
I think the simplest answer is yes, it would not be too difficult to shoot some down or follow them back to wherever they rendezvous.
Unless, of course, they really don’t want to do either of those things, because they know the answers and aren’t sharing the info.
In case you missed it Florida man already did.
One big thing doesn’t make any sense, if it really is a secret government program. I don’t understand why they would select New Jersey, the most densely populated state in the USA, to test it. We have a number of states with large areas that have very few people living there. A number of those states, probably all of them, have military bases in the area.
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