Posted on 12/12/2024 2:21:01 PM PST by conservative98
More than three weeks after dozens of mysterious drones began popping up in the New Jersey night sky, the public has still been offered no clear insight on what the phenomenon could be.
Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., suggested the swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles could be from an Iranian "mother ship."
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... Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh added there is "no evidence" to suggest the drones are "the work of a foreign adversary."
"We aren’t being told the truth," Van Drew responded Thursday on Fox News. "They are dealing with the American public like we’re stupid."
While the Pentagon maintains that the drones are not foreign, the FBI has admitted it is "concerned" about how little the agency knows about them.
Asked if Americans are "at risk," Robert Wheeler, FBI assistant director of the Critical Incident Response Group, told Congress: "There is nothing that is known that would lead me to say that, but we just don't know. And that's the concerning part."
In recent weeks, the drones have flown near sensitive sites, like a military research facility.
And if the drones aren’t foreign in origin, onlookers are left wondering why it’s taking U.S. agencies so long to figure out who is behind them.
"What I can say is a lot of our detection systems, means of tracking and understanding, are so vastly undersized and radically out of date," Doug Birkey, executive director of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, told Fox News Digital.
"So it would not surprise me that we could still be out of sync with this and not understand at the level we should," he added. "After the Cold War, the notion of air defense really took a back burner."
And Birkey remains unconvinced that the drones are not foreign in origin.
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None of the New Jersey drones have been shot down or had their systems jammed by U.S. officials. The drones that hovered near Langley were not intercepted either.
“Whoever is flying these drones does not necessarily care about their relationship with Federal Aviation Administration, the FAA, because clearly they’re breaking almost every rule the FAA has in place for safe drone flying,” said Pramod Abichandani, associate professor at NJIT’s School of Applied Engineering and a drone expert.
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The drones are “six feet in diameter,” fly in a coordinated way with their lights off and “appear to avoid detection by traditional methods,” according to New Jersey state Rep. Dawn Fantasia, who relayed a briefing given by law enforcement.
The drones were first spotted on Nov. 18, and have been spotted every night since, flying from dusk to about 11 p.m. Reports have ranged from four to 180 sightings per night.
“We know nothing. Period. To state that there is no known or credible threat is incredibly misleading, and I informed all officials of that sentiment,” she said.
“At this point, I believe military intervention is the only path forward. There will be no answers in the absence of proactivity.”
Anything special military-wise about New Jersey??
It’s too bad our military doesn’t have a flying thingy that could hover in air around the area with radio jammers to disable them and shoot them down… that’d be some good tech to have…
I believe there’s a military research base around there.
Imagine if these things were carrying nuclear bombs.
This is beyond misfeasance.
It is MALFEASANCE!
What would happen if Obama authorized a drone scouting of America to allow our enemies targeting superiority?
The Pentagon might as well be a Pentagram.
Shotgun a couple of them. Oh wait, it 8s Eeeeew Jersey
But they can quickly find J6 suspects
Based on what I have read , I conclude that it is the government doing something sneaky. We may never find out unless someone can manage to shoot one down. Another reason I am not worried is that President Trump and his transition team have been silent on the drones. Probably they have been informed on what is going on and are OK with it.
No answers because most are planes and helicopters.
If only we had an airborne military wing (no pun intended). Maybe a U.S. Army Air Forces branch.
a research base you say. hmmmmm. interesting.
The US government is confusing the US government which is baffled as to what the US government might be up to.
Meanwhile, the American people are just waiting for Trump to start telling us the truth about a whole lot of stuff.
Shocking thing I heard one of the interviewees say last night:
The federal government, states, counties and cities all have laws protecting aircraft and flying devices from sabotage and attacks. This means we cannot legally just shoot at or bring down any drone. Part of protecting planes from terrorists.
So the drones have rights, and we, as usual, do not (my wording).
Get a few Vulcans out there. and pepper them with a few hundred rounds of 20mm.
I’d guess if nobody can pick them up on radar, they might be, just maybe, UAP from another world.
Nobody knows where they came from, nor where they go.
Who does that?
Just shoot one down. Question resolved.
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