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The enigmatic drones looming over the tri-state area are likely a deliberate distraction by a foreign power trying to hide other nefarious activities in the US, one expert has claimed. “These drones and this activity is too large, too well-organized to be the work of hobbyists,” Gordon Chang, a senior fellow at the Gatestone Institute think-tank and author of “Plan Red: China’s Project to Destroy America,” told Fox Business. “And that sort of leaves foreign powers. It could be Iran, it could be Iran in connection with China, but clearly, somebody is trying to absorb our attention,” he claimed of...

The country is being inundated with drones. These drones are mapping, and the government is concealing information. Most likely these are drones from China. Iran and Russia are too busy right now to do this. This is a massive coverup.

President-elect Trump Donald Trump Drone sightings: What we know amid more observations in Northeast, calls for answers Cuban says he ignored notes from Harris campaign Warren on RFK Jr. pick: ‘Say goodbye to your smile and say hello to polio’ More(Donald Trump) on Friday evening called for authorities to shoot down the mysterious drones that have been seen in the skies of New Jersey and around the country. He also suggested the government must know more about the mysterious sightings. “Mystery Drone sightings all over the Country. Can this really be happening without our government’s knowledge. I don think so!...

On Friday, President-elect Donald Trump weighed in on reports of drone sightings reported across the US, calling for them to be shot down if the government has no knowledge of them. "Mystery Drone sightings all over the Country. Can this really be happening without our government’s knowledge," Trump wrote. "I [don’t] think so! Let the public know, and now. Otherwise, [shoot] them down!"

Two Fox News hosts and at least one other journalist have captured and shared their own photos and videos of the mysterious drones flying with increasing intensity around New Jersey and elsewhere in the past few weeks, with one saying he saw a craft that was as big as a school bus hovering 100 feet off the ground in Montclair.“Fox & Friends” host Steve Doocy told his co-hosts Tuesday that he has observed the flying craft multiple times now, coming in “low, they’re about 100 yards, flying over my backyard. … They are buzzing overhead all the time. The scary...

Council Bluffs Scanner on FB reported & attributed it to Eppley Airfield authority. What's concerning to me is the drones being spotted are exempt from geofencing. Not sure how difficult it is to block, but it is interesting.

John: Republican New Jersey State Assemblyman Brian Bergen, a former military helicopter pilot, was involved in the meeting yesterday that they thought the governor was going to attend, but he didn’t. You said after that meeting that you had gone to it to have your concerns allayed but came out of the meeting with even more concerns than you had going in. What are you thinking today? Bergen: That’s 100% true. I’m no better off today than yesterday. That meeting was a joke, a total waste of time, and it showed the ineptitude that is going on right now in...

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." [cut] ... 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...

Enter New Jersey State Rep. Brian Bergen who attended a Department of Homeland Security meeting eager for some answers, or even possibly a plan of action, but said he came away with neither. After an hour of frustrating nothing burgers, he saw the writing on the wall and walked out. “I walked out because it was worthless,” Bergen began. “It was the biggest amateur hour presentation I’ve ever seen about anything, ok? It was ridiculous, there were no answers.” “They don’t know where the drones are coming from, they don’t know who’s doing it, they don’t know why they’re doing...

Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) insisted he has “credible” sources that drones in his state could be from Iran, calling the Pentagon’s handling of the situation “incredibly stupid.” Pentagon press secretary Sabrina Singh dismissed Van Drew’s claims Wednesday, saying there is not “any truth” to the New Jersey lawmaker’s claims on the drones or that they came from an Iranian ship off the coast. However, Van Drew pushed back against this dismissal. “They’ve been incredibly stupid and incredibly weak with this,” Van Drew said on Fox News’s America’s Newsroom. “Here’s the point: we know they’re not backyard drones that some...

A New Jersey congressman suggested that the mystery drones over the Garden State are Iranian, and they’re coming from a mothership parked off the East Coast. Rep. Jeff Van Drew, a Republican, said the drones “very possibly could be” from Iran, citing confidential sources during an appearance on Fox News Wednesday morning. “These drones should be shot down,” he said, adding that “the military is on full alert with this.” He did not reveal where he got the information. Van Drew, whose district includes most of the Jersey Shore, sits on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. “I’m going to...