This has been a hell of a year, so why not end it with mystery UAPs (i.e. unidentified or unnamed aerial phenomenon) flying over the most densely populated state in the country?
They are saying that they are drones. We don’t know what they are, but they are terrorizing the good people in the state of New Jersey. This started on November 18, and there have been a lot of new developments in the last week that we are going to go through.
How It Started
The first sighting was on November 18, and the drones have been spotted in the sky every night thereafter. They have been seen over reservoirs, highways, military installations, and near President-elect Donald Trump’s Bedminster golf course. During one incident, the drones prevented a medical helicopter from picking up a person injured in a car crash.
A spokesperson for the Morris County Sheriff’s Office described the drones as similar to small cars. A police chief for the town of Evesham said witnesses have called the drones as large as an SUV with blinking lights on them. You can see a compilation of the footage eyewitnesses have captured over the last three weeks in the clip below:
The young guy heard in that mash up also captured one of the only videos we’ve seen of the drones around dusk. You see it gliding through the sky. Another eyewitness told The New York Times the drones show up one after the other, following the same flight path.
A New Jersey lawmaker, citing New Jersey State Police, said the sightings begin around sundown and go through 11pm. Sometimes the drones’ lights are turned off, making them harder to spot. And police have indicated they do not appear to emit radio frequencies, which allows them to avoid detection.
They don’t know where they take off from or land. They do believe they are coming from the water, at least according to some of the officials. They say that they are not drones being flown by hobbyists or related to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). This is what they are saying.
‘Don’t Panic’
After the initial report in mid-November, the FAA banned drones from flying over a military base in Morris County and over Trump’s Bedminster. State leaders told constituents “the drones do not pose any threat to the public.” They don’t know what the hell they are, but don’t panic!
How are we not supposed to panic or worry if you have no freaking clue what they are? We had at least one lawmaker come out and say exactly that.
On Tuesday, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy talked to reporters. Again, he said there is nothing to panic over. But he also admitted that he spent all day on the phone with the White House trying to get answers. This is how he described them:
MURPHY: I was on with the White House and Homeland Security leadership, literally at the very top yesterday, pretty much all day. I’m hoping we’ll get answers sooner than later. I would just ask folks to continue to let the FBI or their local law enforcement know when they see something, and we’ll continue to do everything we can with our federal partners to get clearer answers.
When asked why it is so hard to get answers, he had this to say:
MURPHY: These are apparently – as I understand it – very sophisticated. The minute you get eyes on them, they go dark. And you know, we’re obviously most concerned about sensitive targets and sensitive critical infrastructure. So we’ve got military assets. We’ve got utility assets. We’ve got the president-elect’s– one of his homes here. This is something we’re taking deadly seriously. We’ve got good cooperation out of the feds, but we need more.
After the remarks, Republican State Sen. John Bramnick called on the governor to declare a limited state of emergency and ban all drones until someone explains what the hell is going on here. But so far, that has not happened.
The Theories
New Jersey State Sen. Douglas Steinhardt then went on Fox News and said that the objects are indeed coming from offshore. “The best information that we have available to us to this point suggests that these drones are coming from offshore; that when we try to make contact with them, they become evasive and elusive,” he said. “From my perspective, if they are American assets… I think we owe the American people answers or explanations. But if they’re not… American drones, then I think we owe the American people action.”
He said he would support getting “our assets into the air” to “blow one of these things out of the sky, pick up the pieces, and figure out what we are dealing with.”
Also on Tuesday, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee questioned the FBI assistant director of Critical Incident Response, Robert Wheeler, about whether the public is at risk here. He admitted we have no idea. “We do not attribute that to an individual or a group yet,” he testified. “We’re investigating, but I don’t have an answer of who’s responsible for that… It is concerning.”
There is something that is known: Hundreds of drones – the size of SUVs – are flying over New Jersey. They go dark when you get eyes on them. They won’t interact with us. That is something.
Yesterday, the story really took a turn when Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) went on Fox News and claimed that sources told him this is Iran. “Iran launched a mothership probably about a month ago that contains these drones. That mothership is off… the east coast of the United States of America,” he claimed. “These are from my sources. I don’t say this lightly… Know that Iran made a deal with China to purchase drones, motherships, and technology in order to go forward… These drones should be shot down. The military is on alert with this.”
But hold your horses because not long after his remarks, a spokeswoman for the Pentagon came out and shat all over his claims. “There is not any truth to that,” she said. “There is no Iranian ship off the coast of the United States, and there’s no so-called mothership launching drones towards the United States.”
So far, New Jersey Assemblywoman Dawn Fantasia has given the best wrap up of where things stand. She tweeted a long thread on X yesterday after meeting with New Jersey State Police. “Bottom line,” she writes, “we know nothing. Period.” She then went on to admit, quote, “to state that there is no known or credible threat is incredibly misleading.”
She said the state is shackled with what it is able to do because any interception must be done by the feds. She said, at this point, military intervention is the only path forward and “there will be no answers in the absence of proactivity.”
New Jersey State Rep. Brian Bergen told NewsNation’s Rich McHugh that he actually walked out of the briefing fed up with the lack of information. “I walked out because it was worthless,” he lamented. “It was the biggest amateur hour presentation I’ve ever seen. It was ridiculous. There were no answers.”
Alien Invasion?
By the way, are we sure they are drones and not alien spaceships? Could Rosie O’Donnell be right for once?
John Greenewald, Jr., has been studying UFOs and UAPs for decades. We actually interviewed him on this program back in episode 116 (you can listen to it here). He said these drones are not alien and wrote on X, “An intelligent civilization won’t travel light years just to check out New Jersey.” He said aliens are not going to show up and resemble “drone swarms.”
This guy does know he is talking about. He has filed over 10,000 public information requests with the government trying to figure out what’s out there and what’s not. He said he is kind of amused at people being so disappointed that he said they are not aliens, but that is his call.
Maybe we can also feel comforted by the fact that Elon Musk does not believe that there are aliens at all. This is what he said to Tucker Carlson last month:
MUSK: If anyone would know about aliens on earth, it would probably be me… I am familiar with space stuff, and I’ve seen no evidence of aliens. So, I would immediately tweet it out in a split second. It would probably be the top tweet of all time. ‘Found one, guys’… It was like some general I think in the 60s, where they were saying, ‘Show us the aliens, like Area 51, etc.’ And he said, ‘Listen, we are constantly trying to get the defense budget to expand. And you know what would really get no arguments from anyone if we pulled out an alien and said, We need money to protect ourselves from these guys. ‘How much money do you want? You got it.’
What Is Going On?
It is probably not aliens. I guess it is not Iran – that is what the Pentagon says, but they lie to us all the time. Gov. Murphy of New Jersey has no idea. The FBI claims to know nothing. The White House isn’t saying.
So, what is going on?
Ret. Navy SEAL Clint Emerson, who now runs a security firm, said this is probably a secret U.S. government program. He spoke with The New York Post and said the program is likely so top-secret that when our government officials claim they don’t know what it is, that is probably true. They probably actually don’t.
I like that last explanation best. Why wouldn’t we be shooting these out of the sky unless somebody in charge knows it is us? But here’s the question: If it is us, then why are we still doing it? Once it became a big story, wouldn’t we have said, ‘Alright, we have been doing this since November 18. Let’s shut it down now that it is a major’ story of every media organization’? I think that is weird.
And if it is us, whoever knows would probably be feeding a lie out about it. They would be like, ‘Oh, it is this.’ They wouldn’t be just like, ‘Gee, we don’t know.’ Maybe that is why Rep. Van Drew was sent out there. Maybe somebody tried to get him to pin it on Iran.
I have no idea what is happening here, but I would love to know more.
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