Drones: Truth and Transparency?

Writes Dom Armentano:

Is there anyone on the planet who really thinks that  the recent Trump Administration’s  “reveal” concerning the alleged drone activity over New Jersey is either truthful or transparent?

According to Trump  spokesperson Karoline Leavitt,  the drones were actually  “authorized to be flown by the FAA for research and other activities…”  Oh really? That explanation, of course, flies in the face of repeated denials (to local and state officials in N.J.) by Homeland Security, the FBI and even the FAA itself, that authorities had no explanation for the massive drone activity.  Were the N.J. mayors simply lied to? Why?

The Trump Administration drone explanation begs several important questions. Whose drones are they? The FBI stated unequivocally two months ago that they were “not military.”  (Makes sense. Secret military drones would be flight tested in some secure location like the New Mexico desert and not over Trenton, N.J.)  But if they are civilian–private and commercial–where do they originate, what “research and other activities” are they conducting and why were they allowed to fly  over sensitive and  restricted air space at Langley AFB for 17 straight nights last October and Wright-Patterson AFB last December?  The FAA authorized that? Hardly. Makes no sense.

Further, mystery drone sightings are not at all unique to New Jersey or even to the U.S. (In November 2024, the U.S. Air Force admitted that unidentified “drones” were spotted over several of its leased military bases in England.)  Clusters of large drones have been spotted in many states including Nebraska and California; some sightings go back as far as 2014 and UFO sightings generally, of course, go back many decades.

Actually the most infamous (and all but forgotten) mystery drone activity occurred in Colorado in December 2019 and January 2020. Clusters of very large drones (at least 20) flew a nightly “grid pattern” over a 25 mile area for weeks. Authorities, including the FAA, were baffled. (I guess they didn’t “authorize” those!) What made the flights especially mysterious is that the “drone” activity continued “during severe storm conditions not conducive to drone flight…”

So what were these objects  and what were they doing? Like the New Jersey sightings (that are still on-going),  if anyone knows they aren’t really telling the public. And so far, that includes DJT.

 

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