Yesterday, NorthJersey.com ran one of many bizarre unidentified flying drone stories this weekend headlined, âNorth Jersey mayors demand action from NJ, feds on flurry of drone sightings.â Last Tuesday, the FBI issued a joint statement with the New Jersey State Police and the State Office of Homeland Security setting up a tipline for information from the public related to "the recent sightings of possible drones flying in several areas along the Raritan River."
CLIP: Four grainy videos of unidentified flying objects over Brooklyn, New York (2:00).
Last fall, giant mystery drones allegedly plagued East Coast military bases, leaving the government claiming bafflement. Now, a year later, the unidentified flying drones are back, blanketing New Jerseyâs sensitive sites, waking people up, spreading to New York, arrogantly swanking around wherever they want, and generally making nuisances of themselves.
âU.S. officials donât know who is behind the drones,â one WSJ article reported, âor how to stop them.â But ⌠do they want to stop them?
Described as âcar-sized,â the lighted, buzzing drones have been reported all over New Jersey, in at least a dozen counties, and are zipping over sensitive sites like a military weapons design center, Trumpâs golf course, and an active reservoir. The FBI seems helplessly confounded, and the FAA keeps creating temporary âno flyâ zones trying to protect commercial air assets.
The drones are lit up. They seem to be trying to avoid collisions. And they obviously arenât trying to hide.
I researched drones that could fit the profile, information invisible in most of the media reports. Two categories of drones are at least as big as a small car. First, prototypes of âflying carsâ â drones that, if the FAA ever allows it, could be used for personal air transportation. You canât buy one, so you could say they are priceless. You definitely canât fly them without special FAA permission, not without breaking a zillion laws. Itâs unclear why flying car developers would risk huge penalties to test their prototypes like this instead of doing it legally and in the clear.The second possible category are the cargo drones. These are autonomous flyers, like hobby drones, except bigger. Theyâre operated by remote control, but unlike hobby drones, they carry a substantial payload. Amazon, for example, has been testing delivery drones in this category. But more common are military drones used to drop bombs. These drones cost from hundreds of thousands up to millions of dollars, if you can buy them, that is.
Whatever scofflaw is flying these drones is committing felonies right and left, some serious. Commercially available drones above the $100 range are equipped with GPS, and they are all programmed not to fly near sensitive sites. So, between the size, cost, and apparent lack of software limits, they strongly suggest a military origin, not least because who else would be so unconcerned about all the potential criminal liability, should one of the drones malfunction, land, and be captured?
Could it be China or Russia? One suspects the U.S. military would be much more concerned and proactive if that were true. On the other hand, see the sordid story of Chinaâs spy balloon. If the U.S. military is testing these drones, they are working outside of official channels. One possibility is the agency testing the drones doesnât want the FAA leaking operational details, like when the tests will occur.
Finally, if you are a hardcore UFO buff, and prefer an out-of-this-world theory, some speculate these âdronesâ could be something else, merely camouflaged as drones. Nobodyâs caught one. Nobody has seen one take off or land. A fascinating theory, but why would aliens undertake all this fake droning? Maybe, since theyâre aliens, it doesnât have to make sense?
This weekend, nineteen local New Jersey officials requested help from law enforcement agencies, the FAA, the Department of Homeland Security, and the New Jersey State Police. Their joint letter complained that those agencies took âa reactive instead of proactive approachâ to the problem.
New Jersey residents âpay a fortune for government,â the testy officials wrote, and âright now either our government is keeping us in the dark or they are failing to act on taxpayersâ concerns over these unidentified drones.â One could not help but detect a note of deep frustration.
Last Thursday, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy attended a drone briefing with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, senior officials from the Department of Homeland Security, the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness, and New Jersey State Police, to discuss the sightings.
In an NBC video report headlined, âGrowing mystery over drone sightings in New York & New Jersey, the reporter interviewed a couple independent citizens who were launching their own hobby drones, trying to find and approach the mystery drones and capture some better video. That common-sense solution prompted the question why none of the FBI, FAA, Homeland Security, New York and New Jersey police are trying to do the same obvious thing.
Other citizens reported shooting laser pointers at the drones, which seemed to quickly respond:
CLIP: Citizen video of lasering drones (1:34).
Again, if this drone invasion were a wide-scale, classified military test of new drone technology, we might expect to see a feeble official response, pretending not to know whatâs going on and just going through the motions. Let the citizens try, if the useless federal government canât or wonât. Deputize us!
Hereâs a Fox report speculating whether the drones are in fact a secret U.S. military test, but then contrasted that question with a Pentagon statement suggesting the Department of Defense really doesnât know where the drones are coming from:
CLIP: Fox asks, is it or isnât it a military test? (1:05)
Whatever the explanation, this story is getting a lot of attention. It seems likely we will soon either find out or theyâll stop. What do you think is going on?
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