There are strange lights in the skies of Earth. It’s worldwide, not just in New Jersey over the President-elect’s property in Bedminster New Jersey, or over his hometown of NYC. It’s everywhere: Missouri, Minnesota, California, Alabama, Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon, Hawaii, and Washington DC but also Brazil, Russia, France, India, Germany (over US airbases like Ramstein Airbase), Slovakia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Japan, China, Vietnam, and at Israel’s Dome of the Rock. The “drones” are also present over Area 51, for Hollywood value and their presence has now closed the UFO conspiracy world’s favorite spot, Wright Patterson Airbase. The drones and orbs and lights have been present around nuclear sites, whether where nuclear weapons either being deployed like RAF Lakenheath in the UK, or over nuclear power plants in places Oyster Creek Maryland, Duke nuclear sites in South Carolina, and South Ukraine and the (perhaps non-nuclear) Picatinny Weapons Arsenal in New Jersey. New Jersey political leaders have been begging the Federal Government to shut down the airspace over two nuclear power plants.
The idea that the US government has no imagery and no idea what these unidentified flying objects are is beyond absurd. Maxar satellites have a resolution down to 2mms. The US has been placing warheads on foreheads in the Middle East from control rooms in the Midwest with great success for decades. Yet, nobody knows who is flying over America’s most secret military bases? They can’t figure out what frequency these drones are operating on? The National Reconnaissance Office must know. They can spot a terrorist’s license plate from space. Their operational capabilities have vastly improved after record investment in space assets by the Pentagon. The question is, how can the US Government be so calm and so seemingly clueless at the same time? Why are they not saying or doing anything? Here are some possibilities.
It could be that these drones really are Iranian, Russian, or Chinese. If yes, then we have the Norwegian problem. To remind you, that’s when you know say the Russians did it (cut the cables or damaged an undersea asset) but saying so will provoke WWIII. So, you have to say, like the Norwegians, “we have no idea who did it”. This makes sense. After all, the world is literally in the midst of a modern Cuban Missile Crisis. The Russians are launching IRBMs (Oreshniks) and there are rumors that they are moving nukes into Belarus while the Americans are seemingly moving more nukes into the UK and Western Europe. We are in a DEFCON world now. But even if we can’t or won’t say who it is, normally, flying a drone anywhere near a military base an airport or a nuclear site would get you arrested pretty damn quick anywhere within the US or a NATO country. But, today, nothing happens at all when drones are flying over LaGuardia and shutting down runways at Stewart International Airport, Langley Airbase (for 17 days), or RAF Lakenheath in the UK.
It’s absurd. It’s illegal to fly drones beyond the line of sight in the US unless you have a full pilot’s license and even then you need to file flight plans. You can’t fly drones over people’s homes or private neighborhoods without permission, let alone over such critical infrastructure sites. When the FAA granted Amazon permission to test flying drones for home deliveries they specifically excluded night flying and flights above 400 feet. Everybody else gets less leniency than Amazon.
One can understand that nobody wants to tell the American public that we are at war with our adversaries and this war is not over there somewhere but right over here, at home, above your backyard. If these drones are being launched off of ships, then why doesn’t the all-seeing eye of US Naval intelligence see it and act upon it? The Coast Guard? Drug traffickers get a quicker and harsher response than this. Has the US really lost control of its own airspace? Who could admit this after decades of wars where air power was the consistent key to military success? But the response is all wrong if that’s true. No, there must be other factors to consider.
If it’s Iran, as has been rumored, it’s a pretty impressive show of force, given that they must be pretty tied up these days in trying to avoid the overturn scenario that just unfolded in Syria next door. Maybe it’s Russian organized crime. They have a global reach, sleeper cells, and love to wreak havoc. Yes, technically, you can fly fleets of drones remotely from the other side of the world. But interference would generally generate more drone failures and we’ve seen very few of these things, whatever they are, falling out of the sky.
Meanwhile, local authorities in the US are so annoyed with the lack of a Federal response that they are sending their own drones up. They are getting some pretty weird data back. Ocean County Sheriff Michael Mastronardy said his force launched its drone after one of his officers saw “50 unmanned aerial vehicles”, 'coming off the ocean'. He alerted 911, the FBI, and the Coast Guard. The Coast Guard says they saw “13 drones following their boat, estimating that the devices had a wingspan of eight feet”. As a former manufacturer of commercial drones, I can say with confidence that these are not your everyday off-the-shelf drones. We no longer live in a world where you can just make your own drones anyway. Try ordering parts online. You’ll be visited by the authorities in a few days.
It could be that the US government doesn’t want to shoot down something over US territory, especially over residential neighborhoods. That’s why that Chinese balloon was allowed to just drift away until it was safely out over the Atlantic back in 2023. This lack of action helps confirm that the US airspace is not a warzone, an idea that defense media are trying to push right now. This stance might also relate to all the denials about the various suspicious events that keep occurring inside the US. The Panamax in Baltimore and the near hit to The Verrazano Bridge a week later. The fires that happen in the middle of the night at America’s 100 most valuable food production and food processing facilities in places like Lubbock Texas. We’ve all been told that these events are also just our imagination running wild. It’s just apophenia. That means “the propensity to mistakenly detect patterns or connections between unrelated events, objects, or occurrences. Psychologists call this a “Baader-Meinhof phenomenon” or the “frequency illusion”, meaning “perceived trends like the food-fire epidemics are amplified by a related bias that operates across society. It happens when news organizations and other groups devote extra attention to incidents that seem to fit a meaningful pattern.” For those who don’t remember the Baader-Meinhof gang from the 1970’s, they were a West German far-left militant faction engaging in armed resistance against what they viewed as a right-wing fascist state.
This all amounts to the “it's all in your pretty little head.” The Federal Government and the White House are gaslighting us, telling the distressed Mayors, Governors, Senators and Congressmen, and women, that the problem is not the “drones” but that we the people are “hysterical”. Meanwhile, the media is trying to keep this as a local story. The news insists that this is only a New Jersey story. This is a classic control technique as Noam Chomsky famously pointed out: “The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion (it’s only in New Jersey) but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.” But, it’s not just happening only in New Jersey or NYC or Connecticut but all over the country and all over the world.
There are darker theories. There are reports that it’s the CIA’s OGA. That’s the Office of Global Affairs, which was a branch of the CIA’s Global Science and Technology Directorate. Apparently, it’s got another name now. They are famous for looking for Broken Arrows (lost nukes), enemy nuclear subs, and, wait for it, “crashed vehicles of non-human origin.” This office was just recently outed to Congress by Michael Shellenberger as having a massive space-based surveillance program for Non-Human Intelligence (NHI). Some on X are speculating that the Russians have a nuclear-loaded sub on the loose. Others say OGA and perhaps NEST are using very specific sorts of drones to smell loose nukes, radioactive material, or gas leaks. Proximity matters. Drones can get closer to such targets than planes. That would explain the “do not approach warnings.” But, if we are really the plotline from The Sum of All Fears, then The White House and the Federal Government are being remarkably low-key about it.
But, as Matt Pines Noted, it is hard to imagine that the leadership of the Pentagon and pretty much the whole incoming cabinet happily meeting at the annual Army-Navy Football game a few days ago near Washington DC, knowing there was a WMD emergency in play. Nobody looked worried at the game. Instead, there was a lot of cryptic joking around. The President-elect sat side by side with The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs while the military crowd drove itself into a happy frenzy. President Trump had earlier launched the drone meme by showing an AI-generated image of an overweight Mike Pompeo (his former Head of the CIA, who is chowing down on McDonald’s brought in by drone deliveries. Is the implication that the former CIA Director is headed to Sing Sing and drones will be the closest he gets to McDonald’s going forward? Also, Elon was predicting drone wars and drone dominance back in September before all this started? Why did he see “drone wars” coming? Then, at the match, Palantir (Peter Thiel) dropped a very powerful video with drones. This makes sense since they just paired up with Anduril, America’s leading drone maker. In the slick advert, Palantir cryptically said, “Battles are won before they begin.” Clearly, everybody knew that the drones were coming except the public.
So, what is the one subject that nobody ever wants to talk about that could be in play here? It’s that pesky issue of what Congress now formally calls “Non-Human Intelligence” (NHI) and UAPs (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena). After years of Congressional hearings involving highly credible witnesses and whistleblowers, some just two weeks ago, no one links the two subjects? Instead, The New York Times writes “A Bagel Shop Closed, and the Upper West Side Is Absolutely Losing It: The neighborhood reaction to the sudden closure of a Manhattan bagel shop was intense: “No no no no no no no no no no no!!” but it fails to mention drones flying over Manhattan and the President elect’s property in nearby Bedminster New Jersey? Really? This is not a random response. It is carefully though through.
Let’s remember what happened last time these UAPs showed up (that we know about). It was last year during the week that The Chinese Balloon drifted over the whole of the United States. The government promptly shot it down as soon as it was safely offshore and proudly displayed the retrieved wreckage. But, later that week there were three further shoot downs of UAPs that had no visible means of propulsion and no wings and which traveled at speeds and angles that modern physics does not allow for. No wreckage was found or displayed. All discussion of UAPs stopped. As I said at the time, if there is any chance at all that these are a form of intelligence, perhaps even higher intelligence than us humans, then maybe shooting at them is not the best way to open the conversation. Well, maybe that’s exactly what’s happened. The strategy has changed.
Maybe the new strategy is this: When UAPs show up, our officials launch a ton of these drones of varying types into the air worldwide. This muddies the waters and ...
