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Security Experts to N.Y. Post: The Mystery Drones Over New Jersey are Likely Top-Secret Pentagon Tech

Finally, the media are figuring out that the mystery drones over New Jersey are probably top-secret Pentagon technology, being tested out before it is certified ready for the battlefield.

It’s about time!

Here is a link to the excellent N.Y. Post article: (https://nypost.com/2024/12/11/us-news/security-experts-share-startling-theory-about-nj-drones/)

Here are the most relevant bits, bolded and in quotes:

“ ‘My first guess is these are potentially government programs kept within what’s known as a ‘Special Access Program,’ which is purposely put together to keep even the most cleared people out — it truly is to keep it secret,” said Clint Emerson, a retired Navy SEAL and owner of security company Escape the Wolf.

‘That’s why the government’s like, ‘We don’t know.’ They’re being truthful,’ he said, adding that the circle could be as small as a dozen officials. ‘They don’t even know the program exists.’

Emerson said it’s impossible to know what the drones might be doing — but he suspects the secret is the technology they’re carrying, not the devices themselves.

‘It could be different types of collection capabilities — so, different types of cameras, like high-definition, infrared or thermal,’ he said.

A second payload, for instance, could be hardware that grabs all the cellphone data in a given environment.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has said the drones over his state don’t seem to pose any threat — and experts say it could be the US government testing new tech.

‘How much data can we collect with this? Let’s say we got 10 drones, they fly in a grid, how much cellphone traffic can we pick up? Not actual conversations. But just the signature of millions of cellphones. What can 10 drones pick up going over an area?’

‘That’s a legitimate test,’ he said. ‘They’re not invading your privacy. That’s legitimate data. And that’s a f–king capability.’

And what better place to do that than New Jersey, the country’s most densely populated state.

‘That would be my number one guess: It’s a very closely held program, and they’re doing what they need to do to ensure their technology actually works,’ said Emerson.

‘The beauty of a [special access program] is they’re kinda in their own lawless little world,’ Emerson said. ‘They can go do whatever they want, and they don’t have to tell anybody.’

Kelly McCann, a security expert and former Marine special missions officer who worked for the Office of Naval Research, echoed Emerson’s comments and said he thinks the government is testing out some ‘operational capacity.’ ”

So, applying this line of reasoning to the historical record of UFO sightings and encounters going all the way back to 1952 in the United States, this means virtually all of those episodes were the Pentagon testing, demonstrating, training in the use of top-secret programs.

Everything from those saucers over Washington, D.C., while Harry Truman was president, to those UFOs that disabled nuclear missile launch systems in the 1960s, the giant triangle over the Hudson Valley in the 1980s, the Phoenix Lights in 1997, the other giant triangle witnessed by police officers over rural Illinois in 2000, the Tic Tac in 2004, the flying disc over Chicago O’Hare in 2006, etc., etc. …

It was never E.T.

It was always the Pentagon.

Anyway, thank you New York Post for finally publishing the obvious!

About Those Mystery New Jersey Drones: For the Pentagon, this is Business as Usual

So, the recent episode of mystery drones flying over New Jersey is nothing, well, new; it’s just another page from the long and storied history of the UFO saga in this country, and it all goes back to the Pentagon.

It’s a story that begins with those flying saucers over Washington, D.C., in 1952, and includes that huge triangular thing over the Hudson Valley in the 1980s, the Phoenix lights in 1997 and various and sundry other UFO flaps over the decades.

As crazy as it sounds, all of these episodes have just been the Pentagon flying its top-secret toys … testing, training, psyops, sending not-so-veiled messages to the public and to our adversaries alike.

It was never E.T.

Sorry, Steven Spielberg, but it just wasn’t.

Anyway, here’s a story in northjersey.com that captures some of the frustrations of local officials, in bold print and quotes. (https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/2024/12/08/officials-demand-action-on-drone-sightings/76851064007/)

” ‘A group of Morris County mayors and other local elected officials are demanding answers and action by authorities concerning the multiple sightings of drones in North Jersey in recent weeks.

‘We look at it this way,” they wrote. “Either higher level officials know what’s going on and are not concerned or they are negligent for not apprehending and identifying one of these drones.

‘We strongly request a proactive approach be taken on the half of the residents of New Jersey and Morris County,’ they wrote. ‘These drones have to land at some point somewhere and these offices need to follow them and identify where they are going and who owns them and is operating them.’

Residents ‘pay a fortune for government,’ they wrote, and ‘right now either our government is keeping us in the dark or they are failing to act on taxpayers concerns over these unidentified drones.’ “

To this, I say, the government has been keeping us all in the dark for many decades.

Rep. Nancy Mace is Right When She Suggests the Pentagon is Hiding Exotic Propulsion Tech

Finally, we have a member of Congress acknowledging something fundamental about the entire UFO saga in this country: That the Pentagon is likely hiding the existence of top-secret propulsion technologies, even from the president and members of Congress.

Here are the most relevant comments from an article this morning (Nov. 27, 2024) in the Washington Times newspaper, in bold print and quotations (Also, here is a link to the article, https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/nov/27/rep-nancy-mace-ufo-secrecy-keeping-president-unite/)

“At a minimum, publicly available Pentagon information strongly suggests there is incredible aerospace technology being fielded today that the American public, and even most members of Congress, are unaware of.

‘I’m not saying share everything. Maybe there are weapons programs we’re testing that it’s a fair thing we don’t want the American public to know about,” Ms. Mace said.

In a worst-case scenario, Ms. Mace said, individuals or departments within the Pentagon, intelligence community and other corners of the government could be keeping secrets from the White House itself.

‘Are they keeping the president of the United States in the dark?’ she said.”

Anyway, I’ve been saying this for years, and it’s a point of view we might call the “terrestrial hypothesis” for UFOs, and it goes something like this:

  • The UFOs are not extraterrestrial and they have never been. Instead, the Pentagon has made a series of astonishing propulsion breakthroughs going all the way back to the first important sighting, that of Kenneth Arnold in 1947.
  • Instead of jumping automatically to the extraterrestrial hypothesis, we should first fully entertain and explore the terrestrial hypothesis. So, for example, the “Tic Tac” object encountered in 2004 by Navy pilots over a U.S. military training range, is, in fact, a U.S. military platform. That’s why it was observed there. Furthermore, the fact that this encounter took place over a training range would suggest that these are not “experimental aircraft,” but operational platforms. I would also propose that the Pentagon has likely developed various top-secret platforms, entirely unknown to the public and developed over the past seven decades or so, thanks to a burgeoning “black budget” that keeps these programs hidden from Congress.
  • Logically, then, the terrestrial hypothesis would suggest that a whole bizarre inventory of encounters involving U.S. military personnel and civilians alike have always been top-secret Pentagon technologies known only to a small circle with a “need to know.” Everything from those UFOs that disabled nuclear missile launch systems back in the 1960s, to the huge triangular thing observed over the Hudson Valley in the 1980s, the “Phoenix lights” in 1997, another huge triangular thing encountered by police officers in rural Illinois in 2000, the flying disc over Chicago O’Hare in 2006, the Tic Tacs, etc., etc.
  • Moreover, the performance characteristics of these objects were such that there is one overarching likelihood suggested by this historical record of sightings: The Pentagon has developed exotic and highly unconventional propulsion systems that it has hidden from the public all these years.
  • Meanwhile, it certainly appears that there has been a disinformation effort to confuse people, and the media, about the whole subject of UFOs, publishing books by former military personnel who claim to have encountered extraterrestrials. It’s a legacy that in my opinion goes back many years and includes The Day After Roswell, published in 1997. (If you are interested, please read my review of The Day After Roswell, which I regard as a masterpiece of disinformation, here, https://emilvenere.com/files/138490884.pdf)
  • As to why the Pentagon would sometimes be flying these weapons over populated areas, perhaps it’s real-world training, a “living lab” to perfect tactics and to study how well they perform against state-of-the-art, white-world technologies like F-16s. There have been examples of military training exercises taking place over populated areas. This excellent article in The War Zone documents one such exercise over Los Angeles: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/38753/those-mysterious-gray-helicopters-were-landing-on-multiple-downtown-la-rooftops-last-night
  • Anyway, this terrestrial hypothesis for UFOs leads to many follow-up questions and concerns, chief among them: Is there a shadow space program that runs parallel to NASA and the Space Force that is far more capable than either of those entities? If so, how far have we gone? Do we have military bases in deep space?  Are any of these top-secret platforms nuclear-powered?

At any rate, bravo Rep. Nancy Mace, bravo! Better late to the party than not at all!

AARO Physics Brainiac Says He Still Can’t Explain Some UFOs … This Is Getting Ridiculous …

Reading this article from CBS News about the most recent UFO report from the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, the cynic in me says something isn’t quite right here.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pentagon-solves-1-ufo-mystery-still-probing-other-cases/

Interesting comments from Ryan Graves. He notes that, although AARO showed the UFO in the “GOFAST” video wasn’t going fast, they never explained what the heck it was. Hmmm …

And, regarding those 21 still-unsolved cases in the report, the AARO director, a brainiac physicist and engineer, says he’s stumped.

Maybe the reason he is stumped is because these are all top-secret Pentagon weapons and AARO doesn’t have a need to know. Even if Dr. Kosloski did know, he wouldn’t be permitted to divulge this because people go to prison for revealing top-secret U.S. weapons to the world at large.

Just saying.

What if the UFOs are all ultra-classified U.S. weapons? No government agency including AARO would be able to reveal this, so isn’t it a bit ridiculous to expect them to?

A Veteran Area 51 Observer Sees No Aliens There, Yet Further Evidence That UFOs Are Not Extraterrestrial

Like most tabloid fare, this article about veteran Area 51 researcher Joerg Arnu contains very little useful information. Yet, it is important because Arnu expresses his opinion that the base does not harbor extraterrestrial technologies. The article appeared recently in The Sun newspaper.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/31060141/area-51-fbi-new-weapons/

Area 51 has been central to alien conspiracy theories over the years. It is crucial to unfounded claims that the U.S. government is hiding technologies captured from crashed alien spacecraft. In fact, you could argue that without space aliens at Area 51, the whole connection between UFOs and extraterrestrials falls apart.

If anyone were to detect evidence of E.T. at Area 51, you would think it would have been Arnu, who has dedicated decades to pursuing the truth about what goes on at the base.

Here are some relevant excerpts from The Sun article:

“While Arnu believes the base primarily focuses on military technology – he respects others may have different interpretations.

“He said: ‘Who am I to say that my opinion is the right one?‘

“I think it’s military, but the alien people think there are 21 underground levels of torture facilities for aliens …

“From his analysis of hundreds of satellite images and his visits to the secret site, Arnu believes the government is developing cutting-edge stealth aircraft, advanced drones, and experimental weaponry – that could revolutionise modern warfare.

“Over his years of research, Arnu has observed several indications that cutting-edge military technologies are being developed at Area 51.“

Well, there you have it. The UFOs are still not E.T.

Elon Musk is correct about UFOs: They aren’t E.T., they have always just been the Pentagon

I couldn’t agree more with Elon Musk about UFOs, in comments he made to Tucker Carlson and reported in this New York Post article.

https://nypost.com/2024/10/09/us-news/elon-musk-reveals-his-thoughts-on-ufo-sightings-in-the-us-with-tucker-carlson/

Here is the nut graph from the Post article: “The tech mogul claims that the government is likely regularly testing out ‘new aircraft, new missiles, and things’ that are classified at such a high level that even those high up in the chain of command in the US military may not be aware (they) are being tested.”

It also seems like he’s onto something with this observation, as reported in the New York Post article: “He argued that the government would villainize aliens if it knew of their existence to easily green-light military spending.”

Anyway, what this all means is that it’s high time that we started to seriously entertain the “terrestrial hypothesis” for UFOs, and it goes something like this:

1) The UFOs are not extraterrestrial, and they have never been. Instead, the Pentagon has made a series of astonishing technological breakthroughs in propulsion going all the way back to the first important UFO sighting, that of Kenneth Arnold in 1947. These technologies are so unconventional they could easily be mistaken for something from another planet.

Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, former head of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), has alluded to this possibility in his writings and statements. He and AARO’s official UFO report, which reviews sightings and encounters since 1945, have unequivocally stated that witnesses, including members of the military, have unwittingly observed top-secret U.S. weapons and have mistaken these systems for extraterrestrial visitation.

Logically, then, the terrestrial hypothesis would suggest that a whole bizarre inventory of encounters involving U.S. military personnel and civilians alike have always been top-secret Pentagon technologies known only to a small circle of people with the appropriate clearances. Everything from those UFOs that disabled nuclear missile launch systems back in the 1960s, to the huge triangular thing observed over the Hudson Valley in the 1980s, the “Phoenix lights” in 1997, another huge triangular thing encountered by police officers in rural Illinois in 2000, the flying disc over Chicago O’Hare in 2006, the “Tic Tac” encountered by U.S. Navy pilots in 2004, etc.

Moreover, the performance characteristics of these objects were such that there is one overarching likelihood suggested by this historical record of sightings: The Pentagon has developed exotic and highly unconventional propulsion systems that it has hidden from the public all these years.

This terrestrial hypothesis for UFOs leads to many follow-up questions and concerns, chief among them: Is there a shadow space program that runs parallel to NASA and the Space Force that is far more capable than either of those entities? If so, how far have we gone? Do we have military bases in deep space? Are any of these top-secret platforms nuclear-powered?

Meanwhile, it certainly appears that there has been a disinformation effort to confuse people, and the media, about the whole subject of UFOs — various tales by former military personnel who claim to have encountered extraterrestrials. It’s a legacy that in my opinion goes back many years and includes The Day After Roswell, published in 1997.

(If you are interested, please read my review of The Day After Roswell, which I regard as a masterpiece of disinformation, here, https://emilvenere.com/files/138490884.pdf)

So, I would argue that you have opposing forces working against each other. You have AARO conducting legitimate investigations into UFOs, but then you have other elements, some of them possibly even within government, working to promote disinformation, contradicting AARO.

Why? Because as soon as you entangle the entire subject within the intellectual morass of space aliens you relegate the whole story to the fringe. Books and other media are carefully designed to confuse people, especially journalists, so that they’ll dismiss the whole business of UFOs as nonsense and won’t start to wonder whether it’s been the Pentagon all along that’s been flying these things.

Is Elizondo’s New UFO Book Just Another Example of Government Disinformation Designed to Confuse People, and Journalists?

So, I’ve been relishing all the mainstream media coverage of Luis Elizondo’s new memoir, where he penned some really over-the-top revelations and allegedly spills the beans on all sorts of UFO secrets.

A New York Times review actively promotes the book for what its authors see as a credible and sincere account by Mr. Elizondo, and maybe it is. I would not presume to know with certainty. Anyway, here is a link to that review: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/16/books/booksupdate/imminent-luiz-elizondo.html

However, alternatively, I wonder if his new book is just the latest example of government disinformation, a legacy that in my opinion goes back many years and includes The Day After Roswell, published in 1997.

(If you are interested, please read my review of The Day After Roswell, which I regard as a masterpiece of disinformation, here, https://emilvenere.com/files/138490884.pdf)

So, let’s do whatever one does to relax, sit back and venture off into unfamiliar territory when it comes to UFOs. Let’s call this territory the “terrestrial hypothesis” for UFOs, and it goes something like this:

1) The UFOs are not extraterrestrial, and they have never been. Instead, the Pentagon has made a series of astonishing technological breakthroughs in propulsion going all the way back to the first important UFO sighting, that of Kenneth Arnold in 1947. These technologies are so unconventional they could easily be mistaken for something from another planet.

Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, former head of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), has alluded to this possibility in his writings and statements. He and AARO’s official UFO report, which reviews sightings and encounters since 1945, have unequivocally stated that witnesses, including members of the military, have unwittingly observed top-secret technologies and have mistaken these systems for extraterrestrial visitation.

Here are some excerpts from the AARO report:

• AARO assesses that some portion of sightings since the 1940s have represented misidentification of never-before-seen experimental and operational space, rocket, and air systems, including stealth technologies and the proliferation of drone platforms.

• AARO concludes many of these programs represent authentic, current and former sensitive, national security programs, but none of these programs have been involved with capturing, recovering, or reverse-engineering off-world technology or material.

• In many cases, the interviewees named authentic USG (U.S. government) classified programs well-known and understood to those appropriately accessed to them in the Executive Branch and Legislative Branch; however, the interviewees mistakenly associated these authentic USG programs with alien and extraterrestrial activity. 

• AARO assesses that all of the named and described alleged hidden UAP reverse-engineering programs provided by interviewees either do not exist; are misidentified authentic, highly-sensitive national security programs that are not related to extraterrestrial technology exploitation …

• The interviewees and others who have mistakenly associated authentic sensitive national security programs with UAP had incomplete or unauthorized access to these programs; discussion of these programs outside of secure facilities presents a high risk of exposing national security information.]

2) Back to the terrestrial hypothesis, secondly, there appears to be an ongoing disinformation effort to make people think the UFOs are E.T. because as soon as you entangle the entire subject within the intellectual morass of space aliens you relegate the whole story to the fringe. Books and other media are carefully designed to confuse people, including journalists, so that they won’t start to wonder whether it’s been the Pentagon all along that’s been flying these things.

Hey, I get it, people want to believe! I used to be there, but after many years of looking at all the available information I have found no compelling evidence that space aliens are responsible for UFOs.

The only thing that is clear is that something is there. The UFOs do exist. So, I would propose that instead of jumping automatically to the extraterrestrial hypothesis, we first fully entertain and explore the terrestrial hypothesis. So, for example, the “Tic Tac” object encountered in 2004 by Navy pilots over a U.S. military training range, is, in fact, a U.S. military platform. That’s why it was observed there. Furthermore, the fact that this encounter took place over a training range, as opposed to a test range, would suggest that it was not an “experimental aircraft,” but an operational platform. I would also propose that the Pentagon has likely developed various top-secret platforms, entirely unknown to the public and developed over the past seven decades or so, thanks to a burgeoning “black budget” that keeps these programs hidden from Congress.

Logically, then, this terrestrial hypothesis would suggest that a whole bizarre inventory of encounters involving U.S. military personnel and civilians alike have always been top-secret Pentagon technologies known only to a small circle with a “need to know.” Everything from those UFOs that disabled nuclear missile launch systems back in the 1960s, to the huge triangular thing observed over the Hudson Valley in the 1980s, the “Phoenix lights” in 1997, another huge triangular thing encountered by police officers in rural Illinois in 2000, the flying disc over Chicago O’Hare in 2006, the Tic Tacs, etc., etc.

Moreover, the performance characteristics of these objects were such that there is one overarching likelihood suggested by this historical record of sightings: The U.S. military has developed exotic and highly unconventional propulsion systems that it has hidden from the public all these years.

As to why the Pentagon would sometimes be flying these weapons over populated areas, perhaps it’s real-world training, a “living lab” to perfect tactics and to study how well they perform against state-of-the-art, white-world technologies like F-16s. There have been examples of military training exercises taking place over populated areas. This excellent article in The War Zone documents one such exercise over Los Angeles: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/38753/those-mysterious-gray-helicopters-were-landing-on-multiple-downtown-la-rooftops-last-night

Anyway, the terrestrial hypothesis for UFOs leads to many follow-up questions and concerns, chief among them: Is there a shadow space program that runs parallel to NASA and the Space Force that is far more capable than either of those entities? If so, how far have we gone? Do we have military bases in deep space?  Are any of these top-secret platforms nuclear-powered?

And if all of this sounds too crazy, is it any stranger than space aliens traveling trillions of miles from another solar system, only to crash land or inexplicably hang out over U.S. military facilities?

U.S. Government’s Top UFO Researcher, Former AARO Director Dr. Kirkpatrick, Pens Revealing Commentary in Scientific American: The UFOs have nothing to do with E.T.

Well, well, well … finally, a dose of sorely needed clarity regarding the whole UFO calamity in this country.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/heres-what-i-learned-as-the-u-s-governments-ufo-hunter/

Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, the former head of AARO, lays it all out, revealing that sensational claims of E.T. UFOs are all hot air driven by a small group of enthusiasts with an agenda.

Also, interesting that he mentions some UFO reports stem from confusion over legitimate government R&D.

So, let’s see the report AARO is preparing for release to the public and Congress. It has the compelling title of Historical Record Report Volume 1.

Thank you, Dr. Kirkpatrick, for providing a much-needed voice of sanity in the roiling sea of malarkey about UFOs.

Let’s see how certain media keen on promoting E.T. fantasies will treat this moment of truth. Will they acknowledge that tales of extraterrestrials are likely all just nonsense? Or will they continue down the ridiculous rabbit holes of conspiracy theories and E.T. fever dreams, hoping for more clicks and the revenue they bring?

After New UFO Briefing, Some Members of Congress Say Pentagon, Intelligence Community are Withholding Information

This NewsNation account of today’s UFO briefing for members of Congress (Jan. 12, 2024) pretty much sums up the whole dilemma: The Pentagon and intelligence community are not telling Congress the truth about UFOs.

House committee receives classified UAP briefing

You know my opinion: It has nothing to do with extraterrestrials and everything to do with top-secret U.S. military hardware, and Congress simply lacks a “need to know.”

So, the Pentagon can’t admit that it’s made a series of astonishing propulsion breakthroughs over the years because then the secret weapons would no longer be, well, secret.

Meanwhile, David Grusch and others are being fed some industrial-strength disinformation designed to muddy the waters, confuse the herd, make us all think that it just might be E.T.

Anyway, here are some key comments from members of Congress:

“I’m more concerned than I was going into the skiff, and I think that they have a lot of questions that remain unanswered,” Democratic Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois told NewsNation. “Mr. Grush has made allegations that we’re still trying to figure out the veracity of and we haven’t gotten the answers that we need.”

“There is a movement, whether it’s within the Intelligence Community or not, to prevent us from finding out more information on this,” said Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida. “So, we are going to do what we need to do as investigators to continue to pull on whatever strings and see where they lead.”

New York Times UFO Commentary Instructs Whistleblowers to ‘Show Their Cards,’ But Maybe the Deck is Rigged

Interesting UFO commentary today (Dec. 16, 2023) in the New York Times, under the headline: It’s Time for U.F.O. Whistle-blowers to Show Their Cards

But what if the Pentagon cannot reveal what it knows about UFOs because the UFOs are top-secret weapons? What if the UFOs have never had anything to do with space aliens, not even going all the way back to Kenneth Arnold’s seminal sighting in 1947 near Mount Rainier? What if the Pentagon’s UFO office, AARO, simply cannot “get to the bottom” of the UFO mystery because it’s part of the whole subterfuge? And what if the Pentagon has never actually accepted the notion of UFO transparency, and it only displays a façade of such because it has been forced to do so by Congress?

Further, what if the UFOs are the result of propulsion systems under development since the end of World War II and we all just think they’re extraterrestrial because of popular culture and the Pentagon’s own very effective disinformation program, which is good enough to convince people like David Grusch?

I would imagine Mr. Grusch was fed professional-grade disinformation, possibly in the form of faked data, documents, bogus witness accounts, etc.

Why? So that instead of casting a suspicious gaze toward the Pentagon, the media will become mired in the bottomless swamp of E.T. hypotheses, asking endless questions about space aliens, interdimensional beings, time travelers, crashed aliens, whether the Vatican knows and various “we are not alone” fantasies.

Sure, perhaps now that Grusch has vowed to reveal more of what he was told, we will get a better understanding of the disinformation products upon which he bases his claims. On the other hand, these specious materials might only take us further down the infinite and interconnected rabbit holes of E.T. fictions.

The biggest scandal here is that the Pentagon might have developed and is possibly even operating weapons that represent a quantum leap in propulsion technology, entirely without congressional oversight. Moreover, these weapons might be hiding in plain sight under the guise of E.T. visitations, shielded from Congress and the public through the Pentagon’s robust “black budget.”