#drones

After Latest Drone Revelations from Trump Administration, This Sure Smells Like Top Secret Pentagon Research and Development Activity

Well, per this article in the Asbury Park Press today (Jan. 29, 2025), the Trump administration has revealed those mystery drones over New Jersey had been authorized by the FAA for “research and various other reasons …”

https://www.app.com/story/news/local/new-jersey/2025/01/29/trump-drones-new-jersey-over-nj-faa/78005759007/

And do you know what this smells like to me?

Top secret Pentagon research and development involving testing and training for classified technologies.

This would explain why the FAA didn’t tell anyone the flights were authorized for research: perhaps the agency wasn’t permitted to divulge this because it was classified by the Pentagon.

Maybe that’s not what it was, but statements from the Trump administration seem to indicate that some of the flights were initially for some sort of official and authorized purpose.

Here are some of the most relevant bits from the Asbury Park Press article, bold and in brackets:

[That statement raised numerous questions about why the FAA did not tell the FBI and law enforcement officers that the flights had been authorized by them, or why the FAA did not acknowledge that they had authorized the drone flights.

“The drones that were flying over New Jersey in large numbers were authorized to be flown by FAA for research and various other reasons … this was not the enemy,” Trump said in a written statement read by Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt at the first press briefing of the new administration.

There was no further explanation as to what “research and various other reasons” the FAA had authorized.

When asked why the FAA never revealed it authorized the drones to fly for research purposes, FAA spokesman Christopher Mullooly on Tuesday referred the matter to the White House for its official statement. He added for background that the FAA’s role is to ensure drones operate safely within the broader National Airspace System and said it is legal to operate drones under 400 feet while complying with all rules, including avoiding restricted airspace and other aircraft.]

So, there you have it.

Yet further evidence that the UFOs we’ve been seeing for decades stem from Pentagon R&D, not E.T.

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.