Intel officials did not think that US cities were ready for drones
Are Drones Really Dead? The New Jersey Scenarios Are Killing Them, but the Ugly Case Is Wrong
Okay, I get it, we’re all sick of the drones. I went to two holiday parties over the weekend in the New Jersey suburbs, and it was all anyone wanted to talk about. The news coverage has been absolutely crazy.
The first memo of its type was obtained by Property of the People, a non profit organization focused on transparency and national security and which has been following the recent string of alleged drones on the East Coast.
Maybe that is the key lesson to be learned from this silliness. Do not listen to them. The official-sounding titles are congressman, mayor, and president. They are just like us. They don’t know shit, but they’re happy to pretend that they do. They look up in the sky and they see a few lights, and suddenly, they’re like one of those uncontacted Amazonian tribes that has never witnessed modern technology.
The New Jersey Drone hysteria exposes one salient truth: no one knows anything. Donald Trump tweets about the drone sightings
In other words, exactly what you would expect when you look up at night in a densely populated area in the year 2024. The answer that is most boring is the one that is most likely to be correct.
The FBI, Pentagon, Homeland Security, and FAA released a joint statement yesterday that essentially throws a bucket of cold water on all the speculation. Their assessment: “a combination of lawful commercial drones, hobbyist drones, and law enforcement drones, as well as manned fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and stars mistakenly reported as drones.”
First, he said he was canceling his trip to his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey, because drones were spotted there. The FAA has already implemented temporary flight restrictions prohibiting flights of drones over Bedminster and above the military installation of the same name. He claimed, without evidence, that the military knew where the drones “took off from.” And in a social media post, he urged people to “shoot them down!!!”
It kind of feels like President-elect Donald Trump is the only one having fun with the drone sightings. Trump is so crazy about something when he can spout inane bullshit about something that nobody can agree on what is real or not, that he is completely in his element.
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The NJ Drone hysteria exposes one salient truth: politicians are wrong. The case of the Port Newark nuclear threat
Melham is not technically wrong. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission did say some radioactive material went missing in a recent alert. The material is cancer screening equipment used to calibrate the machines used to read pictures of the brain. Not exactly the nuclear codes. The amount in question was unlikely to cause permanent injury.
Melham wondered what the people might be looking for. We’re aware of a threat that came into Port Newark. Maybe that’s radioactive material. There was, and there is, an alert that’s out right now that radioactive material in New Jersey has gone missing, on December 2nd.”
The Pentagon denied this, and Van Drew slammed them for treating us like fools and not releasing information about the drones. He widened the scope to include China and someone else, because he was concerned that his fear about Iran was not enough.
Literally one day later, he walked the whole thing back in a tersely worded statement. (No Fox News appearances for embarrassing mea culpas, I guess.) He admitted that his claim that the mothership was off the coast of the US was not true.
Source: The New Jersey drone hysteria exposes one salient truth: no one knows anything
The New Jersey Drone hysteria exposes one salient truth: no one knows anything: Andrew Cuomo had to raise the stakes
The hysteria over drones has been a great opportunity for politicians to get dirty. If he was still in office, you could picture ex-New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in some flight tower, wearing a parka and a headset, operating the radar equipment himself.
According to a community guidelines note appended to Hogan’s account, some of the lights he spotted were part of the constellation Orion. And the stars of the stars. At the very least he got some fresh air.
The opportunity to pass was not going to be wasted by the mayor. As the mayor of a small suburb that had a population of 35,000, he knew that he had to use his allotted five minutes on Fox 5 to get noticed and generate some content. He had to raise the stakes.
Source: The New Jersey drone hysteria exposes one salient truth: no one knows anything
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“I’m going to tell you the real deal. Iran launched a mothership that contains these drones,” Van Drew told Fox News. It is off the East Coast of the United States of America. They’ve launched drones.”
The majority of the encounters have taken place in New Jersey, where Jeff Van Drew is a congressman. A member of the House Judiciary Committee he is allowed to receive high-level security briefings. He should be aware of what’s happening! But alas, he does not, as evidenced by his completely factless musings about the drones coming from an “Iranian mothership” anchored off the Jersey Shore.
I found the best examples of leaders and officials spouting nonsense about the drones.
The people who have access to technology, equipment, and security clearances, the ones who hold subpoena power, and the ones who have a high level of authority are all the ones who should be aware of things. Actually, it’s worse than that: they think they know shit, and they are willing to confidently stand before the public and say as much, even when they actually don’t know shit.
Nobody knows anything. The police don’t know anything. The feds do not sound like they know anything. Everyone has a theory. Depending on where you fall on the DSM-5 spectrum, they could be a group of small planes, a full-on alien invasion of our nation, or a joke about the presidential election.
