Trump Administration Fails to Clarify Mystery "Drones" as Promised

On Tuesday, during the inaugural press briefing, White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, announced that the “drones” witnessed by many over the New Jersey skies and other places on the East Coast were just hobbyists and drone enthusiasts flying their drones: “After research and study, the drones that were flying over New Jersey in large numbers were authorized to be flown by the FAA for research and various other reasons. Many of the drones were also hobbyists, recreational, and private individuals that enjoy flying drones.” She said the fervor over the drones “got worse due to curiosity” and added, “This was not the enemy.”

Leavitt’s announcement fulfilled Trump’s promise during his campaign to get to the bottom of the mystery drones. While I applaud Trump for attempting to keep a campaign promise, the answer given to the American people was wholly inadequate for such a complex situation. In fact, it was such a facile and patently false answer that only the most gullible would have found it convincing. Anyone who had been keeping up with what the many witnesses described as flying in the skies above, the unique anomalies they exhibited, including the alarm that many local and congressional officials expressed at seeing them, knows these drones were not just ‘recreational hobbyists.’

Many of these so-called “drones” are as large as a car or SUV. How many civilians do you know that possess drones this size? Law enforcement was, in fact, cracking down on civilians who were trying to fly their personal drones in an attempt to get near the mystery drones. Are we really to believe that all or even most of these drones were being operated by private persons?

The drones are reported as going dark and quickly disappearing whenever military planes or law enforcement helicopters got near them. They were observed darting away at enormous rates of speed.

The drones are able to hover for extended periods of time, some for 5 or 6 hours. I know of no conventional drone that is able to do this.

Some of the drones were reported as changing their shape. Many of them produced no noise or sound. Others sounded similar to a plane, but not quite. Strangely, some of the drones seemed to be engaged in mimicry, as if they were trying to sound like a plane’s engine.

The drones are able to make unusually sharp turns and to shift their direction at angles that defy the ability of conventional aircraft.

Many of the drones are undetectable to radar.

The drones have been reported by many witnesses as coming from the ocean. The U.S. Coast Guard, in fact, reported that an incursion of drones followed one of its boats while it was out on patrol.

The drones are often accompanied by ‘orbs’ described as bright balls of energy. I’m not sure anyone really knows the precise nature of these things, but they have a long and documented history of being associated with UFOs.

The drones haven’t limited their activities to the United States, but a plethora of drone incursions have been seen at military bases in Britain and Germany.

Even though the drones are not as frequently reported in the news as they were three months earlier, they are still flying about in the skies throughout the East Coast. In other words, the mystery drones haven’t stopped!

The drone occurrences may be something new to a lot of Americans, but it’s not new to the Pentagon or those who know just how frequently these kinds of events have occurred in the past. In December of 2022 at Langley Air Force Base (Virginia), a flurry of drone activity occurred for several days, and the following year at the same base, an incursion of unauthorized drones flew over the base for 17 days straight! Fighter jets were dispatched to confront the drones, but they quickly darted from the scene.

The same sort of activity occurred repeatedly in the 1980s in the lower part of New York State, an area known as the Hudson Valley. Some of the sightings also occurred in Connecticut and northern New Jersey. Numerous eyewitnesses reported seeing triangular and boomerang-shaped craft that would slowly fly over, seemingly unconcerned that hundreds of people over many nights were witnessing them. And these were not small or SUV-sized drones, but craft that were football-field-sized. One boomerang-shaped craft that was observed flying over the Indian Point Nuclear Facility in 1984 was described as the size of three football fields!

Many of these triangular crafts were reported as having extremely bright lights, and some even had red, blue and green lights. This is important to note because some witnesses of the New Jersey drones report them as having these same-colored lights. This has led some people to believe the drones are ours, as belonging to our military. But strange craft seen in the skies displaying different colored lights is something that’s been observed for many decades.

These unusual flyovers that were seen in the Hudson Valley during the 1980s are very similar to the ‘Phoenix Lights’ incident that occurred in 1997 when a massive triangle-shaped UFO flew slowly over the city. It was witnessed by hundreds if not thousands of residents. This suggests that what we are seeing on the East Coast at our military bases may be the same kind of phenomena. The similarities seem more than coincidental, and this likely explains why the military is not all too worried about it because they’ve seen it all before.

The government, then, knows precisely what these “drones” are, but they choose to do nothing about it for at least four reasons:

(1) There’s a long history of this same kind of phenomena occurring at numerous Air Force bases and nuclear facilities since the 1940s. In each of these incidents, the phenomena proved to be benign, with little happening that genuinely threatened national security or exposed military technology to our enemies.

Drone incursions, strange orbs in the night skies, objects that come out of the ocean and later return to the ocean, and UAPs that take on weird shapes, have been observed so many times by our military that they are no longer alarmed by them. Sure, individual military personnel may be shocked to discover that anomalous objects are flying around our most sensitive facilities, but those at the highest levels know precisely what they are dealing with.

(2) The U.S. military has apparently tried on prior occasions to shoot down the drones or UAPs with no real success - although in fairness, this is disputed by some UFO investigators who believe we have downed a few of them. Even if the military could take out the drones by employing missiles or through other means, it would likely result in numerous civilian casualties. This is not something either the prior Biden administration or the current Trump administration would want to deal with, particularly when the drones have not exhibited any threat to our government nor to its citizens.

(3) Trump was likely advised to stick with the explanation that the drones are merely recreational and private hobbyists instead of declaring what they actually are. If Trump or any U.S. president were to do this, it would throw open Pandora’s Box and invite many uncomfortable questions. It would open a can of worms and probably unsettle much of the nation. This is, admittedly, understandable on their part although most of us would prefer greater transparency on these matters.

Moreover, the Pentagon would not be pleased to concede that strange objects are flying around in restricted U.S. airspace with impunity. Many Americans would feel unsafe knowing that their bloated and amply funded military is helpless to stop the drones from entering our airspace and doing whatever they wish.

(4) Although I wouldn’t rule it out completely, it does not appear that the so-called “drones” are advanced U.S. military technology. The Pentagon, in fact, has double-downed in declaring that the drones seen throughout the East Coast are not military assets. According to Fox News: “The Department of Defense (DOD) doubled down on Tuesday, saying the increasing number of possible drones being reported in places like New Jersey and New York are not U.S. military assets, adding that the vast majority of the unmanned aircraft are likely used by hobbyists for recreational purposes. Pentagon press secretary, Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder fielded numerous questions from reporters about the drones during a press briefing on Tuesday, but he remained clear that the drones are not DOD assets nor are they part of any experimental programs . . . Fox News’ Jennifer Griffin asked Ryder if the drones being seen in New Jersey were possibly in part of a corridor created a year ago specifically for testing and evaluating drones and unmanned systems. Ryder said he checked with the Joint Staff to see if that was possible and was told the drones were not U.S. military assets nor were they part of any military or experimental operations in the corridor” (‘Department of Defense Doubles Down, Says Drones Are Not US Military Assets,’ by Greg Wehner, 12/17/2024).

This is not to say that our military does not possess very advanced drones and other forms of sophisticated technology that seems to be other worldly, but only that the current phenomena related to the New Jersey drones appears to be a form of non-human intelligence, something that does not originate from the human mind or human hands.

Again, if the drones are U.S. military technology, why are they being flown in the pathway of numerous airports with the real potential of colliding into civilian airliners? Is this the sort of activity the FAA has approved “for research and various other reasons” according to Karoline Leavitt?

Numerous airports have had to be temporarily closed because the drones were zipping about in restricted airspaces, such as New York’s Stewart International Airport, Boston’s Logan International Airport, including the U.S. Air Force base at Ramstein in Germany. What sense does it make to fly these drones at high-traffic airports? And why fly these advanced drones out in the open for all to see, including our enemies? If all of what is occurring on the East Coast is a display of U.S. military might and technology, why does it baffle so many people in congress and among those in other governmental entities?

I don’t pretend to know with any certainty what these “drones” are, but it does appear that there’s a lot more going on than just civilian hobbyists trying out their new and improved craft. At every point when the government had opportunity to clarify the drone fiasco, they failed to do so. Instead, they gave us simplistic and childish answers, or often no answer at all. Officials at the Pentagon seemed embarrassed by the entire matter, and they have largely kept the nation in the dark. Trump, likewise, has failed to provide a carefully reasoned explanation for what we are witnessing. In this respect, he has been no different than Biden and his administration.