The Federal Aviation Administration has responded to the drone (UFO/UAP) wave over New Jersey and New York by imposing a ban on citizen deployment of consumer drone technology.
“The FAA temporarily banned drone flights in 22 areas of New Jersey where critical infrastructure is located,” reports News Nation. “FAA officials said the flight restrictions were requested by federal security agencies and are effective through Jan. 17.”
While the “nothing to see here folks” caveats are all in place, with the usual reassurances that there has been “nothing so far to suggest that any drones have posed a national security or public safety threat,” it backs up its new, allegedly temporary, drone restrictions with alarming threats of force, warning “that ‘deadly force’ could be used against the drones if they pose an ‘imminent security threat,’ and that the government is using ‘drone busters’ to take down unauthorized flyers.”
News Nation’s Thursday report ends on the standard ambiguous note: “Speculation has raged online, with some expressing concerns that the drones could be part of a nefarious plot by foreign agents or clandestine operations by the U.S. government.
Pentagon spokesperson Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said it’s unlikely the drones are engaged in intelligence gathering, given how loud and bright they are. He reiterated this week that the drones being reported are not being operated by the U.S. Department of Defense.
Kellie Miller, “FAA bans drones in parts of New Jersey,” News Nation (December 19, 2024).
But of course this denial does not say anything about a corporate contractor running the mysterious drone swarms. In a just-updated report also from News Nation, we learn that “Lue [Luis] Elizondo, who led Pentagon investigations into unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs), aka UFOs, told NewsNation the public messaging surrounding the unexplained drones has been a ‘catastrophe.’”
This is a point Paul Jacob made in his December 12th commentary.
In yet another News Nation report, “U.S. Rep. Chris Smith says he is ‘disturbed’ more isn’t being done by federal officials to bring down even one of the mysterious drones flying over that state in order to get answers.
Smith, a Republican serving New Jersey’s Fourth District, told NewsNation he has been disappointed by the lack of transparency and effort put forth by the Biden administration to quell concerns about who is behind the drone flap.
“Why can’t they bring one of these down?” he asked. “Is our airspace so susceptible and so easily violated that we can’t go and say, ‘OK, here they are, let’s get at least one and find out … what’s the origin?”
Smith said many New Jersey residents have been “alarmed” by the flying objects, and all they want is answers and support to handle the air infestation.
Safia Samee Ali, “NJ rep. says it’s alarming Feds can’t bring down one drone,” News Nation (Updated December 21, 2024).
Two obvious thoughts occur to anyone with a suspicious mind, however: Why would we think the Government would tell us if they had shot one down? and Why would the Government shoot down one of its own in-dev military-industrial-complex devices?
Even more suspicious minds would no doubt go much further, wondering if the Drone Mystery is really just a new form of the near-century-old UFO Mystery — or even the Great Airship Mystery of 1896 – 97! Surely most suspicions do not go quite that far, though.