Quote:There are some very irate Coast Guardsmen down in Barnegat Light, New Jersey.
Federal officials have shrugged off accounts from U.S. Coast Guard members that their 47-foot-long rescue vessel was trailed by a fleet of 12 to 30 drones while patrolling the Atlantic Ocean earlier this month — and that’s not sitting well with the sailors who witnessed the mystery swarm.
“It’s the implication that’s insulting,” said the Coast Guard member, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “It’s implying we’re making sh-t up, when the ones making up sh-t are down in Washington, D.C.”
The sailor spoke to The Post days after the FAA imposed temporary flight restrictions over parts of New Jersey and New York. He said he was one of the 12 crewmembers on the boat that night.
“We were actually out there to see if we could spot any drones, because of all these sightings,” he explained. “Well, we found some drones. Or more accurately, they found us.”
The drones “appeared out of nowhere” at about 9 p.m., and followed the boat for approximately 15 minutes, he said. When the vessel shifted course, so too did the drones.
“I’m terrible with measurements, but [the swarm] was about 80 to 100 feet above us. They had four propellers. Seven feet across. The flashing lights, like you’ve seen. The festive green, red, and white lights.”
The drone swarm kept pace with the Department of Homeland Security vessel, which was cruising at “around 20 knots, which is just over 20 miles an hour.”
The Guardian said the drones eventually climbed “maybe another 100 feet” and then “banked left, towards the shoreline” and out of sight.
“Commercial airplanes don’t move like that,” he said. “I’ve been out there [on the water] when planes were coming in for landings in New York, and trust me, you can tell the difference. We’re not idiots, we know what drones look and sound like.”
White House spokesman John Kirby recently dismissed the Coast Guard’s account of being followed by the gaggle of unmanned drones.
Kirby told reporters Monday that the drones hovering over the Garden State are a “combination” of personal, professional, and governmental aircraft.
“We assess that the sightings to date include a combination of lawful commercial drones, hobbyist drones, and law enforcement drones, as well as manned fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters and even stars that were mistakenly reported as drones,” Kirby said.
“We have not identified anything anomalous or any national security or public safety risk over the civilian airspace in New Jersey or other states in the Northeast. The work continues,” Kirby went on.
Kirby said the Coast Guard likely mistook incoming airliners for drones and said the government confirmed forensically the encounter did not involve drones.
“Right,” the Guardsman told The Post. “I can’t pretend to know what’s going on [with the drone activity over the area], because I don’t. But they weren’t the types of drones you can buy at the store. These were government drones.”
“I don’t care what Kirby or [DHS head Alejandro] Mayorkas say,” he added, “they’re full of sh-t.”
Their orders were to observe, not interact with any drones, he noted.
“But if [the drone swarm] fired at us or engaged us in any way, we would’ve fired back,” he said.
U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) speaks as Policy and Advocacy Coordinator of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong (CFHK) Foundation Frances Hui listens during a news conference in response of sentencing ruling in the Hong Kong 47 case November 19, 2024.
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Federal authorities have faced backlash from local officials, including Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) (above) for the lack of a concrete explanation for the sudden phenomenon.
Simultaneously, federal officials have long maintained that drones pose no threat to national security.
More than 1,000 drones have been spotted above New Jersey since Nov. 18, with dozens of others reported in New York’s airspace.
RE: Unknown "Drones" Over New Jersey/Military Sites
Someone posted four lights like the ones here. I didn't see the date it happened but it's odd that last night at 2:45 am the lights in our house went off and the surrounding neighborhood. My wife jumped when the CO2 detector shrilled and then everything went dead. I checked outside and every light in the neighborhood and surrounding area was out. I told my wife to go back to sleep as there wasn't a thing we could do. I don't even know when they came back on except I had to reset all the clocks in the house. It's back to normal now.
RE: Unknown "Drones" Over New Jersey/Military Sites
(12-26-2024 01:53 PM)olliebaba Wrote: Someone posted four lights like the ones here. I didn't see the date it happened but it's odd that last night at 2:45 am the lights in our house went off and the surrounding neighborhood. My wife jumped when the CO2 detector shrilled and then everything went dead. I checked outside and every light in the neighborhood and surrounding area was out. I told my wife to go back to sleep as there wasn't a thing we could do. I don't even know when they came back on except I had to reset all the clocks in the house. It's back to normal now.
RE: Unknown "Drones" Over New Jersey/Military Sites
(12-26-2024 01:56 PM)stinkfist Wrote:
(12-26-2024 01:53 PM)olliebaba Wrote: Someone posted four lights like the ones here. I didn't see the date it happened but it's odd that last night at 2:45 am the lights in our house went off and the surrounding neighborhood. My wife jumped when the CO2 detector shrilled and then everything went dead. I checked outside and every light in the neighborhood and surrounding area was out. I told my wife to go back to sleep as there wasn't a thing we could do. I don't even know when they came back on except I had to reset all the clocks in the house. It's back to normal now.
I'll take a solar maximum and any coronal mass ejections all day any day over the imbecilic maximum we have suffered these past 4 years, and over the illegal mass injection we have been enduring during that same interval.
Now if a CME wipes out DC prior to January 20th it will be the smoothest transition ever!
Quote:In recent weeks, numerous reports of mysterious drone sightings have emerged across New Jersey and other East Coast states, causing public concern and prompting federal investigations.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has responded by imposing temporary flight restrictions over critical infrastructure in New Jersey, effective until January 17, 2025, threatening “deadly force” against aircraft violating the zones if they pose an “imminent security threat.”
Despite these measures, federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), have stated that the majority of these sightings involve lawful drone operations or misidentified manned aircraft.
They assert that there is no credible evidence suggesting a threat to national security or public safety.
Mike Glover, a former drone operator for both defense research lab DARPA and the US military, has warned that the recent wave of mysterious drone sightings over the U.S. could be part of a larger, more sinister agenda.
“In my career, I flew drones, a lot of drones. Almost every drone in the inventory, I was qualified to fly. I taught people how to fly the drones, and I worked a couple of special programs with DARPA on flying drones for Task Force… If a foreign adversary was doing a covert up to surveil, they’re not going to have flashing and illuminating lights,” Glover said during an interview with former Navy SEAL Andy Stumpf on Ironclad.
The broader concern voiced by Glover and others is the potential that these drone sightings are being used as a media diversion. Glover suggested that the intense focus on drones might be concealing other critical issues, such as growing tensions in the Middle East or covert military operations in Syria.
Glover: The concerning component to me is how much the national legacy corporate media—I want to cover all those bases because they deserve all those titlings. There’s always an agenda, and they have only a certain segment of time to be able to put out information. And most of that is propaganda. It happens to be propaganda. It’s one of the reasons why me and you had conversations about starting this show: to get to the ground truth and not tell people how to think, but explore opinions and options other than the narrative.
On the narrative, everybody across the board is talking the same outrage. Like, what is going on here? What is this? Congressional hearings, all this outrage about a particular story that’s covered the headlines and taken up all the time blocks. The first thing I asked myself is, what are we not talking about?
And then I looked a little bit into it and some of the elements—for example, Iran, which is apparently a couple of weeks from getting a nuclear bomb. And so in that window, under the Biden administration, with an interview I saw with John Kirby, it was like, are you guys going to allow that to happen?
They’re like, absolutely. That will not happen under our watch. You still got a month and some change.
So, if that’s the case and there’s a potential strike that’s going to take place, and that should be the headline, and we don’t want to telegraph that, then maybe the national media across the board, from production notes disseminated through email, however that works, is pushing this narrative and this story to distract from what actually is going to happen here in the near future.
I mean, what’s not been in the headlines is the strikes we’ve done in Syria against ISIS. Almost every night, we’ve been striking them in the desert. What’s not in the headlines is Al-Baghdadi’s, one of his guys creates this terrorist organization and then takes over the entire country of Syria…
So, I just hear all this and I’m like, we’re being distracted from something. Maybe it’s deliberate, maybe it’s not, but it seems like it is because it’s distracting.
(This post was last modified: 12-26-2024 04:02 PM by CrimsonPhantom.)
RE: Unknown "Drones" Over New Jersey/Military Sites
(12-26-2024 02:07 PM)JRsec Wrote:
(12-26-2024 01:56 PM)stinkfist Wrote:
(12-26-2024 01:53 PM)olliebaba Wrote: Someone posted four lights like the ones here. I didn't see the date it happened but it's odd that last night at 2:45 am the lights in our house went off and the surrounding neighborhood. My wife jumped when the CO2 detector shrilled and then everything went dead. I checked outside and every light in the neighborhood and surrounding area was out. I told my wife to go back to sleep as there wasn't a thing we could do. I don't even know when they came back on except I had to reset all the clocks in the house. It's back to normal now.
I'll take a solar maximum and any coronal mass ejections all day any day over the imbecilic maximum we have suffered these past 4 years, and over the illegal mass injection we have been enduring during that same interval.
Now if a CME wipes out DC prior to January 20th it will be the smoothest transition ever!
only the fool puts too much faith in technology...place your faith in God.....
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