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When it comes to the mysterious drones — said to be the size of SUVs — that have been causing a stir in New Jersey and leaving residents nervous, experts say there are only a few possible explanations:
1. A foreign rival – possibly Iran, Russia or China – is launching them from bodies of water in the Atlantic Ocean or New Jersey.
2. A private company like Amazon is testing delivery drones — and has no obligation to report experiments to local authorities.
3. A truck driver from Oxford, NJ, told The Post that crazy hobbyists and/or copycats are trolling the state and the media by repeatedly blowing up the vehicles — one of which had a wingspan “the size of a 747.”
4. The US government is behind strange drone sightings, and it’s lying to everyone that it doesn’t know what they are.
5. Or we’re all imagining it – at least according to the White House national security communications advisor John Kirby said Thursday,
Kirby said, “Upon reviewing the available imagery, it appears that many of the reported sightings are actually manned aircraft being operated legitimately.”
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military? ‘Then someone should be fired’
However, what is particularly unusual is that the drones are apparently able to evade conventional methods of detection, leading both military officials and UAP experts on drones to say that they can Create a danger to the public.
That’s not good enough, says Brett Velikovich, a former U.S. Army special operations intelligence analyst and Delta Force veteran who specializes in drones, drone warfare and counterterrorism.
Velikovich said that when he was in the military, he tested drones across the US, but always coordinated with local law enforcement so there was no confusion.
“If the U.S. government is behind this, someone should be fired,” Velikovich told The Post on Thursday. “The whole point is that you don’t want to create public hysteria. You have to wonder if someone is taking advantage of the security gap between the Biden and Trump administrations right now.
Velicovich said it is illogical for anyone in our government to test a drone over northern New Jersey.
“There’s a reason why (classified Nevada airport) Area 51 tests missiles and spy planes — because it’s nowhere in a controlled environment,” Velikovich said.
It’s very much like a mystery from the past…
Congressional hearings on the mystery ended Tuesday with FBI officials throwing their hands in the air and claiming they knew nothing — in an echo of a a strange case Bizarre drone formations plagued northeastern Colorado and western Nebraska between December 2019 and January 2020.
Eyewitnesses at the time said the drones flew in groups of 19 in grid formations and appeared between 6 and 10 pm. The Federal Aviation Administration, the FBI, and local law enforcement investigated the sighting, but to this day, there is no word on what happened.
“Nobody ever objected to it,” Vic Moss, CEO of the Lakewood, Colorado-based Drone Service Providers Alliance and an FAA consultant, told The Post. “There’s definitely something going on but they haven’t solved the mystery here, that’s for sure.”
Big drones have been seen hovering here The night sky in Jersey for weeksBaffling residents with mysterious chains of flashing lights and seemingly aimless movements.
Sometimes several objects have been seen flying in a formation, and they have started Visible in parts of New YorkWhich also includes Staten Island and South Brooklyn.
The first sightings began to be reported on November 18, and have continued every night since then – often over features such as the Picatinny Arsenal military base in Northwest New Jersey, as well as reservoirs and train stations.
Ron Nussbaum, 35, of Oxford, N.J., in Warren County, told The Post he saw a drone-like aircraft “with the wingspan of a 747 jet” Saturday night — one of hundreds of sightings reported by New Jersey residents. Last few weeks.
“There were two white flashing lights on both wings and it did a hairpin turn at a 90-degree angle and basically stopped as it turned,” Nussbaum said. “Other drones we’ve seen were the size of an SUV, some made noise, some had no noise at all. I have had at least 100 drone sightings at Merrill Creek Reservoir alone and most drone sightings occur between 6 and 10 at night.
Nussbaum said he’s more curious than scared and admitted that he and his friends are now “drone-hunting” whenever possible.
“Everyone you meet has seen something, and many people are concerned. We want answers. The government saying they don’t know what it is doesn’t reassure us. We will continue to seek the truth.”
New ‘drone army’
But Velikovich is concerned that these apparent drones are appearing in New Jersey at a time like this Advanced drone war between Russia and Ukraine Overtaking regular types of weapons and warfare.
The so-called “kamikaze” drones used by Russia against Ukraine are equipped with explosives in the warhead on their noses and are designed to hover over a target until instructed to attack.
The Shaheed-136 has a wingspan of about 8.2 feet and can be difficult to detect on radar. Russian Orlan-10 drones – stealth craft that fly in packs of three to five – sound similar to some of the drones seen over New Jersey.
Ukraine spent 550 million dollars on its part “Drone Army” 2023 will include so-called suicide drones that can easily attack enemy soldiers or civilians.
“I go to Ukraine all the time and their battlefield technology is years ahead of ours,” Velikovich said. “If it is indeed a foreign adversary that is doing this then they are also showing the whole world how weak America is. I’ve thought for years that there could be a catastrophic event involving drones, yet our entire anti-drone technology budget is $500,000. Are they out of their minds?”
Only last month, several unidentified drones were seen over three US Air Force bases in Britain. According to CNNUS officials are still investigating the origin of the drones – but tell CNN they do not appear to be craft operated by hobbyists. Dozens of drones last year Seen flying over Langley Air Force Base in Virginia,
Could it be Iran or China?
US Representative Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) has doubled down on his belief that drones are being launched into the sea by an Iranian “mothership” – even though the Pentagon strongly denied this Wednesday.
“They have been incredibly stupid and incredibly weak in this case,” Van Drew said Thursday.
“We know they are not the backyard drones that some hobbyists are using because they are much more sophisticated than that. We know they are not a commercial company within the United States because we don’t even have this level of sophistication yet. We are a full decade behind where China is in terms of drones. The government claims that it is not them. They say it’s not them, so who is it?”
Iranian American drones shot down in 2011 and 2019 And has openly stated that he has reverse engineered them to create his own.
China is also a possible culprit. In addition to the Chinese spy balloon floating across the US for three weeks in 2023, Yinpiao Zhou, a Chinese national, was arrested by the federal government this week for flying a drone and taking photos of Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Zhou was caught just before boarding a flight to China.
Or is it a UFO?
John Greenwald, a respected UFO and UAP expert who has run black vault Archived over the years, says the New Jersey drone mystery is being incorporated into the UFO world online – but it shouldn’t be.
“This is something that looks like advanced Earth-based technology that represents a dangerous security threat to the U.S. mainland,” Greenwald told The Post.
“We’re not talking about some other world here, like aliens in the pop-culture sense. The bottom line is that the FBI has no answers based on this week’s hearing – and you would think that if something was happening on our soil in the US we would know about it. Yesterday showed that we don’t do that. Imagine how we view the rest of the world.”
Additional reporting by Matt McDermott
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