The Biden administration has at least admitted that mystery drones are flying at night over New Jersey and New York.
Yet it hasn’t explained why or who is operating them. A spokesman did say that more than 1 million drones are in the country, and that many fly legally every day. Officials are investigating.
True perhaps, but John Ferguson, the CEO of Saxon Unmanned, observed that the drones carry lighting required by the Federal Aviation Administration, and that the only reason for their night flights is to detect something on the ground.
That something, he said, might be “radioactive material.” He told the story about a missing Russian nuclear warhead.
Official Explanation: None
Though the drones were spotted a month ago, not until Sunday did Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas officially explain why the residents of New Jersey and New York see so many.
“In September of 2023, the Federal Aviation Administration, the FAA, changed the rules so that drones could fly at night,” he said on ABC’s This Week. “And that may be one of the reasons why now people are seeing more drones than they did before, especially from dawn to dusk.”
A day later White House National Security Communications chief John Kirby spoke with reporters.
Having closely examined the data, having closely looked at the tips and collated them as best we can from concerned citizens, 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. 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.
Kirby noted that flying drones at night is lawful.
Sniffing for a Nuke?
But Saxon Unmanned’s Ferguson divulged a more alarming reason for the flights.
Recalling the destruction of more than 2,500 nuclear warheads pursuant under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty signed by President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Ferguson said that more than 80 that were in then-Soviet Ukraine went missing.
“Nobody really knows where these are,” he said in a three-part TikTok video, and “I speak with some pretty high level government officials on this stuff.”
Ferguson claimed that he spoke to someone “a few months ago who was trying to raise an alarm at the highest levels of our government, which they had their ears closed, about his one particular warhead that he had physically put his hands on.”
He physically touched this warhead that was left over from Ukraine and he knew that that thing was headed towards the United States. Okay, that is a very serious deal. And everyone knows that the United States government, this administration, is pushing to get into a war with Russia. We all know that. We all feel it. We all see it. Well back up a few years. Do you all remember when those drones were mysteriously flying across the Interstate 70 corridor [in the Midwest]?…
Well, it was believed that those drones were looking for radioactive material [that] came up missing here in the United States.
Officials, he said, thought the material might move along the I-70 corridor, and so government officials used drones in the area to detect the material
Ferguson said drones have “no reason to be in the air at night” other than for intelligence surveillance or if they are searching for something. “There’s no reason for a drone to be flying at night … because they don’t see s***. So you know, unless you have thermal optics, drones really don’t see stuff.”
Ferguson returned to the nuclear warhead.
[Government officials] knew that warhead was on its way to the United States. That’s all that ever came of it. Nothing ever happened. The government did not do anything at all to help this gentleman raise the alarm and raise awareness that there is a very deadly weapon on its way to the United States. It’s out there. Nobody knows where it’s at now.… So my guess is that these drones are not nefarious in intent. If they are, they are. I doubt it. But if they are our drones, the only reason why they would be flying [at night] and flying that low is because they’re trying to smell something on the ground. That’s it.… [S]o my belief is they’re trying to smell something on the ground. Gas leaks, radioactive material.
In subsequent videos, Ferguson explained why the drones could not fly into the country from somewhere off the coast, and repeated that the drones are compliant with FAA night flight regulations.
Americans in the Dark
President-elect Donald Trump told reporters that the only people in the dark about the drones are Americans.
“The government knows what is happening,” Trump told reporters at Mar-A-Lago yesterday. “Look, our military knows where they took off from. If it’s a garage they can go right into that garage. They know where it came and where it went.”
“And or some reason they don’t want to comment, and I think they’d be better off saying what it is,” he continued:
Our military knows. Our president knows. And for some reason they want to keep people in suspense. I can’t imagine it’s the enemy, because if it was the enemy they’d blast it. Even if they were late, they’d blast it.
Something strange is going on, some and they don’t want to tell the people. And they should.
