1 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:07,480 Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning. 2 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:11,360 In this episode we're talking about El Paso drones and UF OS. 3 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:14,840 That's correct, El Paso drones and UF OS. 4 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:18,880 And I bring up UF OS because as far as I found so far, they 5 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:22,360 haven't actually shown us any of the drones that were supposedly 6 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:24,920 brought down. A lot of crazy stuff going on 7 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:30,120 down there in El Paso with what the current administration is 8 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:35,200 describing as a drone invasion from the cartel. 9 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:38,720 Now, this seems crazy to me. I don't know why they would even 10 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:40,960 do that. And if they did, you would think 11 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:44,400 that the Department of War would have gone down there and taken 12 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:46,480 care of business. But I guess this is one of these 13 00:00:46,480 --> 00:00:48,320 stories that we're just following kind of as it goes 14 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:50,320 along. Couple different weird things 15 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:52,200 coming out here. The first articles from 16 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:58,440 apnews.com says live updates Pentagon FAA dispute over lasers 17 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:03,960 to thwart cartel drones led to airspace closure, AP sources say 18 00:01:04,519 --> 00:01:08,680 this article just came out February 11th 1:42 PM edited by 19 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:13,040 Bridget Brown, Sal Crist, Curtis Yee and Lisa Payne. 20 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:15,720 So and they got a bunch of the writers on this one. 21 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:19,600 The sudden and surprising airspace closure over El Paso, 22 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:25,040 TX, stem from the Pentagon's plan to test a laser for use and 23 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:29,280 shooting down drones used by Mexican drug cartels, according 24 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:32,160 to three people familiar with the situation who were granted 25 00:01:32,320 --> 00:01:34,640 anonymity to share sensitive details. 26 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:38,360 So for what it's worth, we don't have any names attached to this. 27 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:40,160 We just have more anonymous sources. 28 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:43,560 Don't really care for that. That caused friction with the 29 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:46,280 Federal Aviation Administration, which wanted to ensure 30 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:50,520 commercial air safety, and two agencies sought to coordinate, 31 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:54,520 according to two of the people. Despite a meeting scheduled 32 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:58,120 later this month to discuss the issue, the Pentagon wanted to go 33 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:03,000 ahead and test it, prompting the FAA to shutter the airspace. 34 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:08,160 It was not clear whether the laser was ultimately deployed. 35 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:10,440 Now we're going to hear a different take on this in a, in 36 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:13,280 a couple minutes here. So you have the Department of 37 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:16,600 War saying, hey, we need to shoot these drones down with 38 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:19,360 lasers. And you have the FAA saying, no, 39 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:22,120 you can't do that because you've got passengers full of planes up 40 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:24,200 there. A little different, a little 41 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:26,440 different reaction to what we saw here a couple years ago when 42 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:28,160 these things were flying over the East Coast. 43 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:32,040 Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said earlier that the 44 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:34,600 response by the Defense Department, see, they're still 45 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:36,920 refusing them to call the Department of War. 46 00:02:36,920 --> 00:02:39,880 So that kind of gives you an idea of the slant here from AP 47 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:44,840 and the FAA to neutralize an incursion by Mexican cartel 48 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:47,520 drones had led to the airspace closure. 49 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:51,520 Gun incursions are not uncommon along the US Mexico border. 50 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:54,480 Officials at the White House, FAA and Department of 51 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:57,800 Transportation did not respond immediately to a request to 52 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:01,240 comment on the dispute. The Pentagon said it had nothing 53 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:04,520 to add to its statement That largely mirrored Duffy's 54 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:08,280 comment. The FAA had originally announced 55 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:12,080 A10 day closure of the airspace, confusing travelers at the 56 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:16,440 airport in the border city with a population of nearly 700,000 57 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:19,440 people. The order was lifted a few hours 58 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:22,760 later. No Mexican airspace was closed. 59 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:26,800 More, more confusion, man. I mean, you got a, you've got a 60 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:30,560 population base with 700,000 people and all of a sudden 61 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:33,240 they're told they can't travel. I mean, come on. 62 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:38,440 Representative Ronica Escobar, a Democrat whose district includes 63 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:42,800 El Paso, said neither her office, the city of El Paso nor 64 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:46,080 airport operations received advance notice over the closure. 65 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:51,360 She asserted that the shutdown was not caused by a drone in US 66 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:54,400 airspace, saying that that is not what we in Congress have 67 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:57,560 been told. Mexican cartels have long used 68 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:01,120 drones to traffic drugs, control migrant crossings along the 69 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:05,000 border and wage war with rival cartels and authorities. 70 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:08,800 Mexico first issued an international alert about the 71 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:12,040 use of remote controlled aircraft in 2010, and their 72 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:15,120 practice has only continued to expand. 73 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:19,760 Nice. It's just like the last time we 74 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:22,760 have reports of these drones and then we have confusion. 75 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:25,560 And this time it seems like the Department of Defense has tried 76 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:28,640 to step in and say, hey, we're going to knock these things out 77 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:31,560 of the sky. But once again, you have the FAA 78 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:35,120 stepping up and saying no, you can't do that. 79 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:37,680 You really have to wonder what the heck's going on here? 80 00:04:37,840 --> 00:04:40,920 Are these things UFOs or drones like they claim they are? 81 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:46,040 Now this next article that I found, I'm not sure if this is 82 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:50,000 actually the truth because I haven't seen the damage, you 83 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,440 know, from the wreckage that was supposedly shot down yet. 84 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:56,160 Maybe it's a cover story, I don't know, but it's 85 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:58,160 interesting. I found this over at 86 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:05,240 thedailymail.cu.uk title says Trump administration shoots down 87 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:09,280 party balloon with laser after mistaking it for a cartel drone 88 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:13,920 and El Paso airspace chaos. Now you kind of get the flavor 89 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:16,320 for this. I don't think they're trying to 90 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:18,320 put the Trump administration in a very good light here. 91 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:20,800 They're just trying to come off as though these guys don't know 92 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:23,040 what they're doing. I think these guys know a lot 93 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:24,720 more about what's going on than we're being told. 94 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:26,600 Now. This is written by Stacey 95 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:31,400 Livitor says and the published, and this is February 11th, 2026, 96 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:34,720 the Trump administration announced it had taken down a 97 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:39,280 Mexican cartel drone flying into US airspace, only to confirm 98 00:05:39,280 --> 00:05:42,640 hours later that the object was nothing more than a party 99 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:45,560 balloon. Well, this is the sort of thing 100 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:47,920 we run into all the time. Remember under the Biden 101 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:51,760 administration when they took out those three UFOs up there in 102 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:55,880 Alaska, Yukon and Michigan, and then we kept getting these 103 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:57,600 changing stories about the whole thing. 104 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:03,360 The chaos began when anti drone technology was deployed near the 105 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:06,320 southern border to target what officials initially believed 106 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:10,320 were foreign drones. The object was later identified 107 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:12,520 as a party balloon, according to sources. 108 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:16,360 At least one was shot down. Multiple sources said the 109 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:19,840 incident forced the Federal Aviation Administration to 110 00:06:19,840 --> 00:06:24,200 initially shut down El Paso airspace, which spans 2 border 111 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:28,280 states, for 10 days. On Tuesday night, FAA 112 00:06:28,280 --> 00:06:32,280 Administrator Brian Bedford moved to close the airspace 113 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:36,600 without alerting the White House, the Pentagon or Homeland 114 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:40,320 Security officials, sources told CBS. 115 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:43,040 It's like the left hand doesn't know what the right hand's 116 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:45,120 doing. So for all these people that 117 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:48,400 claim that Trump is some kind of a dictator, I don't know how he 118 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:52,120 could be a dictator when 80% of the people working for him were 119 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:55,560 hired by somebody at administration that hated him. 120 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:57,480 So you just see what's going on here. 121 00:06:57,480 --> 00:07:01,640 It's just almost like chaos. Hours later, the agency lifted 122 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:05,360 the ban, noting that there was no ongoing threat to commercial 123 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:08,240 travel. However, the White House stated 124 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:12,680 on Wednesday saying Mexican cartel drones breached US 125 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:16,480 airspace. The Department of Defense took 126 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:22,160 action to disable those drones. OK, can we see one of the drones 127 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:24,000 that were shot down? That would be interesting. 128 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:27,680 Now you should keep in mind here that we have Briggs Army 129 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:32,200 Airfield, which is just north of El Paso International Airport. 130 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:36,400 Why would the Mexican cartel be flying drones over there? 131 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:38,360 Wouldn't that seem counterproductive? 132 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:45,240 The FAA order announced at 11:30 PM on Tuesday covered 10 mile 133 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:49,440 wide area roughly 5 miles southwest of Texas City from the 134 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:54,240 ground up to 18,000 feet. So apparently the FAA guy 135 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:59,000 thought that he had the authority to close down Biggs 136 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,720 Army Airfield Base, and it sounds like he found out 137 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:04,880 otherwise. El Paso Airport describes itself 138 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:08,960 as the gateway to West TX, southern New Mexico and northern 139 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:11,520 Mexico. Southwest, United, American and 140 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:14,280 Delta all operate flights from there, among others. 141 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:19,040 Pilots who failed to follow the restriction were threatened with 142 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:22,560 questioning or detainment by law enforcement or security 143 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:25,840 personnel. Almost like they're operating 144 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:28,040 under the cover of law here. This is strange. 145 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:32,200 The last time US airspace was shut down for national security 146 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:36,200 was after 911. The FAA also temporarily closed 147 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:39,760 airspace over New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, but 148 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:43,480 that was due to storm damage. Unlike previous restrictions, 149 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:48,880 the El Paso closure blocked all flights over the city, including 150 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:53,440 police and medical helicopters. It is a move rarely, if ever, 151 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:58,280 seen in modern US aviation. So you tell me what's going on 152 00:08:58,280 --> 00:08:59,360 here? Is this guy just doing this 153 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:01,800 because he's overreacting to the Department of War? 154 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:05,880 Is this some kind of power play or are we looking at something a 155 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:09,600 little bit more serious than drone activity? 156 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:15,000 A spokesman for El Paso Airport said the FAA on short notice 157 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:19,320 issued a temporary flight restriction halting flights to 158 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:22,080 and from El Paso. Now, think about this. 159 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:27,320 The FAA, you know, they don't seem to care about dozens of 160 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:30,360 balloons, weather balloons and research balloons that are 161 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:34,600 released every single day of the week that fly up there at the 162 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:37,480 same altitude as commercial airplanes do. 163 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:39,840 Nobody seems to already track these things. 164 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:42,840 It's just like, OK, well, no big deal. 165 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:44,800 It's just another balloon flying by the airplane. 166 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:47,920 No one cares about that. But all of a sudden we're 167 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:50,640 worried about these drones. We have to shut down this entire 168 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:52,720 region. Come on. 169 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:56,400 Commercial airlines operating out of El Paso are being 170 00:09:56,400 --> 00:09:59,920 informed of the restriction, which appears to be security 171 00:09:59,920 --> 00:10:02,160 related. Another one of these kind of 172 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:07,000 kind of dubious terms. El Paso International Airport 173 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:10,960 handled more than 4 million travelers in 2024, the most 174 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:14,160 recent year for which statistics are available. 175 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:18,680 Major airlines including Southwest, United, American and 176 00:10:18,680 --> 00:10:22,440 Delta operate flights at the airports and nearby U.S. 177 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:26,560 Army base Fort Bliss sits less than 3 miles away. 178 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:31,760 At the direction of the FAA, Southwest has temporarily paused 179 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:33,400 all operations to and from El Paso. 180 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:37,120 The airline said it had notified affected passengers and will 181 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:40,480 share data and will share updates as more information 182 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:43,680 becomes available. Nothing is more important to 183 00:10:43,680 --> 00:10:45,960 Southwest than the safety of its customers and employees, the 184 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:48,480 spokesman said. United Airlines announced that 185 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:52,720 travelers with flights to or from El Paso during the airspace 186 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:58,240 shutdown can adjust their plans without incurring change fees or 187 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:01,800 fare distances. The waiver applies to new 188 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:05,960 flights booked between February 21st and February 28th, the 189 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:08,840 company confirmed. Veronica Escobar, A 190 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:13,160 congresswoman who represents El Paso, said the FAA's move to 191 00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:17,560 shut down the Apasa airport for 10 days was unprecedented. 192 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:21,120 I can't guess that's correct from what my office and I have 193 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:24,200 been able to gather overnight and early this morning. 194 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:26,920 There's no immediate threat to the community or surrounding 195 00:11:26,920 --> 00:11:30,880 areas, she said in a statement. We have urged the FAA to lift 196 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:33,680 the temporary flight restriction placed on the El Paso area. 197 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:36,920 I will continue to make information public as I learn 198 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:39,960 it. El Paso, a border city with a 199 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:44,800 population of nearly 700,000 and larger one including the 200 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:47,920 surrounding metro area, is a hub of cross-border commerce with 201 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:52,440 neighboring Ciudad Juarez in Mexico. 202 00:11:52,760 --> 00:11:55,320 The flight restrictions did not affect the Mexican airspace, 203 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:57,600 where planes are flying above 18,000 feet. 204 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:01,120 The latest commercial flight to land before the shutdown was in 205 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:05,640 American Airlines from Chicago, which touched down at 10:57 PM, 206 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:09,200 according to NBC News. A private plane from Everett, 207 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:12,160 WA, is scheduled to arrive at 1:13 AM. 208 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:16,200 Wednesday was diverted to the smaller Acrucis International 209 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:19,920 Airport. El Paso City Council member 210 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:23,720 Chris Canales said local officials were not given any 211 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:25,280 advance notice of the restriction. 212 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:28,320 What's especially troubling is that there appears to have been 213 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:31,240 no advance notice to local government, airport leadership 214 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:35,240 or even local air traffic control or local military 215 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:38,200 leadership, he added. Grounding all flights for 10 216 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:42,120 days would have cost the city millions of dollars, he said. 217 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:46,280 Well, either there's something that happened there that they're 218 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:51,240 not telling us, or this is just another example of bureaucratic 219 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:54,000 overreach. And it just goes to show you how 220 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:58,160 these bureaucrats can negatively affect your life. 221 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:03,040 If you're down there in El Paso and you're looking to take a 222 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:07,040 flight home or you need a ride on a medevac and some bureaucrat 223 00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:10,640 with the FAA decides that he doesn't like Pete Higgseth. 224 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:13,680 He doesn't like the idea of these drones being shot down, 225 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:17,080 then all of a sudden he can just put a big giant wrench in your 226 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:20,400 day. Or maybe something's happened 227 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:21,920 that they aren't telling us about. 228 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:25,920 Either way, I don't think that the FAA has a long history of 229 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:31,560 being open and transparent based on their decades long denial of 230 00:13:31,560 --> 00:13:35,280 UFOs and the way they handle that whole subject. 231 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:38,560 We do have another article explained that they have 232 00:13:38,560 --> 00:13:42,440 reopened airspace, but I'm looking at this map and we've 233 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:44,800 got military bases all over the place down there. 234 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:49,000 I mean you've got White Sands Missile Range not that far from 235 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:51,960 there, you've got Home and Air Force Base, you got Fort Bliss, 236 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:55,720 you got Fort Bliss McGregor range that says military 237 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:59,720 installations everywhere. I have a hard time imagining why 238 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:04,280 the cartel would be so stupid to fly drones this vicinity at all. 239 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:06,520 You think that they would fly these things low enough if they 240 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:09,160 were just trying to transport drugs that they could just fly 241 00:14:09,160 --> 00:14:11,160 them across the border, drop them off? 242 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:15,280 I don't know why they would make an attempt to send a swarm of 243 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:19,680 these drones over the US border. That's just begging for trouble, 244 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:22,280 especially after what we've seen happen with Maduro and 245 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:26,000 everything stacking up in Iran. We've got a big distraction 246 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:30,080 going on there with this, with a with that, with the news lady's 247 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:33,360 mom being kidnapped or whatever's happened, poor lady. 248 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:36,400 And then we have the island files going on. 249 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:40,920 You think the cartel would be intelligent enough to know that 250 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:44,600 Washington probably we would love nothing more than the 251 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:49,080 distraction of of vaporizing some of these guys just to get 252 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:51,760 people's minds off of things they don't want to talk about. 253 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:55,920 That's just my opinion. So I'm still not really 254 00:14:56,080 --> 00:15:01,360 convinced that these are just normal drones going across the 255 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:03,360 border. There's a lot of stuff here that 256 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:07,600 we're not being told. Now this articles from bbc.com 257 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:12,800 and says US reopens airspace over Texas border town after 258 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:17,640 cartel drone incursion. You know, once again, just 259 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:22,320 jumping to conclusions. the US Department of Defense, OK, now 260 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:24,880 they've renamed this the Department of War. 261 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:30,120 OK, now, you may like Trump, you may hate Trump, you may not like 262 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:32,080 everything they're doing. I didn't particularly like it 263 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:37,160 when Obama renamed it Mount McKinley to Denali. 264 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:39,840 But you know what? That's what they got to do. 265 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:44,520 Elections have consequences now. Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico 266 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:46,880 to the Gulf of America. Whatever. 267 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:50,040 And they renamed the US Department of Defense to the 268 00:15:50,040 --> 00:15:52,520 Department of War. Actually it makes a lot more 269 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:56,480 sense because it seems like we make a lot more war than we do 270 00:15:56,480 --> 00:15:59,280 defense anyway. That being said, the article 271 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:02,240 goes on. the US Department of Defense said it had disabled 272 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:05,360 drones being used by Mexican cartels when it shut the 273 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:08,920 airspace over El Paso, TX on Tuesday night. 274 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:12,240 Mexican cartel drones breached US airspace. 275 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:14,840 I'm just going to keep calling this thing the Department of War 276 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:16,480 because that's what it's not called. 277 00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:19,880 The Department of War took action to disable the drones, 278 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:22,280 the Trump administration official said after the area 279 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:26,000 reopened Wednesday morning. The Federal Aviation 280 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:29,520 Administration, that's the FAA, on Tuesday suddenly ordered 281 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:33,680 flights in and out of El Paso International Airport. 282 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:37,200 They'd be halted for 10 days, causing shock and confusion. 283 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:42,440 So it seems like these drones reported somehow and the 284 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:44,640 Department of War is saying, yeah, we blasted them. 285 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:47,080 They took action. They're not saying exactly what 286 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:50,920 that action was. And then the FAA guy, I don't 287 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:53,600 know, maybe you got his feelings hurt a little bit and suddenly 288 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:56,600 became concerned about passenger safety and said, oh, got to 289 00:16:56,600 --> 00:16:58,360 close this whole thing now for 10 days. 290 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:01,120 Boy, talk about bureaucratic overreach. 291 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:03,200 That's what I'm saying. Because now it's open back up 292 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:08,160 saying the FAA had worked with the Pentagon to address a call a 293 00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:10,240 cartel drone incursion, quote UN quote. 294 00:17:10,599 --> 00:17:13,839 Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy posted on X hours later 295 00:17:13,839 --> 00:17:16,720 that the restrictions had been lifted. 296 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:21,520 CBS News, the BB CS U.S. media partner, though, reported on 297 00:17:21,599 --> 00:17:25,200 Wednesday that the brief closure stem from a disagreement between 298 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:28,880 the FAA and the Defense Department over drone related 299 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:33,920 testing in the area. Drone related testing. 300 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:36,200 So now you see what's happening here. 301 00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:38,480 They're changing the narrative already. 302 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:42,840 First they tell us, well, the cartel is, they sent a drone 303 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:46,760 swarm over that over the border and we had to blast them. 304 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:50,680 And the FAA comes out and says, no, you don't. 305 00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:52,760 We're closing this whole space down. 306 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:55,400 They're going to tell the Department of War what to do. 307 00:17:56,160 --> 00:17:58,600 The Department of War gets on the phone to the head of the FAA 308 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:01,000 and says, hey, we got to get this under control. 309 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:06,320 And now we hear the FAA saying, well, we had a disagreement 310 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:09,440 about drone testing. Well, certainly the Department 311 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:12,120 of War wasn't testing those drones if it was a cartel. 312 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:14,480 So who was it? Was it the cartel? 313 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:18,480 Was it the Department of War or were these things? 314 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:22,720 UFOs goes on, it says, citing multiple sources close to the 315 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:25,000 matter. CBS said the Pentagon had 316 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:29,760 planned to test new military technology, reportedly high 317 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:35,400 energy laser, to practice taking down drones near a military base 318 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:39,760 next to the El Paso airport. Meetings to discuss the 319 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:44,400 technology safety were scheduled with FAA, but the Defense 320 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:48,120 Department wanted to test it sooner, prompting the FAA to 321 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:51,200 close the airspace, according to CBS. 322 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:55,800 Wow. So we have two completely 323 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:59,160 different narratives with a third one thrown in. 324 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:01,520 Don't forget the party plan. First. 325 00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:04,760 We're told this is a drone swarm from the cartel. 326 00:19:05,480 --> 00:19:07,920 The drug dealers are sending these over in mass. 327 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:14,120 Why, I have no idea. Now we're told the FAA and the 328 00:19:14,120 --> 00:19:18,800 Department of War had a little feud about the Department of War 329 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:23,800 practicing drone targeting near the El Paso airport. 330 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:28,840 I mean, you've got half of the western United States to 331 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:31,600 practice this stuff in and you need to do it next to an 332 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:33,920 airport. Come on. 333 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:38,200 The BBC has not independently confirmed the reported dispute, 334 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:40,800 and it has contacted the FAA in the Pentagon. 335 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:44,440 The Associated Press on Wednesday published a similar 336 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:48,240 report, citing 3 people familiar with the situation. 337 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:51,920 Of course, all anonymous local officials said they did not know 338 00:19:51,920 --> 00:19:55,320 to expect the closure until it was announced on Tuesday night. 339 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:59,720 City Council member Chris Canalis, who represents an area 340 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:03,840 on the southwestern side of El Paso, told the BBC that local 341 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:07,840 authorities did not receive any advance notice or reason for the 342 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:11,440 closure. El Paso Mayor Bernard Johnson 343 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:13,960 confirmed that they were not notified during a news 344 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:17,720 conference on Wednesday after the airspace had been reopened. 345 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:21,600 We woke up just like many of you at midnight last night, one in 346 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:25,520 the morning, to the text and calls that we received that our 347 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:29,040 airspace was shut down, he said. Our community was scared, he 348 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:31,080 continued. You just cannot do that. 349 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:34,920 Johnson added that this should have never happened and that the 350 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:37,440 failure to communicate is unacceptable. 351 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:40,680 Medical evacuation flights were diverted because of the closure, 352 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:42,960 he said. Another flight that was carrying 353 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:45,720 surgical equipment did not show up here in El Paso. 354 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:50,400 Renard said he was still waiting to hear from the FAA, the 355 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:53,400 primary agency that made the decision to shut down our 356 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:57,440 airspace, the official reason. We're still trying to get that 357 00:20:57,440 --> 00:21:01,040 answer of why it was closed down here in El Paso and southern New 358 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:03,640 Mexico. He said long term airspace 359 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:07,360 closures are rare. Since 2018, the FAA has cut 360 00:21:07,360 --> 00:21:10,200 airspace closures from an average of more than four hours 361 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:13,720 per launch to just more than two hours, according to its website. 362 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:17,480 This restriction covered a 10 mile radius around El Paso, 363 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:21,960 including parts of southern New Mexico West of the town of San 364 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:25,040 Teresa. After the initial closure, El 365 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:28,760 Paso International Airport said in a statement that it was told 366 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:32,040 on short notice to hold all flights and contacted the FAA 367 00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:34,720 For more information. The notice was published without 368 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:37,280 any advance notice to local governments or to local air 369 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:40,640 traffic controllers. Canal said the cancellations 370 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:44,320 were so abrupt that people reported being told by airlines 371 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:48,120 that their flights were still scheduled even after the FAA's 372 00:21:48,120 --> 00:21:50,760 announcement. Just called United Airlines 373 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:53,480 about my flight this morning and they said it's still scheduled 374 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:55,800 to leave. One woman commented on Instagram 375 00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:58,560 early Wednesday. Some on social media speculated 376 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:01,320 about broader conspiracy theories and wondered if the US 377 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:04,760 was on the brick of war. Well, kind of kind of an 378 00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:07,560 internal war, a war of bureaucrats. 379 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:12,360 It is significant that the US shut down a major airport, Mick 380 00:22:12,360 --> 00:22:16,480 Mulroy, a former U.S. Marine, CIA paramilitary officer 381 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:20,200 and deputy assistant Secretary of Defense, told the BBC. 382 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:24,120 If the purpose was for counter drone activity related to cartel 383 00:22:24,120 --> 00:22:27,440 drones, it makes sense as the primary means to do so is 384 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:29,920 through electronic warfare. He added. 385 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:35,160 EW poses a real risk to civilian aviation, therefore it was 386 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:38,240 prudent to do so. Mulroy said the alleged cartel 387 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:41,480 drones weren't most likely being used for surveillance and not 388 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:45,040 anything offensive. Well really, do you think the 389 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:47,440 cartels going to risk the wrath of Trump? 390 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:52,000 Really after what they after what just happened to Maduro and 391 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:53,920 he's already been threatening to blow him up? 392 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:56,040 This looks like one of two things. 393 00:22:56,640 --> 00:23:00,520 The DoD Department of War, I should say, the Dow was going to 394 00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:02,640 do drone practice like they're saying. 395 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:07,360 And this FAA guy got a little bit a little bit angry about it 396 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:10,000 and decided, I'll show you and decide to close the whole 397 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:13,160 airport down the whole airspace for 10 days a little. 398 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:15,760 I don't know what you call that man. 399 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:19,760 A little bravado maybe. And that caused a big problem, 400 00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:22,440 such a problem. The Department of War had to get 401 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:25,080 a hold of the person that actually runs the FAA and say, 402 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:28,800 hey, get your get your guard dog in here, man. 403 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:32,440 We got to get this straight now. So you kind of see, you see this 404 00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:36,760 kind of war between the bureaucrats, it's awful. 405 00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:40,480 And then who's victimized by it? We are. 406 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:45,360 And this all comes from decades of no accountability. 407 00:23:46,120 --> 00:23:50,320 Decades of no accountability. Mexico's COA. 408 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:52,840 The war is is just South and West of El Paso and U.S. 409 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:56,440 Army base Fort Bliss and White Sands Missile Range lied to the 410 00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:59,320 north. Yeah, and apparently a FAA 411 00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:01,880 bureaucrat decides that he's going to shut down our 412 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:04,640 Department of War, Army, Air Force, whatever. 413 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:06,560 Airfields. Crazy. 414 00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:11,400 Fort Bliss is a military post focused on training, and White 415 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:15,240 Sands Missile Range is the country's largest overland 416 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:18,240 testing range for missiles, rockets and advanced weapons. 417 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:22,160 Yeah, why didn't they just go up there to White Sands and, and do 418 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:25,600 the testing there? And Mexico's interior cartels 419 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:29,280 have used drones to drop explosives on rivals or security 420 00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:31,680 forces. And one cartel, the Jalisco New 421 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:34,840 Generation Cartel, has a specialized drone unit. 422 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:36,320 And that's what they're telling us. 423 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:40,320 But along the border, drones are used primarily to help cartels 424 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:43,480 gather intelligence and mostly for human smuggling operations. 425 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:47,800 They monitor the position of Border Patrol agents and relay 426 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:51,680 that to migrants to direct them across the border, said Parker 427 00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:55,000 Asman, an expert in Mexican cartels at the Washington based 428 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:59,000 think tank Insight Crime. And do we need another think 429 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:00,600 tank? It's about gathering 430 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:03,240 intelligence, surveillance and doing reconnaissance. 431 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:06,720 In the Apostle area, which Osman called a hub for human 432 00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:09,840 trafficking, drones are a newer technology performing work that 433 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:13,760 would have previously been done mostly by spotters in the hills. 434 00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:17,200 Drone activity in the area, however, is extremely regular, 435 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:20,160 and it remains unclear why the reported incursion on Wednesday 436 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:24,640 prompted a sudden and large scale airspace closure. 437 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:27,120 There you have it, three different stories. 438 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:32,560 First, we're told that the drug cartel is moving swarms of 439 00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:37,240 drones across the border and the Dow Department of War has to go 440 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:42,240 in and shoot these things down. And the FAA, they just found it 441 00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:46,280 necessary to to grab everybody for 10 days, just randomly 10 442 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:49,120 days. I mean, if they can't clean 443 00:25:49,120 --> 00:25:51,240 those drones up in the first couple of hours, we have 444 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:52,800 something that's really wrong here. 445 00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:56,400 I mean, I mean, we can we can drop bombs halfway across the 446 00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:59,160 world and do operations that last a couple hours, but yet it 447 00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:03,120 takes 10 days to locate and destroy some Mexican cartel 448 00:26:03,120 --> 00:26:05,040 drones. Doesn't make sense to me. 449 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:09,120 Then we're told that the Department of War, I think 450 00:26:09,120 --> 00:26:11,240 called the Department of Defense, was going to do some 451 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:16,000 drone target practice. And the FAA, local FAA guy got 452 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,320 upset about that because he felt that it was a danger to 453 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:22,280 airplanes in the area. Well, probably is, but is it any 454 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:26,480 more of a danger than the barrage of weather and research 455 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:28,800 balloons that are released every day that nobody seemed to care 456 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:30,640 about? Seemed like he was a little bit 457 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:34,440 angry that he wasn't included on the decision and he decided that 458 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:36,920 he'd show them. He closed the airspace down for 459 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:40,960 10 days And hey, by the way, that includes multiple Air Force 460 00:26:41,360 --> 00:26:44,600 Army bases and I don't know, maybe even grow up into the 461 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:47,240 White Sands Missile Range. He's going to show them. 462 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:51,080 So that's the second story. And the third story that 463 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:54,560 Department of Defense is so incompetent that they actually 464 00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:57,160 use this gazillion dollar laser to shoot on a party balloon. 465 00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:01,720 Well, party balloons everywhere. Boy, that's, that's really, 466 00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:04,280 that's really convenient, isn't it? 467 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:06,360 Same thing Biden said when he was in there, when they shot 468 00:27:06,360 --> 00:27:10,040 that balloon down over Michigan. Oh, it's a bunch of kids. 469 00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:12,280 They put up a they put up a research balloon. 470 00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:15,040 Yeah, that's it. Of course, we never saw the 471 00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:17,120 wreckage. We never saw any of it except 472 00:27:17,120 --> 00:27:20,080 for the Chinese balloon that was shot down off the coast. 473 00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:21,880 It was at North Carolina, South Carolina. 474 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,840 They showed that one. But the other three we never 475 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:28,680 saw. And these we haven't seen and I 476 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:30,560 don't suspect that we'll ever see. 477 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,440 So there you have it. That is the drone slash UFO 478 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:37,080 situation in El Paso. And to me, they're still UFOs 479 00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:39,120 because nobody's told us what they've are. 480 00:27:39,120 --> 00:27:42,000 And you've got to see one of these things on the ground 481 00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:44,760 knocked out of the sky. So make up your own mind. 482 00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:49,680 And another week, another, another changing narrative from 483 00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:51,960 our government. Until next time. 484 00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:54,120 This is UFO warning over now.