Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
In this episode, we're talking about UFO drones expanding
nationwide. That's correct, UFO drones
expanding nationwide. Now, recently mysterious drones
have been seen flying all over various parts of the United
States and even internationally. Here's what we know in New
Jersey and New York, drones have been spotted in sensitive areas
like the Picatinny Arsenal military research facility and
near Donald Trump's Golf Club in Bedminster.
They've also been seen over New York City, especially around
LaGuardia Airport, causing temporary runway closures.
Lawmakers are demanding more information from the federal
government about these sightings.
And of course, they're not getting anything.
Maryland Large drones, some as big as SUVs, have been observed
in BOE, with one resident noting military jets possibly in
pursuit. Governor Larry Hogan reported
seeing numerous drones over his home.
Connecticut Well. Drone sightings near a train
station in Fairfield have raised concerns among local officials
due to the lack of transparency from federal authorities.
And in the Midwest, Minnesota residents have reported seeing
hard to follow flashing lights, and in Ohio, Wright Patterson
Air Force Base had to close this airspace due to drone activity
over the West Coast. In California from San Diego,
the Temkula people have seen large drones or glowing orbs in
the sky, with some residents describing the drones as moving
in unusual patterns. Internationally in England,
drones have been spotted over several rural Air Force bases,
and similar incidents occurred at US Air Force bases in
Remstan, Germany. The FBI has stated that these
drones do not belong to the US military or any foreign
government, but there's still no clear answer on who is operating
them or why. This situation has led to public
curiosity and frustration, with many seeking explanations for
these mysterious flying objects. Tell you things are really
getting out of hand. This first article that we're
looking at is from newsnationnow.com and it says
mystery drones, Where have they been?
Says the FBI says it does not know the source of the drones.
People report spotting SUV sized unknown objects and lawmaker
residents want answers from the feds.
Article starts off here. Says the crux of the federal
probe into mysterious drone sightings in recent weeks as
centered around the skies over New Jersey and New York.
But the flying objects controlled by unknown operators
has become a global phenomena. In the United States, the FBI
insists that the drones do not belong to the US military and
are also not the property of foreign governments.
But as lawmakers and residents push for more government
transparency, the answers about what these objects are, the
number of places sightings have taken place continues to grow.
Go down the article here a little bit.
It tells us in the Mid-Atlantic region in New Jersey.
Two of the sightings created the biggest buzz involve those
located in sensitive areas including Picatinny Arsenal.
AUS military research and manufacturing facility in Morris
County located in the northeast part of the state.
President-elect Donald Trump's Trump National Golf Course,
located in Bedminster, 40 miles West of New York City, has also
been the site of drone sightings.
Assemblywoman Don Fantasia, Republican New Jersey, wrote in
a social media post that the drones spotted in her state,
measured up to six feet in diameter, sometimes travelled
with their lights off. Fantasia said that the first
sightings took place November 18th and have continued every
night since. She said.
The reported sightings typically take place at between 6:00 and
11:00 PM, and reports range between 4 and 180 sightings per
night, she said. She estimates that there are
typically an average of 92 sightings per night and that
conservatively, 2500 sightings have been reported since they
began to. Lawmakers representing the
Jersey Shore region of the state reported that a dozen drones
were spotted near Barnett Light and Island Beach State Park,
which are located in Ocean County.
In those cases, WJAR reported the drones were seen following
AUS Coast Guard lifeboat. Pretty scary stuff when these
things are tracking our own Coast Guard.
A Coast Guard spokesman told WJAR that multiple low altitude
craft were reported near one of the Coast Guard's boats.
But still we're told these things aren't threatening.
According to WJR report, drones are legal in New Jersey for
recreational and commercial use. However, they are subject to
local and Federal Aviation Administration regulations.
Drone operators must be FAA certified, the report said.
New Jersey lawmakers, including US Senator Cory Booker, have
expressed concern and frustration over the federal
government's lack of transparency on the issue.
We need to know what's going on over our skies, Booker said,
according to WJAR. Yeah, really wild stuff.
In the letter of Murphy wrote that more federal resources
should be devoted to the matter since state and local law
enforcement and his state are limited to dealing with unmanned
aircraft systems. Another lawmaker, Senator Andy
Kim, reported seeing drones while on patrol with local law
enforcement. Kim said he witnessed white, red
and green lights appearing in groups of five to seven at a
time. Kim wrote in a series of social
media posts that he knew the lights were not associated with
aircraft because the objects did not appear on the FlightAware
tracker. And New York in the Bronx and
Queens have reported seeing multiple drones as well as
sightings being reported over at LaGuardia Airport, the New York
Daily News reported Friday. The New York City Emergency
Management Department said in a social media post that it has
not received any official reports of drone activity but is
aware of the reports of the sighting near the airport.
The report indicated that the drones took off once police
reported on the scene in the Bronx.
Police also reported that sightings had taken place on
Staten Island. Stewart International Airport
was forced to close its runways for about an hour after doing
activity was reported in the area.
News Nation affiliate picks Eleven reported that drone
sightings were reported by the FAA.
The runways reopened an hour later.
An official said that no flights were affected by the closures in
Maryland. Residents and Bowie have
released videos of drone sightings to local media
organizations. Autumn Stasilty and her family
told News Nation affiliate DC News Now they were out looking
at Christmas lights when they spotted flashing red and green
lights. She said she saw between 3:00
and 5:00 drones the size of SU VS that were making loud noises.
She told the station that there were just drones all over the
place. She added that it appeared that
military jets were in pursuit of the drones and that she is
concerned about where the aircraft may be coming from.
Wow, that's strange. I have a hard time understanding
why you sent a jet up after these things.
I mean, the drones going so slow compared to the speed of one of
these jets. In a social media post, Governor
Larry Hogan reported that he witnessed dozens of large drones
Thursday night over his home in Davidsonville, which is located
25 miles outside of Washington, DC Hogan wrote that the drone
activity lasted about 45 minutes.
Connecticut State Senator Tony Wong said that sightings were
reported last week near a train station in Fairfield, prompting
concerns among local officials and residents.
Wong said at a news conference that he's frustrated with a lack
of transparency from federal officials and fears that without
information, residents will take matters into their own hands.
He also said that the lack of answers from federal agencies
like the FBI has tied the hands of local law enforcement
agencies who cannot act without knowing what is happening.
Meanwhile, in the Midwest, residents in Northfield, MN,
located South of Minneapolis, Saint Paul, have reported seeing
mysterious flashing lights over the night sky, According to the
article. Deborah Wagner and her daughter
told Fox 9 that the lights were hard to track.
We started trying to follow them, but they just won't be
followed, Wagner said, adding that the lights just seemed to
disappear. Her daughter, Chrissy Grady,
tried to capture video of the orbs with her cell phone, and
the video showed the objects hovering before disappearing.
Are those UFOs, are they a government thing?
Grady asked. The airspace over Wright
Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, OH, was forced to close
for hours due to during activity being reported in the area.
Officials at Wright Patterson confirmed its airspace was
closed for four hours on Friday night and early Saturday because
of small unmanned aerial systems being spotted in the vicinity.
Pretty wild when they're going over Wright Patterson, isn't it?
This shutdown meant that no airplanes were allowed in or out
of the base. Wright Patterson officials did
not divulge the altitude at which the systems were flying,
but they said they arranged in different shapes and sizes.
Installation leadership has determined none of the
incursions impacted our base, our residents, our facilities or
our assets, right? Patterson public affairs chief
Robert Prudman said. Yeah, well, it impacted it
enough You had to close the airport down and then here we
have the West Coast. Summer sightings have been
reported in Southern California, where residents spotted seeing
colored lights. Colin Rambo, who lives outside
of San Diego and Lemon Grove, told CBS 8 that he witnessed
seeing a bunch of red lights floating in the sky.
Rambo told the television station that he was driving when
he saw what he called a fleet of red glowing orbs.
Over 5 minutes, Rambo reported seeing at least 25 of the orbs
in Temakula, which is located in Southern California, as wine
country. In Riverside County, residents
reported seeing large drones hovering over the community.
One resident said the objects or the size of a car, wow, They'll
be, they'll be going just straight One Direction and then
just all of a sudden they'll just zig or zag and keep going
or turning around and just break really quick, the man said.
Local sheriff's officials said the drones did not belong to the
department. Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base
north of San Diego, told the station it had received several
reports of drones sightings from local residents.
A spokesman for the base told CBS 8 that the base did not have
any drone activity planned when the sighting took place.
More drone sightings were reported in Escondido, CA after
a TikTok posting announcing that drones had arrived in North
County San Diego garnered more than 100,000 views.
The man who posted the video said that he spotted 3 drones,
according to News Nation affiliate KUSI.
Other drone sightings have taken place in Orange County, where
residents in Aliso Viego reported seeing drones.
Reports came from residents in Redondo Beach and the San
Fernando Valley. And then it goes on, says
internationally unidentified drones that have also been
spotted over 4 Royal Air Force bases in England, which has
prompted the British government to request military assistance,
the US Air Force said. The Air Force official said the
small drones continue to be spotted in and around 4 British
military installations since November 20th.
None of the activities interrupted base operations,
officials said in the statement. The Air Force said that the
objects have ranged in size and configuration and that the US
Air Force is working with host nation officials and mission
partners to endure base personnel.
I think they mean ensure based personnel.
Reuters reported that drones have also been spotted at the US
Air Force Base at Rammstein in Germany this month.
Sources told Reuters that German officials have not determined
who is operating the drones. They had, however, ruled out the
possibility that the drones were operated by amateurs.
Yet clearly it does not appear to be that they are operated by
amateurs. So I want to go ahead and play
just a short excerpt of this interview with this Congress
lady, Assemblywoman Don Fantasia, talking about these
drones here in New Jersey. Pretty interesting stuff
tonight. With Assemblywoman Don Fantasia,
who attended the state's briefing this morning.
Assemblywoman, thanks for being with us.
And what did you learn from this gathering?
Today. Well, I wish I could say that we
learned, you know, lots of critical information, but
unfortunately we walked out with more questions than answers.
What we do know for a fact is that that directive that, you
know, there's no credible or known threat is definitely
misleading. There is not enough known about
the drones from our state officials and from our state
Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness.
We also learned that state authorities are shackled to some
degree. Often times we've been talking
about what it would take to capture one to ground one of
these drones, and we learned today under no uncertain
circumstances that that is strictly an action that would
have to be taken by the federal government.
I think you kind of get the gist of that interview right there.
Basically, the local lawmakers and the state lawmakers show up
for a meeting with the feds, and the feds say talk to the hand.
You're not shooting anything down.
So why are the federal agents in this case keeping state
lawmakers, state law enforcement folks from doing anything at all
to bring one of these things down?
This article here is from wtnh.com, written by Braley
Dotson, dated December 16th, 2024.
UFO reports surge as mysterious drones spotted across
Connecticut and Dateline New Haven, CT Is that object in the
sky a benign drone or something more?
Halfway through December, more people in Connecticut have
reported seeing UFOs than any other month this year, according
to data from the National UFO Reporting Center.
The surge comes as people across New England have spotted an
influx and mysterious drones flying in the nighttime sky.
Connecticut State Police have deployed a detection system in
response to the drone reports, and State Senator Tony Wang,
Republican District 28, said Friday that reports of drone
sightings in Fairfield County are very unsettling to public
safety and security. Residents in Markhamstead,
Branford, New Hartford, Pomfred, Brookfield, Bristol, Westport
and Norwalk have reported seeing UFOs this month. 3 reports have
come in since Friday. Witnesses claim to have seen
objects that are rectangular, cylindrical and circular in
shape. One person in Birkenstead
reported that the object was three bright lights in a
triangle of formation. The witness noticed that it
could have been a possible drone.
A report from New Hartford states that the object was about
the size of a large cargo plane, had a single light and then went
from a standstill to speed of light.
The White House said Thursday that reviews of the drone
reports have shown most of them are manned and being flown
lawfully. The Pentagon has said that they
are not military drones. Blumenthal wrote the Federal
Aviation Administration, the FBI, the US Department of
Defense and the US Department of Homeland Security on Friday to
demand a briefing on the drone sightings.
The proliferation of reported drone activity and this region
raises significant safety and security concerns for both
commercial and private aviation, as well as national security
concerns, he wrote. Incidents involving drones
interfering with aircraft operations have have increased,
posing a real and substantial risk to passengers, crews and
others in the vicinity. And I am particularly concerned
about the potential for these unmanned aerial vehicles, many
of which are as large as a car, to disrupt air traffic and more
alarmingly, to be used maliciously to threaten national
security. Yeah, very, very serious stuff
here. So even in even in in
Connecticut, people are seeing these things.
But that's not all. We've also got them in New York
and that's surrounding area over there.
Really wild stuff. From abcgo.com, we find out that
drone sightings temporarily shuts down runways at New York
airport. And besides that, it says FBI
says that it has received over 5000 tips about the sightings.
Now this is written by Michael Sutter, Jack Date, Pierre Thomas
and Ivan Pierre dated December 14th, 2024.
We go down the article and tell us this.
Our frustrated governor Cathy Hulchell was has called for
federal assistance after the latest drone sighting
temporarily shut down at airport Friday night.
The latest in a series of mysterious occurrences taking
place across the country. Officials at Stewart
International Airport, located roughly 60 miles north of New
York City, said they shut down their runways for an hour after
the Federal Aviation Administration alerted them that
a drone was spotted in the area around 9:30 PM.
There were no impacts to flight operations during the closure of
the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said in a
statement. Ochel said in a statement
Saturday that the incident is the latest drone sighting in the
state since mid November and expressed her frustration.
This has gone too far, she said. So even though they're on the
same side politically, these Democrat governors and the
current administration, they're starting to break because the
people in their cities and States and towns are getting
upset about this stuff. Hoschel said she has called on
the New York State Intelligence Center to probe the drone siding
incidents, but called on the federal government to do more.
Specifically, she called in Congress to pass the Counter UAS
Authority Security, Safety and Reauthorization Act and give
more authority to state and local law enforcement agencies
to investigate the activity. Well, I don't see the feds
giving up anything to the states as far as power goes.
Extending these powers to New York State in our appears is
essential, she said. Until those powers are granted
to state and local officials, the Biden administration must
step in by directing additional federal law enforcement to New
York and the surrounding region to ensure the safety of our
critical infrastructure and our people.
Residents and officials have been looking for answers after
drones have been seen hovering in the sky in several locations,
especially in central New Jersey, since mid November.
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, former Maryland Governor Larry
Hogan, and several members of Congress have also called for
the federal government to investigate the sightings.
Officials from a wide range of federal agencies spoke with
reporters on Saturday on a Saturday phone call and
emphasized that the federal investigation and the drone
sightings in New Jersey is ongoing.
Yeah, you can only tell that, can't you?
One FBI official said that out of the nearly 5000 tips they
received, less than 100 have generated credible leads for
further investigations. The Department of Homeland
Security officials said they are confident that many as reported
drone sightings are in fact manned aircraft being
misidentified as drones. I mean, really, how many drones
do they think people have up there flying around, actually?
The FBI official also talked about how investigation how
investigators overlaid the locations of the reported drone
sightings and found that the density of reported sightings
matches their approach pattern of New York's busy airports,
including Newark Liberty, JFK, and LaGuardia.
So you're just going to assume that these things are planes
coming in for a landing? Well, that sounds dangerous to
me. But an FAA official said that
there had been, without a doubt, drones flying over New Jersey,
pointing to the fact that there are nearly a million drones
registered in the US. With nearly 1,000,000 registered
unmanned aircraft in the US, there's no doubt many of them
are owned and operated here within the state, the FAA
official said. Wow, that's a lot.
I did not realize there were a million drones registered in the
USI did not know that. The FAA official noted that
flying a drone is legal in most locations during the day or
night, provided that the drone remains below 400 feet, stays
within the drone operators line of sight, and does not pose
safety hazards to people and property or violate airspace
restrictions. Well, I don't know.
What if one of these things crashes into a house or
something, these blades flying around a couple 100 mile an
hour. A Joint Chiefs of Staff
officials said that there have been visual sightings of drunks
reported by highly trained security personnel near
Piccantini Arsenal and Naval Weapons Station Earl in New
Jersey. The official said they do not
believe the sightings were aligned with a foreign actor or
that they had malicious intent. We don't know what activity is.
We don't know if it is criminal, but I will tell you that it is
irresponsible, the official said.
Here on the military side, we are just as frustrated with the
irresponsible nature of this activity.
Well, for crying out loud, do something about it.
In the meantime, the FAA and federal officials are taking
precautions because of the drones.
The agency has issued a temporary no drone zone during
Saturday afternoon's Army Navy game taking place at Northwest
Stadium and Landover, MD. Of course, that's already
happened. It just almost seems like
they're looking for any excuse they can to stand down.
Now, we'll go ahead and take a look at a couple more of these
sightings, and I guess you can decide for yourself.
But to me, this thing is really getting out of hand.
Now. I want to play this air traffic
control recording with the pilot that was recorded over Wright
Patterson there. I found this from Raw Alerts.
It's a news channel. You can find it on YouTube.
We'll just play this minute and a half ATC recording right here.
Patterson Tower Med Flight 819 hundred feet about 7 miles
southwest of the field. Like transition your Delta NE
mountain. Med Flight 8 Patterson Tower Use
extreme caution for heavy UAS movement on the base security
forces is handling the situation suggests that are above 1700
AGL. That we will maintain 2000 on
our transition for Med Flight 8. And I got to keep the lights
down so that security forces can see.
Roger that, no problem. Position approved.
Sir, Approved. My buddy.
Med Flight 8 Tower. Med Flight 8.
Hey Sir, you're still approved through our class Delta.
After you leave, Columbus is going to sterilize the class
Delta as a 0330 Zulu Patterson class Delta is closed after your
transition. I'm sorry about that.
You got stepped on by other traffic, you say again.
Yes Sir, your transition is still approved.
However Patterson class Delta is sterilized as of 0330Z for a
heavy unknown UAS activity. Security forces is handling it
and Columbus is going to sterilize the airspace after you
leave the Delta. Roger, no problem.
Thank you. Watercraft use extreme caution.
Patterson Class Delta is now closed for heavy UAS activity.
I think that recording kind of says it all.
I mean, we've got heavy drone activity, heavy US activity,
whatever they want to call them. Very, very strange stuff.
Now this last article talking about this Wright Patterson Air
Force Base being shut down, that they run away at least comes to
us from wcpo.com says drones shut Wright Patterson Air Force
Base's airspace down for several hours hours late Friday.
This is written by Thomas Now Journal News dated December
15th, 2024 Fairborn, OH Wright Patterson Air Air Force bases
airspace was closed by unidentified drones Friday night
and early Saturday, a spokesman for the base confirmed Sunday.
But you know, they're unidentified.
I mean, are we even sure they're drones?
Robert Puritiman, a spokesman for Wright Patterson, said small
unmanned aerial systems were spotted in the vicinity of the
base late Friday. So far, our our leadership has
determined that none of the incursions impacted any of our
residents, facilities or assets for them and said we're taking
all of the appropriate measures to safeguard the installation
and all of our residents. No property was damaged or
residents. Harmony said the airfield was
shut down for about four hours late Friday evening into early
Saturday morning. Puritanment said the number of
systems spotted has fluctuated and they have ranged in size and
configurations, he said. Our team continues to monitor
the local airspace, and we're working with local authorities
to ensure the safety of our personnel, facilities and
assets. Ask how often this happens to
Wright, Patterson and Peterman said.
First time I'm aware of drones or suspected drones flying over
Military installations have been much in the news lately, mostly
for supposed flights over New Jersey bases.
I don't know if it's supposed when you can see him flying over
with your own eyes. A spokesperson for the Joint
Staff, senior military leaders who advised the president and
the Secretary of Defense acknowledged on Saturday that
there had been sightings of drones over 2 military
installations in New Jersey. We have had confirmed sightings
at Picatinny Arsenal and Naval Weapons Station Earl, the
spokesman said. This is not a new issue for us.
We've had to deal with drone incursions over our bases for
quite a time now. It's something that we routinely
respond to, in which in each and every case, when reporting a
sighting, respond by doing nothing maybe.
The spokesperson said military installations are able to detect
and respond to drones and that security personnel are trained
to identify them. That's not what we're hearing so
far. We have no intelligence or
observation that would indicate that they were aligned with a
foreign actor or that they had malicious intent.
The spokesman also said in a transcript have a briefing
shared on Saturday. I mean, how would you even know
that? We have no evidence at this time
that the reported drone sightings pose a national
security or public safety threat or have a foreign Nexus, the
Department of Homeland Security said last Thursday.
Yeah, take your shoes off in the airport again, though.
The FBIDHS and our federal partners, in close coordination
with the New Jersey State Police, continue to deploy
personnel and technology to investigate this situation and
confirm whether the reported drone flights are actually
drones, are instead manned aircraft, or otherwise
inaccurate sightings. Well, they've told you what they
are, and they don't seem to be big enough to have a person in
them for the most part. Maybe some of them do, I suppose
we have not been able to, and neither have state or local law
enforcement authorities corroborate any of the reported
visual sightings, John Kirby, a national security spokesman for
the Biden administration, also said last week.
To the contrary, upon review of available imagery, it appears
that many other reported sightings are actually manned
aircraft that are being operated lawfully.
Well, I wonder how you came to that conclusion.
Through a spokesman, US Representative Mike Turner,
Republican Dayton, who chairs the House Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence, declined to discuss the subject
last week before the reported sightings of craft over Wright
Patterson. A spokeswoman for the National
Air and Space Intelligence Center at Wright Patterson also
declined to comment last week. Yes, Nothing to see here, sheep.
Move along. Well, it looks like this drone
invasion, UFO invasion, whatever you want to call it, is
spreading. It's spreading across the
country. And I didn't even get into the
ones in California and Oregon. I mean, you could spend about a
whole day here just talking about these things that seem
like they're spreading across the country.
And they do seem to have a lot of things in common, though, a
lot of orbs being cited, things that are being called drones.
I think they're being mislabeled.
Some probably actually are drones.
Or maybe as Tom Delon was talking about today, I'll talk
about him later too. Maybe some of these things are
actually just disguising as drones.
Who knows, But we'll keep updated on it.
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