Conspiracy theories flourish as mysterious ‘drones’ spotted in US

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This is the story everyone in America is talking about. No, not the story of Luigi Mangione, who allegedly killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, setting off a national debate about US health insurance and who profits from denying Americans everyday care. We’re talking about drones. Specifically, those mysterious drones that have released millions of conspiracy theories online about what they could be.

Drones have been reported every night in New Jersey since Nov. 18, according to NBC News, with the exception of just one day when there were no sightings in the state: Thanksgiving. It’s weird, sure, but not as weird as the fact that everyone seems to be confused about what these flying objects could be.

Most of the viral videos seem to show planes that are just normal commercial planes. But there is much that cannot be easily explained. The alleged “drones” have been spotted other parts of the country also, as Southern Californiaalthough nothing like the east coast videos appeared on the west coast. And elected leaders are calling for serious action.

Sen. Chuck Schumer, the Democratic Senate majority leader for one more month before Democrats lose control of the Senate, has called for the use of recently declassified drone detection technology to figure out what those flying objects might be.

“Some of the drones are small. Some of the drone flight patterns are erratic,” Schumer said Sunday, according to NBC News. “Multiple drones flying together can confuse a traditional radar system and so, again, this new technology can really give us the answers we need.”

And since there are still no easy answers, the internet is full of conspiracy theories. To be clear, we are currently unable to confirm or deny any of these theories. Because both politicians and ordinary people are still scratching their heads about what could happen. Is it mass hysteria? Probably. But there are also videos with confusing elements that are difficult to explain. And while we can usually pretty definitively say that a conspiracy theory is patently absurd, at this point we have to remain open to almost any absurd angle. almost.

Probably the most popular conspiracy theory to emerge over the weekend started with a TikTok by John Ferguson, CEO of Saxon Aerospace in Kansas. The video was deleted from TikTok, but it sparked such a widespread conversation that the clips were shared on all sorts of social media sites. And you can watch the whole thing here.

The long and short of it is that this guy believes the drones may be looking for some kind of chemical leak or, more worryingly, they may be looking for a rogue nuclear weapon that is somewhere in the US. The man claims that a nuclear weapon that disappeared from Ukraine after the fall of the Soviet Union somehow made its way into US territory recently and the US government is looking for it with these drones. Joe Rogan helped expand the theory Sundaypaying him much more attention.

There is a team of people from the National Nuclear Safety Administration housed in the Department of Energy who are specifically tasked with looking for any rogue nuclear weapons. It was created in the 1970s after a series of bad events threats of nuclear blackmail against American cities, most of which were not trustworthy and involved people who were just trying to get money from the government. But there are some cases of people getting real nuclear material and threatening to blow people up.

At this stage, however, there is no evidence available that we are dealing with government-sanctioned nuclear hunters. There were sensational claims made on X after this video about lost nuclear material. A right-wing influencer Benny Johnson tried to make it sound like a scandal Monday that a report on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s website listed some lost radioactive material in New Jersey recently.

But things like this happen all the time. And you’ll notice in the report that it’s clearly not a nuclear weapon. Radioactive material is used in all kinds of scientific equipment, and this kind of stuff is sometimes lost in transit and should be reported to the authorities. That doesn’t mean anyone can make a nuclear bomb out of it.

As a community note in one of the alarmist tweets points out, the amount of radiation one could receive from the missing material in this case would be roughly equivalent to computed tomographyprovided you stood by him for a whole year.

President-elect Donald Trump said the government knows what’s going on, but won’t tell anyone. And while it’s entirely possible he’s right, he also lies all the time and has enough motivation to make it seem like the US government is currently incompetent and fraudulent, which will surely be fixed when he takes office on January 20 2025 .

“Look, our military knows where they took off from,” Trump said at a news conference Monday. “If it’s a garage, they can go straight to that garage. They know where it comes from and where it goes. And for some reason they don’t want to comment.

Then there were those who insisted that the US government was planning a staged alien invasion to distract Americans called Project Blue Beam. The conspiracy theory pushes the idea that a fake alien invasion will be used to justify a world government and then be used to destroy Christianity and Judaism, replacing traditional religion with New Age beliefs. The idea was first called Project Blue Beam by Serge Monast, a Canadian conspiracy theorist in the 1990s. But it is still popular with personalities like Alex Jones.

And the InfoWars host insisted back on Dec. 11 that this wave of drone sightings is all about the establishment of a New World Order, a term he’s been obsessed with since he first started broadcasting on local Texas public television in the 1990s. those years.

The theory has also been pushed by right-wing figures such as comedian Roseanne Barr. “Now you know why I mention Project Blue Beam every week on my podcast…” Barr tweeted 14 Dec.

Trump wasn’t the only one offering his own conspiracy theories about so-called drones. Marjorie Taylor Green, a congresswoman from Georgia, said it was “absolute nonsense that no one knows what they are.” And while Green may be right, she has yet to provide any evidence for that claim. Instead, she simply insists that once Trump is back in power, we’ll know everything.

Eventually, Green escalated his rhetoric, as he often does when attention is needed. By December 14, she claimed that the US government not only knew what the drones were, but controlled them.

“The government controls the drones and refuses to tell the American people what’s going on. It really is that bad,” Green wrote to X.

Then there are politicians like Rep. Jeff Van Drew, a Republican congressman from New Jersey who argues that drones are actually Iranian in origin and are launched from a mothership off the east coast. There is no evidence for this, and it is a claim that the Pentagon has denied. But it’s not like Congressman Van Drew is some random guy on the internet. This is an elected official making this claim and saying he’s talking to people who would know.

Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland, a Republican, also posted his own video of what he said were “dozens of drones” spotted over Maryland.

“We’re being told that neither the White House, the military, the FBI, nor Homeland Security have any idea what they are, where they came from, or who fired or controlled them — and that they pose no threat,” Hogan wrote. “This response is completely unacceptable. I join the growing bipartisan chorus of leaders demanding that the federal government address this issue immediately. The American people deserve answers and action now.”

But the video is very shaky and at least some of the lights in the video look like just stars in the sky.

And all of this brings us full circle. We don’t know what’s going on, but it really seems like no one knows at this point. And the majority of the videos circulating online can be explained as either ordinary planes or stars in the sky. The FBI released a joint statement with the Department of Homeland Security on Dec. 14, promising the public that both agencies were investigating.

“At this time, we have no evidence that the reported drone sightings pose a threat to national security or public safety or have a foreign connection,” the statement said read. “The FBI, DHS 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 in fact drones or are instead manned aircraft or otherwise inaccurate observations.”

“Historically, we have had cases of mistaken identity where the reported drones are actually manned aircraft or equipment,” the statement continued. “We support local law enforcement in New Jersey with numerous detection methods, but we have not confirmed any of the reported visual sightings with electronic detection. On the contrary, upon review of the available imagery, it appears that many of the reported sightings are actually manned aircraft operating legally. No drone sightings have been reported or confirmed in any restricted airspace. “

The statement ends by saying that the agencies have seen no “malicious activity,” which is both encouraging and unclear if you really think about what that means.

“We take seriously the threat that unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) can pose, which is why law enforcement and other agencies continue to support New Jersey and investigate the reports,” the statement said. “To be clear, they have not disclosed any such malicious activity or intent at this stage.” While there is no known malicious activity in New Jersey, the reported sightings there highlight the inadequacy of current authorities.



 
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