Having emerged from an ailment induced stupor, I find drones in New Jersey still are big news, just as they were a few days back when I began to feel under the weather and took a pause from posting here.
The questions remain eerily similar.
Authorities’ explanations range from having no idea what the sightings are, to trying to explain them away as ordinary aircraft being misidentified. Yet always, they conclude with the statement that there is no danger to the populace.
First of all, some background. I’ve spent many a night fishing and observing the heavens between infrequent bites. Usually there are others fishing with me and we are more than passingly aware of what should and should not be up there.
One prime example I recall from night fishing at Lake Somerset, was a bright object, seemingly high in the air, that traversed about 180 degrees of visible sky in little more than a blink of an eye. The planes, the satellites, the international space station, don’t move that fast.
What was it? I have no idea. But all these years later it remains memorable. I have no video. But others saw it with me and no government lackey will convince me I didn’t see it.
Equally memorable from my youth were the ridiculous explanations the Project Blue Book people put out to explain UFO sightings. Those included absurd offerings such as swamp gas and temperature inversions. Even the Blue Book types admitted eventually the only hot air had come from them.
Fast-forward to recent years and we have defense department video of aerial sightings that cannot be explained away. When trained military pilots observe on radar and with their own two eyes things they cannot comprehend, it is past the time to ignore or attempt to explain away such phenomena with stale offerings.
These New Jersey drones, or whatever they are, seem to fall into that category.
Too many knowledgable people have seen them and have assured us they are not traditional planes and helicopters. We also have gotten different descriptions as to size, including some much larger than the traditional hobbyist drones your neighbor might fly to annoy you.
Sometimes the performance reported, and that which is observable in some videos, seems to be out of the norm for drones.
And yet drones is the accepted catchall term used here, so we will use it.
As our incoming president Donald Trump has observed on social media, it strains credibility that we know not what these things are, still insist they are no problem, and have opted not to intercept and bring down one for examination.
It reeks of the weak explanations given when the Chinese spy balloon was ignored until sightings were too numerous to discount, then it was shot down after it had traversed the U.S.
I love it when fingers are pointed back and forth between governmental agencies that no one has authority over this, or possesses proper technology to pursue it.
This must make the ears perk up in China, Russia, Iran, or other precincts that might wish us harm.
Hopefully, help is arriving soon. A captain once again will be manning the rudder of the U.S. ship of state.
Once Trump is back in charge, I have a strong suspicion these New Jersey sightings will have stopped, just because even aliens know he’s a man of action.
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