Press Sec. Karoline Leavitt: Drones Over New Jersey Approved by FAA
“Many of these drones were also hobbyists, recreational and private individuals that enjoy flying drones.”
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt did a great job on her first day!
Leavitt shared an update on the New Jersey drones, which President Donald Trump promised during the campaign. She said:
And before I turn to questions, I do have news directly from the president of the United States that was just shared with me in the Oval Office from President Trump directly, an update on the New Jersey drones.
After research and study, the drones that were flying over New Jersey in large numbers were authorized to be flown by the FAA for research and various other reasons.
Many of these drones were also hobbyists, recreational and private individuals that enjoy flying drones. In time, it got worse due to curiosity. This was not the enemy.
.@PressSec Karoline Leavitt reads statement from President Trump: "The drones that were flying over New Jersey in large numbers were authorized to be flown by FAA for research and various other reasons…this was not the enemy." pic.twitter.com/M5Qk5exLPn
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It was a gas leak. Swamp gas.
Probably Dem gas. To reduce methane they should sequesture their carbon 🙂
Of course she would say that. I’m not saying it was aliens but it was aliens.
Would have been nice if someone at the incompetent government had let everyone know at the time.
Agreed. I’d even go so far as to say the fact that this simple “explanation” was NOT provided at the time has me very skeptical as to its complete veracity.
BTW: I am not saying that I doubt specifically the Trump administration or its intent here. I believe it more likely that this is the explanation provided to it by the bureaucracy.
The FAA was under Buttigig. Why would you think he’s competent enough to get an answer OR to pull off some sort of cover-up?
Unfortunately, this explanation is barely ε more informative than Biden’s “all is well, return to your tasks.” We are to believe there is a huge boom in the hobby and enterprise of droning… but only in NJ?
Yeah I would love to have seen the authorization and planning docs for this be released. It could be plausible and much be true. I can see the need for a test area to.figure out drone traffic and deconflicting flight patterns with each other and potentially other aircraft. In my neck of the woods we have helicopters from Army Aviation Center/School operating well under 500 feet. How they would operate with ‘delivery’ drones and hobby drones in the area would take some substantial coordination.
Know your history.
Just as Massachusetts is eldritch central for elder gods,
New Jersey is the natural habitat for flying objects,
Just ask Orsen Wells.
Before the aliens gentrified the state, it was known only for stinky petroleum cities and the Jersey Devil.
No, the FAA had authorized some sort of research project. Once those caught people’s attention and no explanation was forthcoming, other people started sending up their drones to see if they could catch a sight of the mystery objects. The more publicity it got the more it escalated. And it spread past NJ; there were sightings on Staten Island, which was probably just hobbyists.
Hope you are right mate.
I think they kind of tried, but no one believed them because they had no credibility, and also they didn’t come right out and say “this is a private research project that the FAA has approved”.
I don’t believe them, think it is a coverup.
Oh, there is more to come on this. We will know more in a short while.
They have Top Men on it…
The Men In Black have it under control
BLM?
New Jersey is home to a US Naval Air Engineering Center (NAWCAD Lakehurst). What do they do there? A lot of things. But, relevant to this conversation, they develop drones for the US Navy. I suspect we won’t hear too much more about this. But, maybe someone will officially acknowledge that this was a US military pilot (or no pilot) program testing a sea/land-based drone package.
Why didn’t Biden admit this? Because the controversy served an interest for them: Distraction. While the public was fascinated (understandably) by unidentified aircraft, some perhaps with nefarious intention, the Biden Family Crime Syndicate was busy preparing their pardons. It worked a treat for them. Local authorities should sue to recover the cost of the overtime they had to eat chasing these things.
We need a border wall automated drone system, it should patrol a few miles each side if the fence.
Not just a distraction. Remember when Commie-crat NY Governor Hochul held a press conference to breathlessly announce the closure of an airport due to drone activity that appeared to have been closed for no other reason to than to be able to make the claim (the closure was in the middle of the night and no flight operations were impacted). She was pushing a bill in Congress that vastly expanded controls on drone flights just a few weeks after drones had been proving that Biden was downplaying the amount of destruction from Hurricane Helene.
“Drones over NJ approved by FAA”
That’s better than Jean-Pierre droning on and on. Nobody I know approved of it and I’m glad she’s gone.
What “research”. What “various other reasons”.
This is the problem, eh? “Flights authorized by the FAA” means that someone else was flying them. We still don’t know which agency or corporation that may have been, nor do we know anything about the “research” and certainly nothing about the “other reasons.”
We are stuck with a govt. in Australia which has little or no ring of truth about it’s public statements.
I really hope the USA Federal Govt. Gets it right this time around.
Lots of us older people are sceptical.