[Mr.NoCredit]

Originally Posted by houseoftechno ↗

For entertainment...

I had the exact same thought that someone should try shooting them down. Too bad he’s such a terrible shot.

[kellyhound]

Originally Posted by Pyramid_Head ↗

Pretty crazy shit honestly as I've been following it heavily on Reddit. The FBI and CIA say they don't know what they are but then the Government acts like there's nothing to see here folks.

Trump confirmed the Government and Biden know what they are. He wouldn't comment if he was briefed on the situation which is interesting.

The Orbs I think are the real story here. The drones are most likely ours and they're investigating the Orbs. There's also a classified meeting today about them, so if there's nothing to see, then why a meeting over it??

We live in a post 9/11 world, there is no way in hell unknown drones are crowding our airspace and flying over sensitive no fly zones without the Government doing something about it.

That implies he also knows whats going on so why doesn't he spill the news than.

[kellyhound]

White House national security spokesman John Kirby said Monday the federal government has yet to identify any public safety or national security risks from any of the reported drone sightings in the northeast, saying officials believe they were lawfully flown drones, planes or even stars.

“There are more than 1 million drones that are lawfully registered with the Federal Aviation Administration here in the United States,” Kirby said. “And there are thousands of commercial, hobbyist and law enforcement drones that are lawfully in the sky on any given day. That is the ecosystem that we are dealing with.”

The federal government has deployed personnel and advanced technology to investigate the reports in New Jersey and other states, and is evaluating each tip reported by citizens, he said.

About 100 of the more than 5,000 drone sightings reported to the FBI in recent weeks were deemed credible enough to warrant more investigation, according to a joint statement by the Department of Homeland Security, FBI, Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Defense.

On Monday, Pentagon spokesperson Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said it’s unlikely the drones are engaged in intelligence gathering, given how loud and bright they are.

Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh has said the aircraft are not U.S. military drones.

A drone being flown near Boston’s Logan International Airport on Saturday night led to the arrests of two men on charges of trespassing, breaking and entering and violating a municipal ordinance or bylaw, city police said. They pleaded not guilty to all charges

Police said the drone was flown “dangerously close” to the airport and an officer using drone monitoring technology detected the aircraft and the location of the operators, who were on an island in Boston Harbor.

The men, from the Boston area, appeared in court Monday and were released pending a Feb. 6 court date. The judge banned them from flying drones.

A third man who fled when police arrived where the drone was launched is still being sought.

Authorities said the men took a boat out to the island and broke into an abandoned hospital campus. When police arrived, one of the men told them he had been flying a drone and that it was in his backpack. Investigators said they used the drone’s serial number to find data that shows it was flown six times on Saturday.

Michael Martin, a lawyer for one of the defendants, said that his client is a drone hobbyist who is interested in abandoned buildings and that the drone footage will support this.

[rohmell]

My sources say that someone smuggled in some nuclear shit, and the drones are looking for radioactivity.

[Pyramid_Head]

Originally Posted by kellyhound ↗

That implies he also knows whats going on so why doesn't he spill the news than.

Well it's not his place as he's not in office yet. It's the job of our current leaders to inform the American people of what's going on.

Once Trump takes office and if nothing changes I will gladly say the same about him.

[kellyhound]

Originally Posted by rohmell ↗

My sources say that someone smuggled in some nuclear shit, and the drones are looking for radioactivity.

A theory that "missing" radioactive material in New Jersey could be linked to the string of mysterious "drone" sightings in the state has been disproven, according to the Department of Energy and related officials.

The link between the alleged drone sightings and radioactive material stemmed from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission issuing an alert on Dec. 5 that stated a piece of medical equipment used for cancer scans had been "lost in transit" three days prior.

The mayor of Belleville, New Jersey, Michael Melham further stoked these theories during an appearance on Fox TV's "Good Day New York" on Tuesday, saying, of the drone sightings, "What might they be looking for? Maybe that's radioactive material."

"It was a shipment. It arrived at its destination. The container was damaged, and it was empty," Melham said.

The shipping container in question departed from the Nazha Cancer Center in Newfield, New Jersey, and contained an Eckert & Ziegler model HEGL-0132 device that arrived at its destination "damaged and empty," according to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's original notice.

The device contains trace amounts of the radioactive isotope Germanium-68, which is used as a radiation source for one of the cancer center's CAT scan machines.

James Dalzell, M.D., at the Nazha Cancer Center, told ABC News on Tuesday that the missing material has been found and has been disposed of properly.

Dalzell said the equipment was shipped via Fed-Ex, which temporarily misplaced the item. It was later found and delivered to the manufacturer.

Dalzell explained that the material was depleted ahead of its transport to the disposal facility. While there were still trace amounts of radiation, it was so low that they only needed to wrap in a few layers of Styrofoam to render it safe for transport.

In a statement to ABC News on Tuesday the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection said the device has a "very low-level radiation source that is approved for shipping through common carriers like FedEx" and "has been located, repackaged, and sent to the manufacturer from the FedEx shipping facility where it was misplaced."

Additionally, the NJDEP said drones were not used to locate the radioactive material in question.

Further disproving the now-viral theory, a spokesperson at the National Nuclear Security Administration, an agency within the federal energy department that works on the nuclear stockpile, told ABC News the administration's Nuclear Emergency Support Team does not use drones for nuclear detection missions.

"The Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration's Nuclear Emergency Support Team (NEST) does not employ drones for nuclear/radiological detection missions, and is not currently conducting any aerial operations in that region," the spokesperson said.

[kellyhound]

Federal lawmakers say they will push for new measures in Congress on Monday to track down the mysterious drones flying across the Tri-State Area and the country.

Gov. Kathy Hochul says federal partners are deploying a state-of-the-art detection system to New York state.

On Sunday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said he's requesting the Department of Homeland Security deploy a detection system like Robin Radar Systems, a Netherlands-based company that specializes in tracking drones.

CBS News New York's Lisa Rozner asked DHS if it would grant Schumer's request for a new detection system, but a representative of the department said the agency only responds to congressional inquiries directly via "official channels."

Hochul said Sunday the state needs Congress to pass a bill that would give New York the authority to detect, track or even destroy unmanned aircraft systems. That legislation has been stuck in committees, but Schumer's office said with him as co-sponsor now, it could pass by the end of the year.

Asked if he would consider banning the sale of drones from some companies, Schumer said, "There are hundreds of companies all over the globe that make drones. We don't know which ones these are. This radar will help us find out which they are and then we can go talk to the companies."

Here's how Robin Radar Systems works
Siete Hamminga, the CEO and founder of Robin Radar Systems, explained how his devices operate.

"Our capability is really providing situational awareness," Hamminga said.

Hamminga says with the help of AI, Robin uses unique radar technology from the ground to track drones within a five-kilometer -- or just over three-mile -- radius.

"If you have a 360-degree view, a 3D picture of where the drone is flying, you could also see the flight path and you may find out where the drone came from or where it lands, and that is usually the place where your operators stand," Hamminga said.

Hamminga said heightened security around drones is the new norm.

"I'm a firm believer that the systems [that] do track and detect drones will become the safety standard in all the prisons, airports, harbors, nuclear power plants and border security, critical infrastructures in general, so I think we 'ain't seen nothing yet,' as you say in the United States," Hamminga said.

The Dutch Ministry of Defence is expected to donate 51 radars to Ukraine in the last quarter of 2024. The radars will be supplied and deployed in phases. In Ukraine, these radars are essential to counter drone attacks from russia.

On CBS' "Face the Nation," Republican Congressman Mike Waltz of Florida said defense agencies are pointing the finger at each other.

"We need to take a hard look at our homeland defenses. President Trump has talked about an iron dome for America that needs to include drones as well, not just adversarial actions like hypersonic missiles. We need to have an all-of-the-above protection of U.S. airspace," Waltz said.

The FBI says it has received approximately 5,000 tips on the aircraft sightings, and of those, less than 100 leads were deemed worthy of further investigation.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said on ABC's "This Week" that the agency knows of "no foreign involvement."

The Department of Defense also said the military is "prohibited from conducting intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations in the U.S."

The South Bronx is now one of the multiple places in the Northeast where clusters of drones have been spotted.

"They're huge, too, so I don't know what's going on," resident Jeff Garcia said.

"I believe it's sabotage because all of a sudden we getting all of these drones coming from somewhere," resident Donna McCoy said.

"Is it like recording people? Or they just going around sitting there looking at you?" JJ Mines-Evans added.

Michael Melham, the mayor of Belleville, New Jersey, said his town seems to be a hotbed for the flying objects.

"I want to know why they're up there. They're flying in a grid pattern. They're circling. They're patrolling. It appears to be that they're looking, or we would say sniffing for something," Melham said.

[marcos_69]

This is all a smoke screen to take the attention off of P. Diddy's party guest list.

[gimlet]

Light'em up, shoot them and see if they're pussies. They've only mastered interstellar travel.

I could make that "spinning" thing with a little time and less than $1000. Probably a common drone with a sphere made of wire and LEDs. Program the light to appear to spin, then if you want to fuck with everybody, have it blinking SOS

[Pyramid_Head]

Originally Posted by gimlet ↗

Light'em up, shoot them and see if they're pussies. They've only mastered interstellar travel.

I could make that "spinning" thing with a little time and less than $1000. Probably a common drone with a sphere made of wire and LEDs. Program the light to appear to spin, then if you want to fuck with everybody, have it blinking SOS

According the military vets, they have attempted in the past to intercept them and even shoot at them. Apparently these things are able to jam/disable our weapons when trying to lock onto them.