We’ve got some kind of weird social contagion going on in this country right now. Many people have a strange desire to have space aliens and UFOs turn out to be real. They’re seeing these supposed space alien craft everywhere these days, especially over New Jersey.
If you’ve turned on your television, you’ve no doubt seen breathless reports of “SUV-sized” drones that are flying around over New Jersey, particularly over Donald Trump’s golf course, that are making “impossible maneuvers.” Let’s take a closer look at this “phenomenon.”
If SUV-sized drones were really flitting around in the night sky over New Jersey, there would be a really easy way to tell. It’s called a “NOTAM.” This stands for Notices to Air Missions. Anytime an Air Traffic Control tower picks up something on radar or sees something visible to the naked eye that could present a danger to the thousands of commercial and amateur planes we have in the air at any given time, they issue a NOTAM.
If they spot a flock of birds in the sky that could get sucked into an engine, they issue a NOTAM. If an obnoxious teenager is shining a laser pointer into the sky, they issue a NOTAM. They issue NOTAMS if the lights are off on the top of a skyscraper, or if there’s a crane in the area that is unlit at night. Anything that a low-flying (or landing) airplane might bump into receives a NOTAM.
The four airports with ATCs closest to the area where these objects have been sighted are Trenton, Philadelphia, McGuire Air Force Base, and Monmouth Executive. Over the period of days when these quote-unquote SUV-sized drones have been clearly spotted flying over New Jersey, those four airports have issued a grand total of zero NOTAMs for drone activity.
NOTAMs are public. You can look them up on the interwebs. The FAA even has a whole website where every single NOTAM issued, 24/365, can be viewed. It’s right here!
If any pilot saw a drone zipping around, they’d be obligated to report it to ATC so a NOTAM could be issued. If a drone shows up on radar, ATC is obligated to issue a NOTAM.
The most laughable thing about this “phenomenon” is that there are idiots who somehow got elected to Congress who believe the intel agencies when they leak false stories about these being Iranian drones launched from a mysterious Iranian “mothership” that’s parked off the East Coast. The same country that permanent Washington wants to start a hot war with before Trump gets into office just so happens to be flying SUV-sized drones—lit up with blinking lights—over American airspace. What a weird coincidence!
If you think for a moment that these Members of Congress are not morons being manipulated by the intel agencies, I’d like to refer you to that handy resource known as the internet once again. Iran has two “motherships” that it uses as aerial drone platforms. Both are parked at the port in Bandar Abbas right now—on the other side of the planet.
The Deep State desperately wants to launch a hot war against Iran. While I’m certainly no fan of Iran, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that these are not drones being launched from an Iranian mothership. You just have to be smarter than Congressman Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) to figure it out.
But back to the NOTAMs. What’s the most logical conclusion we can come to based on the absence of any NOTAMs reporting these quote-unquote drones? The objects are visible to the naked eye. If you can see them with the naked eye from the ground, pilots in the air and ATCs can see them as well.
The reason why there aren’t any NOTAMS is that whatever these objects are (Airplanes. They’re airplanes. Spoiler alert.), they are authorized to be there. They aren’t space aliens or secret Iranian drones from a mothership using the bizarre tactic of blinky lights that are visible from the ground. They’re airplanes.
This is some kind of weird social contagion like the Salem Witch Trials or how every celebrity in Hollywood suddenly has a transgender kid.
Commercial pilots are laughing at this story right now all over social media, as Congress whips itself into a frenzy trying to figure out where these “Iranian drones” or space aliens are coming from. One pilot even pointed out from one of the grainy videos that you can just barely make out a mysterious alien symbol on the tail of one of the “drones.”
It reads… “United.”
The outer space aliens might show up tomorrow and then I’ll look really foolish. But as of right now, they ain’t in New Jersey.
