Should We Be Worried About the Recent Drone Swarms? Pt. I

Are these objects in the skies over the East Coast just drones, or are they something else?

Some suggest they’re a precursor to an alien invasion. Others suggest they’re military controlled sniffers looking for a lost nuclear weapon.

Another theory is that they’re being sent by an Iranian mothership off the U.S. coast.

First off: no, they aren’t aliens. Nor are they military craft looking for a lost nuke. And if they were Iranian or any other hostile country, we’d have stopped them a long time ago.

Heck, our Coast Guard would simply love an opportunity to be the heroes by stopping a hostile ship in home waters.

We do know that most of the reported sightings are actually not drones.

A great example is former Republican governor of Maryland, Larry Hogan, who claimed to have seen a drone swarm above his house, only to find out later that he was photographing the constellation Orion.

Another good example of how even our supposedly ‘intelligent’ government officials are falling to drone hysteria was when Pennsylvania state senator (and former Army officer, and gubernatorial candidate) Doug Mastriano saw an online meme of a Star Wars TIE-fighter on a trailer with the joking caption suggesting it was a recently shot-down drone in Orange Beach, New Jersey.

He fell for it hook, line, and sinker, claiming it was proof that the drones are a ‘threat to our nation and our citizens.’

Not Aliens, Iranians, or Any Other -ians, So What Are They?

Meanwhile, cooler heads are trying to prevail. Former congressman and veteran pilot Adam Kinzinger has said in a CNN interview and on social media posts, ‘I’ve spent days looking at every one of these videos. Every video I’ve seen on Twitter and on the Internet are all airplanes… If they are drones, they are apparently complying with FAA lighting requirements.’

So, if they aren’t aliens, Iranians, or any other -ians, what are they?

First: yes, there is reason for some concern. The ability for someone, even civilian pranksters, to fly drones near commercial airfields or over U.S. military bases or through controlled airspaces is concerning.

While the recent drone inclusions in New Jersey and adjoining areas on the East Coast have been a national story for weeks now, what mainstream media isn’t reporting is that these drones are not the only swarms this country has had to deal with.

There have been similar drone swarms in recent years in Colorado in 2019 and 2020. Also at the highly sensitive Nevada National Security Site in 2023, and multiple incursions in California.

As far back as the summer of 2019, several USS Arleigh Burke-class destroyers were swarmed by multiple drones, or as the U.S. Navy called them UAVs, ‘unmanned aerial vehicles.’ As many as six at a time were spotted performing maneuvers extremely close to the ships, less than 100 miles off the California coast.

Just as alarming, for 17 days in December of 2023, drones flew unchallenged over Langley, Virginia, home to the headquarters of the CIA. There have also be incidents adjacent to the largest naval base in the world, Naval Station Norfolk, home to the U.S. Navy's Fleet Forces Command, and not far from the HQ for Seal Team Six.

It wasn’t until March 24, 2024, at a Senate Armed Force hearing that the first official comment about the Langley drone intrusions was officially announced. At that hearing, Lt. General Gregory Guillot, commander of NORAD and NorthCom, admitted not only that Langely and the adjacent areas were inundated by dozens of unknown drone overflights, but that more than 1,000 drone incursions occur over the U.S.’ southern border each month.

Regarding the Langley drone problem, General Guillot testified that ‘This emerging capability outstrips the operational framework that we have to address it.’

This comment from one of the most high-ranking Air Force officers in the country might be a clue. He’s saying under oath that we don’t have the resources to combat this many drones in so many locations.

Should we be worried? The short answer is, yes.

The U.S. Has No Way to Prevent It

Not because these may be aliens or Iranian craft, but because these drones are overflying military installations, and we currently have no way to prevent them. In addition to the drones over Langley in 2023 and the ones harassing the U.S. destroyers in 2019, there have been additional military sites that have been the subject of these drone swarms.

More recently, the Marine Corps base at Camp Pendleton saw multiple drones over its airspace, which is a federal offense. The Department of Defense has also admitted, as of December 14th, 2024, that drones have been sighted over Picatinny Arsenal and Naval Weapons Station Earle, both in New Jersey.

Then there are the drones over the Nevada National Security Site, where test flying of top secret aircraft is performed, including the new B-21 Raider.

These overflights of military bases seem to rule out civilian craft, especially as they’re flying with lights on them and clearly following FAA regulations. If someone was trying to spy on or even prank the military, they’d conceal their craft by dousing their lights.

These overflights would also appear to rule out one of the most recent explanations: that the drones are part of a NASA project testing a project called the Advanced Air Mobility Mission, which just happens to be based two miles from the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.

This close proximity, some researchers are suggesting, explains why there were so many overflights of the Langley area in December of 2023.

But this explanation doesn’t answer a number of questions. For example, what would NASA be doing messing around with destroyers performing active naval duties a hundred miles off the coast of California?

And if the drones in New Jersey were indeed part of this program, why wouldn’t NASA have come forward immediately and admitted they were behind these events?

In fact, as of December 18th, NASA has still made no such admission.

A Deeper and Darker Cause

Another problem is that it’s extremely risky to be testing unproven technology, whether NASA or military, over civilian locations, and in such close proximity to busy airports and active military bases.

Military and foreign affairs commentator Paul at Combat Vet News remarked, ‘None of this is the response that you'd expect from the government if this was a classified program that was being tested,’ which includes the NASA program as well.

These concerns suggest the drones are not part of any NASA or military testing, especially if you’re unsure of the crafts’ success, and you want to be able to recover any debris or failed craft.

There is one more possibility that has not been offered up yet that we’ll cover in our next newsletter. One that does include why these drones would be overflying military bases, why they’re harassing on-duty naval ships, and why these drone swarms seem to move from place to place, perform their actions for weeks on end, then simply stop, pick up their gear, and move on to another location.

And this answer contains a much deeper and darker cause, and explains why no one in the U.S. government wants to admit what’s really going on.