Massive UAP over Bedminster, NJ (X screencap).
Just when the two-headed media monster of the Daniel Penny trial and the United Healthcare killer was beginning to fade, a new time-sucking story has emerged: the mystery of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP).
The drones--if they are indeed drones--are reported to be as small as one foot wide, and up to ten feet, or "SUV sized", have been recorded in the skies over New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, and even in Washington, DC. Statements from the federal government officials all boil down to an eerie and unsatisfying "we don't know."
Time lapse video of the New Jersey drones the other night pic.twitter.com/SaoSUdo9i5
— Jayroo (@jayroo69) December 11, 2024
As reported by the NJ.com last week, FBI spokeswoman Amy Thoreson stated, “Unfortunately, we don’t have many answers, and we don’t want to guess or hypothesize about what’s going on."
The rash of sightings began nearly a month ago, but reports of UAPs have been growing over the past several years. One phrase that has consistently emerged: "Immaculate Constellation", reportedly a codename for a federal drone program.
Through a combination of whistleblower testimony in congressional hearings, anecdotal reports from former government officials, and retired military, one theory has emerged as the most prominent: that Immaculate Constellation is a Special Access Program (SAP), a top secret clearance government designation. As reported by the Post:
“My first guess is these are potentially government programs kept within what’s known as a ‘Special Access Program,’ which is purposely put together to keep even the most cleared people out — it truly is to keep it secret,” said Clint Emerson, a retired Navy SEAL and owner of security company Escape the Wolf.
“That’s why the government’s like, ‘We don’t know.’ They’re being truthful,” he said, adding that the circle could be as small as a dozen officials. “They don’t even know the program exists.”
...“The beauty of a [special access program] is they’re kinda in their own lawless little world,” Emerson said. “They can go do whatever they want, and they don’t have to tell anybody.”
First, a Chinese spy balloon drifted across U.S. airspace for a week.
— Congressman Jeff Van Drew (@Congressman_JVD) December 10, 2024
Now, unidentified drones are flying over New Jersey, avoiding radar detection.
Gaps in our airspace are being exploited, and because of it, the safety of Americans is at risk. pic.twitter.com/cqnhdLchtg
While the SAP angle is believable, it's also awfully convenient, a nebulous way to end a line of questioning. Further, it fails to address why, if the program is so secret, is it so visible? In many cases, the UAPs are operating over highly populated territory.
Video of the drones has shown them entering dark mode once witnesses began to to take video (or in one case, when a man shined a green laser at the object).
Clearly, the drone operators want the drones to be seen. Otherwise, why not always operate in dark mode? Why operate in populous areas? One theory: our cold war adversary China has recently demonstrated its drone capabilities online, so it follows that the US would want to reply in kind.
It's an ironic shame that the US is the side doing secret surveillance on our own people, while China wows the world with a stunning display of technical wizardry.
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How are dozens of SUV-sized drones flying over New Jersey on a nightly basis and nobody in our government knows where they’re coming from or what they’re doing?
— The Kevin Harlan Effect (@KevHarlanEffect) December 11, 2024
FBI, Congress, local officials - all baffled.
And no one is even talking about it?
WHAT?!pic.twitter.com/7ldNDqF94Y
A more plausible theory: the drones are testing their intelligence gathering capabilities, perhaps even intercepting data transfers such as cellular phone communications. More from Emerson:
Emerson said it’s impossible to know what the drones might be doing — but he suspects the secret is the technology they’re carrying, not the devices themselves.
“It could be different types of collection capabilities — so, different types of cameras, like high-definition, infrared or thermal,” he said.
A second payload, for instance, could be hardware that grabs all the cellphone data in a given environment.
“How much data can we collect with this? Let’s say we got 10 drones, they fly in a grid, how much cellphone traffic can we pick up? Not actual conversations. But just the signature of millions of cellphones. What can 10 drones pick up going over an area?”
“That’s a legitimate test,” he said. “They’re not invading your privacy. That’s legitimate data. And that’s a f–king capability.”
Some of the larger UAPs look like the highly controversial TR-3B, a craft allegedly reverse engineered from a supposedly recovered alien vehicle. TR-3Bs are not as recent a phenomenon as the rash of drone sightings. Multiple reports of descriptions matching the TR-3B shape and unique lighting pattern began in 1997.
UFO's are not from 'space' pic.twitter.com/i5jt6sQ3p7
— PatriotArmory (@Patriot_Armory) December 2, 2024
Several New Jersey residents have speculated that some of the UAPs in their airspace are TR-3Bs. That craft is its own rabbit hole, however, and ultimately a distraction from the larger question at hand.
Confounding the entire question of UAPs is the high quality of computer generated fake imagery that has become ubiquitous online. Smartphone apps can render reasonably believable videos of any number of phenomena in a matter of minutes. More advanced material can be produced with editable AI.
Society faces a dilemma in the age of AI, and it's not only the fear that the technology becomes self-aware and seeks to defend its existence (it already has). It's a less existential problem, but just as compelling: without reliable authenticity--the ability to believe our own eyes--what is reality? And without reality, truth itself becomes outmoded, antiquated.
That all of this is happening at a moment of global political inflection--the sweeping recognition that our sovereign countries are being sacrificed on the altar of globalism--is perhaps no mistake.
Now more than ever, we need skeptical, unique nations to balance and check those who would use such technology as UAPs to intimidate others, or seek to change their belief systems for the gain of political power.
So--keep your eye on the sky, but don't lose sight of God.
