The Department of Homeland Security, in conjunction with the FBI, released a statement today concerning the flood of reports of UAP sightings over New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere.
As you might expect, the language is dismissive, even cryptic, and conveys very little of substance. To be sure, no new information is provided.
Today, the @FBI and DHS jointly issued a statement on reported drone sightings in New Jersey ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/kzbmTzjvkr
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) December 12, 2024
And in case you thought normies went into hibernation after November 5, think again. Take the young fellow in the tweet below, for example. [Cappucci deleted his tweet after we published this article--we have replaced it with a similarly smug Cappucci tweet on the same subject. --Ed.]
The mass hysteria in New Jersey is very reminiscent of the “pitted windshield” scare of April 1954.
— Matthew Cappucci (@MatthewCappucci) December 8, 2024
Anyone old enough to remember the panic in Seattle? pic.twitter.com/Rype14Uhys
In the 8 minute clip, Matthew Cappucci--a self-described "atmospheric scientist" (aka weatherman) whose CV includes The Washington Post and NPR--explains with impatient certitude that the FBI is correct, and the torrent of reports from the public are all nonsense, a bunch of "gullible" idiots.
You know, the FBI! The same agency that hemmed and hawed for four years about having assets in the J6 crowd...until after Director Wray's recent resignation, and after the election. Yeah, the good old nonpartisan FBI.
Cappucci then explains, without a hint of irony, that the UAP story represents a decline in American critical thinking. He demonstrates a hefty dose of confirmation bias when he claims the "drone" videos that are, in fact, simply commercial or private aircraft flying over.
These do exist. Some of the UAP footage on social media does appear to be nonsense.
"People are so easy to manipulate these days," Cappucci intones in a grating tenor, blissfully unaware that his argument is based on the logical fallacy of appeal to authority.
At no point does Cappucci address videos of: 1) massive hovering drones; 2) drones that go dark when people begin to take video; 3) drones that experience battery failure when flown too close to UAPs, and a host of other curious phenomena.
Unsurprisingly, Cappucci turns up elsewhere in the media in a debunker role. Reacting to the strange weather phenomena around Hurricane Helene, he was quoted in an October New York Times piece about weather conspiracy theories.
To be clear, The Manhattan is not claiming that all of the stories and theories about the UAPs are true, just that individuals like Cappucci are generalizing, and not providing any evidence to the contrary.
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Could all the claims be hoaxes? Or mass induced psychosis? Sure, that's a possibility. Might some of the videos and claims be bogus, while others are unquestionably irregular, meriting further investigation? Of course. Might all the reports be genuine, and proof of a vast invasion or secret governmental operation? Unlikely, but conceivably possible.
In the end, Cappucci is figure the legacy media has chosen to debunk some recent controversies. That alone makes his flippant dismissal of public alarm suspicious.
Cappucci did not respond to our inquiry about well documented aurora borealis-like occurrences in the Deep South prior to Hurricane Helene (and in the Southern Hemisphere!) by the time of publication.
