In mid-November, shortly after the election, the drone sightings began to mount. You remember. It was eerie. Easily written off by the media at first, the sightings--and video evidence--slowly flooded social media. The size and quantity of the vehicles (and footage) became impossible to ignore.
The Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP) became a new fact of life...during the transition of power.
Our government, led by the lamest of lame ducks in modern memory, repeatedly failed to provide clarity. The sound of dragging bureaucratic feet was deafening. Hearings were held for the mayors of affected municipalities, then for congress. Attendees left these meetings frustrated, with no solid answers.
In an information vacuum, the conspiracy theories naturally mounted. Were they here to spy? Protect? Locate stolen nuclear material?
Before the drone outbreak, there were ominous events in governmental expansion and legacy media which set the table for the Biden administration psy-op.
First, the Trump administration green-lighted Space Force, a new branch of the armed forces, and the eighth national, uniformed service group.
Star Trek jokes abounded, especially when the logo--looking very much like a version of the franchise's Starfleet Command--was revealed.
Still, it was a truly noteworthy development for the world's leading superpower to create a new military service group. Of note, Russia has had a space force since 1992, and China's People's Liberation Army Aerospace Force was formed in 2024.
Then the Chinese weather balloon, likely the test phase of the psy-op: queer similarities between a UAP...later identified as a weather balloon...finally shot down at the end of its mission...and labeled insignificant, despite counterclaims that it bristled with high tech scanning devices.
It can't be both.
In July of 2020, the New York Times--the "paper of record", buried quite a juicy lede in an article titled, "No Longer in Shadows, Pentagon’s U.F.O. Unit Will Make Some Findings Public". Roughly 70% of the way through the article, the following line appears:
Mr. Davis, who now works for Aerospace Corporation, a defense contractor, said he gave a classified briefing to a Defense Department agency as recently as March about retrievals from “off-world vehicles not made on this earth.”
In an era when more of the public trusted the media, the reaction to such news might have been a panic such as followed Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast in 1938. Instead, much of the country collectively yawned.
The Times article did sow the seed, however. It carved into the public record and collective conscience the concept of alien-made craft in US labs, not unlike the blockbuster 1996 film Independence Day.
For weeks during December and early January, the increasingly agitated press corps asked Karine Jean-Pierre for answers about the drones. "Atmospheric scientists" held forth on social media (one such person, Matthew Cappucci, even blocked The Manhattan over an article lampooning his smug critique of the situation).
High-ranking officials such as DHS boss Alejandro Mayorkas claimed his department lacked the authority to do anything. White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby seemed to struggle at times to keep a straight face when repeating vague claims about the government's purported ignorance.
Biden himself, doing his best open-mouth, elderly vacant stare, said the drones were "nothing nefarious, apparently". Now that's leadership.
Joe Biden finally addresses the drones spotted across the country: “Nothing nefarious, apparently... there’s a lot of drones up there authorized.. I think one started, and they all got — everybody wanted to get in the deal.”
— ALX (Vine Nationalist) 🇺🇸 (@alx) December 18, 2024
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And so it went, for weeks. A psy-op was almost certainly taking place, but why? The election was over.
In retrospect, it's not as confusing to see why Biden, Inc. wanted the nation buzzing about drones. The outgoing administration had a lot of loose ends to tie up, and a tone to set for Ol' Joe's Last Act. Some likely contributing factors for the smokescreen of UAPs:
Trump Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt brought closure to the subject of UAPs yesterday. As reported by ZeroHedge:
"An update on the New Jersey drones. After research and study, the drones flying over New Jersey in large numbers were authorized to be flown by the FAA for research and various other reasons. Many of these drones are hobbyist and recreational drones that enjoy flying drones," Leavitt said during her press conference. She concluded on the drone subject: "This was not the enemy."
OK, Ms. Leavitt. Either we take you at your word--which is vague enough as you passed the buck to a federal agency, the FAA. Perhaps something more sinister was afoot and we the people are only being given the mollifying version.
The first alarm: Leavitt de facto foisted the entire shenanigans off on Michael Whitaker, the then-head of the FAA. Funny how he never testified to what was going on with the drones. Whitaker, 63, was formerly the head of a Hyundai program that sought to develop an "air taxi" for the Korean chaebol. Hmm, sound like an SUV-sized drone to anyone else? That's alarm number two. The third? Whitaker was also a former FAA officer appointed by Barack Obama.
In either case, Whitaker stands out as a triple threat.
A deep-state pinch-hitter was called in in the eleventh hour, and months later, a massive psy-op occurred. The panic didn't last long enough to mute the Hunter Biden pardon, among other grotesque last-minute reprieves--oops!--but it did its share of the obfuscation.
