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Is it a bird, is it a plane? No, it's a flock of SUV-sized drones in the skies above New Jersey. The world has been gripped by the story of giant drones swarming the skies, and while the wild notion it was an alien invasion has quickly been debunked, we're no closer to figuring out what's actually going on. Joe Biden has said there's 'no sense of danger' from the drones, Donald Trump has accused the current President of hiding something, and even the FBI admits it doesn't know what's going on.
First reported above New Jersey on November 18, the drones only appear at night and have been spotted every evening aside from Thanksgiving. State and federal agencies can't confirm how many sightings there have been, with estimates ranging from 400 to 'thousands'. As panic ensures and the general public continue to come up with their own weird and wonderful theories, Joe Rogan has become an unlikely spokesman on the issue.
After already admitting he was 'concerned' by the theory the drones are looking for a gas leak or hidden radioactive material, he's back to discuss the New Jersey drones on his The Joe Rogan Experience podcast.
Former Navy pilot Ryan Graves warned that law enforcement hasn't been able to locate the drones with infrared systems, suggesting they're equipped with 'some type of signature management'. Graves told Rogan: "We do this in fighter jets... where we cover the engine to essentially make it harder to see, but to have zero ability to detect or lock onto these objects is not the technology I'm familiar with."
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He added they they aren't behaving like a typical aircraft would, saying that something feels off: "They remain in the area for another five or six or seven hours and still have the battery life or whatever's propelling them to then go over the ocean to a point where they're untrackable again. I'm not really familiar with that type of capability."
Graves goes on to say they're coming from 'somewhere' over the ocean: "I don't know if that means necessarily they're popping out of the water physically, or if they're coming from some unknown location in the water and then proceeding over the coast."
After Graves said even the government doesn't seem to know if the drones are emitting their own energy source, Rogan chimed in saying: "That's so weird that they don't know that...It's just very disturbing that someone could operate these things."
The pair mull over how the drones could be completely autonomous and fly off after completing their task, but what is their task?
Away from Rogan's theorizing, others claim it's all linked to the Project Blue Beam conspiracy from the 1990s. Back then, Project Blue Beam was pitched as an idea where the global elite would try and destabailize society by faking alien invasions and other supernatural events to spread panic and install a new world order.
As the mystery continues, the FBI and New Jersey state police took to X and asked resident not to shoot down the drones after complaints from pilots: "There is also a concern with people possibly firing weapons at what they believe to be UAS [unmanned aircraft systems] but could be manned aircraft."
