On the drones, nothing to see here, just some research?

Research “and other purposes”. Pretty much a non-answer from the FAA. basically, we don’t have a need-to-know. We picked this item on the topic because it came, rather appropriately, from the Roswell Daily Record: publisher of historically significant UFO news since 1947! MH

In late 2024, residents of New Jersey and beyond were left bewildered by nightly drone incursions, with reports emerging of large, sophisticated drones evading traditional detection methods. The phenomenon, initially dismissed as a figment of imagination and mass hysteria, soon escalated into a national security concern, as these unidentified drones were spotted not only over civilian areas but also near critical military installations.

Kevin Wright
Roswell Daily Record
Sun, 02 Feb 2025 

The Biden administration remained largely dismissive on the matter, and when President Donald Trump took office, his administration promised answers. However, the explanation provided by the Trump White House this past week raises more questions than it answers.

On January 28, 2025, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated that the FAA authorized the drones for research and recreational purposes. She further emphasized that the public need not worry, as these drones were operated by commercial entities, hobbyists and private individuals. Yet, this explanation does not square with the facts.If these were legally authorized flights, why were local, state and federal authorities, including the Department of Defense (DoD), unable to determine their origin in real-time? Moreover, why did the DoD publicly acknowledge the drones were sighted over multiple military facilities, including Picatinny Arsenal and Naval Weapons Station Earle,with no ability to identify their operators?

The mystery extends beyond New Jersey. Reports from December 2024 indicate that similar drone incursions were taking place over Ramstein Air Base in Germany, a critical hub for U.S. and NATO operations. Around the same time, additional incursions were reported over military assets installations in the United Kingdom. The scale and precision of these operations suggest coordination beyond mere hobbyist flights or commercial testing.

This is not the first time such unexplained drone activity has been recorded over sensitive U.S. installations. In December 2023, unauthorized drones were reported over Langley Air Force Base in Virginia. Over three weeks, swarms of drones overwhelmed the base and were described as “so sustained and disruptive” that an entire fighter wing had to be relocated to another base. Despite efforts to track these incursions, officials never disclosed the operators or their purpose.The pattern repeated itself a year later, but the public is expected to accept an implausible FAA authorization story at face value this time.

If these drone incursions were indeed authorized for research, why were local law enforcement agencies kept in the dark? Why did intelligence officials and the military scramble to determine their origin? The lack of transparency from government agencies suggests either a profound failure of airspace security or an attempt to conceal an inconvenient truth. Are these incursions evidence of foreign surveillance operations? Are they linked to advanced drone technologies outside of conventional oversight? Or is there a more classified explanation that neither the Biden nor Trump administrations will disclose?

A largely unanswered and unasked question remains:

If this was truly for research, who was conducting this research, and what was the exact nature? What data were they gathering, and why was it necessary to perform these operations over critical military installations without coordination with relevant authorities? The public should know who sanctioned these flights and their ultimate purpose.

Someone isn’t telling the truth. Either the FAA has extended drone flight authorizations to an unprecedented and reckless degree, or the government is obfuscating the true nature of these aerial incursions. Neither possibility is reassuring. The notion that widespread drone incursions over civilian and military airspace, spanning multiple continents, were nothing more than FAA-authorized research defies logic.

There is, of course, a third option: someone lied to the Trump administration to continue to obfuscate the truth about the drone incursions.

Until a thorough and transparent investigation is conducted, one that provides verifiable data rather than dismissive reassurances, the public should remain skeptical of the official explanation. The sky above us is not just home to commercial airliners and weather balloons; increasingly, it is becoming an arena of unknown and unexplained activity. It is time for someone to tell the truth.