With everyone screaming for answers, and U.S. officials — including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer — calling for action, you’d think we’d have heard something substantive by now about all of those UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) sightings that are being tentatively identified as drones flying above U.S. military installations and Donald Trump’s Bedminster golf course. As Senator Schumer said:

“We’ve seen lots of recent sightings in New York, New Jersey, Long Island, Staten Island. So it’s remarkable, with all these sightings over the last while, why do we have more questions than answers? If the technology exists for a drone to make it up into the sky, there certainly is the technology that can track the craft with precision.” [John Bacon and Thao Nguyen, USA Today, December 16, 2024.]

On Sunday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas tried to reassure us with this announcement:

“There’s no question that people are seeing drones. I want to assure the American public that we in the federal government have deployed additional resources, personnel, technology to assist the New Jersey State Police in addressing the drone sightings. It is our job to be vigilant. If there is any reason for concern, if we identify any foreign involvement or criminal activity we will communicate with the American public accordingly. Right now we are not aware of any.” [Id.]

Sorry, Secretary Mayorkas, but somehow I don’t find that particularly comforting.

However, I was delighted to read this from Connecticut Representative James Himes, who seems to have an inside track to . . . well, he didn’t exactly say where, but certainly somewhere . . . and who shared with us in an interview on Fox News Sunday:

“Now, let me say something that I know with confidence. It is not the Iranians. It is not the Chinese. They aren’t Martians. I know that’s very unsatisfying for people who want a Hollywood movie out of this.” [Id.]

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Well, Hollywood movie be damned. I’m just relieved to have it on such good authority that they’re not little green men from Mars. I’ll sleep so much better tonight!

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
12/16/24