Mystery Drone Flaps

Mystery Drone Flaps – Last Updated 4/08/2025

 

Important TWZ (The War Zone) Articles:

“Though the concern about drones flying over military installations and other sensitive locations is legitimate, nearly all of the videos and imagery TWZ has reviewed are of private and commercial aircraft.

There is also growing speculation that many of these objects are UFOs, or what the Pentagon now refers to as unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs).

However, a spokesperson for the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the Pentagon office that handles these matters, told us that it “received no reports of UAP in conjunction with recent drone flights or incursions in the New Jersey area.””

… and … Tyler Rogoway wrote:

“Nearly every video I have seen has pointed to mass hysteria not a drone invasion of massive scale, with airliners, private jets, and helicopters being portrayed as mysterious objects. These videos are peddled for engagement by a growing number of online accounts. This is very unfortunate, because there does seem to be something going on here, but zero critical thought, even on a most basic level of the ‘evidence’ only fuels rumors and fear. It also clogs the channels for relevant evidence to break through. This is true on a public consumption and governmental/investigative level. It also puts aircraft in danger.”

 

 

Has any of the Drone-Flap media reporting referenced the emergance of drone delivery companies? Below is a screenshot of a Google search result for ‘drone delivery companies in usa’:

 

Claims, Rumors, and Supposed “News”:

“The recent epidemic of reported drone sightings across New York and New Jersey could be due to potential “gas leaks” or “radioactive material,” one subject matter expert has said.

Reports of mysterious drone sightings in multiple states have drawn widespread attention from lawmakers and members of the public in recent weeks. John Ferguson, the CEO of Saxon Aerospace, a drone manufacturer in Kansas, weighed in on the topic in a TikTok post that has gone viral.”

“Some news reports and internet pundits have been circulating copies of a state-level “intelligence” bulletin with instructions for people who come across downed unmanned aerial systems (UAS).”

“Belleville Mayor Michael Melham said on Friday that his fire department was briefed by state officials on what to do if one of the “SUV-sized” drones flying over the Garden State suddenly drops.

“That guidance does say two different things: First of all, if there is a downed drone in our vicinity, we are immediately to call the bomb squad of our county,” Melham said on Fox News.

“And second, our fire department has been instructed to make sure they wear hazmat suits.””

[Alleged document] : “New Jersey Division of Fire Safety, Intelligence Bulletin, Fire Threat Task Force – Intelligence Bulletin 24-1 – Recommendations For Encountering Downed UAV’s – Issued December 2024.” 

NOTE: If the above “Intelligence Bulletin” is real, why has it not seemingly been posted online at an official Alerts / Bulletins page like here: State of New Jersey > DCA Department of Community Affairs > Fire Safety > Bulletins & Alerts

See also… Fire Officer’s Guide to Disaster Control – FEMA Firefighters Guide (Chapter 13: Enemy Attack and UFO Potential)

 

Flashback!

 

See also…

 

See also at bottom of page…

  • Possible weird effects of exotic drone propulsion technologies as described by Jacques Vallee (1979) and Dr. Christopher “Kit” Green (2022).
  • Weird non-traditional drones such as Disney’s X-Wing and Firebreathing Dragon

 

These various drone waves remind us of one of the warnings from the CIA’s Robertson Panel conclusions RE: UFOs…

  • Robertson Panel – “The panel was briefed on U.S. military activities and intelligence; hence the report was originally classified Secret. Later declassified, the Robertson Panel’s report concluded that UFOs were not a direct threat to national security, but could pose an indirect threat by overwhelming standard military communications due to public interest in the subject. Most UFO reports, they concluded, could be explained as misidentification of mundane aerial objects, and the remaining minority could, in all likelihood, be similarly explained with further study.”

 

 

2025

Novel News – 

 

 

2025

US Military Installation Incursions in the US

“There were 350 detections reported last year on military installations, and that was 350 over a total of 100 different installations of all types and levels of security.”

 

 

2025

Non-US Military Installation Incursions 

Denmark –

 

Germany – 

 

2024

Authorities / Officials – Press Conferences etc.

Contradictory Government Messaging:

“We have not seen drones penetrate restricted airspace,” emphasized Department of Homeland Security Director Alejandro Mayorkas last Friday. “There are no reported or confirmed drone sightings in any restricted airspace,” stressed Pentagon spokesman John Kirby last week. “I want to go back to something I said at the top. There has been no evidence of any of this activity in or near restricted spaces.”

But drones have been violating the airspaces of US military bases for years, according to military observers, and Biden said the investigation into the drones had not been completed, which undermines his assurances that there is no threat. “They’re checking it all out,” said Biden. And a few hours after Mayorkas made his remarks on Friday, drone sightings in the airspace over Wright Patterson Air Base in Ohio prompted the base leaders to shut down the airspace.

“Most of the New Jersey drone sightings were misidentified,” noted the War Zone, which broke the story, “so it is notable that the ones spotted over Wright-Patterson, as with the other U.S. military installations, were seen by trained observers that are equipped with high-end gear to maintain security and to discriminate between friend and foe.”

As military journalist and Debrief publisher Tim McMillan noted last week, “A HUGE problem with the White House’s recent stance that the recent ‘mystery drone’ craze is effectively mass hysteria is that officials from Picatinny Arsenal” had told his Debrief colleague Micah Hanks “there had been nearly a dozen confirmed sightings of drones operating near the base going back to mid-November. This was before the reports of drones over bases in the U.K. and the viral news of incursions in New Jersey.”

On Monday, Kirby admitted, “There have been some drone sightings, I think, as you know, over some military bases,” without explaining why he had said the opposite days earlier.

SOURCE: US Government Disinformation On Drones Accompanies Growing Failure To Control Airspace – Plus: Exclusive to Public, the recording of the White House’s drone briefing for angry New Jersey mayors by Michael Shellenberger, Dec 18, 2024, Public.news

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“Scenarios:

Least Likely: The U.S. Department of Defense will quickly integrate UAS technology and training from Ukraine into its mainstream, operational-level, frontline units. It would take an unprecedented level of commitment from all levels of the command structure and an extraordinary degree of political cooperation to shift the status quo.

Most Likely: The U.S. will fall farther and farther behind the leading edge of UAS deployment and will only begin to respond in the aftermath of a crisis. My discussions with Capitol Hill legislators, frontline military leaders, defense analysts, and doctrine scholars lead invariably to the same independent conclusion: the American defense procurement system is too vast, and the regulatory frameworks too inscrutable, to meaningfully adopt UAS capabilities into existing defense doctrine or practice. An event akin to Pearl Harbor or 9/11, with the physical destruction of tens of billions of dollars of hardware and a substantial loss of life will be required to jumpstart the innovation cycle and break down the thickets of red tape which make initiative next to impossible.

Best Case: Conceivably, this kind of depressing scenario can be avoided through a well-managed artificial crisis. Historical examples, such as the famous sinking of the Ostfriesland, show that it is sometimes possible to break entrenched paradigms by publicly demonstrating the current system’s vulnerabilities. When understood by the right audiences, these demonstrations can shift doctrine development and tactical training in new and constructive ways—preferably before the lessons are learned the hard way.”

 

2024

US Military Installation Incursions in the US

“Picatinny “recorded 17 confirmed and unconfirmed sightings of drones over its territory since November 13, which was one of the earliest sightings over the state,” reported the New York Post.

Picatinny “has been helping develop robotic drones that can counter weapons of mass destruction,” noted the Post. A spokesman told the Post that the Arsenal had nothing to do with drones flying, even though the drones produced on site “can produce three-dimensional maps of urban areas and engage in surveillance to counter WMDs.”” SOURCE

 

 

US Military Contractor Installation Incursions in the US

“Palmdale Regional Airport shares the runways with Plant 42, which is home to Lockheed Martin’s famed Skunk Works advanced projects division, as well as similar arms of both Northrop Grumman and Boeing. NASA also has a flight testing center there. As a prime example of the work that goes on at Plant 42, it is where Northrop Grumman has been building the U.S. Air Force’s new B-21 Raider stealth bombers. America’s most sensitive and ‘bleeding edge’ aerospace weaponry emerges from this facility, so security at the installation, which is located in a relatively urban area, is taken very seriously.”

 

US Military Installation Incursions in the UK

 

Ramstein, Germany

 

 

DOE Department of Energy / Nuclear Facilities in 2024

 

Sweden

 

Arizona

 

California

“Newly obtained documentation from the United States Air Force (USAF), acquired by Liberation Times, reveals seven recorded instances of drone incursions over USAF Plant 42 and Palmdale Regional Airport, California, between 2 August and 9 August 2024.”

 

New Jersey

 

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Detective Anthony D’Amico using a drone from the Ocean County Sheriff’s Office to search for nearby drone activity in Seaside Heights, N.J. Credit... Dave Sanders for The New York Times

Above via NYTimes.com: Detective Anthony D’Amico using a drone from the Ocean County Sheriff’s Office to search for nearby drone activity in Seaside Heights, N.J. Credit… Dave Sanders for The New York Times

  • After Weeks of Drone Sightings, New Jersey Remains on Edge – In the Garden State, where the rash of sightings started a month ago, residents are looking to the skies, wondering why they still don’t have definitive answers from officials. By Alyce McFadden and Nate Schweber, Dec. 14, 2024, NYTimes

Sgt. John Frassetto, left, and Detective D’Amico monitor a live video feed from their drone in Seaside Heights. Credit... Dave Sanders for The New York Times

Above via NYTimes.com:  Sgt. John Frassetto, left, and Detective D’Amico monitor a live video feed from their drone in Seaside Heights. Credit… Dave Sanders for The New York Times

 

Pennsylvania

 

Texas

 

Utah

 

2023

US Military Installation Incursions in the US

Langley Air Force Base in Virginia

 

Maryland

 

 

DOE Department of Energy / Nuclear Facilities in 2023

“Drone incursions into restricted airspace were already worrying national-security officials,” reported the Wall Street Journal last month, before October 2023 when “five drones flew over a government site used for nuclear-weapons experiments. The Energy Department’s Nevada National Security Site outside Las Vegas detected four of the drones over three days. Employees spotted a fifth.” SOURCE

 

 

2022

US Military Installation Incursions in the US

HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah (ABC4) — Authorities at Hill Air Force Base investigated eight reported drone sightings or incursions on base since 2022, according to security reports ABC4 obtained in a Freedom of Information Act request.

In at least one incident, a drone was seen very close to fuel pumps on the base, raising concerns about the ability to adequately defend critical infrastructure from potential surveillance or attack.

 

Sweden

 

 

 

2021

Arizona

 

 

Near Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and other DOE facilities

May 2018 and April 2021

“One Operations Report filed in September 2021 describes an incident that occurred on the morning of April 1 of that year, where an LLNL employee reported seeing a suspected drone operating over the facility.  . . . 

A similar incident that occurred at LLNL on July 22, 2020, described a “white fixed wing drone flying over at approximately 100 feet above building 271 heading west bound.” The aircraft was monitored until it left the area, after which Oakland Flight Standards District Office, the FAA, and other regional authorities were notified.

Another Operations Report describing events that occurred in the early morning hours of October 18, 2019, describes a sighting of a UAS with “two red lights and one white light” believed to be equipped with a camera that was observed by an LLNL Site 300 Maintenance Mechanic. The object passed between 20 and 30 feet above the employee’s vehicle, and despite the close distance, no identifying marks could be seen on the UAS.

Another incident involving a possible drone observed near Site 300 was also reported on July 3 of that year, which followed a June 24, 2019 incident involving a “four rotor propeller drone” with blue and red lights observed 40 feet above building 583 that “appeared to be recording.””

 

 

 

 

 

MidWest Mystery Drone Wave of 2019-2020

 

This article (Colorado drone mystery sightings finally might be solved by Tom Roeder, gazette.com, Jan 5, 2020) implies that this MidWest Wave was likely the result of …

“…Air Force Global Strike Command, which is based in Louisiana, has confirmed that it conducts counterdrone exercises out of F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, where it is based. …

The Air Force counterdrone program at Warren, which includes extensive testing of civilian drones, relies on innovative technology including Dedrone, a system developed in Europe that detects and tracks small civilian drones using the radio signals they require for control.

Run by the 90th Security Support Squadron at Warren, the counterdrone program is one of several across the Defense Department to take aim at the unmanned aircraft. For the nation’s missile troops, the camera carried by small drones present a threat because they could give an adversary clues on how to attack intercontinental ballistic missile, a key component of American power.

The 90th Missile Wing has a military police unit equipped with helicopters to protect missile silos from threats on the ground. The Warren counterdrone program focuses on the small, commercially available drones that can be purchased on Amazon for as little as $50.”

However, other reports seem to directly refute that…

 

 

2019

 

Arizona 

 

Palo Verde Generating Station / Nuclear power plant in Maricopa County, Arizona

 

 

Waters off Southern California

 

 

 

1986

 

 

 

 

1949

 

 

See also…

  • Mystery Hums (AHI – Anomalous Health Incidents and Brain Injuries)

 

“An unclassified version of Dr. Green’s paper, titled ‘Clinical Medical Acute & Subacute Field Effects on Human Dermal & Neurological Tissues‘, was released last year under the Freedom of Information Act and describes symptoms of multiple sclerosis, brain damage, and burns sustained by patients from ‘CE-III-IV events’ [Close Encounters of the Third and Fourth Kind] – an apparent reference to interactions with, and even abductions by, UFOs.   . . . 

Dr. Green said he became the go-to expert for military patients who had out-of-this-world experiences backed up by witnesses and radar data – including cases of ‘big silent drones’ which ‘hovered and moved in odd ways’, ‘showed emanations of funny lights, patterns and strobes’, and even ‘cloaked or changed shape’ and ‘instantaneously appeared and disappeared’.   . . . 

The Wayne State School of Medicine professor said he believed some of the injuries he has seen arose from patients being too close to ‘subtle, highly powered, highly modulated microwaves’ and suggested in his study that soldiers could have been accidentally hit with powerful radio or electromagnetic frequencies from the propulsion systems of these strange hovering and rapidly moving aircraft.  . . . 

Green said many of his patients experienced burns and brain damage from their encounters with ‘unidentified aerial phenomena’.

He listed his patients’ varied descriptions of getting up close to a ‘big drone’, a ‘silent drone’ – or something even stranger.

‘Sometimes they hovered. Sometimes they moved in odd ways,’ he said. ‘Some did show clear, advanced cloaking. Some did show emanations of funny lights, patterns and strobes.

 

Jacques Vallee’s Messengers of Deception 1979

https://archive.org/details/messengersofdece0000vall/

Page 161
I took all my papers one day and drove to the house of Major Murphy, who had advised me to pursue my research of the contactee groups. We quickly agreed that the popular idea of flying saucers from outer space left much to be explained. The Major, who was still closely following government-funded research on parapsychology in the U.S. and seemed well aware of similar advances in the Soviet Union, suggested that the UFOs might not be spacecraft, but what he called “psychotronic devices.”

Page 164
“A lot of people got involved. Industrial concerns. Laboratories engaged in psychotronic research. The Nazi research on microwaves was child’s play compared to the sophistication of modern experiments. If someone is using this technology, we can assume they have also mastered pharmacology, the use of drugs to distort the memories of witnesses, the use of mind control to suggest stories, to plant fake observations. Don’t you think people should try to get some information about that before believing in friendly space visitors?”

 

 

Weird non-traditional drones

 

Isaac / CARET / Chad Mystery Drones circa 2007

 

Disney’s X-Wing

 

Disney’s Firebreathing Dragon / Universal Florida

[Technically not a drone: piloted paraglider with dragon puppet suspended below; however there are reports of a Universal Studios drone version]