The enigmatic drones looming over the tri-state area are likely a deliberate distraction by a foreign power trying to hide other nefarious activities in the US, one expert has claimed.
“These drones and this activity is too large, too well-organized to be the work of hobbyists,” Gordon Chang, a senior fellow at the Gatestone Institute think-tank and author of “Plan Red: China’s Project to Destroy America,” told Fox Business.
“And that sort of leaves foreign powers. It could be Iran, it could be Iran in connection with China, but clearly, somebody is trying to absorb our attention,” he claimed of the numerous sightings of the well-lit drones.
“The thing that really worries me is that if they’re trying to draw our attention to these drones, the question is what are they doing elsewhere in our country? So we could very well get hit,” warned Chang.
Mysterious drones have been looming over the East Coast, particularly New York and New Jersey, over the past few weeks, with at least 3,000 sightings reported in the Garden State this month alone.
The Federal Aviation Administration said it began receiving reports as far back as Nov. 18.
Here’s what we know about the mystery drones hovering over the East Coast
- The drones first made headlines after a medical helicopter was forced to turn around.
- The Biden administration brushed off the drones, claiming most sightings were planes and helicopters mistaken for drones.
- NJ Rep. Jeff Van Drew suggested the drones were coming from an Iranian mothership.
- The Pentagon denied the drones were from Iran or any other adversary.
- A heat map shows the staggering number of sightings over one NJ county.
- Experts say there are only a few possible explanations for the drone sightings.
- Follow along with The Post’s live updates on thedrone sightings.
Tensions over the mysterious flying objects hit a boiling point Saturday in New York after Gov. Hochul declared it’s time to take action.
“This has gone too far,” she said in a statement announcing that she asked federal authorities to authorize local police departments to shoot down drones.
On Sunday, Hochul announced that federal authorities gave the go-ahead to deploy a high-tech drone detection system to New York State to aid in the investigation.