On Sunday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas confirmed the sightings included drones, as well as manned aircraft commonly mistaken for drones. He told ABC News that he knew of “no foreign involvement” related to the sightings.
The Pentagon has denied the suggestion of one New Jersey representative that the possible drones were coming from an Iranian “mothership” lurking off the east coast, while an FBI official has said there may have been “a slight overreaction” on the topic.
According to Mayorkas, the uptick in drone reports may be due to a change in federal regulations allowing drones to be flown at night.
This drone shit has the UFO communities online going even more bonkers than usual. I saw a video earlier of a drone shooting off a firework rocket and every comment was shockingly credulous. They were declaring that it was a UFO being shot down by AA guns, or that it was UFO-UFO aerial combat, or that it was a show of strength from the aliens. A couple people dissented and pointed out that it was very obviously fireworks attached to a regular ass drone, and were accused of being disinformation agents or government bots. The vibe was one of terror, many of the comments saying explicitly that they were scared and that “something huge is coming.” All that over a video of a firework rocket being launched from a drone, which conveniently had no sound included so you couldn’t hear the obvious whirrrr and POP crackle of the very human, very commonplace technology on display.