Sunday Story: The UAP Series Part 6 - Let's Talk About Drones

Welcome back to the fifth and final entry into the UAP series. We expect there will be much more to say on this topic in the future, but we’ll wrap this particular series up for now on a current events topic: Drones.

To recap in case you haven’t been following along, governments have changed their tune on UFOs - now called UAP - and are saying they are real and they cannot figure them out. At the same time, former employees of the government are saying there exists a clandestine crash retrieval program designed to capture and reverse engineer craft made by non human intelligences. We’ve ran through the various hypothesis - it could be a hoax, in which case we’ve got a problem because the people with their fingers on the nuke button are nuts. It could be secret tech by the Americans, in which case some clever scientists have figured out a new means of producing energy, which is going to transform the economy. It could be an adversary, in which case the balance of power in the world is about to change in a big way. Or it could be what they’ve said it is: Craft from a species that isn’t Human.

The fact of the matter is, we don’t know what UAP are - but there’s clearly something going on, especially over the last few weeks with countless “drone” incursions that are happening all over the place. Maybe you’ve already heard about them on the news, but the UAP-focused communities we have the privilege of being a part of have been alight with this issue for days now. The short version of the story is that folks have been reporting a huge number of highly complex drones invading protected airspaces in Langley, Colorado, New Jersey, and the UK - so far. So what exactly is going on?

It’s hard to say - and that’s a problem. It’s important to first contextualize this whole issue so you can understand what’s going on. The term “Drone” typically refers to an unmanned remote control air vehicle. This can range from a hobbyists camera drone that you can buy at Costco all the way up to a full blown assault airplane like the Predator drones, and they’ve been around for a long time. The Predator drone was first introduced in the 1990's, and drone based warfare has been a fact since that time. Indeed, the conflict in the Ukraine is showing the next evolution of drone based warfare, as they’ve been able to using drones to great effect at disabling Russian military might. The Chinese are big into drone investment as well, and has been for a while, so the idea of drones being used in military settings is well established.

This fact is what’s making the current flap so hard to understand. As the above-linked articles show, these “drones” are being seen over highly sensitive US military facilities. And yet, the headlines claim that the pentagon is “baffled” by these mysterious drones; they don’t know whose they are or where they come from, and yet they don’t seem to think they are a threat.

We spent trillions of dollars on our military. Their entire job is to know what’s going on to keep folks protected. Yet on this issue, they appear to be completely unable to respond - and it’s not like they aren’t prepared for drone issues. As mentioned earlier, drones in the military are well established. The US Military in particular has some fantastic technology specifically designed to take down drones.

Why aren’t they using it?

Why can’t they tell where these drones come from? The US Department of Defense says they are unable to determine who is operating them, but that the quantity, size, and number of these drones suggest this is not a bunch of hobbyist activity. So, let’s go through the possible explanations of this situation:

1) A large corporation, like a private military contractor, or research wing of the US Government is deploying some proprietary technology that they have developed and is somehow able to avoid being taken down by American anti-drone technology. That means that the US Government is either not using their anti drone technology on these craft - suggesting this company is working for the US Government on whatever it is they are doing - or that the anti drone technology does not work on these drones, which suggests a technological leap forward. Again, if this is an American company working for the American DOD, this is great, but if that’s not the case…

2)…then we’ve got a foreign adversary - Russia or China - able to fly their drones with impunity over some of our most protected airspaces. This has many concerning implications - first and foremost, the act of surveillance in this way is regarded by many as being an act of war, which is a bold escalation of international tensions from whomever this is that is responsible for these incursions. This has a particularly destabilizing effect during this sensitive time of regime change in the United States. The more important implication here is that again, if these things are impervious to anti-drone technology (explaining why the US has not shot them down), then it means a foreign adversary has a technological advantage over us that is significant, and is using it in a hostile way.

3) And if it’s not ours, and it’s not theirs, then…what are they? That leaves the UAP question, with an emphasis on the “U”, doesn’t it? Certainly, many of these drones appear to be exactly that - drones - and others are misidentified helicopters and aircraft of totally prosaic origin. But others report some strange characteristics, and there’s no question that there’s been airspace restrictions and in the case of the UK, and that the pentagon doesn’t seem to know what to do about it. But regardless of what these objects end up being, the fact that there is so much secrecy and mystery around this UAP topic caused by the government’s 180 degree about-face on how serious it is means that rumours and speculation is running rampant. Indeed, social media was alight with discussions of an alien invasion on December 3rd largely driven by these incursions, and this doesn’t get better on it’s own - rumours and fear will continue to percolate, and any unusual activity in the sky will contribute to increasing the intensity of this disruption until we get a better understanding on the UAP issue. And make no mistake - this kind of thing can be very disruptive. Remember when the media made people think they might not be able to buy toilet paper for a few days? Folks panicked, and we ended up with massive shortages. We are not calm when the wrong rumours run amok, and mass drone sightings coupled with rumours of UAP invasions, in the background of very real, very credible and as-yet unresolved allegations of secret NHI crash retrieval programs is the wrong kind of rumour for a calm society.

A common thread in the world of UAP encounters is that the visitors from out of town will sometimes leave messages with those they’ve communicated with - particularly children, as was the case in two mass sighting incidents that had many children and adults see both the craft and occupants. These incidents were in Zimbabwe and Australia, separated by decades, but shared the same message: The visitors allegedly told the children that we needed to take better care of our planet, and to stop the use of Nuclear weapons. It has not gone unnoticed by folks paying attention to this issue that this drone flap over the UK started shortly after the United States returned nuclear weapons to UK soil. 

Listen, we’re not saying this drone incursion is UAP - some may be, but many are demonstrably not. And we’re not judging the veracity of the claims made by school children about aliens and nuclear weapons. But what we are saying is that we’ve got one heck of a big mystery on our hands right now.

What were those things buzzing the Nimitz and Roosevelt in 2004 and 2015, respectively, and shown in the New York Times article?

What are the things buzzing our airbases now?

Because they are causing a lot of people to expel a lot of energy trying to figure it out, and it’s not going to get less disruptive as the mystery continues unresolved.