The drone sightings over New Jersey have prompted a litany of conspiracy theories to fly throughout the web – together with a authorities psychological operation to aliens to a international army menace.

Ring-wing commentators are spreading the theories as sightings proceed to be reported throughout the East Coast. The Federal Aviation Administration has mentioned that the primary sighting befell on November 18 near Morris County, New Jersey, with sightings subsequently being reported in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York.

The FBI and Division of Homeland Safety mentioned in a joint assertion Thursday that there’s “no proof right now that the reported drone sightings pose a nationwide safety or public security menace or have a international nexus.”

Homeland Safety Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas informed ABC Information Sunday, “There’s no query that individuals are seeing drones.”

“I need to guarantee the American public that we within the federal authorities have deployed further sources, personnel, expertise to help the New Jersey State Police in addressing the drone sightings,” he added.

“A few of these drone sightings are, actually, drones. Some are manned plane which might be generally mistaken for drones,” Mayorkas mentioned. “However there’s no query that drones are being sighted.”

“We deploy personnel, expertise, and, if there may be any purpose for concern, if we determine any international involvement or legal exercise, we’ll talk with the American public accordingly,” the secretary famous. “Proper now, we’re not conscious of any. If we turn into conscious of any, we’ll talk accordingly and take acceptable motion.”

However that hasn’t stopped the sharing of more and more weird conspiracy theories.

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Undertaking Blue Beam

Comic Roseanne Barr helped push the conspiracy concept advocated for by Infowars Alex Jones. The speculation has been round for many years and posits that the federal government will enact a faux alien invasion to induce societal panic to place in place authoritarian measures.

Jones claims that the challenge will begin with holograms, whereas Barr seems to suppose that drone sightings are the start of this plan.

“Now you see why I point out Undertaking Blue Beam each week on my podcast…..” Barr wrote on X Saturday.

Ufologist and retired doctor Dr. Steven Greer appeared on Jones’s present final week claiming that “All of them have this agenda to need to management the world by way of one calamity after the opposite, and the massive one they’ve been planning is the hoax of an alien menace from outer house.”

Aliens

Every day Wire commentator Matt Walsh prompt that the drones are extraterrestrial.

“Anybody who thinks the drones over Jersey are extraterrestrial is further silly,” Jeremy Boreing wrote on X.

“I agree. Anybody who merely thinks they’re aliens is silly. I do know they’re aliens. There’s actually no different believable rationalization,” Walsh responded.

A lot of movies generated by synthetic intelligence have been shared on YouTube to recommend that an alien invasion is underway.

Drone warfare coaching

Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote on X on December 12, “It’s a slap within the face that the Pentagon continues to inform the American individuals they don’t know who’s flying the drones over New Jersey.”

“I feel the Pentagon completely is aware of, however they’re stuffed with crap. And if they really don’t know, these officers ought to resign in shame. Fortunately, in only a few extra weeks, we can have individuals in cost who can inform us what that is,” she added.

“The federal government is in charge of the drones and refuses to inform the American individuals what’s going on. It truly is that unhealthy,” she added Sunday.

She additionally prompt that the drones are a part of the U.S. army and that they had been coaching for drone warfare.

“The federal government wants to return clear and inform the American individuals what’s going on. That’s probably the most infuriating half to me. The federal government lies and hides the whole lot whereas the individuals need to pay for all of it,” she wrote on X.

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A international menace

New Jersey Republican Rep. Jeff Van Drew prompt on Fox Information final week that the drones are coming from an Iranian “mothership.” The previous Democrat additionally argued that the Pentagon is hiding what’s actually happening.

“We aren’t being informed the reality,” Van Drew mentioned. “They’re coping with the American public like we’re silly.”

The Pentagon rejected that declare.

“There isn’t any Iranian ship off the coast of the USA, and there’s no so-called mothership launching drones in the direction of the USA,” spokesperson Sabrina Singh mentioned, in line with The Every day Beast.

Stopping Trump from stepping into workplace

A publish on X by consumer Peggy Dodson included a video of air visitors at an airport, which she mentioned was proof that the drones are “one thing the Biden administration is utilizing together with the darkish exos to create one thing that may cease Trump stepping into workplace.”

The publish has been seen hundreds of thousands of occasions, in line with X.

Detecting radiation

Others are suggesting that the federal government is utilizing drones to detect radiation as they anticipate an explosion of a unclean bomb.

‘Biblically correct angels’

One YouTube consumer shared a video with the title “Biblically Correct Angels Are Haunting New Jersey” and X consumer @beckibella wrote that “these will not be “#drones” they’re #Orbs both signify extremely superior terrestrial applied sciences, both army or personal sector, utilizing mechanisms past publicly identified capabilities. Or they’re Interdimensional or Religious Entities or a mixture of each.”