The incoming president claims that the US government knows ‘all about’ the mystery drones that have forced the closure of airports and military airfields – and that he’ll reveal the truth soon
Donald Trump promises to share report on drones
Donald Trump has promised to reveal the truth about the New Jersey drone mystery imminently as the “government knows what is happening”.
The incoming president says the craft that have been seen in their droves across the East Coast have also spotted above his own Bedminster golf course in the state.
And, speaking in a televised news briefing from his Mar A Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, he claimed he will reveal the answers “one day into his administration” – which would be January 21.
He said: “I think it’s ridiculous that [the Biden administration] us not telling you about what’s going on with the drones,” adding that the unidentified aircraft are not just confined to the state of New Jersey, but had also been spotted in Virginia.
Trump has previously claimed that it was the federal government who are behind the hundreds of drones that have been seen flying over US military facilities and residential areas.
“The government knows what is happening,” the incoming president claimed. ”Our military knows where they took off from. If it’s a garage, they can go right into that garage. They know where it came from and where it went.”
He went on to say that the truth behind the mystery was being deliberately withheld from they public: “Our military knows and our president knows. And for some reason, they want to keep people in suspense.”
A majority of the drone sightings are thought to be the result of increasingly-popular cheap quadcopter drones flown by hobbyists. Most of these are manufactured in China, but the US Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) is considering a new rule to limit the sale of Chinese drones in the United States due to national security concerns.
The US army has already banned the use of drones made by China’s massive Dai-Jing Innovations company (DJI) by troops, over what it described as “increased awareness of cyber vulnerabilities.”
The low-cost drones routinely link back to DJI computer systems in China for software updates and day-to-day usage monitoring and maintenance.
Concerns have been raised that if the US military should not become become reliant on Chinese-made drones – as active-duty units already do in Ukraine and Israel – because the technology could easily be “switched off” by remote control from China. That could effectively “blind” US units in combat.
The company’s affordable cargo drones – which are capable of carrying payloads up to 60 pounds in weight – have no effective competition from any Western manufacturer.
When DJI was described in official Pentagon documents as a Chines military asset, the company took legal action, insisting that it “is neither owned nor controlled by the Chinese military.”
