{"id":118472,"date":"2024-12-11T22:33:19","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T22:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/mystery-nj-drones-are-coming-from-iranian-mothership-offshore-congressman-suggests-should-be-shot-down-new-york-post\/"},"modified":"2024-12-11T22:33:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T22:33:19","slug":"mystery-nj-drones-are-coming-from-iranian-mothership-offshore-congressman-suggests-should-be-shot-down-new-york-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/mystery-nj-drones-are-coming-from-iranian-mothership-offshore-congressman-suggests-should-be-shot-down-new-york-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery NJ drones are coming from Iranian mothership offshore, congressman suggests: \u2018Should be shot down\u2019 – New York Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

A New Jersey congressman claimed Wednesday that the\u00a0mystery drones over the Garden State<\/a>\u00a0are from Iran, and they\u2019re being launched by a mothership parked off the East Coast.
Rep. Jeff Van Drew, a Republican, said the drones \u201cvery possibly could be\u201d from Iran, citing confidential sources during an appearance on Fox News Wednesday morning.
\u201cI\u2019m going to tell you the real deal. Iran launched a mothership that contains these drones,\u201d Van Drew said. \u201cIt\u2019s off the East Coast of the United States of America. They\u2019ve launched drones.\u201d
\u201cThese drones should be shot down,\u201d he said, adding that \u201cthe military is on full alert with this.\u201d
The Pentagon has later rebuked Van Drew’s claims, insisting there is “no evidence” the drones belong to a foreign adversary \u2013 but did not offer any explanation whatsoever as to what they actually are.
Van Drew has stood by his statements, however, sending a letter to President Biden imploring him to take action and laying out \u201ccircumstantial evidence\u201d supporting his claims.
\u201cWe have information that a sea-based Iranian drone mothership is currently missing from port, and that its embarkation timeline would align with the appearance of the New Jersey Drones,\u201d he wrote the president in a letter obtained by Agudath Israel of America news.
He added that Iran has previously sailed ships near the US, and that the country has a \u201csophisticated\u201d partnership with China over drone technology.
\u201cAnd of course, it is the policy of the Iranian government to bring about the destruction of the United States of America. While I remain open to alternate explanations, I have not been presented a single credible, cohesive narrative except for that Iran is controlling these drones,\u201d Van Drew wrote.
Van Drew\u2019s startling claim comes as officials have continually told Americans the drones pose no threat \u2013 even as the FBI has admitted they have no idea what they are or how to stop them.
The large drones have been spotted flitting across the night skies across Jersey for weeks<\/a>, baffling residents with mysterious arrays of flashing lights and seemingly aimless movements.
Sometimes numerous objects have been spotted flying in formation, and they\u2019ve begun appearing across parts of New York<\/a>, too.
The first reported sightings started on November 18, and have continued every night since, according to New Jersey Assemblywoman Dawn Fantasia, who partook in a legislature briefing with the State Police Wednesday.
Sightings have been reported from dawn through dusk, she said, with sometimes as many as 180 reports coming in per night. Last Sunday alone, there were 49 reported sightings, mostly in New Jersey.
And their technology appears to be particularly sophisticated. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy explained that every time officials begin trying to track them, the drones \u201cgo dark.\u201d
Officials say the drones are about six feet in diameter, stay in the air for up to seven hours at a time, and can cover at least 15 miles.
\u201cTo state that there is no known or credible threat is incredibly misleading, and I informed all officials of that sentiment,\u201d Fantasia wrote in a post on X.
Addressing them has also become a bureaucratic snafu, Fantasia noted, explaining that the State Police doesn\u2019t have the jurisdiction to intercept them in the skies, that the FBI is leading the investigation with the Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness, and that the US Coast Guard seems to have the most authority to intervene.
Rep. Van Drew said intelligence indicates Iran recently made a deal with China \u201cto purchase drones, motherships, and technology,\u201d and that the mothership containing them arrived off the east coast \u201cabout a month ago.\u201d
“We\u2019ve got to get them down,\u201d Van Drew said. \u201cRight now, they\u2019re probably extracting information. This is a clear and present danger to the United States and our president elect, and this is a serious business.\u201d<\/strong>
One high ranking Jersey State Police source said everybody is \u201cbefuddled\u201d \u2013 and that nobody knows \u201cwhat the f–k is going on.\u201d
\u201cThe lack of a coordinated response is troubling,\u201d the source told The Post. \u201cI have never had anything in my time where no one knows what\u2019s going on. But no one seems that concerned but the people who do national intelligence, the FAA, FBI.\u201d
Speculation about the objects\u2019 origins has ranged from Chinese spy operations \u2014 to visitors from other planets \u2014 to top-secret experimental military tech operated by the US government itself.
US military officials have reportedly insisted the drones do not belong to them or any secret operations, which Gov. Murphy said \u201cI want to believe, but\u2026\u201d during a briefing with state lawmakers Wednesday.
“If anyone really knows they are not telling\u00a0us,\u201d Murphy said, “They keep doubling down\u00a0on \u2018There’s no threat,\u2019 but they can’t find them and track them.\u201d
\u201cBut when\u00a0people are saying that there is no credible\u00a0threat, I believe\u00a0they are saying they don’t know if there is one. That’s concerning.\u201d
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A New Jersey congressman claimed Wednesday that the\u00a0mystery drones over the Garden State\u00a0are from Iran, and they\u2019re being launched by a mothership parked off the East Coast.Rep. Jeff Van Drew, a Republican, said the drones \u201cvery possibly could be\u201d from Iran, citing confidential sources during an appearance on Fox News Wednesday morning.\u201cI\u2019m going to tell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-118472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-us","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}