by Fabian Ommar, The Organic Prepper:
The latest “thing of the moment” is the mysterious drone sightings in New Jersey and East Coast airspace. It has the right combination of factors to go viral in a matter of days, sparking the wildest explanations and craziest theories. And so it did.
Earlier this week, I posted on X (@StoicFabian) it looked like another distraction, much like the Chinese Balloon story that caused similar commotion in the early months of 2023.
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I didn’t mean to sound like squads of drones suddenly flying day and night in formation over an area is routine or unimportant, just that the mass hysteria is unreasonable and unjustified. I’m an RC hobbyist and certified drone pilot myself. We use UAVs in engineering to perform a variety of tasks such as terrain surveys, topographic maps, structure analysis, and lots more.
These things are everywhere nowadays, from hobby flying to aerial photography, as well as in agriculture, and search and rescue… So what is this about?
I have no idea.
The evasive declarations by the U.S. government added gasoline to the speculation and conspiracy theories. Everybody from Joe Rogan to experts in all fields chimed in. We may never know for sure; this can turn into something, or fade away like so many other “issues”.
Missing radioactive material?
What motivated me to write about the episode was the declaration of New Jersey’s Belleville mayor, Michael Melham, that these drones could be “searching for missing radioactive material.”
Drones can be equipped with special sensors that detect radioactive particles, thermal signatures, and more from the air. They can be programmed to fly a grid automatically, covering large areas quickly. Even in the dark – though flying drones at night isn’t common, admittedly.
So, on the surface, someone (the government or whoever) using UAVs to “sniff out” something out there is in the realm of “probable,” however unusual or even suspicious.
Or, that could be an extra-official theory thrown out there by the authorities to avoid panic and satisfy the population, though in this case, I’d argue that “missing radioactive material” has a broad, broad meaning. It could be something small and relatively innocuous, but also a nuclear head gone astray.
The threat of “civil” radioactive material causing a small or medium-sized SHTF is real – so real, it happened in my country almost 40 years ago.
Everybody heard about Chernobyl, Fukushima, and Three Mile Island nuclear accidents. However, civil radioactive devices are also fairly ubiquitous in urban centers, where even a minor disaster can have severe consequences and affect a large area and population.
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