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No actual drones have been recovered, and footage on X frequently features amateur videos mistaking drones for commercial aircraft. Furthermore, as far as we know, the FAA has not closed large sections of airspace or diverted planes. While we are not dismissing the possibility of foreign adversary-operated drones breaching heavily restricted airspace, we are pointing out the extraordinary hype on social media (with no substance), which has caused widespread panic with some users on X calling this a "psyop."
X user mcm_ct_usa makes the point the purported drone sightings could be a"psyop against you to manipulate Congress into passing the new H.R.8610 (Counter-UAS Authority Security, Safety, and Reauthorization Act of 2024)which will include appropriations and enhanced government powers to control you, and they're even going so far as to use it to push for acts of war against other countries."
It's coincidental that last week, a Homeland Security joint subcommittee held a hearing on H.R.8610, the Counter-UAS Authority Security, Safety, and Reauthorization Act.This bill would renew and reform counter-UAS legal authorities and strengthen the FAA's oversight powers of drones.
"The reason we need legal authority is that without it, use of the most effective types of drone detection and counter-drone technologies could violate criminal laws,including those that prohibit destroying or disabling aircraft in flight and intercepting signals and communications," said Brad Wiegmann, the DOJ's deputy assistant attorney general for national security.
Withcurrent drone-countering authorities set to expire on Dec. 20,the sudden surge in purported drone sightings and the accompanying MSM and social media panic might make a bit more sense—as an effort to push for the reauthorization of Orwellian drone laws.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nj-drone-invasion-just-time-congress-reauthorize-orwellian-law