Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Malek Dudakov
[REGNUM] American society has been plagued by unidentified flying objects for several years now. It's turning into a real "Groundhog Day." The ufologist movement has existed in the United States for many decades, but was considered a fringe movement. Now it's turning into the mainstream.
The traditional American search for mysterious saucers, balls and clots of light in the sky has been exacerbated by the drone revolution.
Since 2015, the Pentagon has been publishing photos and videos of various UFOs encountered by US Air Force military pilots. Several hearings in a row have already been held in Congress, at which retired US intelligence officials have testified, claiming that the US government allegedly has data on extraterrestrial activity.
Over the past decade, there has been a normalization of the discourse about UFOs, so it is not surprising that most Americans are now concerned about the appearance of mysterious objects in the sky.
In 2023, meteorological stratospheric balloons, dubbed "spy balloons" by tabloids and yellow press, caused a real panic in the United States. Several of them flew over states where Minuteman III intercontinental missile launch silos are located. Public hysteria forced the White House to raise fighter jets to destroy the balloons, and responsibility for their appearance was placed on China. This led to another bout of spy mania in American society.
A year and a half have passed, and the US is once again experiencing the same “Groundhog Day”. Only this time, the place of stratospheric balloons has been taken by mysterious drones, which have become very often noticed in the skies over the northeastern states of America.
First, they were spotted near the golf course of President-elect Donald Trump in New Jersey. Then - over the residences of the governors of New Jersey and neighboring Maryland. Then also over naval bases in the same states. It got to the point that airports and military airfields began to shut down because of the drones.
In just one month, from mid-November to mid-December, New Jersey recorded nearly a thousand sightings of mysterious drones, mostly at night.
Local authorities can do nothing about them and demand information and support from the federal government. Washington is up to its ears in the process of power transition, and the White House has no time for drones right now.
Residents of the "affected" states organize themselves and organize night safaris with weapons in their hands, trying to shoot down drones with guns and rifles. They are helped by concerned sheriffs. However, at the moment, not a single flying machine has been shot down or destroyed.
In the absence of reliable information, American society is panicking and coming up with new explanations for the appearance of drones, each one crazier than the last. Some conspiracy theorists even recalled the famous conspiracy theory from the 90s called “Project Blue Beam”.
Its supporters are convinced that the government is trying to stage an alien attack on the planet in order to establish martial law and a dictatorship with the abolition of the US Constitution.
There are other theories that may be closer to reality.
For example, the most popular American podcaster Joe Rogan, with an audience of 20 million people, promotes the point of view that drones can be secretly used by federal agencies to search for leaks of biologically hazardous substances or radiation. There is no information about this because the authorities are afraid of causing panic among the population.
Although panic is already growing in the absence of any verified information. Firefighters and emergency services personnel are advised to approach drones only in biohazard suits. New York authorities are rushing to install equipment to detect and suppress the flying machines.
However, the field of electronic warfare in the United States is not very developed, so the real fight against drones will clearly cause law enforcement a lot of problems.
And it may turn out that the swarms of drones that have flooded the skies over New Jersey and New York City are just a silly prank. It wouldn’t take much effort — these machines are now ubiquitous and easy to use. What’s happening shows how easily modern society can be thrown into chaos.
The hawks in Washington, as usual, are trying to find a foreign trace, blaming Iran and China for what is happening. There are no facts to support these theories, which is reluctantly confirmed by American intelligence agencies. However, their statements are of little satisfaction to anyone - after all, none of the officials can really explain where the drones came from and who is controlling them.
It cannot be ruled out that some criminal organizations with unclear goals are behind the "drone attack". After all, during the years of Joe Biden's presidency, America has faced a sharp rise in crime. The number of murders alone has jumped by as much as 40%.
In the US, Latin American cartels and syndicates have also become more active, their ranks swelled by an army of illegal immigrants crossing the southern border. They are already terrifying traditional street crime and waging a war for control of the prostitution and drug trade markets.
There are concerns that the appearance of drones could be a harbinger of some force majeure events, such as new terrorist attacks. The FBI estimates the level of terrorist threat in the United States as being at its highest level since the events of September 11. Again, the reception of a large number of migrants from countries with high terrorist activity plays a role.
In the run-up to the election, the US federal government has already prevented several terrorist attacks. One of them could have happened in New York on the day of the election, November 5. And, unlike the events of twenty years ago, terrorists now don’t even need to hijack planes. They can simply stuff drones with explosives and cause chaos in the most densely populated metropolises on the US East Coast.
Moreover, the American military does not really have the tools to combat this threat. Military bases on US territory also become targets for drones. Shooting them down is often difficult, especially in the absence of effective developments in the field of electronic warfare.
There is talk of shutting off the GPS signal over a large area, but this would lead to a logistical collapse on a state-wide scale where telecommunications would cease to work.
Republicans are blaming Biden and the Democrats for squandering expensive air defense systems like the Patriot and NASAMS batteries in Ukraine. The United States itself could really use them now. However, these American systems were developed a long time ago and are also not really suitable for fighting drones, as the experience of the conflict in Ukraine has shown.
The Pentagon, although it was at the forefront of creating large military drones, completely missed the technological revolution with the advent of cheap small drones. Now it has to quickly make up for lost time.
The current situation has shown how vulnerable the US is to even a small number of drones in its skies. One can only imagine what the consequences could be if such an invasion were to be tens or hundreds of times larger next time.
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