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00:06I'm one of the officers at Island Beach State Park, we have like 50 drones, they're coming
00:13off the ocean, they're doing things that normal drones can't do, they're going up very fast and
00:22far. Wow. There's so many things in the sky right now. Let's face it, we live in a
00:29time when fear and distrust are at an all time high. There are so many government conspiracies,
00:36it can be hard to tell what's real and what's not. The drones off of New Jersey. Are they Chinese?
00:42Are
00:42they Russian? Weather control. The death of Jeffrey Epstein. The list just goes on and on and nobody
00:50knows how to make sense out of what's real and what's fake. My name is Andrew Bustamante and I
00:59am a former covert CIA intelligence officer and I'm here to help you separate fact from fiction.
01:06Since leaving CIA I've made it my mission to shed light on the lies, cover-ups, conspiracies and tactics
01:14used to conceal them. Now I'm going to pressure test the most sensational ripped from the headlines
01:21conspiracy theories out there and track down key experts, eyewitnesses and whistleblowers. I'll
01:29analyze never-before-seen footage, conduct eye-opening experiments. He's right here. See the drone right
01:36there overhead, you see it? And demonstrations. Sleeping all the way down deeper and deeper. It's just so
01:42fast. It's just incredible. Nobody thinks of hypnotism as a weapon. My mission is simple. Is there a tunnel
01:50that connects us to Cheyenne Nam? To find the truth. Epstein was reported to have actually hung himself
01:57from this side of the bed, which is right here. And arm you with the tools you need to determine
02:03for
02:03yourself. What is real? And what are you being manipulated to believe is real?
02:19What in the world is going on in the skies over New Jersey? New Jersey's own Bruce Springsteen
02:24once described North Jersey sky with the line, the sun's just a red ball rising over them refinery towers.
02:31But now we need to add a few drones. In November 2024, the folks of New Jersey started to look
02:39up in
02:39the sky and see this. What is that? For nearly a month, mysterious craft were spotted night after
02:53night. They're just pacing back and forth, going very slow. We've been looking for the past hour. We've
02:59seen about 40 or 50 of these drones. In fact, there's one over my shoulder right there. With
03:06distinct running lights, these craft were too small to be fixed wing aircraft or helicopters.
03:11Whatever that is, is massive. But they were also too large to be standard commercial drones.
03:17There are SUV sized drones flying over my home and the government has no idea what they are. So I'm
03:23going to make
03:23a cocktail. Some were reported to be flying in formation. We're all going the same direction.
03:28Others were seen hovering in place for hours. Oh my goodness. And with residents on edge, they were
03:36getting little in terms of answers. They have a responsibility, the FBI and the FAA, to brief the
03:43public more thoroughly. And in that government silence, conspiracy theories started to explode
03:48all over the internet and in mainstream media. You really want to know what's going on in New Jersey?
03:55Radioactive material in New Jersey has gone missing. Iran launched a mothership probably about a month ago
04:02that contains these drones. The third option is it's non-human. I mean, you said it yourself.
04:08The New Jersey drones quickly went from mystery to meme. How are you or should I say what are you?
04:15Okay. No, we're not going to do that. See, I know what I am and I don't have to explain
04:20myself to anyone.
04:22But serious questions still persist. Why hasn't the government provided a complete explanation,
04:29even a full year later? On this episode, I'm going to apply my CIA background.
04:35Becca, you got him. Let's get creative here. To conduct the most comprehensive investigation
04:40of the New Jersey drone mystery ever done. This is taking what we do to a whole new level.
04:46With key interviews. Maybe there's a unit that's testing something out that not everybody's aware
04:51of. And real world demonstrations. Kilo one taken off. So that we can separate fact from fiction
04:57and understand what was really happening in the skies over New Jersey in the fall of 2024.
05:13So that's what we're going to do to do.
05:14Drones used to be toys. Holiday gifts we used to film cool aerial shots of our homes or our kids
05:20soccer games. Then they got useful. They deliver packages. They search for missing people. They
05:28entertain us with light shows. Convenient. Harmless. Until they weren't.
05:35We all watched as small, cheap drones became terrifying weapons of war in places like Ukraine.
05:43So when unexplained drones began to pop up on the eastern seaboard, people were concerned.
05:49To dig deep into the mystery of the New Jersey drones, I am headed to where it all started.
05:55Northern New Jersey, just across the Hudson River from Manhattan.
06:03Here in Bergen County, one of the witnesses who recorded the most footage of these drones in the sky
06:09is a woman named Lisa Palouse.
06:13Let's count the drones. Right there. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
06:24One of them literally went right over in my house where you could just reach out and touch it.
06:35This one's right above us.
06:39I didn't believe that it could be something that was going to harm us.
06:44But you would hear other people talk. Then you're like, well, maybe. What if? What if?
06:50So you're making up your own stories and so is everybody else.
06:56When I look at a map of northern New Jersey, the first thing I notice is that Lisa and her
07:01neighbors
07:01live only about five miles outside of Picatinny Arsenal. This is not a typical military base.
07:08It's the U.S. Army's main laboratory for testing explosives, weapons and advanced hardware,
07:15like robots and drones. Could there be a connection between the base and the sightings in Lisa's town?
07:23I'm heading over to meet with the mayor of Mine Hill to find out.
07:27A lot of people up in that area started seeing them all up and over around Picatinny.
07:33There were airspace violations. They then put restrictions in and some of the drones still
07:39violated that. The one thing that got me one night, I got a call from a resident.
07:44Hey, mayor, the drones are over the elementary school and heading toward town hall.
07:48The mayor even grabbed his phone and shot his own video of the fleet of drones that had residents on
07:54edge.
07:54They were in formation. They were kind of working together, a team.
07:58They're all going the same direction.
08:02People started seeing them as weapons and asking questions.
08:06I am literally freaking out right now.
08:08Holy crap. What is that?
08:11Myself and a whole group of people were trying to get real answers.
08:15Whoever's doing this is tiptoeing right through the federal and state laws.
08:20Are these things up there to harm us? Are they Chinese? Are they Russian?
08:24But the feds wouldn't respond. The FAA wouldn't respond. The military wouldn't respond.
08:29And when you leave people hanging like that, they're going to fill in the blanks.
08:44It was November 25th when the FAA closed the airspace above Picatinny Arsenal,
08:49and then extended that restricted zone over a golf club owned by then president-elect Donald Trump.
08:55They didn't provide a reason why, but you don't restrict airspace without a reason.
09:01The New York Post has been on this story from day one.
09:04So I reached out to one of the first journalists to report on the sightings
09:07to find out if they believe there could be any connection between the drones and the military base.
09:12What was it like in the middle of it all, on the ground like you were?
09:17It was total pandemonium. No one really knew exactly what the hell was going on.
09:21There were several agencies that all said everything is fine, don't worry about it, no problems.
09:26It was like the vibes of the mayor from Jaws, where he tells you everything at the beach is fine,
09:32there's no sharks, just so that everybody can continue swimming in peace, right?
09:37It was incredibly frustrating.
09:39The number one question is, why didn't Picatinny Arsenal shoot down the drones
09:43that were in their airspace operating illegally?
09:46It seems to me that it wasn't exactly just commercial drones and missed sightings
09:51that was going on in New Jersey in 2024.
09:53There was something else going on.
09:57If the government wasn't shooting down the aircraft that were violating the restricted zone,
10:02you have to wonder, did the government already know what was going on?
10:06We have footage of a formation flight
10:08that's traveling from one side of Picatinny Arsenal to the other side of Picatinny Arsenal.
10:13With so many sightings in such a small area,
10:15it actually elevated to the level where the president himself had to make comments.
10:19There's nothing nefarious apparently. There's a lot of drones authorized to be up there.
10:25Is there a chance that this could be related to some kind of secret US government operation at Picatinny?
10:31It's an intriguing lead, but we're getting ahead of ourselves.
10:43Before we jump to the conclusion that these drones were part of some kind of conspiracy or cover-up,
10:48I want to start with what my training taught me.
10:51At CIA, we're taught to follow very strict rules of analysis, something called razors.
10:57And the first razor that we learned is something called Occam's razor,
11:00which states that the simplest explanation is oftentimes the correct explanation.
11:05So the question is, was there something strange happening in the skies over New Jersey,
11:09or were those lights nothing out of the ordinary?
11:14To answer that question, I've arranged a meeting with a pilot from Skydio,
11:18a company whose drones are used by police departments and first responders all over the country.
11:23Hey Andy, how's it going?
11:25Ken Van Heese is a former Navy SEAL who flew drones on classified missions all over the world.
11:30If anyone can help me try and understand what was going on over New Jersey, he can.
11:36I want to start by showing you a video that I received from a woman named Lisa.
11:39Lisa lives on a hill above Picatinny Arsenal.
11:44Let's count how many drones we got. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
11:55And as she's counting these, you can see that she's moving her camera in one direction,
11:58which suggests that all the drones are going in a predominant direction.
12:02Would it be possible for us to recreate what we just saw in this video?
12:05We can take a try and see if we can do it.
12:07Let's do it.
12:08Awesome.
12:10Matt and I will be the multi-drone remote flight deck operators.
12:15Wes, you'll be covering down on thermal.
12:17Let's do it.
12:18All right.
12:19All right.
12:19Kilo one taken off.
12:25Some witnesses said the craft they saw were much larger than these.
12:28But what I wanted to recreate wasn't the size.
12:31It was the visual effect.
12:32When multiple drones move together at night, it can trigger something called perception bias,
12:37where a few small lights in the sky suddenly look much bigger and much more ominous than they really are.
12:44I never think of flying a drone from a laptop. I always think of it from a control.
12:49The future is here.
12:50Holy smokes.
12:52So now what we're going to take him is right across the horizon and see if we can recreate what
12:56she saw.
12:57Okay.
12:59All right.
13:00Three, two, one, go.
13:06Look at that.
13:07That is exactly what she sent us in the video.
13:12Two, three, four.
13:14She watched and counted them in the sky.
13:16You can count them right now yourself as they move across the horizon from one point to another in one
13:22predominant direction.
13:32So then, Ken, what's your theory about what was happening in the skies over New Jersey?
13:35And do you think any of it could have been Skydio technology?
13:38I think it could have been Skydio. We do have law enforcement customers in the New Jersey area.
13:42So I think they could have been flying drones as first responder missions.
13:47I don't think the average American recognizes that police forces fly drones at all.
13:51They don't. I think that's good for cops. I think when people see drones in the sky,
13:55it keeps the person honest. The tech is here and it's not going anywhere.
14:01A police drone theory might not be too far-fetched.
14:05The Jersey sightings coincided with one of the most shocking events of 2024,
14:09when UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down in cold blood on the streets of New York.
14:16CEO Brian Thompson was killed Wednesday morning.
14:19This was a premeditated, preplanned, brazen, targeted attack.
14:26And a massive hunt for Luigi Mangione was underway.
14:30After a frantic three-day manhunt, tonight the NYPD now believes the suspect who gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
14:37has escaped New York City.
14:39Coming up, could it be that simple? Could the Jersey drone mystery be explained by an increase in police drones
14:46patrolling our skies that most people are just not aware of?
14:57Oh, there's another in the distance.
15:00Two weeks after the initial drone sightings, on December 4, 2024, everyone's attention shifted.
15:07Several authorities widened the urgent manhunt for a killer.
15:11The NYPD deploying drones.
15:12Drones played a critical role in the manhunt for Luigi Mangione, the suspect of the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian
15:20Thompson.
15:21Law enforcement drones ran grid searches over Central Park.
15:25They helped locate early physical evidence, and then they fanned out across the tri-state area as he fled.
15:31But here's the thing.
15:32That manhunt happened more than two weeks after the initial sighting, so that explanation falls apart.
15:40Nevertheless, drone pilot Ken Van Heese told me he believes the answer is police and first responder drone activity the
15:46public is just noticing for the first time.
15:50Ken's theory sparked my curiosity.
15:53So I decided to have a little fun.
15:55I want to see firsthand what a drone tracking someone looks like, with a test of how my CIA evasion
16:02and escape techniques stack up against the latest police drone technology.
16:06So I asked Ken to set up a manhunt with the local police department.
16:10The target, me.
16:12We're going to see how long we can track and follow you.
16:15My job is just to evade for as long as possible and try to escape detection.
16:19Exactly.
16:20I had no idea that over 1,400 police departments fly drones every day for all sorts of missions.
16:27You guys ready over there?
16:29It's time to roll.
16:36Where's he at?
16:36Working.
16:37So check, maybe Colorado and Nevada.
16:40I'm going to start using my peripheral vision to try to identify anything in the sky
16:49that's looking for me.
16:50Becca, where are you at?
16:52I don't have to purchase them around now.
16:54Okay.
16:55This is nerve-wracking as hell.
16:57In my seven years at CIA, I spent much of it operating overseas undercover.
17:02I got used to people trying to follow me.
17:05Learning how to shake surveillance is basic tradecraft.
17:08But losing a drone in the sky?
17:10That's a different game.
17:14There's a very real instinct to run when you know somebody is on your tail.
17:19But a professional has to fight that instinct.
17:23Becca, you got him?
17:24There you go.
17:25Yeah, that's him from the back.
17:26Hit speed.
17:27Subject track.
17:28Enable.
17:30Yep, click him.
17:31There you go.
17:33I saw the drone in the sky.
17:35All right, let's get creative here.
17:37Do you have him?
17:39He just turned a corner, so he's heading north.
17:41I have a real chance of blending in with a crowd.
17:44So all of these folks are hanging out.
17:47Can I walk in here with you guys?
17:49And we're all right.
17:50All right.
17:51Well, it's not easy to get accomplices for this kind of stuff.
17:54But that's not the only trick up my sleeve.
17:57I need a place where the drone can't see me and what I'm doing.
18:00I'm actually going to go into an underground bar.
18:04It's open.
18:05We are now underground.
18:07He just went down into the rabbit hole.
18:10If he's still in there, he's just doing a ruse on us.
18:12We'll go get him.
18:13Because we know we have him there, now is a really good time to get a fresh battery.
18:20It's a very strange question.
18:22Is there an exit other than this from this building?
18:26Go up this way and then go up this way.
18:28All right.
18:29We got our back exit out of the bar.
18:33So now the question is whether or not the drone is going to find us.
18:40Okay.
18:41We are underneath a canopy.
18:43I hear a drone passing overhead.
18:45There it goes.
18:47It's going towards the opposite direction.
18:48So we're going to continue our walk.
18:50Hopefully that means there's a battery problem.
18:53Are you guys able to clear downstairs?
18:56Yeah, it's the back door.
18:58We're going to keep that.
19:01We are literally feet away from a place that might be my safe haven.
19:11How you doing?
19:12How you doing?
19:14Where did he go?
19:18We might need to do a missing persons report now.
19:22Cheers.
19:25I was able to beat the drone by exploiting a weakness.
19:29Even these expensive police drones are small in scale and have battery limits.
19:34But many of the drones reported over New Jersey were seen flying for hours.
19:39Police drones may have been part of the puzzle, but I'm not convinced that they're the sole explanation,
19:44which leads me to a number of other wild conspiracy theories that exploded on social media.
19:50One of the first conspiracy theories to go viral came from reality TV star Bethany Frankel.
19:56There are many different theories.
19:58One, that the government, our government, is searching for something that has been lost.
20:04There have been many nuclear W's that were lost during different wars.
20:08Something could be disassembled and then reassembled here.
20:11Soon, people across the tri-state area started freaking out that the drones were part of a search
20:17for some kind of loose nuke.
20:21There were over 80 nuclear warheads that were in Ukraine that came up missing.
20:27It's out there. Nobody knows where it's at now.
20:30And then rumors, of course, come out on the internet that there may be some dire situation.
20:35They could very possibly be sniffing out something very dangerous.
20:41How crazy was Bethany's post? Maybe not so much. Before my time at CIA, I was a US Air Force
20:49nuclear missile officer.
20:51So let's walk through what would happen if there was a dirty bomb in New Jersey.
20:56You'd start quietly. Radiation detection teams, aircraft with sniffers, these are systems that already exist.
21:03The public would, in fact, see more aircraft in the skies. Helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft, even drones flying tight-grid
21:12search patterns.
21:13What you wouldn't hear is, good morning, there may be a missing nuclear device in your neighborhood.
21:18So what people were seeing could fit this pattern. And a loose nuke isn't science fiction.
21:26In 1961, a US Air Force B-52 bomber broke apart over North Carolina and dropped two fully armed hydrogen
21:35bombs.
21:36We call this a broken arrow. One of them nearly went off. The public didn't learn how close that was
21:43until decades later.
21:46But in this case, you're probably not surprised to learn there was no missing radiological weapon.
21:51Energy agencies knocking down an alarming theory, saying it's just not true.
21:57Authorities even addressed the rumor in time.
22:00That statement goes on to say that nuclear officials are not currently conducting any aerial operations in that region.
22:06What went missing was a small amount of radioactive material that was used for testing.
22:11It had nothing to do with the drones. But that didn't matter.
22:15This is what happens when national security anxiety collides with social media.
22:20And fear is rewarded with clicks. Speculation takes over and facts are forgotten.
22:26And within days, the New Jersey drone mystery went from a dirty bomb scare to a full-on invasion.
22:33Only this time, it wasn't a real housewife raising the alarm. It was a police officer.
22:41This is one of the officers at Island Beach State Park.
22:45This is one of the officers at Island Beach State Park.
23:04We have like 50 drones. I don't know if you're aware yet, but they're coming off the ocean.
23:11We don't have any video from her, but this isn't a random person with a phone.
23:15This is a 911 call from a trained officer.
23:17They're doing things that normal drones can't do. They're going up very fast and far.
23:25And there's these two big boats you can see out of the water.
23:30I don't know if those two boats have anything to do with that.
23:33This was Ocean County, about 100 miles south of Mine Hill,
23:37where civilian and eyewitness Lisa Palouse was first recording drones above her home.
23:42A 911 call that came from a State Park police officer who wasn't sure what she was seeing.
23:48She described it as a giant swarm of drones coming in from over the ocean.
23:53This sighting was one of many that happened in the region,
23:56and the sheriff down there started to raise the alarm.
23:59We have flight radar mapping capabilities,
24:03and we did not see anything on indicating it was a plane.
24:07Obviously, they want us to know they're there. They put on their lights.
24:11So, who it is, I wish I could tell you.
24:13But, you know, obviously, there's a lot of tension to this matter throughout.
24:17What struck me when I heard this 911 call was the sheer number of drones,
24:21and that they seem to be coming from a ship offshore. What did your office do?
24:26We immediately contacted the Coast Guard, reported back around 11.30 that night
24:31that there was 11 or 13 of them following their Coast Guard cutter.
24:37One drone that they documented, it didn't give a heat signal. It needed another type of fuel source.
24:43Nobody saw them take off or land, and that's interesting, because at some point,
24:47you would have to take off or land. So, for us, the indication would be that it's possibly coming
24:52off the ocean and possibly a submarine.
24:56What the sheriff went on to tell me is really quite alarming. A swarm of drones tracking a Coast Guard
25:03cutter. The strange thing being that they showed no heat signature, which suggests that possibly they
25:08were trying to cloak. I mean, this sounds more like advanced military-grade technology. And that's
25:14why when a congressman went on TV and made the following announcement, it was a New Jersey resident's
25:19worst nightmare. I'm going to tell you the real deal. Iran launched a mothership probably about a month ago
25:27that contains these drones. That mothership is off. I'm going to tell you the deal. It's off the east coast
25:33of the United States of America. They've launched drones. It's everything that we can see or hear.
25:39And again, these are from high sources. I don't say this lightly.
25:45Was there an Iranian mothership launching an aerial invasion near Atlantic City? If anyone can help me
25:51separate the facts from the fear on this, it's my friend Trevor Fortner, a former U.S. Navy
25:57counterterrorism special operator. Thank you for coming, brother. It's great to see you, Andy.
26:04What can I do for you? So, I've been chewing on this question of the drone sightings that happened in
26:09New Jersey about a year ago. Okay. And there were all these rumors circulating about whether or not
26:13there was an Iranian mothership launching drones into the mainland. How would the United States react
26:18to a foreign naval threat like that? I don't believe that we would have allowed them to actually
26:22get that close to the country. So, even though it's international water, it's not really free water for
26:29anyone to just sail it? Not from our perspective, no. We have a nautical statue. It's 15 nautical miles,
26:35becomes international territory. After that, we're still monitoring that and observing what's happening.
26:41Had there been a foreign threat, what's your confidence level that the U.S. military would
26:44have neutralized the threat before it even got close enough to pose direct harm? 100%.
26:49That's where I am too, man, because they would have been sunk in the water. I believe that 100%.
26:56Also, what would be the intent of Iran to send a mothership
27:00so close to our shore and launch drones into our airspace that they know that we can absolutely
27:06detect? There's easier ways, more efficient ways to clandestinely sneak items into the country.
27:18Trevor's right. A ship-based attack isn't very likely. Boats are slow and trackable. The nightmare
27:25scenario for every national security professional I know is a drone attack launched from inside our
27:32own borders by a group of non-state actors or terrorists. So, if it wasn't a foreign enemy,
27:38we have to test the domestic threat idea. How fast could a drone swarm go airborne and how hard would
27:46it be
27:47to stop?
27:58I'm in the middle of a suburban area. I have a white picket fence right here. I have a petroleum
28:04depot
28:05just over there in the distance. I have multiple schools and churches all within the area. This
28:10is a fantastic place to demonstrate the power of a drone swarm. A location like this is what we call
28:18a
28:19soft target. And that's what the sheriff in Ocean County, New Jersey, was so worried about when an
28:23officer reported seeing a swarm of 50 drones. We tried to ascertain, is this a government agency? Is
28:31this the CIA? Is this the federal government? Obviously, we're thinking national security.
28:36I'm going to talk to the guys operating these drones to understand if the threat of a drone swarm could
28:42be the key to finally unraveling the mystery of the New Jersey drones. That is an incredible display.
28:49Yeah, just a little 80 drone demo that we put together. We spent a lot of time out here just
28:54just testing out different configurations and fleet sizes. We're operating a giant fleet of drones.
29:01These guys aren't military contractors. They're a private drone entertainment company.
29:06Everything they need to launch their coordinated drone shows fits in the back of a truck.
29:11And with a single laptop, one person can launch and coordinate hundreds of drones.
29:17It's interesting to me that you describe this as a fleet, but when you have to sign up for a
29:22waiver
29:22with the FAA, it's considered a swarm. Is there a difference in terminology?
29:27We refer to it a fleet because we have telemetry data and communications with everything
29:31individually so we can control everything. Swarm is a little bit more terrifying because it just kind
29:36of speaks to like controlled chaos. You know, we're in a suburban area right now. There are some very
29:43interesting soft targets. If you would look at this very same community through the eyes of a threat,
29:48how easy would it be for someone to take a commercial drone and use it for something nefarious?
29:54Very easy. Very easy. Yeah, very easy. We could probably do it in five minutes. Honestly,
30:00scary. That is scary. And that is what we're seeing play out all over the world right now.
30:05Yeah, very prevalent in Ukraine, for sure. Very, very prevalent.
30:09Drones have transformed the battlefield, no more so than in Ukraine, helping the smaller country bog down
30:15their Russian invaders into a near stalemate. And what terrifies my national security friends most
30:21is an attack like this. Tonight, the Kremlin seeing the biggest drone attack yet inside Russia.
30:28Back in 2025, Ukrainian operators hid armed drones inside specially camouflaged truck beds.
30:34Then those trucks were driven thousands of miles deep into Russian territory.
30:39The operators remotely activated the drones, and a coordinated swarm lifted off, striking multiple
30:46Russian military airfields, taking out scores of planes before the Russians even understood what
30:52was happening. The lesson wasn't the drones. The lesson was the tactic. An attack that launched from
30:59inside an enemy's homeland that was nearly impossible to stop.
31:05So this is our new warehouse. We just outgrew our last one.
31:10This is our new system, which is basically taking what we do to a whole new level.
31:16These drones will fly out of the box, do their whole show, finish, and they'll land exactly back
31:23inside of the spot that they took out of. I'd say out of 2,000 drones, maybe one will miss
31:30their slot.
31:30That's how accurate these drones are. Now, when I was in the military and when I served at CIA,
31:35the drones that we were dealing with were gigantic. They were the size of a Volkswagen Beetle,
31:40and they would carry out reconnaissance missions, surveillance missions. They would drop missiles
31:44from high altitude. So this is the whole motherboard. This is what the brains are of one of these drones.
31:52This is it. This is a drone. They barely are heavy enough to have to be registered with the FAA.
31:57That's how light they are. When I see the drone light shows coming in, especially from Asia,
32:03I can't help but be intimidated by what could be done with a military-grade drone. Is there a
32:09one-to-one correlation there? A lot of the components are the same. Those are the same
32:13drones that could be used in a military application. When you take all of this and you apply it to
32:19New
32:19Jersey. It's not so much that we saw some amazing technological advancement that we've never seen
32:25before, but I think it was more that was happening in a space and in a pattern that people had
32:31not
32:31seen before. But I think there is a weak point in our airspace, low altitude. You know, we don't see
32:38a
32:38lot of things operate in that airspace. You know, zero to 1,000 feet is maybe if you live near
32:43an airport
32:44or a helipad, you see activity, but otherwise you don't see anything. Graham is right. We've all seen
32:51the movies where drug runners skim the ocean to avoid Coast Guard radar. So when it comes to tiny
32:56five-pound drones operating at treetop levels, you can imagine how hard it would be to track these.
33:03But remember, a lot of the sightings were craft much larger than this. What do you think was
33:08happening in New Jersey as experts in drones? I go back and forth on whether it was our own
33:12government. You know, maybe radar detection, jamming technology, or maybe it's even a social
33:18experiment. Like, how are people going to react to weird stuff they start seeing at low altitude?
33:24I got one more thing I want to show you. The guys had something up pretty crazy for you,
33:28so why don't we step back outside again? Absolutely. All right, let's go. I'm ready.
33:47It's just incredible to think that every one of those lights in the sky
33:51is being controlled by one single operator, somebody who's on our side. But just imagine
33:57what would happen if somebody with hostile intentions took control of those drones.
34:01What kind of damage could they inflict? Russian drones were spotted within NATO airspace,
34:08this time in Romania. If the government was running exercises to prepare for such an attack,
34:15they'd keep it under wraps. But before we jump to this conclusion, I need to pressure test a more
34:21otherworldly theory. They're not just like regular drones. They're UAPs. That's the UFO.
34:27At Malmstrom Air Force Base, 10 of our nuclear ICBMs were rendered inoperable. At the same time,
34:33a glowing red orb was observed overhead. Coming up, UFOs, government preparedness tests,
34:39or police drones. We may finally get our answers to the mysterious drones flying over New Jersey.
34:53Driving home, I keep replaying it. It takes a lot to scare me, but the New Jersey...
34:57The rumors... Radioactive material in New Jersey has gone missing.
35:00The confusion. Iran launched a mothership.
35:04Weeks of theories about Iran, missing weapons, manhunts that spread across New Jersey from November
35:09into December 2024. Right there. Oh my goodness.
35:14Like Lisa Palouse said at the beginning. Nobody's giving us answers. Your mind goes
35:21all over the place. Residents across the state were spiraling. Bro, this is crazy, man.
35:27It even got to the point where they were wondering if it was human at all.
35:32These drones are mysterious and they're UAPs. They're not just like regular drones.
35:37Are the drones being controlled by an extraterrestrial intelligence?
35:42The idea that the drones could have been UFOs became one of the big memes.
35:46That is a yes. And once again, officials were not denying it, even though the drones were using FAA
35:55running lights and showed no characteristics of out-of-this-world technology.
36:01All of this got me thinking about something at CIA that we call narrative control. In the intelligence
36:07world, this means shaping how people understand events. Not deceiving people or hiding secrets,
36:13per se, but steering perception in the direction that you want. There's no better example of this
36:19than an incident that happened 50 years ago when a UFO story was used to cover up a classified test.
36:27In 1967, unidentified objects were reported over nuclear missile control centers at Malmstrom
36:33Air Force Base. Around the same time, multiple intercontinental nuclear missiles suddenly went
36:38offline. Missiliers on duty would later go on to tell the story of the day UFOs turned off our launch
36:45capability to anyone who would listen. And that lived on in UFO lore for decades.
36:52At Malmstrom Air Force Base, in which 10 of our nuclear ICBMs were rendered inoperable.
36:56At the same time, a glowing red orb was observed overhead.
37:00But last year, declassified documents told a very different story.
37:03The missiles being disabled had nothing to do with aliens. It was all the result of a top secret U
37:09.S.
37:10military test. An electromagnetic pulse experiment designed to see whether an EMP could knock our
37:16own missiles offline. It worked. And because it worked so well, the Pentagon stayed silent because
37:25it didn't want the Soviets to know what had really happened. And the government allowed the story about
37:31aliens to go unchecked for more than half a century. The government did not create the Jersey UFO story,
37:40but they did allow it to live. The fact that the federal agencies responsible for briefing the
37:46public have not come forward in a clear way is unacceptable. Why it is that they're not being
37:51forthcoming with this information is confusing to me and very frustrating.
38:00It seemed like we may never get an actual answer to this mystery.
38:08But then I get a major scoop. The New York Post reports that they may have the answer to what
38:15was actually flying in the skies in 2024. A private company with a government contract
38:22was testing out their newest tech, a car-sized aircraft. Does that ring a bell?
38:28And residents have compared some of them to the size of a small car.
38:32There are SUV-sized drones flying over my home, so I'm going to make a cocktail.
38:38The reporter who broke the story? My man Shane.
38:42We got a tip from a source who was former military that some people were taking credit for setting off
38:49some
38:49of the scares over there in New Jersey, and they were debuting this manned aerial craft that was
38:54about the size of a car. This is from a company called Pivotal, and it's a black fly.
39:00You know, on the record, they said that they had nothing to do with it, but they did not
39:04rule out the fact that they could have sold to somebody on the East Coast.
39:08So Shane, what's your net takeaway from all this?
39:11I do think that I keep coming back to Picatinny Arsenal. It could be like a field experiment,
39:18essentially. It doesn't solve the whole mystery, but it at least plugs something in so that we can
39:23figure it out. Even if this eases fears that what people were seeing wasn't an invasion, but rather
39:30advanced car-sized aerial technology, the question still remains why. What is the government not
39:37telling us? But then I heard this from the White House press secretary.
39:43After research and study, the drones that were flying over New Jersey in large numbers were
39:48authorized to be flown by the FAA for research and various other reasons.
39:54Research and various other reasons. Words that explain everything, but say nothing.
40:02Unless it wasn't just a test of the technology, but a test of us.
40:10What is that?
40:13Specifically, how we, the public, would respond. Of all the places to carry out a test like this,
40:20of course you would pick a dense, heavily populated, urban location like New Jersey.
40:26To test what would happen. How would people react? How would the rumors spread? How would
40:31authorities respond? How would elected officials speak out?
40:34Dozens upon dozens, every single night. And nobody's doing anything.
40:39It's plausible this test was as much from an offensive perspective as defensive.
40:44If you think about the future of conflict, it's going to be about reaching people where they live,
40:49where they feel safe. And when you look at how the public reacted to these strange lights in the sky,
40:56their reaction went from curiosity to terror in an instant.
41:03Holy crap. What is going on in New Jersey?
41:06Look at that. Modern wars aren't won by weapons alone.
41:11They're won by shaping perception.
41:13The anxiety that people are just feeling.
41:16I don't know. I don't know what to think.
41:18Because the side that can take control of the narrative doesn't have to win the fight
41:26to win the war.
41:28Cheers, everyone, and stay safe out there.
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