New York: Drones Shut Down Runways at Stewart International Airport
December 14th, 2024Someone asked me why I’m ignoring the drone situation. haha. In fact, I’ve nearly gone blind looking at hundreds of blurry images and videos and thousands of posts on X/Reddit/Facebook from clueless people, or people intentionally making up nonsense.
Here’s my take, at this time:
1) The U.S. Government is behind this. Anyone continuously flying under minimum safe altitudes or into restricted airspace would have guns pointed at them when they landed, assuming they were not first shot down by U.S. Air Force alert fighters (Aerospace Control Alert) capable of scrambling within minutes 24/7/365. That’s not happening because THE U.S. GOVERNMENT IS DOING IT.
While this is definitely a U.S. Government operation, for what purpose, you can take your pick of random theories promoted on social media: The government is searching for a nuclear weapon or dirty bomb, the government is monitoring the real aliens (I love it! Please, tell me another one), it’s a government PSYOP. There’s an arms race on X to try to trick people into engaging with content, so as long as that happens, X will promote it, regardless of how stupid. Bonus points on X for not providing a link or other citation of the source.
2) I’m aware of no in-focus imagery, captured on any professional camera system, of anything anomalous with regard to this situation. People are primarily using mobile phones which are mostly incapable of producing useful imagery at night. On top of this, people using the phones seem to not understand that their only chance of accomplishing anything with a phone (or any other camera) would require affixing it to a tripod.
Corporate media is showing endless loops of ridiculously low quality videos. Compare what we are being shown by corporate media, employing professional cameramen, 4K cameras and lenses that cost more than houses in some parts of the U.S., to what amateur plane spotters do as a matter of routine.
Plane spotter video:
Fox News (Fox just picked at random, all corporate media are the same):
Maybe someone out there should offer free pizza to a pack of plane spotters to get to the bottom of this.
3) The general public, clueless about aviation and basic photographic principals, and whipped into a state of hysteria by U.S. Government gaslighting, is now routinely identifying conventional aircraft, especially those in an airfield traffic pattern, as anomalous.
This assists with government gaslighting when the imagery is easily debunked as normal air traffic.
What is actually anomalous?
Shutting down air operations at an international airport, as described below, has my attention.
The lack of thermal signature and the U.S. Coast Guard encounter also has my attention:
A New Jersey police department has sparked concern after it revealed that a drone it sent up to track a mystery aircraft ‘easily’ evaded their device before disappearing into thin air.
Ocean County Sheriff Michael Mastronardy said his force launched its drone after one of his officers saw 50 unmanned aerial vehicles, ‘coming off the ocean’.
The officer dialed 911 to alert state police, the FBI and the Coast Guard.
The maritime agency then reported seeing spotted 13 drones following their boat, estimating that the devices had a wingspan of eight feet.
Matronardy told NewsNation’s Rich McHugh the force put up an ‘industrial grade’ drone to follow one of the devices, but it quickly slipped through their grasp.
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Ocean County Sheriff’s Office said it has been struggling to track the flying objects as they don’t give off heat like regular drones.
‘We don’t know [why]. It’s not something we’ve had our hands on or experienced,’ one officer said.
Individuals who have access to professional photo and video gear, and know how to use it, need to get busy.
Via: New York Post:
The mysterious drones that have been plaguing the skies over the Northeast shut down the runways of Stewart International Airport Friday night, prompting Gov. Hochul to demand the feds step in.
“This has gone too far,” Hochul said in a terse statement Saturday, in which she noted the runway of the Orange County facility was shut down for an hour because of the unidentified aircraft.
Stewart Airport services both commercial and military flights and is adjacent to a New York Air National Guard base, where the 105th Airlift Wing is stationed.
The unidentified drones — which have been hovering over New Jersey for nearly a month and have been seen in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts — were also recently spotted flying over LaGuardia International Airport and Newark Liberty International Airport.
The runways were closed at 9:40 p.m. “following a report from the FAA about a drone sighting at the airport,” according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates Stewart.
The runways were reopened at 10:45 p.m., “and there were no impacts to flight operations during the closure,” the spokesperson told The Post.
