There’s more on those mystery drones in New Jersey.
We covered some of the drama on Friday, with Fox News’ Martha McCallum grilling Biden official John Kirby, who continued to say he didn’t know what the drones were. The day before, he’d been saying they hadn’t even corroborated any “visual sightings.”
At this point, Elon Musk and President-elect Donald Trump have weighed in. Even Maryland Governor Larry Hogan has reported seeing drones over his home.
But there don’t seem to be any answers yet.
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Now, reports from the Ocean County (NJ) sheriff, the Coast Guard, and News Nation’s Rich McHugh are also heightening the drama.
Ocean County Sheriff Michael Mastronardy explained how he sent his own drone up to chase one of 50 drones, which a local cop reported as “coming off the ocean.” Plus, the Coast Guard was reporting them as well, according to the sheriff, including that the drones were following one of their vessels:
The officer alerted the state police, the FBI and the US Coast Guard. Coast Guard officials then reported 13 drones, with wingspans of eight feet, following one of their vessels.
The mysterious drones, which don’t give off heat like more typical versions, swiftly maneuvered out of their clutches, Mastronardy told News Nation reporter Rich McHugh.
That’s concerning, if true.
Then McHugh himself reported seeing the drones, and he got video of them as well. He had originally thought it would turn out to be a prank — until he saw them himself and said they were like nothing he’d seen before.
I was skeptical of the drone story. Then I saw them with my own eyes last night. DOZENS of them. And we got it on camera. @NewsNation #NJDRONES pic.twitter.com/po8IA24Sep
— Rich McHugh (@RichMcHugh) December 14, 2024
He saw between 40 to 50 of them in the Red Bank area, eight- to 10-feet-wide with white, blinking lights.
“Definitely not an airplane,” McHugh said, but he didn’t know what it was.
Megyn Kelly weighed in, calling McHugh a very credible guy.
You will not find a more credible person than @RichMcHugh. Total man of honor/integrity. https://t.co/s8AThVJw5a
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) December 14, 2024
So there’s law enforcement, the Coast Guard, and a reporter who saw them himself. That just skewers John Kirby; they’re something. The question is what and why the Biden team seems not to be able to figure it out — or at least unwilling to tell us.
Rich McHugh had also interviewed N.J. state representative Brian Bergen, who demanded answers and said the briefing they got from the federal government was ridiculous.
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What you don’t want is people getting hysterical or trying to shoot things out of the sky. You would think if they were normal private delivery drones, they would have figured it out by now.
But the government needs to answer up here and stop acting like the Biden team usually acts — clueless.
