Blowing the Whistle

Drone Disclosure: New Leads to the Mystery

Since I wrote a couple of days ago about the drone deluge and what might be going on, I’ve received new information from a couple of inside sources. First, here’s a brief update on the latest public events.

While the Biden administration continues to assure everyone that there’s nothing to be concerned about, drone activity above the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio forced increased security measures and a temporary shutdown for several hours over the weekend. This is home to Space Force’s National Air and Space Intelligence Center, and the 88th Air Base Wing is known to conduct advanced research in various areas. Not that there’s necessarily any connection, but over the years, more than 12,000 UFO sightings were investigated at Wright-Patterson under Project Bluebook.

In his first press conference since winning the election, Donald Trump hinted at having some inside knowledge. While declining to say whether he’d received an intelligence briefing on the drone issue, he added: “The government knows what’s happening….and for some reason they don’t want to comment….Something strange is going on.”

Colonel William Dunn, president of a government consulting organization called the Strategic Resilience Group, told Fox News Digital he believed “the source of these drones is from inside the U.S.” and that “they’re looking for something, either a chemical weapon, biological weapon or maybe radiation.”

This morning, the New York Times countered with a front page story headlined: “Weird Sightings in Sky So Far Have Very Boring Backstories.” The article maintained that all but around a hundred of the 5,000 citizen tips received about the drones by government agencies were quickly identified, most being fixed-wing piloted planes from major airports. Interestingly, the Times reporter cited the famed 1947 Roswell crash as the prime example of a conspiracy theory about aliens that was fueled by the government’s failure to admit it was an Air Force balloon used to gather data on Russia’s nuclear program.

My sources are along the lines of Colonel Dunn’s conjecture. A fellow connected to Military Intelligence sent me an email labeled “sensitive information” and went on: “I have been working in this secret Fort Huachuca drone program for the past four years….The drone world is alive and well. We have entered into a new phase of warfare….This is a covert project known by a select few (very few) elected government officials within the Senate and Congress. The details of this operation are being withheld from public disclosure as a ‘matter of National Security.’’

The same man followed up by sending further details specifying drone-mobilization training of soldiers that began in August 2023 at Fort Dix, New Jersey. He added that, while Fort Dix was the center of the secret program, remote military operations were ongoing out of Fort Huachuca in New Mexico, White Sands Proving Grounds at Fort Bliss , Texas, and Las Vegas Nevada’s Cheech AFB.

In a follow-up call, he pointed out that the large drones are flying with navigation lights that correspond with Federal Aviation Administration requirements. “The point being they don’t want to run into any other aircraft and they’re in compliance with FAA night-time flying rules.”

Then he added; “The training program is in counter-terrorism, and also to control various facilities like power stations, grids and waterworks. These drones also have what they call radiation detector devices and the look for leakage and transportation in trucks. So evidently something is missing and now they’re trying to find it.”

I received a similar message “from another connected friend” who wrote he was hearing that “these are HPG3 nuclear detector drones and they think there is a loose dirty bomb or nuke and why the government is saying nothing to stop any panic.”

Let’s hope, if that’s the reason behind the secrecy, that they find it. But there may be another aspect to the program, and if true it’s quite troubling. According to my source in Military Intelligence: “The rumor is that a renegade unit which was training at Fort Dix has access to these drones, and the group I’m in touch with is trying to figure out what they are going to do. So the Secret Service has been notified, and now the people I know are trying to modify their radio frequency jamming devices and they haven’t been able to do it - so they can’t intercept those drones.”

Here is yet another possibility: the current drone-countering authorization passed by Congress in 2018 is set to expire on December 20. Last week at a congressional hearing, Rep. August Pfluger, (R., Texas), who chairs the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement and Intelligence, called it “imperative” to renew and expand the mandate under the Counter-UAS Authority Security, Safety, and Reauthorization Act of 2024. It’s currently illegal to use military grade drones for data collection and surveillance, but that could change if this bill is passed and enhances the powers of the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice.