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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/Joshistotle on 2024-12-23 04:38:38+00:00.
The New York Times is a well respected news source, and predictably pushes government disinformation from time to time. Stories containing information deemed to fall under the purview of "national security" are often censored and skewed to include false information or a particular slant.
In this case, it's obvious the northern NJ area experienced a UAV drone swarm for several weeks. The government pushed disinformation stating they didn't know what they were, before backtracking and stating what people were seeing was a mixture of regular flight traffic and approved drones.
It's pretty clear they were / are lying, and they know we know their responses were lies. Now the question is, what is their objective with the lies? The misinformation was brazen to the extent everyone knew they were making up statements "we don't know what they are" "we know what they are but we won't say anything" etc. So what's the point of the known disinformation/ making themselves appear incompetent?
Edit: I'll add my own personal opinions and experience (you don't have to agree):
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I was at the epicenter of this and would see these nightly for around 3 weeks. They weren't the usual flight traffic and didn't show up on radar. These were slow moving UAVs, identical to the ones manufactured by companies like Pterodynamics and GeneralAtomics. Naturally, there was a plethora of posts on sites like Facebook and Nextdoor of planes being confused for drones, along with legitimate images of drones. After this recent FAA drone ban, they appear to have disappeared from the main area (or mine at least), and it's back to the usual flight traffic.
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I believe this was most likely the govt / defense contractors testing an autonomous drone swarm. The next most likely things would've been: a) the gov was searching for something b) they were running a psyop c) they were obscuring a real UAP incursion d) they were trying to provoke a UAP appearance since UAP appearances have been linked to large scale military movements by both US and other nations (such as examples found in remarks made by Soviet officers).
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I believe the statements made by high level officials are some sort of psyop. They were making statements that were brazen lies, to the extent that they know the public 100% didn't believe them. First they started off by saying they didn't know who was operating the drones, but they know it's not insidious. Then they said they also didn't know where they were taking off from and landing. Then they finally stated it's just regular flight traffic and hobbyist / commercial drones...................Entirely 100% unbelievable, and they're probably using this as a litmus test to gauge the tolerance of the public to being lied to. ie: "let's see if they're still gullible and compliant, even when we are pushing brazen lies"
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The Pentagon stated back in September that in the future they would be testing drone defense at critical installations:
From the link:
The Replicator initiative is DoD’s effort to accelerate delivery of innovative capabilities to the warfighter at speed and scale through senior leader focus on solving a specific operational challenge.
Replicator
The first iteration of Replicator (Replicator 1), announced in August 2023, will deliver all-domain attritable autonomous systems (ADA2) to warfighters at a scale of multiple thousands, across multiple warfighting domains, within 18-24 months, or by August 2025. Replicator 1 is augmenting the way we fight, using large masses of uncrewed systems which are less expensive, put fewer people in the line of fire, and can be changed, updated, or improved with substantially shorter lead times.
In September 2024, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III announced the second iteration of Replicator. Replicator 2 will tackle the warfighter priority of countering the threat posed by small uncrewed aerial systems (C-sUAS) to our most critical installations and force concentrations. Replicator 2 will assist with overcoming challenges we face in the areas of production capacity, technology innovation, authorities, policies, open system architecture and system integration, and force structure.
Overview
The DoD, through the Replicator initiative, is developing an accelerated process that identifies key capabilities with significant operational impact and delivers them to the warfighter at speed and scale.
The result is a warfighter-defined investment funnel comprising novel operational concepts, prototyping and experimentation, and expeditious acquisition pathways aimed at creating on-ramps for new capabilities, systems and industry partners.
By leveraging non-traditional technology ecosystems, alongside more traditional sources of defense capability, the DoD is adapting to integrate emerging technologies and methodologies to add the most military value while working to diversify and expand the base of American industry and technology companies.
The Replicator effort has demonstrated that a whole-of-Department approach, combined with concentrated and sustained senior leader attention—across the breadth of policy, concept, and system development, integration, and sustainment efforts—can get needed capability into the hands of our warfighters faster.
Role of Commercial Sector
Commercial companies are driving emerging technology solutions that have significant military value. This is particularly true for the portfolio of attritable, autonomous capabilities.
Replicator is strengthening collaboration between DoD and the commercial autonomy sector. More than 500 companies have participated in Replicator-1 through a variety of onramps including the Commercial Solutions Openings, and more than 30 have received contracts, supported by over 50 major subcontractors. About 75% of the companies currently involved in supplying Replicator-1 capabilities are non-traditional defense contractors.
After years of investment by both the public and private sectors, these commercial technologies are now ripe for scaling.
Replicator provides the commercial sector with a demand signal that allows companies to make investments in building capacity, strengthening both the supply chain and the industrial base.
Replicator investments incentivize traditional and non-traditional industry players to deliver record volumes of all domain attritable autonomous systems in line with the ambitious schedule set forth by the Deputy Secretary of Defense.
As a process, the Replicator initiative does not introduce new standards, but provides a partnership between the government and vendors to ensure secure supply chains to mitigate risk through existing technical solutions.
