Former US Navy F-18 fighter pilot Lt. Ryan Graves said he denied commercial contractors were involved in Drone sightings They have been reported around New Jersey in recent days.
“Based on my analysis of the situation and the statements made by the Pentagon and the legislature, I cannot believe that our government is acting in such confusion. God help us if that is the case,” Graves told Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum on Thursday. “The story“.
“The same is true for commercial contractors,” he continued. “There's no point, all the risks of running these things so close to the ground, especially if it's some kind of secret equipment.”
Greaves concluded that his analysis leads the puzzle to “foreign adversaries or something else.”
“We have heard directly from the Pentagon that there is no so-called mother ship off the coast of Virginia and New Jersey releasing these materials,” Greaves said.
“We have some of the most sophisticated radar systems on the East Coast. We have to, with a great deal of certainty, know exactly where these objects are, where they're going, and where they're settling if they are. So, either these things we have the ability to counteract those technologies, or we We simply lie about what is happening.”
Map showing drone sightings around New Jersey.
Over the past week, leaders from both parties in New Jersey have expressed public concern about reports of drone sightings and frustration with the lack of clear answers.
Monday, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy He described the drones as “very sophisticated” and expressed frustration at the lack of clarity surrounding their origin.
Rep. Chris Smith, R.N.J. He shared in The Story that he spent Monday night on shore and spoke with a commanding officer in the U.S. Coast Guard who recounted an incident the night before in which a 47-foot Coast Guard vessel was closely followed by more than a dozen drones.
By Wednesday, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., had sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, FBI Director Christopher Wray and Federal Aviation Administration Administrator Michael Whitaker, urging the agencies to provide municipal and county officials with briefings on drone activity and requesting that. Any available information shall be shared with the public.
Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R.N.J., said in “Faulkner focusWednesday, “highly qualified” and “reliable” sources suspected that the drones seen over the Garden State could be linked to an Iranian “mother ship” stationed off the East Coast — a claim the Pentagon later denied.
State Sen. John Bramnick, RN.J. He called on the Ministry of Defense to come to the state to investigate the mysterious drone activity on Wednesday afternoon.
The US Military Research Center denies that the drones belong to the state of New Jersey
House Speaker Mike Johnson He revealed he was receiving a classified briefing Thursday about drone sightings in the Garden State.
Graves told McCallum he was urging the “full force” of the government and the Pentagon to be deployed to determine the nature of these objects and identify, characterize and, if necessary, select a primary target to drop for further examination.
“It appears that the various branches of government are not communicating well on this issue,” Greaves said. “And to me, this leads me to believe that there is real uncertainty about what is happening here. I find it difficult to believe that the Biden administration can continue with a policy of cognitive dissonance on this topic. Hundreds of people are watching these events.”
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Graves added that reported drone sightings are “not limited to just people on the ground.”
“My nonprofit, Americans for Safe Aerospace, has been receiving reports from commercial pilots, military pilots and veterans for over a year now, showing how consistent this problem is and how problematic it is at the altitudes they fly,” Graves said. “We need a better coordinated response and actually listening to the people on the ground and in the air who are seeing things.”
Fox News Digital's Taylor Penley and Greg Weiner contributed to this report.
