Celebrity podcaster Joe Rogan said he’s not buying the government’s official explanation for the wave of mysterious drones UFOs spotted over New Jersey.
Rogan reposted a video of the White House’s national security communications advisor John Kirby telling reporters that the sightings posed no ‘national security or public safety threat’ — but pushed back on Kirby’s effort to allay Americans’ fears.
‘This is what the kids call “sus,”‘ Rogan posted to X.com, then floated his own theory.
‘I want to believe it’s adderalled up incels holed up in a basement f****** with “the man” more than I want it to be aliens,’ Rogan joked. ‘#iwanttobelieve.’
Long a trusted source for interviews with investigative journalists who cover UFOs, military witnesses and government whistleblowers, Rogan garnered over 1.8 million views for his X post on the ongoing drone crisis since he put it online Thursday night.
Since at least November 18, New Jersey officials and federal investigators have been beleaguered by reports of inexplicable apparent aircraft, some as big a cars, conducting bizarre, unscheduled night flights over sensitive sites across the state.
The first drone UFOs were reported over the US Army’s Picatinny Arsenal, but the encounters have spread with witnesses claiming — to varying levels of credibility — aerial incursions over 12 NJ counties and now new reports in Pennsylvania.
Florham Park, NJ Police Chief Joseph J Orlando told reporters that they have fielded reports of unexplained craft flying over ‘water reservoirs, electric transmission lines, rail stations, police departments, and military installations.’
Celebrity podcaster Joe Rogan (above) posted video of the White House’s national security spokesperson John Kirby telling reporters that New Jersey’s mystery drones posed no ‘national security or public safety threat.’ Rogan said: ‘This is what the kids call “sus”‘
But reports now suggest that these drones have now moved across state lines this week, with Pennsylvania residents taking to social media to share reports of lights in the sky from the Easton area to the Slate Belt and beyond.
Multiple sightings were also reported in the Poconos. The Monroe County Office of Emergency Management said it was aware of reports throughout the county in a Facebook post.
And that same night, emergency officials in Orange County, New York, stated that they were ‘aware of several reported incidents of drone sightings throughout Orange County this evening,’ in a Facebook post.
Residents of Texas and Oklahoma have also reported potential drone sightings, but at this time, there is no evidence to suggest they are linked to the sightings in northeastern states.
This week, retired police lieutenant and intelligence analyst Tim McMillan told DailyMail.com that the descriptions of the UFOs in Jersey ‘sound exactly like Russian Orlan-10 drones’ — secretive craft that fly in packs of three to five.
Lt McMillan and other experts have noted that the New Jersey sightings circled around Picatinny Arsenal, home of the US Army’s CCDC Armaments Center, which is responsible for manufacturing and supplying Ukraine with artillery ammunition.
Aspects of the NJ sightings mirror what has unfolded at American/NATO bases across Europe that are known to supply arms to Ukraine, based on accounts this year by US Army general Darryl Williams and others.
‘Russia has been very aggressive and reckless with its responses to Western support of Ukraine,’ Lt McMillan told DailyMail.com. ‘This isn’t something I see discussed in US media, but it’s well documented and openly discussed here in Europe.’
According to one NJ local, this image depicts roughly nine of the unidentified drones flying in to the Garden State from the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday night, December 5
Significantly, the fixed-wing mystery drones with red, white and green lights resemble craft witnessed over sensitive US military bases over the past several years
On Tuesday, Congress asked an FBI assistant director with the bureau’s Critical Incident Response Group, Robert Wheeler, if these drones posed a threat to public safety.
‘There is nothing that is known that would lead me to say that,’ Wheeler told Congress, ‘but we just don’t know. And that’s the concerning part.’
The Biden administration has also pushed back on claims by Republican lawmakers that the drones are being operated by any one of America’s foreign adversaries — including claims that the flights originate from an Iranian ‘mothership’ offshore.
‘No indication at this time that it’s a foreign adversary or a foreign actor,’ The White House’s national security communications advisor John Kirby told NewsNation’s Kellie Meyer. ‘The FBI is looking at this. DOJ is looking at this.’
‘I know the Department of Defense, when it affects or comes near a military base, they’re looking at this,’ Kirby added. ‘In some cases, the investigation has led to a revelation that it’s actually manned aircraft and not drones at all.’
