Famed podcaster Joe Rogan said he doesn’t believe the government’s official explanation for the wave of mysterious drone UFOs spotted over New Jersey.
Rogan reposted a video of White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby telling reporters that the sightings did not pose a “threat to national security or public safety” — but countered Kirby’s efforts to allay Americans’ fears .
“This is what the kids call ‘sus,'” Rogan posted on X.com, then offered his own theory.
“I’d rather believe it’s in cells holed up in a basement with ‘the man’ than believe it’s aliens,” Rogan joked. ‘#iwanttobelieve.’
Rogan has long been a trusted source for interviews with investigative journalists reporting on UFOs, military witnesses and government whistleblowers. Rogan has received more than 1.8 million views for his X-post about the ongoing drone crisis since he posted it online Thursday evening.
Since at least November 18, New Jersey officials and federal investigators have been plagued by reports of unexplained apparent planes, some as large as cars, conducting bizarre, unscheduled night flights over sensitive locations in the state.
The first drone UFOs were reported over the US Army’s Picatinny Arsenal, but encounters have spread with witnesses claiming – with varying levels of credibility – air raids in twelve New Jersey counties and now new reports in Pennsylvania.
Florham Park, NJ Police Chief Joseph J Orlando told reporters that they have received reports of unexplained craft flying over “water reservoirs, electrical transmission lines, train stations, police departments and military installations.”
Famed podcaster Joe Rogan (above) posted a video of White House national security spokesman John Kirby telling reporters that the mysterious drones in New Jersey did not pose a “threat to national security or public safety.” Rogan said: ‘This is what the kids call ‘sus’
But reports now suggest that these drones crossed state lines this week Pennsylvania residents are using social media to share posts about 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 in a Facebook post that it was aware of reports across the county.
And that same evening, 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 indication that these are related to the sightings in the 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’: secret craft that fly in groups of three to five.
Lt. McMillan and other experts have noted that the New Jersey sightings centered around Picatinny Arsenal, home of the U.S. Army’s CCDC Armaments Center, which is responsible for the production and delivery of artillery ammunition to Ukraine.
Aspects of the NJ sightings mirror what has unfolded at US/NATO bases across Europe known to supply weapons to Ukraine, based on reports this year from US Army General Darryl Williams and others.
“Russia has been very aggressive and reckless in its responses to Western support for Ukraine,” Lieutenant McMillan told DailyMail.com. “This is not something I see discussed in the American media, but it is well documented and openly discussed here in Europe.”
According to a NJ local, this image shows approximately nine of the unidentified drones flying from the Atlantic Ocean into the Garden State on Thursday evening, December 5.
Significantly, the mysterious fixed-wing drones with red, white and green lights resemble aircraft sighted over sensitive US military bases in recent years.
On TOn Wednesday, Congress asked Robert Wheeler, FBI assistant director of the bureau’s Critical Incident Response Group, whether these drones posed a threat to public safety.
“There’s nothing known that would cause me to say that,” Wheeler told Congress, “but we just don’t know.” And that’s the relevant part.’
The Biden administration has also pushed back on claims by Republican lawmakers that the drones are controlled by one of America’s foreign adversaries — including claims that the flights are from an Iranian “mothership” off the coast.
“At this point there is no indication that this is a foreign adversary or a foreign actor,” John Kirby, the White House national security communications adviser, told NewsNation’s Kellie Meyer. “The FBI is looking into this. DOJ is looking into this.”
“I know the Department of Defense is looking at this if it affects or comes close to a military base,” Kirby added. ‘In some cases, the investigation has led to the revelation that these were actually manned aircraft and not drones at all.’