President-elect Donald Trump confirmed Thursday he would reveal the truth about the mysterious flocks of drones spotted in the sky over New Jersey and other American locations.
Trump was asked about the sightings by reporters on Thursday evening as the president-elect met with Republican governors at his club at Mar-a-Lago.
‘I’m going to give you a report on drones about one day into the administration because I think it’s ridiculous that they’re not telling you about what’s going on with the drones,’ Trump replied.
Reports of mysterious lights in the sky around the Christmas holiday prompted widespread speculation about their origin, but government officials were evasive about the truth.
Trump confirmed he personally spotted drones over his own property in Bedminster, New Jersey.
Governors at the meeting with Trump expressed their frustrations with the drone issue, noting that federal government officials were not helpful.
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, confirmed the drone problem was also affecting his state, noting that it is the home to the largest Marine Corps base in the world at Quantico.
‘Now for two years running we’ve had drone incursion over secure airspace and we still don’t know why and I think that’s absolutely unacceptable,’
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry added there were also drones flying over nuclear reactors in his state.
‘We brought that to the attention of the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) and we’ve been asking the FAA to give these states the ability to mitigate these drones and it’s sitting on some bureaucrats desk and that’s real,’ Landry said.
Even Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon said there were Drones flying over infrastructure in his state and that it was ‘incredibly frustrating.’
‘Not only do we have no way of knowing what it is but nobody knows how to deal with them,’ he said.
Trump said he believed the drones could be attached to national defense actions by the government, but suggested there was no reason to keep it secret from the American public.
‘Nobody knows why , they don’t want to talk about it, that could be us sending drones, I hope that’s the case, us doing it and doing research and maybe they don’t want to talk about it from that standpoint,’ he said.
The president-elect confirmed he would make sure he had answers after he was officially inaugurated as president.
‘I hope it’s not an enemy but we’re going to find out on the 21st, the day after, you have to give me a little time for the inauguration but shortly thereafter we’ll give you a report on it we’ll tell you exactly what it is,’ he said. ‘They know and it’s very strange that they aren’t talking about it.’
For weeks, Trump has tried to reassure the public over the drone sightings that raised widespread speculation and unfounded theories about their origin, ranging from the government’s frantic attempt to find a missing nuclear weapon from Ukraine, to a possible Iranian sponsored attempt to terrorize the United States.
In December, Trump made the assertion that the government knew what the unexplained arial activity was and urged President Joe Biden to reveal the truth.
‘For some reason they don’t want to comment. And I think they’d be better off saying. Our military knows, and our president knows… and for some reason [they] want to keep people in suspense,’ he said during a press conference