Drone expert has gut feeling about NJ drones being sent by an adversary

A US Army Special Operations veteran and drone expert says it’s “difficult to believe” the government knows nothing about the mysterious drones that have been troubling New Jersey residents for weeks, noting that his gut instinct points to a foreign adversary at play.“Whether it’s friendly or foe, our government has a lot of explaining to do,” Fox News contributor Brett Velicovich said on “America Reports” earlier this week.

“I find it very difficult to believe that our government doesn’t really know anything about this,” he added.“My gut, frankly, tells me it’s an adversary that’s doing this because if it was some secret military testing, the government would have put an end to it because of the hysteria,” said Velicovich, a former special operations intel analyst and drone expert.However, Department of Defense officials have outright said they do not believe the flying objects have originated from “a foreign entity or adversary,” deputy Pentagon press secretary Sabrina Singh told reporters Wednesday.“There is no Iranian ship off the coast of the United States, and there’s no so-called mothership launching drones towards the United States,” Singh said.While authorities have stressed that the massive drones spotted darting across Garden State skies each night are not a threat to public safety, Velicovich remained more cautious, warning that foreign adversaries may be using the time before President-elect Donald Trump takes office as a window for spying.“Right now our adversaries see an opening in our national security infrastructure because at the highest echelons of our government, there is a security vacuum taking place because of the transition between administrations,” Velicovich said.

“The timing is such a key indicator here.” Velicovich noted he feels current US infrastructure and national security systems are not equipped to combat such threats.“We have arcane infrastructure.

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