The Great Drone Mystery: Pentagon Knows Enough to Confuse Everyone

by Jeff Childers

In today’s first story for our daily mystery drone update, the military can, apparently, catch drones when it wants to. Headline from the UK Telegraph, two days ago:

 
Note, for later, the SpaceX connection. Anyway, see? They can catch drones, if they try.

Next, in debunking a wild rumor about an Iranian mother ship, yesterday the Pentagon made two curious admissions. Headline from NBC:

 
First, Pentagon spokeslady Sabrina Singh flat denied the drones are Iranian. So the Pentagon knows that much. Singh also said there was “no evidence” the drones were adversarial or linked to any foreign adversary. But how do they know?

Oddly, in a related BBC article yesterday, the Pentagon said the exact opposite—that mystery drones over U.S. military bases in the UK were connected to a “state actor” — meaning a non-allied foreign government:

 
Finally, Singh said the New Jersey flyers were not military. She didn’t say they weren’t U.S. government drones; she just said they were not military drones. Again, one wishes a reporter had asked, “How do you know that?”

Yesterday, I announced on Twitter the C&C “Drone Bounty.” It’s a $10,000 reward offered to the first person to provide direct information identifying the operator or the source of the drones. Since nobody else was offering a reward, and with the full support of the C&C Army, I thought we could lead the way.

Why doesn’t the FBI offer a drone reward? Share your opinion in the comments.

Maybe the 19 New Jersey mayors who signed the letter this week demanding action would like to join forces on the Drone Bounty? If everybody kicked in $10,000, it’d be a lot more attractive pot. And whistleblowers will be protected! Citizens to the rescue.

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