First, there were Chinese weather balloons that turned out to be spy satellites.
Today, there are drones over New Jersey and an Iranian ghost ship patrolling off the East Coast.
“They” say there’s nothing to worry about.
But the government can’t tell us for sure what those drones are doing above New Jersey and Ohio.
Nothing so exciting has happened in the sky above New Jersey since Orson Welles’s adaptation of “War of the Worlds” at Grovers Mills in 1938.
The local police and sheriff are mobilized. So too is a cadre of citizen observers.
Thank goodness the Coast Guard is out there with binoculars searching for Mideastern warships that have apparently wandered west of the Mediterranean Sea.
Additional FBI agents are being urgently dispatched to investigate.
The FAA placates the public saying the brouhaha is only about fixed-wing airplanes.
But a government spokesperson says that while he can assure us everything is safe, he can’t say what is really happening.
But, if he doesn’t really know, how can we trust him to be assuring of anything?
The president-elect speaks. The White House communications office comments.
Cable talk TV has filled hours with speculation from aviation and espionage ‘experts’ and yet, now on day umpteen of the crisis, why is our knowledge so muddled, the government’s response so clouded (think: obfuscation), and our ears are ringing?
I guess among the Trump transition pronouncements, Congressional befuddlement over endorsement, and mysterious drones hovering over the Garden State, it’s little wonder what really captures the audience’s imagination.
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