Decrypt’s Art, Fashion, and Entertainment Hub. Discover SCENEPresident-elect Donald Trump took to the podium Monday to claim that “the Government knows” what’s behind the mysterious drone sightings from New Jersey to California. “Something strange is going on,” he added.You can say that again.As sightings surge across the globe, a pressing question lingers: who—or what—is controlling these unknown aerial phenomena?To date, over 3000 sightings have been reported across several states, including New Jersey, New York, and Maryland. The first sightings began in mid-November, sparking a flurry of speculation ranging from extraterrestrial visitors to foreign adversaries.Here are some of the most prevalent theories on social media attempting to explain the phenomenon.The Missing Nukes/Dirty Bomb Sweep TheoryOne of the most prominent theories advanced during the weekend suggests the drones are a federal operation trying to find missing nuclear weapons or radioactive material trafficked by terrorists.This nightmare scenario, suggested by Saxon Aerospace CEO John Ferguson, has gone viral on social media.“Drones have no reason to be in the air at night unless you're doing some type of ISR work, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, looking for bad guys or looking for a victim, a search and rescue victim, or law enforcement or some type of military project,” Ferguson said in a clip uploaded to TikTok.This is the first video about these drones that has got me genuinely concerned. https://t.co/yzRoie2lUn — Joe Rogan (@joerogan) December 15, 2024Ferguson recalled what he believes could be a similar event a few years ago in which drones were reportedly sighted flying in grid formations at night along the Interstate 70 corridor in eastern Colorado and western Nebraska. The sightings began in mid-December and carried into January, with reports of convoys as large as 19 drones.“It was believed that those drones were looking for radioactive material because there had been some material that come up missing here in the United States, and they felt like it was a high probability that the nuclear or the radioactive material would be taken along interstate 70 corridor, heading east or west or south.”The PSY-OP/Government Conspiracy TheoryA far less horrifying theory suggests the drones may be experimental technology undergoing public testing

Decrypt’s Art, Fashion, and Entertainment Hub. Discover SCENEU.S. Senator Andy Kim (D-NJ), who posted to his X (formerly known as Twitter) account Friday a video he took of swarms of mysterious drones that have been spotted nightly during the past few weeks, said he was increasingly concerned about the unexplained phenomenon.Kim, who joined local police in rural Clinton Township, New Jersey, 36 miles north of Trenton, said he spotted small clusters of two to four drones a number of times throughout the evening.“We often saw about 5-7 lights at a time that were low and not associated with aircraft we could see on the tracker app,” Kim said, noting that the group used a flight tracker app to distinguish the drones from airplanes. “Some hovered while others moved across the horizon.”Last night I went out with local police to spot drone flying over New Jersey, here’s what I saw. We drove to Round Valley Reservoir and the officer pointed to lights moving low over the tree line. Sometimes they were solid white light, others flashed of red and green.THREAD pic.twitter.com/ly7kUUDWDn — Andy Kim (@AndyKimNJ) December 13, 2024Kim said police have tried to get close to the drones using helicopters, but when approached, the drones would turn off their lights and go dark, echoing a statement by New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy on Monday.“This has gone on for weeks,” Kim wrote

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