We all remember how our federal government treated a Chinese spy balloon like it was a Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade ballon, allowing it to traverse our nation and surveil strategic military sites, including nuclear missile silos. Well, now mysterious drones are lighting up the nighttime sky over New Jersey. These drones, which have been spotted and reported by numerous New Jerseyans, are not only flying over military installations and critical infrastructure facilities throughout the state, but also over President-Elect Donald Trump's summer home and National Golf Club, Bedminister. In addition, a Coast Guard Commander recently reported that a 47-foot Coast Guard vessel was closely trailed by more than a dozen of these mysterious drones. Although our government claims to know nothing about them, we can confidently conclude that they are obviously not owned and operated by some backyard hobbyist, since some of them are reported to be the size of an SUV. Furthermore, we can safely surmise, as unnerving as it is to do so, that drones like these are often used for surveillance purposes or to carry explosive payloads, which can be used for precise strikes on particular targets.  

Despite our government's plea of ignorance about these mysterious drones, it assures us, somehow, in spite of its confessed ignorance, that these drones are not coming from a foreign entity or adversary. Our government even emphatically denies, despite its confessed cluelessness, that these mysterious drones are coming from an Iranian mothership lurking off the east coast, which New Jersey Congressman Jeff Van Drew claims to be the case. According to Van Drew, he has been told by "high sources" within the Pentagon that there is convincing circumstantial evidence that these mysterious, large, and sophisticated drones are being launched from an Iranian ship setting off our east coast. Yet, our government, which claims to know nothing about them, somehow knows this not to be the truth.

Regardless of the truth about these mysterious drones, which we may never know, since the truth-telling track record of our untruthful government is so terrible, there are a couple of things we can certainly conclude. First, our government is either glaringly lying to us or grossly incompetent. It's either clued up on these mysterious drones and closed-mouthed about them or it really doesn't have a clue. Second, if it is the latter rather than the former, then, it is even more disconcerting, since it means that anything, even nuclear missiles, could enter our airspace without our government even knowing what is happening until mushroom clouds start rising. Whether our government is dishonest or just dumb and deficient, it leaves us all feeling downright defenseless and our enemies anything but disheartened and discouraged.