The truth is out, and former Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger told CNN Sunday afternoon that he had worked it out.
The mystery objects seen above New Jersey in recent weeks that have sparked a frenzy are not drones, UFOs, or the demon spawn of an Iranian mothership.
Kinzinger told network host Fredricka Whitfield that people are freaking out over harmless flights.
While federal officials and one New Jersey citizen have confirmed that some of the objects are really drones, Kinzinger is convinced that people are seeing high-altitude jets and are concerned:
I mean, look, if you’re if people don’t want to be reassured, then the answer is no. And, you know, look at what I’m hearing from Homeland. And what I’m hearing from FBI is we don’t see a threat here. And look, honestly, every video I’ve seen and I’ve spent the last couple of days looking at every one of these videos, every video I have seen on Twitter, on the Internet are all airplanes. They’re literally all airplanes! Some of them will show an airplane that’s kind of stable out there and says that’s a drone and actually, it’s an airplane flying towards you at 30,000 feet. And I can see the lighting on it.
And if there are drones out there, by the way, and if any of these pictures that they have shown are actual drones, these drones then are complying with FAA lighting requirements, agreeing on the right, a red on the left with a strobe. And so it’s not Iran. It’s not aliens if there are drones. My guess is if there are drones again, because, again, all I’ve seen her airplanes and it is more than likely some company that’s testing drones or something like that and has no requirement to tell the public that they’re doing it because they’re actually operating these things legally.
In a Saturday statement, the White House said that some of the objects are actually drones.
At this point, we have not identified any basis for believing that there is — that these drones — that there’s any criminal activity involved, that there’s any national security threat, that there’s any particular public safety threat, or that there’s a malicious foreign actor involved in these drones.