The Wire - December 16, 2024

this is the wi4 2300 Zulu December 16th 20124 president's routine information cut off as 2200 bottom line up front Ohio Air Force Base briefly closes airspace over the weekend due to drone activity New Jersey drone situation continues with little new evidence beginning with international events in Germany this morning a vote of no confidence was held in the bundestag resulting in Chancellor schulz's government collapsing snap elections are to be held in February in Canada finance minister Freeland resigned her post this morning following conflict within prime minister Trudeau's cabinet Freeland reported that Trudeau asked her to step down as finance minister to serve in another cabinet position over the weekend which she replied to this morning by resigning outright in Syria Israel forces have continued their North and Eastward axis of advance from the Golan HIDs into Syria Turkish activities in the north continue as well though remain harder to discern as fighting continues in the remote terrain of Northeastern Syria however indications are growing that the tur back Syrian National Army is preparing for a large scale offensive against the Kurds along the Eastern front on the home front in Washington DC the wi house has continued the large scale pardons issued by the outgoing Biden regime with 39 Pardons and 1,499 commutations being announced on Thursday in Wisconsin a school shooting was reported at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison this morning so far three fatalities and seven wounded were reported following the shooting and the as salant took their own life at the scene in Ohio following in the events in New Jersey over the past few weeks Riot Patterson Air Force Base reported an airspace closure due to drones inhibiting flight operations Friday night base officials observed many drones of varying size and configurations which resulted in the issuance of noam's number Mike 11132 33 and 34 which resulted in the complete closure of the airspace for several hours in New Jersey no clear and indisputable evidence has been noted over the past few days to indicate what the recent drone crisis may be statements by officials have been met next New York claims to have requested drone detection systems from the federal government and that those resources whatever they are are being deployed around the tri-state area analyst comments for this wire the implementation of a drone detection system in New York is interesting in that framing the response in this manner signals the lack of understanding regarding drone detection and surveillance the US government doesn't have a magic suitcase of tech that can make everything okay there's much more to it than that drone detection and mitigation technology is an extremely wide and varied subject area with many different means of monitoring aerial objects from norad's extremely capable Suite of radar systems to satellite based Technologies to the intricate web of counterd drone Technologies down to the individual user level in many cases there are a plethora of options for detecting what these drones might be and where they originate from this morning president Trump alluded to as much very bluntly stating that the US government knows exactly what the situation is regarding the drones that have genuinely been observed this matter of fact statement points to what is fairly obvious the the chances of the US government not already tracking every piece of technology in the United States are zero there is absolutely zero chance that at least two dozen different federal agencies haven't already weeded out the fake or erroneous reports from the genuine sightings and already identified where those drones are coming from more broadly however in the realm of National Security sometimes wishing will indeed make it so right now there are very real drone threats to critical infrastructure and sensitive military sites that have been present for many years before the New Jersey situation captured the inations of many now that the nation has spun up on this Mal actors have almost certainly come out of the woodwork to take advantage of the fry and conduct operations on their own unfortunately due to the nature of social media anyone with a slightly plausible Theory as to what the Drone crisis is all about can rock it to the height of stardom solely based on the impossibility of proving a negative the complete lack of trust the American people have in government exacerbates this phenomenon as No One Believes the official narrative anyway currently the most alarming narrative that has made the rounds on on social media is the theory that these drones are somehow related to a secret search for nuclear or radiological material so far no evidence supports this Theory and what evidence appears to support this Theory can easily be explained by other details for instance claims have been made that the drones are conducting an aerial search for hidden nuclear material or even a nuclear weapon however upon closer examination this Theory falls apart rather quickly for one small drones make for a rather poor radiological isotope detector platform there is a reason that all of the known US Government nuke sniffer platforms are based on very large aircraft for example the main nuclear material detection platform currently in active service with the US military is the WC 135 constant Phoenix platform a multi-engined fixed wi platform none of the constant Phoenix platforms currently in active service have made any deviation from their normally observed pattern of activity another detail that derails the nuke sniffing theory is that none of the drones have been observed conducting any sort of search pattern if unmanned aircraft being used to collect data on radiological threats some form of search pattern would be required for the effort to be worthwhile as it stands no one has seen any of these drones for more than a few seconds at a time some claims have been made that radiation detectors within New York City have allegedly reported a spike in radiation detected over the past few days allegedly adding some weight to the faile material Theory once again closer examination of the data provides more clarity the primary source of these claims lies with a consumer grade website that allows users of a particular kind of consumer grade Geer counter to upload their data to the internet and thus crowdsource a national map of radiation data here in lies the first problem this website GMC map is most certainly not a reliable scientific Source despite its best intentions since almost everyone who will spend their money on a Geer counter or a cation detector will at some point own a check Source there's nothing preventing a user from holding a check Source up to their meter that is streaming data online in short an individual user can put a rock on their desk next next to their guer counter which is streaming its data online and make the whole state think that Chernobyl 2.0 just occurred this happens frequently with large spikes of radiation being detected all the time on many of these crowdsourced sensor networks couple this with the Minor Detail that these specific kinds of devices are known to house rather insensitive Geer Mueller tubes this data is not entirely an indicator of much on the contrary the various calibrated and certified radiological detectors strategically placed all around the state and under the control of many different groups agencies private companies and educational institutions have reported no abnormal radiological concerns over the past few weeks none of the authorities who wear personal radiation detectors every day nor the statically Imp placed counterterrorism detection tools strategically set up around the city have reported anything abnormal with regards to radiological concerns throughout the area additionally some engagement farming accounts on social media have claimed that a shipment of nuclear material has gone missing in New York and that this is somehow related to the Drone sightings again closer investigation reveals that a radiological Source did go missing 3 days ago as reported by nuclear Regulatory Commission event number 57455 however the source a germanium 68 pin Source used in the medical field is vastly too small to even be detected from a few feet away much less than by a mystery drone as a reminder radiological material goes missing shockingly frequently and thus the focus on such a small source of radiological material is probably undertaken by those who don't know any better or by those seeking to capitalize on the fear of anything with the word nuclear attached to it for perspective this particular missing source of radiological material has a reported activity level of 0.267 microcuries so if a person were to eat it and thus absorb 100% of the decaying particles into their body just as a worst case scenario in an hour they would receive the equivalent of two abdominal CT scans which is hardly akin to handling graphite from the core of an rbmk reactor perhaps the biggest concern during this drone Affair is that this incident kicked off over a week ago but zero clear pictures of drones have been provided by anyone so far despite being one of the most densely populated regions in the United States and the drones being well lit and slow flying not one photo has been provided that clearly indicates an object is not a commercial aircraft or a consumer grade quadcopter considering the Chinese spy balloon crisis which emerged in one of the least densely populated states in the country locals were still able to get professional grade imagery of the first balloon instantly as such the absence of tens of thousands of clear photos in New Jersey is a strong indicator of what the reality of the situation might be however the danger with realizing that most of this incident is purely hysteria is that the real and palpable drone threats become dismissed as well it would be very unwise to throw the initial drone observations out with the bath water just like it would be unwise to dismiss the other very real drone concerns around the country this concludes the wi for 2300 Zulu December 16th 2024