Special Edition: Carlotto, Glawson, Goins: Drones, UAPs and First Contact

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a UFO! It's an Iranian mothership! It's a radiation probe! Or maybe it's really just a plane. The wave of alleged noctural drone sightings in New Jersey has led to some wild theories about what the mysterious lights in the sky could be.Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R–N.J.) claimed that the drones were coming from an Iranian "mothership" in the Atlantic Ocean, then retracted his claim after the Pentagon denied it. (The Iranian navy does have a sort of aircraft carrier for drones—and publicly-available satellite imagery shows that it's still sitting in the Persian Gulf.) The mayor of Belleville, New Jersey, claimed the drones were part of a secret search operation for missing radioactive material, although the materials have already been recovered.  Rep. Nancy Mace (R–S.C.) even asked whether it could be aliens from outer space.But there might be a simpler explanation. Gov. Phil Murphy has suggested that at least some of the sightings were just normal air traffic misidentified by over-eager drone spotters. Police documents obtained by Reason under the New Jersey Open Public Records Act back up that theory. A map of drone reports produced by the Monmouth County Sheriff's Office shows a dense concentration of sightings along the flight path of airliners leaving New York City. Our panelists: Michael Glawson, Ph.D., is a writer, researcher, and consultant with extensive experience. Michael is a member of the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies, and hosts The Anomalous Review podcast. You can follow him on Twitter @michaelglawson, reach out to him via email at [email protected], or find his work at linktr.ee/michaelglawson.   Mark Carlotto is an engineer, scientist, and author with almost forty years of experience in satellite imaging, remote sensing, image processing, and pattern recognition. He received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1981 and has written over one hundred technical papers and seven books. Outside of his occupation as an engineer in the aerospace industry, his journey as an independent scientist has taken him to Mars and back again by way of planetary mysteries, UFOs, local history, and most recently, ancient origins and archaeology. His blog and website https://beforeAtlantis.com is frequently updated with his latest research.  Greg Goins is a New Jersey resident who has been outspoken on the topic of UAPs. He's appeared on Fox News and recently wrote an Op-Ed article on the New Jersey sightings in the Philadelphia Inquirer. [email protected] Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/earth-ancients--2790919/support.