JUST IN: NJ Mayor Issues Chilling Theory For Mystery Drones: ‘Radioactive Material Has Gone Missing’

The mayor of a small New Jersey town has come forward with claims that the recent unexplainable drone sightings over his state may have something to do with nearby radioactive material that went missing earlier this month.

Michael Melham, the mayor of Belleville, downplayed the idea of extraterrestrial involvement while on “Good Day New York,” even as he posited that the sights may pose a danger to the 37,453 residents of his city, which sits just north of Newark International Airport and is ground zero for most of the unusual activity. “We know for a fact it’s not little green men, and more than likely it’s not a foreign adversary, because they would be able to figure out how to turn off the blinking lights,” he said on Tuesday. He acknowledged some sightings may be “misidentification” taking place — an excuse put forward by the Biden administration — but not all are. “We are seeing drones all over the place in New Jersey,” Melham said.

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When one anchor asked for his response to a recent report that the drones may have “something to do with radioactive material,” the small-town mayor told a chilling story about a “missing cargo shipment” that fits the description and suggested the drones may be looking for a thief. “We’re aware of a threat that came in through Port Newark. Maybe that’s radioactive material. There was and there is an alert out right now that radioactive material in New Jersey has gone missing on December 2nd. It was a shipment. It arrived at its destination. The container was damaged and was empty,” he explained. Asked where he got that information, Melham replied, “That came from the U.S. government.”

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Going on, he said, “It was lost in New Jersey, in transit, and this is just an example of what I think we’re sniffing for. I think we do have the assets that can go up and fly around and sniff things, which is why we’re not seeing the uptick we used to see in Belleville anymore, it’s kind of moving. But we’re seeing alerts now that it’s happening in Pennsylvania.” Melham added that the timing of the drone sightings, which began about four weeks ago, coincides with the missing shipment.

On a call with the White House on Monday, Melham said he and his fellow local officials received “very little information” about why the federal government has yet to acknowledge whether it is responsible for manning the drones that have caused panic across the East Coast. The sightings sparked renewed speculation about UFOs at a time when congressional hearings and Defense Department disclosures are revealing decades of government activity, or inactivity, regarding inexplicable aircraft encounters.

“We’re no longer going to stand for not hearing the truth,” added Mehlam. “Our state government is failing us. We’re not getting the answers from the federal government.”

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