I still see drones, big, peculiar ones at that, flashing multicolored lights and zooming across the sky, some even emitting smoky trails. I see them at night and in the morning (before dawn) as I stroll. I'm told by "experts" that I'm seeing things that were always there (planes, helicopters, stars ... greased geese), but I've always glanced up at the sky when strolling. I've been doing so over many years, and what I see now isn't what I saw then.
NJ Governor Phil Murphy says that these anomalies have appeared in other states in the recent past. They came and left, he says, and that was that. Senator Andy Kim held a photo op on the drones, in an alleged attempt clarify their origin, but the photo op never went beyond that. The drone mystery prevails.
I guess the drones don't mean any harm. Maybe they're on some military maneuver for our best interest. Even so, when I see them, I tend to think of Close Encounters of the Third Kind; E.T., the Extra-terrestrial; The Day the Earth Stood Still; It Came From Outer Space; and Project U.F.O. I also think of The War of the Worlds and Invaders From Mars. How can I not? I live near Grover's Mill. I also consider the way the drones appear to leap from place to place, which brings to mind Robinson Crusoe on Mars. I contemplate the drones' shapes, their insinuated sleekness and how Battlestar Galactica's Cylon Raiders assailed a celebration with purging precision. I think of 10 Cloverfield Lane, as well. Man, that's when the full-blown creeps seize me.
In one sense, the drones bestow me a sense of wonder, but they also make me anxious and angry. They make me crave honesty. That's something no faction of bureaucracy has yet to grant. Perhaps the muckety-mucks don't know any more about them than I do, but if so, that's all the more unsettling. In fact, the government's going-through-the-motions ambiguity makes me want to raise my fist and yell, but the present command would condemn me for that, and in "the land of the free," even if now "droned" (pun intended), that's just plain wrong.
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