Drone sightings over northern New Jersey have sparked feelings of confusion and fear among residents and local officials alike — but some attention-seeking, alien-obsessed politicians in D.C. appear to be exploiting the fear cycle for all they’re worth.

In a video rant posted to her put “in danger”.

“They can track down a man who just killed a CEO, but they can’t identify what night drones are and where they come from,” Greene continued, referring to Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old charged with murder is by Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare.

“Secondly, if they are telling the truth, then this country is in a terrible state. We are all in danger,” Greene added. “I mean, seriously, if our great government can’t figure out what these drones are – they’re flying every night, people are sitting out there filming on their phones – then no American is safe. And I have no respect if our government can’t say what that is.”

Commercial drones were first spotted over parts of North Jersey in mid-November, sparking an FBI investigation into the aerial gathering. At a briefing Wednesday between New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s office and the Department of Homeland Security, mayors in the region complained that no one from state or federal agencies had been able to tell them exactly how many drones were flying over the state According to NBC News, estimates range from 400 to a thousand.

“I don’t know how I can go back to my residents and say I’m happy with this meeting when I now know I have 180 drones that have flown over the state of New Jersey,” said Tony Perry, mayor of Middletown told NBC after the meeting. “We have no further information about where these drones come from, where they take off and where they land.”

Greene is known to love space-based conspiracies. In a 2018 Facebook post (two years before she took office), Greene linked alleged sightings of “lasers or blue light beams” to the cause of the California wildfires. She then, completely unsubstantiatedly, further linked these sightings to the Rothschilds, a wealthy Jewish banking family who were often the target of anti-Semitic conspiracies and who she believed were clearing the land for train stations.

But she’s not the only D.C. politician mindlessly stoking the flames over the unusual drone sightings. New Jersey Representative Jeff Van Drew suggested to Fox News on Wednesday that the drones came from an Iranian “mother ship” – a claim the Pentagon quickly shot down.

“There is no Iranian vessel off the coast of the United States and there is no so-called ‘mother ship’ launching drones toward the United States,” Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh said the same day.