Dozens of SUV-sized drones as fast as 120mph terrorized our town's livestock
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The police chief of a small Nebraska city has come forward with a warning for New Jersey after his community was terrorized by mystery drones. Police Chief Chris Grooms revealed to DailyMail.com how Valley County, Nebraska, and surrounding regions, were besieged for weeks from December 2019 into January 2020 by 'upwards of 40-50' drone UFOs at a time.
![[Ord, NE Police Chief Chris Grooms (above) told DailyMail.com: 'I find it alarming [...] to think that the US government is telling us that the [...] drone incursion over New Jersey is not a known threat.' Cheap drones, he noted, have proven deadly on the battlefield in Ukraine]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/18/16/93280127-14206135-image-a-58_1734538043392.jpg)
Across nearly three weeks of nighttime encounters, typically between 7pm and 11pm, these inexplicable SUV-sized drones operated 'with impunity,' Chief Grooms said, and sometimes seemed to be 'toying with law enforcement.'. 'A lot of reports by ranchers stated that these objects were harassing their horses or cattle on a nightly basis,' he added. Some of the drones reached speeds of 120mph.
![[Above, a swarm of drones that was apparently captured on camera a few miles outside Omaha, Nebraska - three hours east of Ord and Valley County - but taken in the same December 2019 to January 2020 time frame as Police Chief Grooms' own baffling local cases]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/18/17/93280799-14206135-Above_a_swarm_of_drones_that_was_apparently_captured_on_camera_a-a-18_1734544055577.jpg)
The police chief said he 'finds it alarming' that the White House is insisting that the 'drone incursion over New Jersey is not a known threat' — particularly given that the size, shape and behavior of Nebraska's mystery drones matched those in Jersey.
![[According to one NJ local, this image depicts roughly nine of the unidentified drones flying in to the Garden State from the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday night, December 5, 2024]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/18/19/93043999-14206135-Swarms_of_drones_have_been_spotted_in_the_skies_of_New_Jersey_fo-a-3_1734551341297.jpg)
While the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) looked into some of Nebraska's drone cases, part of a wave that covered Colorado and Kansas, all the agency could do was confirm with 'high confidence' that the craft were 'not covert military activities.'.
![[In one 911 call report, obtained by DailyMail.com, a resident of Lincoln County told police she witnessed 'seven drones flying directly over her house' and the 'suspicious drones' moved 'east and west' in coordinated fashion. Lincoln is southwest of Chief Groom's own county]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/18/19/93287453-14206135-image-a-2_1734548439233.jpg)
While the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has downplayed the risks posed by these drones, their calming words have been contradicted by US military base officials, New Jersey mayors and the state's Coast Guard, among others. Although misidentifications of conventional planes have been rife amid the growing public fear, reports by from US military officials across America and Europe, alongside local police, have told matching accounts of these car-sized drones.
![[Local and national news covered this wave of drones sightings in Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska in late 2019 and 2020. Sheriff's deputies in other parts of Nebraska told the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that they witnessed the drones coordinating with a 'mothership']](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/18/17/93280801-14206135-Local_and_national_news_covered_this_wave_of_drones_sightings_in-a-17_1734544055508.jpg)
