A New Jersey mayor suggests a possible connection between recent drone sightings and missing radioactive material. While federal officials downplay the threat, social media is buzzing with speculation.
A New Jersey mayor warned Tuesday that the troubling drone sightings over the state may be linked to missing radioactive material, although federal officials say the amount poses no serious threat either way. Belleville Mayor Michael Melham said the drones flying in a grid-like pattern over his Essex County township appear to be “looking for something. “It was a shipment. It arrived at its destination. The container was damaged, and it was empty,” Melham said.
earlier this week regarding a piece of medical equipment used for cancer scans that was “lost in transit” Dec. 2. while being shipped from the Nazha Cancer Center in Newfield in Gloucester County in southern Jersey.The device, an Eckert & Ziegler model HEGL-0132, was to be properly discarded — but its “shipping container arrived at its destination damaged and empty,” the agency said. The item, known as a “pin source,” contains a tiny amount of the radioactive chemical Germanium-68, which is used in PET scanners to calibrate accuracy. The radiation source is deemed less than a Category 3 on the International Atomic Energy Agency’s scale — which means it is “very unlikely to cause permanent injury to individuals or contain a very small amount of radioactive material that would not cause any permanent injury.” News of the missing equipment caused alarm on social media, with some netizens speculating that the enigmatic drones patrolling New Jersey’s skies are frantically scouring the area for the radioactive waste. The unfounded theory was also propagated by John Ferguson, CEO of a remote-aircraft-system company in Kansas, who claimed in a video viewed nearly 3 million times on X that the drones are trying to “smell” a gas leak, radioactive material or something els
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