[MarkMarine]

Highly doubt someone in military PR is doing the 4d chess involved with making this quote while also being in the search grid and not informed:

"While no direct threats to the installation have been identified, we can confirm multiple instances of unidentified drones entering the airspace above Naval Weapons Station Earle," Bill Addison, public affairs officer for the naval station, said in a statement to ABC News.

They’d just say nothing was seen, or it was normal flight ops, or make up a training mission.

The military doesn’t re-enforce the reason for public panic or admit they aren’t omnipotent unless they really don’t know.

[hitpointdrew]

I think you are underestimating how compartmentalized the government is.

[MarkMarine]

I'm not. I was part of the government and a defense contractor.

As to what these are: they are clearly something complying with the FAR on dusk to dawn lighting, it's going to be some disappointing, boring outcome like dominos pizza delivery drones.

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-F...

Half the videos I saw were people noticing a commercial aircraft with landing lights on. I saw a bell 412 with some terrain mapping sensors mounted on it hovering in a pattern around my neighborhood earlier in the year and it turned out to be scanning for the power company, a new way of checking the lines. I'll be far more interested in a UAP that doesn't follow our dusk to dawn lighting rules.