“There are teams that respond to those types of potential emergencies typically within the department of energy, having potentially hundreds of drones flying around trying to identify these isn't necessarily the best way, gamma radiation is typically well shielded in weapons and at very high altitudes or even moderate altitudes like we're seeing these objects it would be pretty difficult to detect them and the way that NEST (Nuclear Emergency Support Team) typically operates in this environment is ground-based teams searching for radiation itself so it's not consistent with how they would do it.”
“some of the folks that l've come in contact with they specifically work on Weapons of Mass destructions, so that's that's their job so if there's a loose nuke in United States among other agencies they would be some of the people that would be sitting in a SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility) for 24 hours a day trying to figure out where it is and to go get it, so you can imagine that would be their number one priority right so I engage with these folks I asked them you know what's the sense here? people are kind of starting to panic a little bit and this message is getting out there more and more broadly and they assured me that's not the case that there is not a loose nuke or other type of weapon of mass destruction that these objects whatever they are are pursuing.
that's part of why I have a a high confidence level that this is not a response to a massive imminent weapons of mass destruction threat on the Eastern Seaboard so l I just want to try to dispel that rumor right now.”
-Ryan Graves veteran navy pilot