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Pete Buttigieg Pokes Very Convincing Hole in New Jersey Drone Scare

The Transportation Secretary is not the biggest fan of the Garden State.

Pete Buttigieg offended an entire state by dismissing the idea that the SUV-sized drones spotted over New Jersey were part of a UFO invasion.

The U.S. Transportation Secretary suggested the Garden State was the last place on Earth the aliens would want to land.

Buttigieg quickly tried to backtrack the slight after being taken to task for saying New Jersey was a “very unlikely” location for a UFO landing on The Breakfast Club, co-hosted by Charlamagne tha God.

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The sightings, beginning early last month, have led to growing speculation about otherworldly beings and prompted demands for the government to come clean about what they know.

“I mean no disrespect to New Jersey when I say I think it’s very unlikely that an alien invasion would begin in New Jersey,” he said.

“Watch your mouth, we live there,” said the show’s co-host DJ Envy, who said all three presenters lived in the state.

The former South Bend, Indiana mayor kept digging, adding: “I love New Jersey. I’m just saying I don’t think that’s the main point of entry that an extraterrestrial would… unless there’s something we don’t know about.”

Rather than busy New Jersey, he suggested a remote Pacific Island would better serve a stealthy alien army.

“I would go for someplace in the Pacific where there’s no inhabited space for a couple of hundred miles so that I could get kind of my bearings before I go anywhere anyone is going to see me, right?' he said.

But Charlamagne wasn’t going for it.” What if they’ve been watching us for years already?”

“Yes, maybe, I don’t know,” answered Buttigieg.

“Secretary Pete knows something,” quipped Charlamagne.

There’s millions of things in the national airspace," Buttigieg shot back.

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The exchange sparked a backlash on social media, with users questioning what the transportation secretary knows and why he dissed New Jersey.

There have been over 5,000 tips about drone sightings in the tri-state area since November 18, according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security, the FAA, the FBI, and the Department of Defense.

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