No Answers: White House Provides Most Detailed Update Yet on Drone Sightings; Latest on Mysterious Flying Objects in NJ, NY and Elsewhere
By Newsweek. The White House on Monday put out its most detailed statement yet on a flurry of drone sightings that have been reported across the Northeast in recent weeks.
“We assess that the sightings to date include a combination of lawful commercial drones, hobbyist drones and law enforcement drones, as well as manned fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters and even stars that were mistakenly reported as drones,” John Kirby, the National Security Council spokesperson, told reporters Monday.
“We have not identified anything anomalous or any national security or public safety risk over the civilian airspace in New Jersey or other states in the Northeast,” he added. “The work continues.”
Federal and local officials have been confounded over reports of drone sightings in New Jersey and other parts of the Northeast that started about a month ago. (Read more from “No Answers: White House Provides Most Detailed Update Yet on Drone Sightings” HERE)
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Latest on Mysterious Flying Objects in NJ, NY and Elsewhere
By New York Post. Weeks into the drones-over-New Jersey mystery, the FBI and Homeland Security are finally stepping up to investigate and determine what threat, if any, they might pose.
Garden State residents have reported thousands of drone sightings going back as far as Nov. 18. Despite the eerie flying objects taking to the skies above the Eastern Seaboard nightly ever since — and calls by local and state politicians, and President-elect Donald Trump, to shoot them down — federal authorities have given no explanation about what the drones might be.
Trump on Monday said the “government knows what is happening,” and accused President Biden and the Pentagon of hiding information.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer intends to leverage his last week at the helm of the upper chamber to push for legislation to address the uproar over drone sightings in New York and New Jersey.
Schumer announced Monday that he push for a vote on legislation to “give local officials greater authority to swiftly respond to these sightings.”
“The reports of the past few weeks have ignited immense anxiety and confusion for millions of people living across the Northeast,” Schumer said in a Senate floor speech Monday. “Thankfully, there is no reason to believe these drone sightings pose a national security threat.” (Read more from “Latest on Mysterious Flying Objects in NJ, NY and Elsewhere” HERE)
