There are mysterious flying objects hovering over New Jersey and, days after the first drone sightings, we still don’t know much about what they are, where they came from, and what they’re doing up there.
Eyewitnesses in New Jersey have been reporting mysterious drone sightings — over homes, military installations, and Trump’s Bedminster golf club, to name a few — since mid-November. The FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and the Federal Aviation Administration have all investigated the origin but have yet to hear back from us. The Pentagon says the mystery drones are not military and probably not extraterrestrial. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and US Senator Andy Kim went drone hunting themselves, but came up empty.
Despite this, Murphy and law enforcement officials say drones may not pose a threat to public safety, according to the Associated Press.
“Tonight I met with @NJSP officials and radar experts at the Regional Operations & Intelligence Center who are scanning the area for drone systems,” Murphy said on X Sunday night. “The public deserves clear answers – we will continue to press the federal government for more information and resources.”
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The spy has become such a spectacle that the president-elect has weighed in.
“Let the public know, and now,” Trump said. “Otherwise, shoot them down!”
It is a priority for lawmakers to consider stricter regulations on flying drones, AP reports. But most of the sightings aren’t drones at all – stars, planes, or other flying objects like planes coming and going from New Jersey airports.
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Just look at the Friday X post from Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, who says he “witnessed” what he believes to be “a number of large drones in the sky above my residence in Davidsonville, Maryland.” The video accompanying the post clearly shows the constellation Orion and the stars Sirius and Procyon.
Regardless of who – or what – is behind the drones, Harry Direen, an electronics and software engineering specialist at DireenTech, told USA Today that the criminals “obviously … aren’t that bad.”