Homeland Security shares new details of mysterious drone flights over New Jersey

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17. AP: US senator says mysterious drones spotted in New Jersey should be 'shot down, if necessary'

https://apnews.com/article/fbi-drones-new-jersey-8bfe84cf2678400181292b75f9193395

US senator says mysterious drones spotted in New Jersey should be ‘shot down, if necessary’

BY BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI
Updated 2:55 PM EST, December 12, 2024

TOMS River, N.J. (AP) — A U.S. senator has called for mysterious drones spotted flying over sensitive areas in New Jersey and other parts of the Mid-Atlantic region to be “shot down, if necessary,” even as it remains unclear who owns them.

“We should be doing some very urgent intelligence analysis and take them out of the skies, especially if they’re flying over airports or military bases,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut said Thursday as concerns about the drones spread across Capitol Hill.

People in the New York region are also concerned that the drones may be sharing airspace with commercial airlines, he said, demanding more transparency from the Biden administration.

The White House said Thursday that a review of the reported sightings shows that many of them are actually manned aircraft being flown lawfully. White House National Security spokesman John Kirby said there were no reported sightings in any restricted airspace. He said the U.S. Coast Guard has not uncovered any foreign involvement from coastal vessels.

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