Homeland Security Secretary blames drone sightings on recent FAA rule change
“There’s no question that people are seeing drones. And I want to assure the American public that we, in the federal government, have deployed additional resources, personnel, technology, to assist the New Jersey State Police in addressing the drone sightings,” Mayorkas told ABC News’ “This Week.”
“That may be one of the reasons why now people are seeing more drones than they did before, especially from dawn to dusk,” Mayorkas said. “I want to assure the American public that we are on it.”Residents in New Jersey especially have been tormented by the sightings across Morris, Passaic, Bergen and Hunterdon counties which have been going on since at least Nov. 18.
The lack of clarity from the feds has led to rampant speculation about what is behind the peculiar, lit-up objects buzzing around in the sky, with some positing that it’s a super-secret military project of sorts.“highly reliable sources” with “top security access” told him the drones “very possibly could be” sent by an Iranian “mothership” off the coast.
He estimated that as many as 8,000 drones are flown in the US every day and more than 1 million are registered.Late last week, President-elect Donald Trump cast doubt on the notion that the federal government isn’t aware of where these drones are coming from and dangled the possibility of just shooting them down.
“It is our job to be vigilant in the federal government with our state and local partners on behalf of the American public.”
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