New Jersey Drone Sightings May Not Be Drones. By Professor Will Austin.
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In December, White House Communications Adviser John Kirby said “many” drones were actually lawfully operated manned aircraft that pose no national security or public threat. He did not disclose that the drones had been authorized by the FAA. Similarly, when U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said the federal government has "deployed additional resources, personnel, technology" to assist the state police in tracking down the drones to help allay resident fears over the drones, he never said that the drones were authorized by the FAA.
There has been no official explanation as to why the FAA failed to tell New Jersey law enforcement, elected officials, as well as the public, that they had authorized all the mysterious drone flights before the White House statement Tuesday. There was also no explanation why, if the FAA had authorized the flights, the agency then placed temporary flight restrictions over parts of New Jersey for "special security reasons." The restrictions prevented any unmanned aircrafts from operating below feet within a nautical mile of the airspace.
When the swarms of drones were first reported over New Jersey in November, state police, as well as local law enforcement, scrambled to track and monitor the drones and often questioned why they were unable to find where the drones were launching from or where they landed. The FBI launched an investigation into the drone sightings after the New Jersey State Police reported seeing a large drone in the sky.
Monmouth County Sheriff Shaun Golden expressed "extreme disappointment with the Federal Aviation Administration'' in a post on Facebook, noting that the drone activity "caused widespread panic and fear among residents.” "The unexplained drone activity led to significant public concern with residents, members of law enforcement, state, federal and local authorities scrambling for answers,'' Golden said on the post.
"The FAA's lack of transparency regarding the nature of the operation heightened alarm and created unnecessary anxiety in the community. It led to a waste of taxpayer resources to track and chase down suspicious reports.'' “It’s absurd that the Administration flat out lied to the American people for months about this,” said Assemblyman Paul Kanitra. “They continually tried to tell everyone they were seeing things and nothing was going on, when they knew what it was all along."
Sheriff Golden called on Congress to implement reforms to ensure transparency and collaboration with state and local authorities in future operations. “Residents of New Jersey were subjected to weeks of fear and uncertainty, with no clear communication on or explanation at the time,'' Golden said. "For the FAA to now claim this was for 'research' shows a complete disregard for the trust and safety of our communities.''
There has been no official explanation as to why the FAA failed to tell New Jersey law enforcement, elected officials, as well as the public, that they had authorized all the mysterious drone flights before the White House statement Tuesday. There was also no explanation why, if the FAA had authorized the flights, the agency then placed temporary flight restrictions over parts of New Jersey for "special security reasons." The restrictions prevented any unmanned aircrafts from operating below feet within a nautical mile of the airspace.
When the swarms of drones were first reported over New Jersey in November, state police, as well as local law enforcement, scrambled to track and monitor the drones and often questioned why they were unable to find where the drones were launching from or where they landed. The FBI launched an investigation into the drone sightings after the New Jersey State Police reported seeing a large drone in the sky.
Monmouth County Sheriff Shaun Golden expressed "extreme disappointment with the Federal Aviation Administration'' in a post on Facebook, noting that the drone activity "caused widespread panic and fear among residents.” "The unexplained drone activity led to significant public concern with residents, members of law enforcement, state, federal and local authorities scrambling for answers,'' Golden said on the post.
"The FAA's lack of transparency regarding the nature of the operation heightened alarm and created unnecessary anxiety in the community. It led to a waste of taxpayer resources to track and chase down suspicious reports.'' “It’s absurd that the Administration flat out lied to the American people for months about this,” said Assemblyman Paul Kanitra. “They continually tried to tell everyone they were seeing things and nothing was going on, when they knew what it was all along."
Sheriff Golden called on Congress to implement reforms to ensure transparency and collaboration with state and local authorities in future operations. “Residents of New Jersey were subjected to weeks of fear and uncertainty, with no clear communication on or explanation at the time,'' Golden said. "For the FAA to now claim this was for 'research' shows a complete disregard for the trust and safety of our communities.''
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The politics will... do it's thing.
I'm happy to have an explanation, and relieved it's benign.
I'm happy to have an explanation, and relieved it's benign.
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Not sure if this is what you meant, but my first thought was a psy-ops experiment by the FAA to see how the public would react to large-scale suspicious drone activity, so of course they couldn't say anything!!
I'm certainly not claiming that, just an interesting idea.
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