Does this mean the rest of the federal government talkers can drop the whole “don’t believe your stupid eyes, believe The Government” talking point about the drones being planes and helicopters?
Feds say people in N.J. are ‘no question’ seeing drones, pledge action
A few days after federal officials downplayed widespread reports of mysterious night-time drone sightings in New Jersey, a member of President Joe Biden’s cabinet clarified Sunday that people are indeed seeing drones in the skies over the Garden State.
Well, at least some of those objects are drones, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said.
“There’s no question that people are seeing drones,” Mayorkas said during a television interview on ABC’s “This Week.“
He added that the U.S. government is taking action on the matter.
“I want to assure the American public that we in the federal government have deployed additional resources, personnel, and technology to assist the New Jersey State Police in addressing the drone sightings,” Mayorkas said.
What resources? No one is hearing from the NJSP about this. There are not articles with press briefings. No one is stopping the drones. But, here’s where it gets silly
Mayorkas added there are thousands of drones flown every day in the U.S., including recreational and commercial drones, and that the Federal Aviation Administration changed rules in 2023 so drones could fly at night. That, he said, could explain some of this.
Do citizens own very large drones? Did they suddenly start flying their heavy, large drones at night en mass? How about in the other states seeing this?
Mysterious drones in New York temporarily shut down runways at an Orange County airport, a frustrated governor said, calling for federal assistance and declaring that “this has gone too far.”
The New York Stewart International Airport was forced to close runways Friday night for about an hour “due to drone activity in the airspace,” Gov. Kathy Hochul said in a statement.
It is, again, against FAA regulations to fly a drone within a restricted airspace, it doesn’t matter whether day or night. Yet, all the feds are doing is talking.
“But in order to allow state law enforcement to work on this issue, I am now calling on Congress to pass the Counter-UAS Authority Security, Safety, and Reauthorization Act,” Hochul said. “This bill would reform legal authorities to counter-UAS and strengthen the FAA’s oversight of drones, and would extend counter-UAS activities to select state and local law enforcement agencies.”
“Extending these powers to New York State and our peers is essential. Until those powers are granted to state and local officials, the Biden Administration must step in by directing additional federal law enforcement to New York and the surrounding region to ensure the safety of our critical infrastructure and our people,” Hochul added.
There’s actually a lot of conspiracy theories about this, that the drones are meant to force passage of the bill, which would enable more warrantless surveillance of citizens and so much more. I’m not going to touch on that, or the other conspiracy theories. I think it’s just a lazy Biden administration.
