By New York Post (U.S.) | Created at 2024-12-12 20:03:57 | Updated at 2024-12-23 12:48:07
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The Biden administration suggested that there may be no drones over New Jersey at all — as it sought to tamp down growing frustration over a lack of answers from the feds over sightings.
“We have not been able to, and neither have state and local law enforcement authorities, been able to corroborate any of the reported visual sightings,” White House national security communications adviser John Kirby told reporters during a briefing Thursday.
“Upon review of available imagery, it appears many of the reports of sightings are actually manned aircraft that are being operated lawfully,” he added.
Kirby’s statement comes despite the US Army’s Picatinny Arsenal in Morris County reporting 11 sightings of possible drones.
The arsenal has been the center of reported drone activity — with many neighbors theorizing that the drones are coming from the military installation.
“We have no evidence at this time that the reported drone sightings pose a national security or a public safety threat, or have a foreign nexus,” Kirby said.
Kirby said the sightings have done little more than “highlight a gap in authority,” and recommended Congress pass legislation to expand counter-drone authority.
