President-elect Donald Trump joined the refrain of individuals elevating issues about mysterious drone sightings over New Jersey and different states on the East Coast, calling on authorities officers to shoot down the plane if they’re actually unidentifiable.
In a Friday publish on his social media platform Reality Social, Trump indicated that he believes authorities know extra concerning the drones than they’re letting on.
“Thriller Drone sightings everywhere in the Nation. Can this actually be taking place with out our authorities’s data. I don’t assume so! Let the general public know, and now. In any other case, shoot them down!!! DJT,” the president-elect wrote.
Residents of Morris County, New Jersey, first began reporting nighttime sightings of the drones final month. Since then, the FBI and the Division of Homeland Safety have investigated the objects and are trying into whether or not individuals are seeing precise drones, manned plane or one thing else.
“We’ve no proof presently that the reported drone sightings pose a nationwide safety or public security risk or have a international nexus,” the FBI and DHS stated in a joint assertion Thursday. “Upon evaluate of accessible imagery, it seems that lots of the reported sightings are literally manned plane, working lawfully. There aren’t any reported or confirmed drone sightings in any restricted air house.”
However, reviews of drone sightings continued to proliferate on Friday, with even former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan posting video of what he stated have been “dozens of huge drones” flying over his residence on Thursday night time. People in New York and Connecticut have additionally reported seeing the plane.
Trump’s missive got here after White Home nationwide safety spokesperson John Kirby appeared on Fox Information’ “The Story” on Friday afternoon, the place host Martha MacCallum pressed him about whether or not officers actually should not have a proof for the drone sightings.
“I’m not going to mislead you or to the American individuals, and I’m not going to say we all know one thing once we don’t,” Kirby stated. “And we might by no means, ever stoop to assume that an American citizen was loopy or nuts due to what they’re seeing and what they’re documenting. We’re taking that imagery significantly and we’re doing the very best we will to research it, and we encourage individuals to return ahead if they’ve further sightings.”
“Why not simply take one down and work out what’s occurring?” MacCallum requested.
“We don’t have sufficient conclusions to take that sort of a coverage motion,” Kirby replied. “However let’s simply assume for a minute, Martha, that we did. You’re not going to need to shoot one thing down the place it may hit someone’s home, or harm someone.”
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She additionally requested what President Joe Biden has to say on the problem, and whether or not Elon Musk or different “outdoors specialists” had been known as in to provide their opinions.
Biden “has tasked the workforce to look into this and to be energetic in doing it, to attempt to get solutions,” Kirby stated.
