Drones spotted over New Jersey | What you need to know right know

(ASSOCIATED PRESS) After weeks of fear and bewilderment about the drones buzzing over parts of New York and New Jersey, elected officials are urging action to identify and stop the mysterious flights.

“There’s a lot of us who are pretty frustrated right now,” Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said on “Fox News Sunday.”

“'We don’t know’ is not a good enough answer,” he said.

National security officials have said the drones don’t appear to be a sign of foreign interference or a public safety threat. But because they can’t say with certainty who is responsible for the sudden swarms of drones over parts of New Jersey, New York and other eastern parts of the U.S. — or how they can be stopped — leaders of both political parties are demanding better technology and powers to deal with the drones.

Sen. Chuck Schumer called Sunday for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to deploy better drone-tracking technology to identify the drones and their operators.

“New Yorkers have tremendous questions about it,” Schumer, the Senate majority leader, told reporters about the drone sightings. “We are going to get the answers for them.”

The federal government did little to answer those questions in its own media briefings Sunday morning. “There’s no question that people are seeing drones,” U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. “But I want to assure the American public that we are on it. We are working in close coordination with state and local authorities.”

Some of the drones reported above parts of New York and New Jersey have turned out to be “manned aircraft that are commonly mistaken for drones,” Mayorkas said. “We know of no foreign involvement with respect to the sightings in the Northeast. And we are vigilant in investigating this matter.”

[darrenporter]

In USA you cannot cross a road without a crossing, but Drones over Nuclear Facilities, can't do anything about it.

[gerreappleton]

“We know absolutely nothing about the drones but we are very sure they post no danger!”
Well, then how do you know there’s no danger!

[blessed_be]

Why are they still talking like this is just NJ? It's all over the US, even in UK.

[matthewk]

How can you push for legislation when you don't even know what is happening

[BDahl-ih]

Americans have to stick together the government is not on your side !

[jimcampbell]

Additional legislation is not necessary if people do the jobs they were hired to do.

[ReasonablySane]

Probably US drones looking for nuclear bomb allegedly smuggled in. Seriously. The "we dont know anything, but they are harless" story is exactly how they would respond in such a situation.

[davidgillock]

If Mayorkas said 2+2=4, take it with a grain of salt.

[xtremeentertainmenttv]

This is what happens when you have incompetent people running the country very incompetently

[SolzeyeJewels]

Its not just the East Coast! Why isnt Oregon, Washington and California sightings being covered anywhere? The Media is part of the problem here.

[PippyPan]

Myorkis is a criminal. THIS IS A PSYOP!

[Buffrt]

This is what happens when you put Uncle Fester in charge of our national security.

[rockinrollin]

I would say shutting down an airport because it's unsafe for planes to land because of drone activity is definitely a threat!!!

[peggylamonds]

That man has lost all credibility, as well as fbi.

[Videotime-buhu]

They really think we the people are dumb enough to believe they don’t know what this is… right

[Debbie-mf]

The fact that our government hasn’t addressed this to us😡

[janetbumpus]

All they do is talk and take vacations.

[Photologistic]

Biggest liar in history there to tell us anything but the truth.

[jimhill]

They know it's a US military operation. They have the ability to determine the frequency transmitted. One organization not knowing can easily say they don't know who they are.

[ritamarquis]

Well if the Government says it's not theirs and doesn't know where their from then they're a threat!!!