A New Jersey sheriff said his department's own drones tried to track down a mysterious drone seen flying over the state, but the aircraft “easily evaded.”
Ocean County Sheriff Michael Mastronardi said one of his officers saw a swarm of 50 drones “coming out of the water.”
“We contacted the state police, the FBI, the Coast Guard, and at that point the Coast Guard responded with a boat and reported seeing 13 people chasing the boat,” Mastronardi told NewsNation on Friday. Ta.
Matronardi said the Coast Guard told the office the unexplained aircraft had an 8-foot wingspan.
The sheriff's office then set up its own “industrial drone” to track one of the strange aerial devices, but the sheriff told NewsNation's Rich McHugh that the drone was “easily evasive.” “It just disappeared out of nowhere,” he said.
“It would be even scarier if this wasn’t our military,” McHugh said. “These look like fixed wings and have multiple lights on them. I don't really know what to make of what I saw last night. Both the cameraman and I were a little surprised.”
In an interview with CBS News, the sheriff said the mysterious drone took off at 60 miles per hour, explaining, “Our drones only go 40 miles per hour.”
Drone sightings have been reported in several northeastern states over the last month, but the federal government has done little to allay the fears of witnesses or inform the public.
The Pentagon is said Breitbart News says the drones are not controlled by the U.S. military, nor are they believed to be controlled by a foreign entity, but does not say who exactly is controlling the drones.
at the joint statement According to a statement from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), both agencies say, “At this time, reported drone sightings threaten national security, public safety, or are linked to foreign exchange. There is no evidence that there is a connection.”
in post President-elect Donald Trump questioned whether the sightings were “really happening without the government's knowledge” on Truth Social and called on the government to inform the public about the sightings or “shoot them.” .
