New Jersey Sen. Andy Kim went on a drone patrol with local police Thursday night and believes some of the lights in the sky he encountered were probably drones, but most of the others are pending “more detailed analysis.” The result: It appears to have been just an airplane.
Despite these findings, Democratic lawmakers who took office earlier this month did not discount the possibility of drone activity in the state and accused the federal government of failing to provide answers to civilians who have reported sightings over the past several years. blamed the government. A few weeks.
“After going to observe reports of possible drone sightings with the police, I was able to conduct a more detailed analysis with the help of commercial pilots and others, and most of the possible drone sightings noted concluded that it was almost certainly an airplane,” Kim wrote. In the Saturday update of X.
He gave an example of a potential sighting that illustrates the problem with civilian drone sightings with incomplete information and tools.
senator shared a video He photographed the scene at Round Valley Reservoir at 9:20 p.m., showing an aircraft with white lights and red turn signals crossing a clear night sky.
“At that moment that night, I was unable to observe the plane on my flight tracker, but I was able to obtain more detailed flight data later on, and I was able to see that this single small plane had followed the route that had been pointed out to me last night. “Drones may be flying near us,'' the Garden State senator tweeted with a screenshot of detailed flight tracking data.
But Kim, who replaced the disgraced Bob Menendez, does not claim to have solved the entire phenomenon.
“I do not disrespect others who may have witnessed actual drone activity. Not everything I saw was completely explained by the flight path, but most of it was.” Kim wrote in a thread on Saturday.
“Right now, we have a lot of distrust in politics and government, and the federal government needs to respect the public's right to information,” the senators concluded.
