Metro White House security official dismisses NJ drone sightings — here’s what he claims they really are
The Biden administration brushed off the baffling New Jersey drone mystery – even as top lawmakers from both New York and NJ have demanded a federal briefing — and suggested nefarious foreign meddling could be at play.
During a White House briefing Thursday, White House national security council spokesman John Kirby said federal investigators have been unable to verify any of 3,000-plus of reports of car-size drones patrolling the nighttime skies in recent weeks.
And he suggested that most claims of mysterious drones are actually people mistaking them for helicopters or airplanes that are legally flying.
That explaination comes despite dozens of citizens, law enforcement officials — and even the US Army’s Picatinny Arsenal, which is the center of drone sightings in the Garden State — all reporting strange activity in the skies night after night.
“We have not been able to, and neither have state and local law enforcement authorities, corroborate any of the reported visual sightings,” Kirby told reporters.
He added: “Upon review of available imagery, it appears many of the reports of sightings are actually manned aircraft that are being operated lawfully.”
That's the same Kirby that said the chicom spy balloons were not a security threat....
During a White House briefing Thursday, White House national security council spokesman John Kirby said federal investigators have been unable to verify any of 3,000-plus of reports of car-size drones patrolling the nighttime skies in recent weeks.
And he suggested that most claims of mysterious drones are actually people mistaking them for helicopters or airplanes that are legally flying.
That explaination comes despite dozens of citizens, law enforcement officials — and even the US Army’s Picatinny Arsenal, which is the center of drone sightings in the Garden State — all reporting strange activity in the skies night after night.
“We have not been able to, and neither have state and local law enforcement authorities, corroborate any of the reported visual sightings,” Kirby told reporters.
He added: “Upon review of available imagery, it appears many of the reports of sightings are actually manned aircraft that are being operated lawfully.”
That's the same Kirby that said the chicom spy balloons were not a security threat....
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