'Multiple' drones entered airspace at New Jersey naval station: Official

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: ABC News

December 13, 2024, 12:32 PM


There have been "multiple" instances of drones entering the airspace at a Navy weapons station in New Jersey, officials there said Friday, as the concern continues to grow over widespread drone sightings in the region.

Naval Weapons Station Earle, which is located in Colts Neck, New Jersey, said it was "aware" of the sightings in the region and "continues to closely coordinate with federal and state agencies to ensure the safety of our personnel and operations."

"While no direct threats to the installation have been identified, we can confirm multiple instances of unidentified drones entering the airspace above Naval Weapons Station Earle," Bill Addison, public affairs officer for the naval station, said in a statement to ABC News. "The base remains prepared to respond to any potential risks, leveraging robust security measures and advanced detection capabilities." The base did not say when the incidents happened.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy expressed his "growing concern" about the drone reports around New Jersey in a letter to President Joe Biden shared on Friday while asking for more resources to "to fully understand what is behind this activity." New Jersey State Police have received reports of the drone sightings since Nov. 18, Murphy said.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/multiple-drones-entered-airspace-new-jersey-naval-station/story?id=116763570

[bucolic_frolic]

1. It's in your air space. Go capture one and dissect it.

Give the owners 24 hours to fess up, and then do the deed.

How many Americans would tolerate one hovering above their home for days on end?

[Dave Bowman]

2. Russians or Chinese spying (or proxies like Iran and North Korea). They're not very subtle though.

[kysrsoze]

6. A Chinese national was arrested for flying a drone over Vandenberg. I'm almost sure this is related.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/chinese-national-caught-photographing-vandenberg-012422610.html

[Walleye]

3. They only show up at night? Why do we not have a clear picture of one of them?

[reACTIONary]

8. My thought also. The ones pictured by the Brookland Bridge....

.... were the best I've seen. Some of them looked like small aircraft, which have the same red green lights and can appear stationary or slow moving if they are heading towards or away from the observer. But some of them did appear to be more drone-like.

Some of the reports are reminiscent of UFO fantasy sightings.

[anciano]

4. If they are unauthorized objects in

restricted air space, then the military needs to do what it needs to do......and ask questions later.

[COL Mustard]

5. Believe it or not, but

There's no Federal criminal law governing this. You can have all the signs you want, but at most it's a civil infraction. And the military isn't going to shoot down a drone in CONUS because what goes up must come down, and nobody wants to face that liability.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. I think the equiivocation issue is going back to what happened with those Chinese "spy" balloons

I.e., some were actual legit Chinese surveillance things but one that was possibly shot down belonged to a "club" and all kinds of egg and tomatoes were thrown at the military.

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/18/1158048921/pico-balloon-k9yo

[TomWilm]

7. Seven Mysterious Mass Illnesses That Defied Explanation ...

https://www.history.com/news/mysterious-illnesses-mass-hysteria

[Irish_Dem]

9. Most powerful military in the world lets UFOs invade their military bases.

OK

[AntiFascist]

11. Someone with some extra cash...

needs to send up a drone that "accidentally" crashes one of the rotors, bringing one of these down, then dissect it to see what
information it is collecting.

[Dave Bowman]

12. There are many tools and gizmos that are used to neutralyse drones.

A quick search led me to this site, which seens well documented:

https://www.robinradar.com/resources/10-counter-drone-technologies-to-detect-and-stop-drones-today

ETA:
It's just a mater of time before someone takes one of these down.

[Jose Garcia]

13. Associated Press: FBI, White House find no evidence of security threat in New Jersey drone sightings

WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - The White House, FBI and Homeland Security said on Thursday they had no evidence that drone sightings reported in New Jersey posed national security or safety threats, despite concerns raised by lawmakers.

The FBI and DHS in a joint statement said "it appears that many of the reported sightings are actually manned aircraft, operating lawfully. There are no reported or confirmed drone sightings in any restricted air space. 

White House spokesperson John Kirby told a news briefing that federal authorities were investigating the sightings in cooperation with New Jersey state and local law enforcement. Most of the sightings have been of aircraft operating lawfully, he said.

"While there is no known malicious activity occurring, the reported sightings there do, however, highlight a gap in authority," Kirby said.

more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/no-evidence-new-jersey-drone-sightings-pose-security-threat-white-house-says-2024-12-12/

[vanessa_ca]

14. Spotted in Oregon this week and in the UK last month over RAF installations

were seen hovering over RAF Lakenheath and RAF Mildenhall, in Suffolk, and RAF Feltwell in Norfolk, over several days, in a what defence sources described as a 'coordinated' operation.

At least four commercial pilots reported spotting mysterious lights darting through the skies over Oregon this past weekend

[Talitha]

15. If they flew over Maga-Lardo, the Repugs would cry "assassination attempt"!

I wonder if we could somehow drop a net and get a few of them?
(The drones, not the Repugs - we already know what they're up to.)

[LiberalFighter]

16. Why not hack the drones and send them to Mar-A-Lago?

[Strelnikov_]

17. If they wait until after Jan 20 to make 1st contact

Jokes on them.

[Marthe48]

18. Are the drones sighted over Grovers Mills, NJ?

If it's an invasion from Mars, maybe the air pollution in Earth's atmosphere will kill them. Or maybe yodeling.

[LudwigPastorius]

19. JFK, Jr. is working on bringing back a witches brew of deadly diseases to kill them.

There's nothing sadder than an ET in a nuclear iron lung.