New Jersey leaders meet with officers over drone sightings

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy mentioned he spoke with state and federal officers about peculiar drone process in portions of the area, together with the neighborhood of President-elect Trump’s Bedminster golfing membership, however wired there used to be no risk to public protection. 

In a Thursday publish on X, Murphy mentioned he convened a briefing with Native land Safety Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, senior officers from DHS, the state police and state Native land Safety and Preparedness, in addition to New Jersey’s congressional delegation. 

“We’re actively tracking the location and in shut coordination with our federal and legislation enforcement companions in this topic,” he wrote. “There is not any recognized risk to the general public at the moment.”

In contemporary weeks, drones have been noticed flying in Somerset and Morris counties. In a video from Nov. 25, a Morris County resident named Mike Walsh noticed drones flying over Black River Center Faculty in Chester. The Trump Nationwide Golfing Membership in Bedminster is situated in Somerset County.

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Different drone sightings within the Lawn State happened in Bernardsville, Mendham and Parsippany. According to peculiar drone sightings above the northern and central New Jersey skies on Nov. 18, the Federal Aviation Management (FAA) on Tuesday showed it had issued two brief flight restrictions. 

One comes to the airspace above the Trump belongings and is in position till the tip of this week. 

“On the request of federal safety companions, the FAA printed two brief flight restrictions (TFRs) prohibiting drone flights over Picatinny Arsenal Army Base and Trump Nationwide Golfing Membership Bedminster,” the company mentioned. 

Rep. Tom Kean, R-N.J., used to be on Wednesday’s name with Murphy, Mayorkas and different govt and cops.

“I can proceed to push federal government to paintings rapidly to offer the general public a complete working out of the location and paintings towards a solution,” he wrote Thursday on X. 

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Government are investigating peculiar drone process in northern New Jersey, together with the realm of Trump Nationwide Golfing Membership in Bedminster. (Getty Pictures)

In a commentary, New Jersey state Sen. Anthony Bucco, a Republican, mentioned one of the drones flew over his house. 

“I’ve been confident that there’s no recognized forthcoming risk from those units,” he mentioned. “Our legislation enforcement group, together with the FBI, continues to assemble data at the drones and supply data to the general public because it turns into to be had.”

Rep. Rebecca “Mikie” Sherrill, D-N.J., mentioned she would stay in shut touch with the investigation and would percentage updates as they arrive. 

Vito Fossella, president of Staten Island, is calling the FBI to make bigger its probe into the drone sightings to incorporate the airspace over his New York Town borough. In a single example, drone flights avoided a medevac helicopter from having the ability to delivery a severely injured crash sufferer in Branchburg Township, New Jersey, to the sanatorium, Fossella mentioned in a letter to the legislation enforcement company. 

Staten Island Borough President Vito Fossella and Assemblyman Sam Pirozzolo lead a press convention to talk about the seizure of substances in Staten Island, New York, on Oct. 6, 2023. (Theodore Parisienne for NY Day by day Information by way of Getty Pictures)

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“It stands to query, what else may just those drones be impacting?” Fossella mentioned. “Staten Island is house to 2 sanatorium techniques, and the opportunity of those drones to hinder life-saving care in clinical emergencies is deeply regarding.”

Fox Information Virtual has reached out to the FBI. 

Fox Information Virtual’s Andrea Margolis contributed to this file.