{"id":118933,"date":"2024-12-15T17:28:31","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T17:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/us-is-deploying-additional-resources-to-solve-mystery-of-drone-sightings-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T17:28:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T17:28:31","slug":"us-is-deploying-additional-resources-to-solve-mystery-of-drone-sightings-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/us-is-deploying-additional-resources-to-solve-mystery-of-drone-sightings-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"US is 'deploying additional resources' to solve mystery of drone sightings – USA TODAY"},"content":{"rendered":"

The federal government is “deploying additional resources” to address the\u00a0aerial drones\u00a0that have prompted concern<\/a> among East Coast residents \u2212 many in New Jersey \u2212 in recent weeks, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Sunday.
\u201cThere’s no question that people are seeing drones,\u201d he said Sunday on ABC News \u201cThis Week.\u201d<\/a> \u201cI want to assure the American public that we in the federal government have deployed additional resources, personnel, technology to assist the New Jersey State Police in addressing the drone sightings.\u201d
Mayorkas said more than 1 million drones are registered in the U.S. A Chinese national living in Northern California was arrested last week on suspicion of flying a drone over restricted airspace \u2212 over Vandenberg Space Force Base, Mayorkas said.
“It is our job to be vigilant,” he said. “If there is any reason for concern, if we identify any foreign involvement or crimnial activity we will communicate with the American public accordingly. Right now we are not aware of any.”
Last week, White\u00a0House National Security Communications Adviser John\u00a0Kirby said the drone sightings appeared to be piloted aircraft, adding that there was no evidence the sightings “pose a national security or a public safety threat or have a foreign nexus.”
Kirby did say the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI were working closely with state and local law enforcement to provide “numerous detection methods” to solve the mystery.
For the last few weeks, people in New Jersey have reported drone sightings that have attracted the attention of local residents, politicians and\u00a0even President-elect Donald Trump<\/a>. Concerned witnesses have described clusters of lights, saying they look like drones hovering over populated areas around the state. The sightings have expanded to\u00a0New York and Maryland<\/a>, but government officials haven\u2019t been able to put people\u2019s minds at ease. \u00a0
‘Drone sightings’ prompt worries:<\/strong>But these theories could explain what’s happening<\/a>
The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security have said such sightings mostly appear to not be drones<\/a> at all. \u00a0\u201cHistorically, we have experienced cases of mistaken identity, where reported drones are, in fact, manned aircraft or facilities,\u201d\u00a0the agencies said in a joint statement<\/a>.\u00a0
Harry Direen, an electronic and software engineering expert at DireenTech, said he wouldn\u2019t be surprised if people were seeing drones at first, but that once the notion of drones took hold, people assumed any aircraft they couldn\u2019t identify was a drone.
\u201cAfter what were likely valid sightings of possibly hobbyist drones, every aircraft can then become suspicious,\u201d he said.\u00a0
\u2212 Jeanine Santucci<\/em><\/p>\n

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The federal government is “deploying additional resources” to address the\u00a0aerial drones\u00a0that have prompted concern among East Coast residents \u2212 many in New Jersey \u2212 in recent weeks, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Sunday.\u201cThere’s no question that people are seeing drones,\u201d he said Sunday on ABC News \u201cThis Week.\u201d \u201cI want to assure the American […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-118933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-us","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}