US Gov't threatens shoot down of New Jersey drones

Not the Onion – WSJ

{{ The Federal Aviation Administration issued a monthlong ban on flying drones in parts of New Jersey for security reasons, adding a wrinkle to a mystery that has unnerved the region.

After a string of unexplained drone sightings, the FAA said Thursday that unmanned aircraft weren’t allowed to fly over critical infrastructure across swaths of the state. The FAA said it issued the temporary restrictions, which lift on Jan. 17, at the request of federal security officials.

The FAA referred further questions to the Department of Homeland Security, which said Thursday that “critical infrastructure partners” requested the restrictions over their facilities. The agency said the restriction was meant to discourage drone flights, but it didn’t have any evidence the aircraft posed a threat.

Anyone flying drones in the restricted New Jersey area over the next month could be charged with a crime, the FAA said. The ban doesn’t include drones on national-defense, law-enforcement or firefighting missions, or drones that received a federal waiver to fly. The agency said the U.S. government could use deadly force against aircraft in the area if it posed an imminent security threat. }}

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/drone-ban-new-jersey-faa-622ede07

intercst

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Also see that the Bellview NJ mayor confirmed that the Feds are looking for some missing radioactive material using drones.

Why didn’t they say that in the first place?

intercst

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Because the right hand always knows what the left hand is doing…not.

Wendy

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A couple of months later…

That statement raised numerous questions about why the FAA did not tell the FBI and law enforcement officers that the flights had been authorized by them, or why the FAA did not acknowledge that they had authorized the drone flights.

Here’s what we know…

DB2

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But do we believe that?
“Since his election, Trump had promised that he would get to the bottom of the drone mystery that gripped New Jersey since November, noting that drones had been spotted over his golf course in Bedminster.”
Perhaps it was a warning to him that “someone (Putin?)” can reach him any time.

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