President-elect Donald Trump suggested Friday that government officials know more about the mysterious drone sightings plaguing the Northeast than they are letting on – and in the event that they don’t, he called for the flying objects to be shot down.
“Mystery Drone sightings all over the Country. Can this really be happening without our government’s knowledge. I don’t think so!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“Let the public know, and now. Otherwise, shoot them down!!!” the president-elect demanded.
The eerie drones are causing concern among lawmakers, worried about a threat from adversaries like Iran on American shores.
The Pentagon, however, has denied that any foreign country is behind the drones – which have been spotted flying near US military installations in New Jersey.
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Several Republican lawmakers, including Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.), Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Jeff Van Drew
(R-NJ) have also called on the military to shoot down the drones.
Luna, a decorated US Air Force veteran, argued that if the objects are indeed unknown there should be no hesitation to shoot them down.
“If an unknown object enters our airspace, an automatic shoot-down order should be issued — no questions asked,” the congresswoman wrote on X Thursday.
“What happened with the Chinese spy balloon should never happen again,” Luna added. “I trust President Trump will take decisive action to prevent this!”
House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green (R-Tenn.) and Rep. August Pfluger (R-Texas) fired off a letter to the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and Federal Aviation Administration on Thursday demanding a classified briefing on the drones – which have been appearing over the Garden State, New York, Maryland, Connecticut and Pennsylvania since mid-November.
“While the Pentagon has reiterated that these unmanned aerial systems (UAS) do not belong to the U.S. military, there is increasing concern that these drones are adversarial and could be conducting surveillance or intelligence collection while exploiting U.S. airspace,” Pfluger wrote in the letter.
“This activity compromises national security and public safety.”House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) reportedly received a classified briefing on the drone sightings on Friday, according to The Hill.
