Rep. Chris Smith (R-Manchester) tonight is on Long Beach Island with Ocean County Sheriff Mike Mastronardy, who has led efforts to determine the source and possible risks related to the drone activity that has been reported in Ocean County over the last few days. Rep. Smith issued the following statement:
“I have been speaking with Ocean County Sheriff Mike Mastronardy, Monmouth County Sheriff Shaun Golden, and national security officials located in the area to discuss the widespread reports of unidentified drone activity across my central New Jersey congressional district and across our state.
Understandably, New Jersey residents are very alarmed at this significant and reoccurring phenomenon—and the tepid response from our state and federal agencies so far is totally unacceptable. As we saw with the Chinese spy balloon last year, our fiercest adversaries will stop at nothing to surveil our homeland and threaten our national security.
While the source of this drone activity is still to be determined, it is clear that the communication channels and proper authorities among local law enforcement and federal partners must be drastically improved in order to work quickly through deconfliction and security challenges as unmanned aerial systems become more prevalent.
The people of New Jersey deserve swift and bold action on the part of our state and federal agencies to investigate, assess, and address the situation immediately and to alleviate the growing concerns of our community.
I have already made inquiries to various federal agencies regarding their response to these sightings after being briefed by the Governor, the State Police, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and U.S. military personnel over the past week. I will continue working around the clock to ensure law enforcement has all the tools and authorities necessary to identify these unmanned aerial systems and until New Jersey residents have the comprehensive answers they deserve.”
Why dont you shoot them down?
This evening I came home to find a few kids from the area hanging around my house. They explained to me that their drone got stuck in my gutter. These are Yeshivah kids in elementary school, if they have one then there must be thousands of drones out there.
This is an underwhelming response. Drones can be very dangerous in the wrong hands. How is it possible that a few DAYS have passed, and they are still FLYING?!
Space Aliens Send Message of Reassurance to Rep. Smith: “The Spaceships Belong To Us, We Mean No Harm, We’re Conducting Friendly Research”
Space aliens from Planet Jupiter sent out a message of reassurance to NJ Congressman Chris Smith on Monday informing him that the unidentified flying objects seen hovering over parts of NJ in recent days are not drones, but harmless spacecraft that belong to Planet Jupiter’s interplanetary space Agency.
“Mr. Smith, please rest assured that those flying objects hovering over your state in recent days are not spy drones; they are simply ordinary, run-of-the-mill spaceships that belong to Jupiter’s interplanetary space agency,” the Jupiterian spacemen said in a statement addressed to Rep. Smith.
“Honestly, we mean no harm!” the space aliens said. “Let us explain: In our efforts to advance scientific research, we are trying to locate a distinguished fellow from NJ who invented a highly sophisticated device known on Planet Earth as ‘The Lightbulb’. Perhaps you can help us locate Mr. Thomas Edison, so we can sit down with him and have him explain to us the science of light and electricity.”
“And, while you’re at it,” the space aliens went on to say, “we’d appreciate it if you could hook us up with a fellow by the name of Benjamin Franklin, a kite-flying inventor, who discovered electrical currents. After we’re done speaking with those two phenoms, we’ll be off on our way, and we promise you, you’ll never see us, or any of our spaceships, again.”
“Oh, and please tell that Tesla fellow, Mr. Musk, to be careful with his self-driving automobiles,” the Jupiterian astronauts said, “because we tried using autopilot software on some of our spacecraft, and every one of those spaceships crashed into the stars and into Planet Mars, never to be seen again!”
“We don’t even use cruise control anymore,” the space aliens added, “just to be on the safe side.”
There are videos not regular home drones , they are huge like a size of a small suv