These mysterious drones shut down NY airport runways last week.
The New York Post reported Saturday that Hochul said pretty much what everyone is thinking: “This has gone too far.” She issued these words of wisdom after the drones forced the shutdown of the runway at Stewart International Airport, which is right outside of Newburgh, New York, and “services both commercial and military flights.”
Stewart International Airport is also “adjacent to a New York Air National Guard base, where the 105th Airlift Wing is stationed.” If you think that Stewart Airport is nevertheless small potatoes, note also that the drones have recently flown over both LaGuardia International Airport in New York City and Newark Liberty International Airport, although they haven’t shut down the runways at either. At least not yet.
At Stewart, the runways were closed for just over an hour, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, “following a report from the FAA about a drone sighting at the airport,” and “there were no impacts to flight operations during the closure,” so relax, you dronephobe.
What gasses me is that the people we pay to protect us from external (and internal) national threats have not been forthcoming about what these drones are.
The sightings have put intense pressure on federal agencies to provide more information about the aircraft, as officials have urged calm and emphasized there is no evidence suggesting the sightings pose a security threat.
“I want to assure the American public that we are on it,” Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”
Oh, goody. They’re ON IT.
This is the same guy who assured “the American public” that our southern border was secure. Totally secure. Never better.
I don’t know about you, but I’m relieved!
The FBI and DHS said in a joint statement Thursday there is “no evidence at this time that the reported drone sightings pose a national security or public safety threat or have a foreign nexus.”
So, they know that there’s no evidence of a national security or public safety threat? How? How do they know that they don’t pose such threats?
Do they know where they’re coming from? Do they know who’s controlling them? Do they know why they’re flying over New Jersey and other east coast states?
If they know they don’t pose any threats, then they must know more about them than they’re telling us. And they aren’t saying anything about them that will put us at ease. They’re being vague and evasive in their comments.
I don’t trust these people with my life and health.
Even Chuck Shoooomer is cranky about the drones.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said he’s asking DHS to deploy special detection systems that use 360-degree technology to detect drones.
“If the technology exists for a drone to make it up into the sky, there certainly is the technology that can track the craft with precision and determine what the heck is going on,” Schumer said Sunday while discussing the technology.
For once I agree with the guy.
