White House Gets Tough Questions About New Jersey Mystery Drones
259 Video Views·Dec 14, 2024
White House National Security Spokesman John Kirby gets some tough questions from a reporter about the mystery drones in New Jersey after he says there's been no evidence of them flying in restricted spaces.
Reporter: "That's not what the senator said in the letter. They said, in fact, that they've been observed maneuvering their critical infrastructure, critical locations, including reservoirs and military installations and cited concern from law enforcement about public safety threats because a medevac helicopter was prevented from transporting a seriously injured patient (because of these drones)."
There has been no evidence of any of this activity in or near restricted spaces.
That's not what the senators said in the letter. They said in fact that they've been observed
maneuvering their critical infrastructure sensitive locations including reservoirs
and military installations and cited a concern from law enforcement about public safety threats
because a medevac helicopter was prevented from transporting a seriously injured patient for care
because of the presence of these drones. I stand by my opening statement.
Can you make that make more sense? Because I think people in New York and New Jersey
see drones the size of an SUV over their house every night and think that that doesn't make
any sense. Certainly I understand why people would be looking at this and being concerned about it.
We're concerned about it too which is why we have the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI
my goodness looking at this and we're taking it seriously. We understand that people are
concerned. We understand that they got questions. We got questions too and we're working hard to
get the answers to that. What I can tell you as we sit here today you know at 2 16 in the afternoon
on the 12th is we haven't seen any indication thus far that there's a public safety risk and
we haven't seen they are we are still investigating this. I can't tell you definitively. I cannot
characterize for you definitively what these sightings are. I can just go back to what I said
at the opening. We've looked at the imagery. We can't corroborate some of the reported sightings
through our own expert analysis using sophisticated detection techniques but that doesn't mean that
you know we're putting our pen down here this afternoon and calling it a day. We're going to
keep at this. We are continuing to investigate it as I said in my opening statement to federal
agencies as well as the United States Coast Guard and state and local law enforcement officials
which we are staying in close touch with.