The Federal Aviation Administration on on drone flights over nearly two dozen communities across New Jersey in the wake of ongoing complaints about brightly colored — and largely unexplained — flying objects filling the night skies over the Garden State.
These are in place “prohibiting drone flights over critical New Jersey infrastructure,” according to an FAA statement.
The TFRs, which are set to last until Jan. 17, cover a huge swath of central and northern New Jersey, the nation’s 11th-most-populous state with more than.
Drone prohibitions go as far south as and as far north as and .
Other notable communities affected by these new TFRs include , the state’s fourth-most-populous city, Philadelphia neighbor and the port city of.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Thursday the FAA plans to issue TFRs “over some of New York’s critical infrastructure sites,” noting that the action is “purely precautionary; there are no threat to these sites.”
It was not clear when the TFRs in New York would begin or end.
Hochul said the state has not “detected any public safety or national security threats” and that they will continue to monitor the situation while calling on Congress to give states the “authority and resources they need to manage this evolving technology.”
For about the past month, drones have reportedly been lighting up the night skies with of who is operating them and the purpose of the flights.
There has been, though, creeping skepticism about whether most of the reports are due to people mistaking stars or the of aircraft for drones.
Alarmed New Jersey residents and local politicians have been demanding information about objects.No person, group or government agency has taken responsibility for them.
