Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ailing.), a former army pilot, mentioned Sunday that all the mysterious drone sightings he has seen video of have been airplanes.
“Honestly, every video I’ve seen — and I’ve spent the last couple of days looking at every one of these videos — every video I have seen on Twitter, on the internet, are all airplanes. They’re literally all airplanes,” Kinzinger mentioned in an interview with CNN’s Fredricka Whitfield.
“Some of them will show an airplane that’s kind of stable out there and says that’s a drone, and actually, it’s an airplane flying towards you at 30,000 feet. And I can see the lighting on it.”
“If any of these pictures that they have shown are actual drones, these drones then are complying with FAA lighting requirements: a green on the right, a red on the left with a strobe,” Kinzinger mentioned.
“And so it’s not Iran, it’s not aliens. If there are drones, my guess is, if there are drones — again, because, again, all I’ve seen are airplanes — then it is more than likely some company that’s testing drones or something like that and has no requirement to tell the public that they’re doing it because they’re actually operating these things legally.”
Kinzinger mentioned if the general public doesn’t need to be reassured, then they received’t be, however he famous that authorities have mentioned that there is no such thing as a risk.
“I mean, look, if you’re, if people don’t want to be reassured, then the answer is no,” Kinzinger mentioned about whether or not sufficient is being mentioned to reassure those who there is no such thing as a risk. “And, you know, look at what I’m hearing from Homeland. And what I’m hearing from FBI is we don’t see a threat here.”
Homeland Safety Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas mentioned Sunday there’s “no question” that the drone sightings are actual, however that his company has seen no proof of international involvement.
“There’s no question that people are seeing drones,” Mayorkas mentioned. “And I want to assure the American public that we, in the federal government, have deployed additional resources, personnel, technology, to assist the New Jersey State Police in addressing the drone sightings.”
He additionally mentioned there are a number of explanations for the uptick in sightings.
“Let me set the record straight here,” Mayorkas mentioned. “There are thousands of drones flown every day in the United States — recreational drones, commercial drones. That is the reality.”
“And in September of 2023, the Federal Aviation Administration, the FAA, changed the rules so that drones could fly at night,” he continued. “And that may be one of the reasons why now people are seeing more drones than they did before, especially from dawn to dusk. And so that is the reality.”
