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December 11, 2024 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In New Jersey, there are drones just popping up everywhere.
People have no idea what the heck they're from. Now,
according to the governor of New Jersey, they say the
drones sightings are not a hazard. They say there is
no evidence that this is coming from an adversary, which,
by the way, how would that work, Like somebody who

(00:23):
is a country that we don't agree with is flying
over a big old bunch of drones that are just
popping up in New Jersey and nowhere else.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
It seems a little unlikely, right, Yeah, New Jersey specifically
very interesting.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Forty nine reports of drones just on Sunday. And Phil
Murphy is the governor, said earlier this week that we're
taking it deadly seriously. I don't blame blame people for
being frustrated. Okay, well that makes sense now. In New Jersey,
drones are completely legal for both recreational and commercially used,

(01:00):
but they are regulated by the Federal Aviation Administration and
there are flight restrictions and most of these, according to experts,
look like these are typical hobbyist level drones. I have
to ask you, if you had a drone, would you

(01:21):
be flying it around just for fun at nighttime, and
if you were what would be the reasoning?

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Now?

Speaker 1 (01:30):
I would think, like, if I was a super fanatic
Christmas type of person, I might make a couple of
drone videos of like some of the big neighborhood like
decoration areas. Yeah, you can make a cool video of
something like that. Typically you'd figure somebody be asking, somebody

(01:51):
be asking everybody before they would do that and just
double checking that, hey, this is actually gonna happen.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
But what's difference between them doing that or them just
driving by in their car? I guess it depends on
where the drone goes.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yeah, I suppose that's a good point. Yeah, because you know,
you drive by in your car all day twice on
Sunday and nobody'd really notice or care unless somebody felt
a little disconcerted that they kept seeing the same car
driving by every single day. You know what this is
going to lead to is more cameras. Well, that's the thing.
Is there a camera on this drone? Are these cameras?

(02:27):
These drones outfitted with cameras?

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Wouldn't they have to be? You'd think, how else are
they going to see where they're going?

Speaker 1 (02:35):
You'd just be on the ground, just like using like
an RC car. But you'd think, yeah, you'd think it'd
be it would have nothing.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
But see, I'm picturing a guy sitting at home with
one of those like headsets and he's got one hand
in the Cheeto's bag, the other hand navigating the drone,
and he's sitting in one of those gamer chairs.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
He's got the VR thing. It's like, you know, he's
in the drone. Yeah, slobbery is just but no, there
are plenty of cool people that have drones.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Come on. Well.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Republican Representative Jeff Van Drew from New Jersey says that
he thinks the drones could be from Iran, and he
says these drones should be shot down and the military
is on full alert with this.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Now.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
He didn't really elaborate on where he got that information,
but he said, I'm going to tell you the real deal.
Iran launched a mothership that contains these drones. It's off
the east coast of the United States of America. They've
launched drones. These are from high sources. I don't say
this lightly, and he basically said there's no chance that

(03:39):
it's a hobbyist in the United States that is doing
this now again, this has been a long time coming.
Several days. There were forty nine reported sightings this past
Sunday alone, And I guess my bigger question would then
be at that point, right, what's the next step if

(04:01):
we can't properly identify this? I mean, do we have
do we have the kind of technology that we can
just kind of catch one of these things or can
we like go up in with our own drone and
just like get a good look at it?

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Just stopping us from doing it that way? Because it
keeps popping up in the same area, you figure that
there probably is you know, people profiling the drone.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
So why do I have a democratic governor and a
Republican you know, representative congressman basically saying the same thing
or saying complete opposite things in the same way. Right,
you would think that the intelligence would be pretty similar,
that they both would be getting. But how is the

(05:00):
presentative saying, now, there's a mothership of these drones that
Iron has off the east coast of the US. And
then the other question would be, okay, so then why
only New Jersey is seeing this every day? Like what's
going on there?

Speaker 2 (05:12):
That's the real question. What does New Jersey guy, You
know for a state that's that you think of all
the states, right, you'd never guess New Jersey had something
really good going on, right.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yeah, something worth hiding at least, right, or something that
somebody wants to get a good look into every single day.
And they got to know that people are onto them.
And what happens for jeff Vey and Drew if this
turns out to be a hobbyist.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
What happens you know when some people on the inside
out there in Jersey, you know, they get their own drones.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
You know, they just decide that they're going to start,
you know, going after these drones with their own drones. Yeah,
gotta be willing to lose a couple hundred bucks probably,
or however much one of these fancy drones looks like
and you just follow it until you know where it
came from, unless you know it starts trying to knock.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
You out of the air.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
The Sopranos with drones. That's what I would like to know.
That's that's like how I would handle it. It's like,
you know what we've given you a few weeks here,
people are seeing these drones. It's making people more and
more concerned about what the heck this is and where
it's from. We're gonna send up a drone. We're going
to follow this thing. People have photos of this, and

(06:24):
they're saying, you know, for right now, they're you know,
trying to put in potentially a law says, hey, we
should have a state of emergency right now, no drone
flying in New Jersey. And if that's the case, then
if a drone pops up, now we have a good
reason to go get it.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
You're breaking the law. I don't know. Two seventeen.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
We'll look at more of this and if you want
to email me Emory ikfab dot com, News radio eleven
to ten kfab And according to some eyewitness accounts, they've
been spotted flying in formation with some with some of them,
and you could could be seen from parts of New York. Now,
of course, this isn't all that long ago from the
Chinese spy balloon thing.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Remember that. Remember how long that took?

Speaker 1 (07:07):
I do remember that that was a that was a
long situation that we just kind of watched that thing
travel and travel and travel and travel and travel, and
then finally they were like, we're shooting it down. Took
us a while to get to that point, but we
should we just should not be we should not be
allowing this sort of thing you wouldn't think right, right,

(07:30):
like a large drone that nobody knows exactly where it's from.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
It seems like it's going to be kind of hard
to prevent long term. Yeah, so what's the next step here? Well,
I will tell you very specifically that I wouldn't even
begin to know, but I think a good starting point
for what they're considering a large drone.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
Ban them for now, ban them. Ban drones in the
airspace of New Jersey, maybe even New York, maybe across
the entire our eastern seaboard. And if somebody asides, that
might be a bit much, because the last thing you
want is just a bunch of drones popping up with
people basically creating swatting calls of drones. So maybe you
just need to be very specific about the situation. And

(08:16):
this drone activity was first sided on November the nineteenth
over Morris County, New Jersey, which is very northwestern New.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
Jersey, and.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
As of Monday, the governor of the state said, this
is nothing that we should be necessarily worrying about or
anything like that.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
And I don't know.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
I don't know what the story is going to be
about what they're going to do next, But you know what,
I'm going to be interested in watching. What if they
take this thing out? How do they do it? And
maybe that's what they want? Whoever has this drone? How
would they react? How lethal would it be? How big

(09:00):
of an impact does this have on scaring the public,
because you know what this is how you get copycats?

Speaker 2 (09:08):
What are these drones doing though they're just flying around
in formation? Well? Yeah, and you would imagine taking pictures. Now.
I had a drone situation over my house. I was.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
I was sitting in my living room in between my
two shows. I was having lunch, and I looked up
out it was like outside, Like my couch is low,
and I have a window at the top of my
front door, right, and so like somehow the exact angle
I needed to see out, I could see this little
flying thing outside and so I stood up and I

(09:44):
was like, what the heck is that drone doing? And
then when I peeked out on my main window, there's
a guy standing in my yard.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
What with this drone in your yard? You standing in
my yard in your yard. Yeah, my front yard. What's
is he a fan? No?

Speaker 1 (10:03):
But I gotta I gotta be honest with you. I
was pretty surprised that this was just like, what's this
drone doing? So I popped outside and I was like, hey, there,
can I help you?

Speaker 2 (10:18):
And he turned around. He's like, oh, no, I'm good.
Are you serious? Yeah? I was like, okay, what are
you doing? I just what are you doing? You're standing
in my yard?

Speaker 1 (10:30):
And he said, oh, I'm taking picture of this house
and he pointed to the house across the street.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
Now, I found out later that day or week or
whatever that this that my my cross the street neighbor
was putting her house on the market. But I did
nobody knew that, and I must have been the only
one that noticed a drone flying around and then popped outside.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
I was like, that guy standing in my.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
Yard, which is you know, he's standing there and he
was just moving it around. He doesn't want to be
in the pictures, so he's in somebody else's yard, right,
And it's not a big deal. I'm okay with somebody
being in my yard. And I'm not one of those guys.
But I do think that you know, it would be
nice to you know. Hey, by the way, I'm a guy.

(11:15):
I'm over here. Now we're talking front yard, right, it's
my front yard. Okay, okay, just backyard feels like a
different issue. It would be, yeah, it would be. You
would have had to open my gate, and if you
don't close my gate when you leave, I have two
dogs that certainly would take that, you know, right, they
would run right through that opening in the gate and
I'm into a wild goose chase with.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
My dogs, a couple of greyhounds. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
Not great, not great. So yeah, stand in my backyard.
But he didn't get in my backyard. He was just
taking a bunch of different photos or whatever. Uh. I
don't I don't really know what the regulations are on
a state to state basis, but I think if you're
concerned about these specific drones, then you need to temporarily
say we are grounding all drones for the time being,

(11:57):
and if you have a drone sighting, immediately report this,
because then we know this is somebody who's not listening
to us, not paying attention to us, or they don't
care about our rules, and we need to figure out
where it's coming from. We got to talk back from
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(12:21):
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about this emory.

Speaker 3 (12:34):
It's a military exercise going on. We had the same
thing happen in northeast Nebraska about a month and a
half ago, droans and fighters practicing.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
Don't you think our government would have known this if
it was ours? You sure would think so, unless they
don't want to say, which I don't know why that
would be, but who knows, you know, state secrets and
all that.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
But when you do this, if you were trying to
practice for something with a neuralan military in a place
where there's not a whole lot of people, you know,
like the same areas that they were testing nuclear bombs,
and they have their.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
Own areas for you know, drills and such. Yeah, not
over residential areas of New Jersey where literally everyone's like,
what the heck are these things? And nobody wants to say.
But if it's an exercise that involves a residential area
for necessary training. That's the only way you get it.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
Yeah, but you would also think that you would tell
the people in that residential area that, hey, do not
be alarmed. We know where these drones are from and
this is not going to be a big issue.

Speaker 2 (13:37):
Would that cause more alarm if the military did that?

Speaker 1 (13:41):
Well, But that's my thing though, is is it better
that it's unknown? I would say no, I don't know.
I'm getting a lot of emails on this. We'll get
back to this. There's a lot to unpack. There's no
doubt if you're paying attention to this story, it's just like,
eh da, I wonder what this is from. We'll try

(14:02):
to unpack it even further later on in the show.
Today I'm next, though, we got to talk about some
winter safety help and fires fires. We'll talk about that
coming up right after this on news radio eleven ten kfab.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
Emrie Sunger on news radio eleven ten kfab
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