UPDATE: TRUMP AND DELGAUDIO: SHOOT DRONES DOWN NOW IN NEW JERSEY AND ELSEWHERE
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Moments after Public Advocate's president remarked "shoot the drones down", President-elect
Donald Trump posted that "the drones should be shot down"
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On Friday, President-elect Donald Trump weighed in on reports of drone sightings reported across the US, calling for them to be shot down if the government has no knowledge of them.
"Mystery Drone sightings all over the Country. Can this really be happening without our government's knowledge," Trump wrote. "I [don't] think so! Let the public know, and now. Otherwise, [shoot] them down!"
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Eugene Delgaudio responds to the scores of drones flying over American airspace without flight plans or public notice as to their intentions.
"After a state or national government agency public warning, and a declaration of a state of emergency by a Governor, law enforcement should shoot the "car sized drones" down or simply use electronic jamming devices to down and recover them. If the state government is overwhelmed by the sheer number of drones, they should deputize private citizens to respond under controlled organized hunts. The public deserves immediate defensive action to unregulated invasion of our nation's airspace, "says Eugene Delgaudio, president of Public Advocate.
"Of course none of this is going to happen until Donald Trump is sworn in January 20, so enjoy the nightly show until then," says Delgaudio.
Some just want a briefing of course.
Representative Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) said Friday on MSNBC's "Ana Cabrera Reports" that the federal government needed to brief the public about the mysterious drones flying over New Jersey.
Gottheimer said, "There's no reason in my mind, based on what they analyzed, there's any credible threats to public safety at this time. And that I feel good about based on what the FBI has briefed me on. That said, the hundreds of sightings or more that we've received in New Jersey, the phone calls I've received, the images, Andy Kim, who's a senator now in New Jersey, said that he has seen them himself, he just posted something about that, right, so clearly there's something going on out there. And what's driving me crazy, and I think a lot of my colleagues in the state government and, of course, federally, is that the FBI and Department of Homeland Security, who are chiefly responsible for monitoring and being aware of what's up in the skies is not giving us a public briefing, giving us enough information, telling us exactly where these drones are coming from, who's sending them up. You know, are they all unlicensed and unregistered? What are they? And I think people deserve to know, which is why, of course, when you don't have any information people get rightly anxious about it."
Photo credit Chinese Car Sized Drone 2016 youtube