(16 Dec 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Trenton, New Jersey – 16 December 2024
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1. SOUNDBITE (English) Gov. Phil Murphy, (D) New Jersey:
“Understandably, there’s a lot of anxiety out there. I get that. I completely get that. But I want folks to know we are honest. We’re on a 24 seven that we’ve got the most sophisticated systems at long last after a lot of pounding away in New Jersey, that we’ve got experts who run those systems. And I have confidence that we will get the facts here. And again, the facts set as we also conclude with this, the facts set as we gather here on December 16th, feels to me like this is in a place where there’s little to no suspicious activity. You never say never. And we’re going to stay all over this. Could there have been a month ago when this whole thing started? It is. I can’t rule that out because we didn’t have the assets that we now have to prove or disprove.”
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Gov. Phil Murphy, (D) New Jersey:
“And I think Secretary (of DHS Alejandro) Mayorkas took a lot of heat for saying, hey, you guys are seeing things when I don’t want to speak for him, but that is part of it. There was a legitimate part of that where folks are mistaking transposing a fixed wing manned aircraft for a drone. I’m not suggesting for a minute that that’s all of it.”
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Gov. Phil Murphy, (D) New Jersey:
“And I think that’s the it was the absolute nature. There is zero evidence, with all due respect, that somebody is hiding the pea here, the federal government or our military or somebody knows what’s going on here. And they’re not admitting to it. I see zero evidence of that. So I would just like to debunk. There’s a lot of conspiracy theories out there right now. Let’s put that one with the Iranians off to the side.”
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington D.C. – 16 December 2024
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Andy Kim, (D) New Jersey:
“I think it’s just important to just just be as upfront as possible. You know, like, I think like what I tried to do, I was trying to say like, here is what was observed of concern and how it is that we deduced that it was not a drone, you know, and like, I think that that connecting the dots is helpful. So for me, my immediate question is like, well, what were those those things that were observed? Like were they do we suspect that they were drones, but they were just commercial and not something that we were concerned about? How did you get to the conclusion that they were not of concern? Is that their size? Is it where they were flying? I think that that’s just the information that is missing. And like so for instance, the FBI, Homeland Security, they both came out with a joint statement shortly after I went out and observed some…observed alongside the police where they said things like, you know, most of what we’ve seen, we attribute to manned aircraft and misidentification. So I you know, I guess I was just kind of thinking through like, can you just show us some of the images that you received that are the ones you’re most receiving? And just show us how you deduced it that they were manned aircraft? You know, and like, I just think that that’s what the public could use, is like walking through that rather than just, you know, a statement that says nothing, nothing to be concerned about. I think it’s reached a level of just public attention that some greater level of depth is necessary.”
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