(16 Dec 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Trenton, New Jersey – 16 December 2024
++SOUNDBITES SEPARATED BY DIP TO WHITE TRANSITIONS++
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.”
++WHITE FLASH++
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Gov. Phil Murphy, (D) New Jersey:
“And I think Secretary (of State 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.”
++WHITE FLASH++
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Gov. Phil Murphy, (D) New Jersey:
“There is zero evidence, with all due respect, that somebody is hiding the P 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.”
++ENDS ON A SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
Drone-detecting devices deployed in New Jersey within the past week have shown little to no evidence of anything nefarious or threatening. That’s according to New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, who said Monday that 12 sightings of suspected drones were reported in the state overnight Saturday and one on Sunday.
Federal officials say there is no evidence that drones are being operated with bad intent or by foreign governments, and many sightings over the eastern U.S. have actually been of manned aircraft that look like drones.
A large number of mysterious drones have been reported flying over New Jersey and across the eastern U.S., sparking speculation and concern over where they came from and why.
Gov. Murphy and U.S. Sen. Andy Kim have both gone out on drone hunts, hoping for answers. The FBI, Homeland Security, state police and other agencies are investigating.
Murphy and law enforcement officials have stressed that the drones don’t appear to be a threat to public safety, but many state and municipal lawmakers have nonetheless called for stricter rules about who can fly the unmanned aircraft — and to be allowed to shoot them out of the sky.
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