In response to persistent complaints about brightly colored and mainly unexplained flying objects filling the night skies over the two states, the Federal Aviation Administration temporarily banned drone use over a few locations in New York City on Friday. Similar restrictions were imposed over nearly two dozen communities throughout New Jersey.
“Prohibiting drone flights over critical New Jersey infrastructure,” the FAA said, is the effect of these temporary flying restrictions (TFR).
A vast area of central and northern New Jersey, the 11th most populated state in the country with over 9 million people, is covered by the TFRs, which are expected to remain in effect until mid-January in both states.
According to the FAA’s TFR list, the prohibitions are being applied in areas close to JFK International Airport, LaGuardia Airport in Queens, and other locations in Brooklyn and Staten Island in New York, the fourth most populated state in the US with nearly 20 million people.
In New Jersey, drones are prohibited as far north as Cedar Grove and Clifton and as far south as Hancocks Bridge.
The port city of Bayonne, Elizabeth, Camden, New Jersey’s fourth most populated city, and Philadelphia are among the other noteworthy communities impacted by these new TFRs.
The FAA intends to issue TFRs “over some of New York’s critical infrastructure sites,” according to New York Governor Kathy Hochul, who stated on Thursday that the move is “purely precautionary; there are no threat to these sites.”
While urging Congress to grant states the “authority and resources they need to manage this evolving technology,” Hochul stated that the state has not “detected any public safety or national security threats” and that it will keep an eye on the matter.
Drones have reportedly been lighting up the night skies for the past month or so, but no one really knows who is flying them or why.
However, there has been a growing suspicion that the majority of the claims are the result of people confusing stars or the regular battles of airplanes for drones.
Startled Information regarding the nightly hovering objects has been sought by local officials and people of New Jersey.No individual, organization, or governmental body has assumed accountability for them.
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