A New Jersey state senator believes the federal government’s relative silence and attempts to downplay concerns over weeks of drone sightings indicates that they are attempting to “hide” information that would cause mass panic if the public were to find out.

Numerous Biden Administration officials have attempted to downplay the drone sightings, which were first reported about a week before Thanksgiving. Drones were initially spotted around sensitive military installations, though the sightings have expanded to residential and waterfront areas in New Jersey, while sightings have also been reported in New York, Pennsylvania and as far north as Connecticut.

Several Biden Administration officials, including national security communications advisor John Kirby and FBI Director Christopher Wray, have downplayed the drone sightings and chalked the majority of them up to commercially available drones or misidentified airplanes. “We haven’t seen anything unusual. We know of no threat. Secondly, we have gone to Congress repeatedly asking for more authority to counter drone activity and we have also asked for more authority to give to the state and local officials under our supervision because it correctly notes those authorities need to be expanded,” said Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

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New Jersey State Senator Jon Bramnick is unconvinced by the federal government’s claims and suggested they are hiding key information during an interview with NewsNation.

“You know, this started as some good questions, and now it’s reached a point of almost insanity. You think about a United States Senator who has to go out with the local police to look for drones? That’s where a United States Senator is getting information?” Bramnick said, pointing to efforts from Senator-elect Andy Kim, who has been accompanying local police on patrols to monitor the drones.

He went on to report that numerous high-ranking state law enforcement officials are unsatisfied with the briefings they have received from the federal government, in addition to what they believe is a poor response. Bramnick previously called on Governor Phil Murphy, a Democrat, to declare a limited state of emergency focused on drones after the FAA closed airspace in multiple Garden State locations earlier this month.

“If the Department of Defense Doesn’t know where the origins are for these so-called drones then we’re in trouble. We always thought that if there was something in the air, the size of a car, that the Department of Defense would know where it came from, what its origin was, and what its purpose was. Now you have a United States Senator going out with the local police, what, to look for fireworks at night?” the New Jersey lawmaker added, referring to the situation as “terrifying” and “terrifying.”

He was then asked about statements from President-elect Trump, who called for the drones to be shot down if the federal government has no clue where they are coming from. “Let the public know, and now. Otherwise, shoot them down!!!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Friday.

“Well, I would leave that up to the Department of Defense, but how can the Department of Defense not provide information to the public? This is a shock to me. You know, I have a general belief in government, government. But this is taking me to the end of my belief that government is really being honest,” Bramnick responded.

“Now there’s been some apparently top secret briefings, right, with congresspeople. Now they come out of that, and I heard Josh Gottheimer come, the representative, and he said, ‘well, I’m not getting a lot of information,’ but I don’t think it’s a threat. So my guess is, information but they’re holding it back and now what you have is panic.”

He also questioned statements from the FBI and senior Biden Administration officials who have claimed the drones pose no known threat to the public. “Well, no evidence that this is a threat. What does that mean? How does that help an average citizen and no evidence of a threat? You mean they didn’t do anything sinister yet? Well, you know, yet. Yeah, I probably can make that statement,” Bramnick said.

“I’ve never seen anything go on this long and why would the government allow the public to be so frustrated. Why would the government allow a United States senator to be so frustrated? We heard this from both sides of the aisle. Now that brings to me to the point that whatever these drones are doing, the government really doesn’t want us to know. What that must mean is they’re more concerned with us getting knowledge and being afraid of that information than having no knowledge and having all these questions,” the New Jersey lawmaker went on to say.

“That’s why I’m worried about it. It must be something going on that they can’t tell us because they are so fearful of what the public’s gonna do when they hear what the drones are doing. There’s no way the Department of Defense does not know what’s going on. We have not heard, have we heard one word from the Department of Defense? Zero.”

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