Chuck Schumer Wants Answers After Another Weekend Of Drone Chaos

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has asked nan Department of Homeland Security to proviso New York and New Jersey authorities pinch an precocious drone find strategy to thief “determine what nan heck is going on” pinch continued sightings successful nan Northeast.

“We’ve seen tons of caller sightings successful New York, New Jersey, Long Island, Staten Island.” Schumer said during a December 15th spot conference. “With each these sightings complete nan past while, why do we personification overmuch questions than answers?”

Over nan weekend, parts of Stewart International Airport were temporarily unopen down owed to nan drone sightings, prompting New York Governor Kathy Hochul to say, “this has gone excessively far.” Drone activity too unopen down airspace complete nan Wright-Patterson Air Force Base successful Ohio for complete 4 hours.

President-elect Donald Trump said connected Monday that he’s canceling a recreation to Bedminster, New Jersey owed to drone sightings successful nan area. He said, “the authorities knows what is happening” and “they’d beryllium amended disconnected saying what it is.”

During a spot normal connected Sunday, Schumer requested a “360-degree” find strategy for illustration nan 1 built by Robin Radar Systems. The European institution sells micro-doppler radars that it claims tin abstracted betwixt birds and drones moving up to 60 miles per hr successful 3D space. Its website features suit studies of its radars being utilized for accusation astatine airports, during nan G7 Summit, and to study vertebrate migration successful nan Netherlands.

Schumer too urged Congress to locomotion the “Safeguarding nan Homeland from nan Threats Posed by Unmanned Aircraft Systems Act,” which could springiness conception norm enforcement and nationalist authorities nan powerfulness to observe drones.