Biden breaks silence on thriller drone sightings after Trump’s scathing allegations

Biden breaks silence on thriller drone sightings after Trump’s scathing allegations


Joe Biden has lastly addressed the controversy surrounding the thriller drone sightings throughout the United States, notably in New Jersey. Upon being queried by reporters on the White House on Tuesday, the president assured that there is “nothing nefarious” concerning the drones which were noticed in latest weeks.

President Joe Biden meets with President-elect Donald Trump within the Oval Office of the White House, on Wednesday. (AP)

Biden breaks silence on thriller drone sightings throughout the US

“Nothing nefarious, apparently, however they’re checking all of it out,” the commander-in-chief mentioned of the unmanned flying objects, including that whereas the authorities are “following this intently,” there may be “no sense of hazard” thus far. Biden’s assertion comes a day after Donald Trump accused his administration of protecting up the drone thriller amid the puzzling enhance of their sightings.

During a press convention at Mar-a-Lago on Monday, the president-elect alleged that the “authorities is aware of what is occurring,” referring to the drone controversy. “Look, our navy is aware of the place they took off from — if it’s a storage, they will go proper into that storage. They know the place it got here from and the place it went, and for some motive, they don’t wish to remark,” Trump added.

Trump went on to assert that “our navy is aware of, and our president is aware of.” “And I believe they’d be higher off saying what it’s. And for some motive, they wish to preserve individuals in suspense,” he continued earlier than claiming that the drones aren’t being despatched by “the enemy.” “Because if it was the enemy, they’d blast it out — even when they had been late, they’d blast it,” he defined, per New York Post, including that “one thing unusual is happening.”

Biden’s assertion echoed related sentiments displayed by the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the Defense Department in a joint assertion. In the wake of about 5,000 reported drone sightings, the businesses, together with the FBI, in a separate assertion, mentioned that the sightings thus far “embrace a mixture of lawful business drones, hobbyist drones, and legislation enforcement drones, in addition to manned fixed-wing plane, helicopters, and stars mistakenly reported as drones.”