Drones should be shot down, New Jersey rep. says: 'Just do it'

(NewsNation) — U.S. Rep. Chris Smith joined “Elizabeth Vargas Reports" to sermon the large fig of mysterious drones that person been reported flying implicit parts of New Jersey successful caller weeks.

Smith is 1 of 2 Republican Jersey Shore-area congressmen calling connected the subject to sprout down the drones, citing information concerns.

"Many instrumentality enforcement radical person told me, including 1 main of police, that helium was skeptical. Then helium saw a twelve of them," Smith said. "And they're successful formation."

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and instrumentality enforcement officials person stressed that the drones don’t look to beryllium a menace to nationalist safety, but it is inactive not known precisely what they are oregon who is down them.

As unit is connected to uncover the information down the mysterious objects, Smith wrote a missive to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, asking him to usage each the capabilities of the Department of Defense to place the objects, entree them and measure whether they are threats.

"We person the capableness to sprout them now, but to bash it successful a spot wherever determination would not beryllium immoderate menace to anybody connected the ground," Smith said. "Just bash it."

"They're implicit the water too, and they're implicit h2o bodies," Smith continued. "There are ways of doing this successful a blase attack that's assertive and enactment it to rest. If this is simply a thing burger, archer us. But don't beryllium determination and say, well, we can't collaborate."

The Pentagon insists the drones bash not correspond a menace from abroad.

"I deliberation we're dismissing this precise prematurely," Smith said. "We request answers, and that was days ago. We inactive don't person immoderate answers. Crickets."

Federal probe into New Jersey drones

The Pentagon says it presently does not look that a overseas force is down the mysterious drones successful the New Jersey sky.

U.S. Rep. Jeff Van Drew claimed the drones are being launched by an Iranian "mothership," but Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh said during a briefing determination is “not immoderate information to that.”

With the probe ongoing, the sheriff successful Monmouth County, New Jersey, has called for the politician to state a authorities of exigency and to contented an enforcement bid banning nighttime usage of recreational drones.