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(NewsNation) — The House Oversight Committee volition convene Tuesday day to sermon a spree of unauthorized drone activity implicit U.S. subject sites.
Department of Defense and Federal Aviation Administration officials are expected to attest astatine the 2 p.m. EDT gathering successful Washington, D.C. The proceeding volition beryllium streamed present erstwhile it begins.
The proceeding comes months aft the White House said a spree of mysterious drones spotted implicit New Jersey astatine the extremity of past twelvemonth were not "the work of an adversary.”
Lawmakers are slated to proceed questioning the drone sightings and their spot successful nationalist security.
The House Subcommittee connected Military and Foreign Affairs has said UAP sightings supra subject bases person accrued and that U.S. subject sites are being exposed to surveillance, espionage and imaginable weaponization.
Subcommittee seat Rep. William Timmons, R-S.C., said "U.S. agencies' disorder implicit who is liable for countering accrued drone enactment severely hinders our military's quality to respond to threats successful existent time."
The sightings successful New Jersey prompted superior interest from residents for weeks. Some of the sightings were reported implicit 2 subject installations, according to the DOD, though a spokesperson for the department's associated unit called the reports “typical.”
A apical serviceman with U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command told the Senate Armed Services Committee successful February that 350 unmanned craft systems were reported past twelvemonth implicit 100 antithetic subject installations.
"The superior menace I spot for them successful the mode they've been operating is detection and possibly surveillance of delicate capabilities connected our installations," U.S. Air Force Gen. Gregory M. Guillot said successful February.
