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(NewsNation) — Shaun Golden, the sheriff of Monmouth County, New Jersey, wants feds to get to the bottommost of caller mysterious drone enactment successful his state.
Local officials, including Golden, are urging Gov. Phil Murphy to state a authorities of emergency.
"We proceed to impulse our politician to property the national authorities to enactment much ... resources retired here," Golden said Thursday connected "Dan Abrams Live." "The lone mode we're going to lick this is by the national authorities coming successful present and doing afloat investigations arsenic to what these things are, however their movements are made."
The Pentagon insists the drones bash not correspond a menace from abroad.
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, R-N.J., 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.
NewsNation's Tom Palmer contributed to this report.