(NewsNation) — Dozens of enigma drones were spotted implicit New Jersey and NewsNation obtained exclusive footage.

NewsNation's Rich McHugh was embedded with Ocean County Sheriff's Department to analyse the drones. After not seeing immoderate drones, helium got a telephone that immoderate drones had been spotted successful Monmouth County.

“I raced up to Monmouth County and pulled disconnected successful Red Bank, and definite capable I looked successful the entity and saw one. I started pursuing it into a residential area, took retired my telephone and started filming it,” McHugh says.

“I judge I saw implicit 50 of these drones. And I’ve got to say, if this is not the military, it is adjacent much terrifying. These things look similar they are fixed-wing and they person aggregate lights,” helium continued. “I’m not truly definite however to process what I saw past night. Both the lensman and I were benignant of stunned.”

McHugh has been talking with experts and instrumentality enforcement astir what helium saw, and the government’s response. His unrecorded study with what he’s learned volition aerial Friday astatine 5ET/4C connected NewsNation’s Elizabeth Vargas Reports. Find your transmission here.

Lawmakers effect to the mysterious drones

Lawmakers and the nationalist person been demanding answers astir the drones. Monmouth County Sheriff Shaun Golden has asked New Jersey’s politician to state a authorities of emergency.

Maryland Governor Larry Hogan posted a video connected X of drones supra his house Thursday nighttime and says helium is demanding answers.

NewsNation’s Ross Coulthart volition analyse the perplexing lawsuit of the mysterious drones seen each implicit New Jersey successful an hour-long peculiar programme connected NewsNation astatine 9 p.m. ET connected Dec. 14. Not definite however to find NewsNation connected your TV? Visit JoinNN.com.

“We are being told that neither the White House, the military, the FBI, oregon Homeland Security person immoderate thought what they are, wherever they came from, oregon who has launched oregon is controlling them–and that they airs nary threat. That effect is wholly unacceptable. I articulation with the increasing bipartisan chorus of leaders demanding that the national authorities instantly code this issue. The American radical merit answers and enactment now,” Hogan wrote.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, some New York Democrats, joined New Jersey Democratic Sens. Cory Booker and Andy Kim wrote a missive asking for a briefing with the FBI and Department of Homeland Security “as soon arsenic possible.”

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