Sara Boboltz is a reporter for HuffPost based in New York City. She can be reached at [email protected].
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has a message for the Biden administration, as it continues to show little urgency in addressingtake action for the sake of public safety in a statement issued Saturday, after drone sightings caused planes to be grounded at a regional airport the night before.That facility — Stewart Airfield, about 60 miles north of New York City — serves commercial and military aircraft.
Hochul called on Congress to pass the Counter-UAS Authority Security, Safety and Reauthorization Act, a bill that would allow state and local law enforcement to do more to address “unmanned aircraft systems.” Managing UAS sightings is currently overseen largely by the federal government.
Sen. Andy Kim rode along with local police Thursday evening as calls came in about the drones, explaining on social media how he sawto say that he has come to believe “most” of the sightings were actually just airplanes of different sizes. Kim spoke with aviation experts and used publicly available data on flights.“I don’t discount others may have seen actual drone activity, and not all I saw is fully explained by flight paths, but much of it was,” Kim wrote.
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