Multiple drone sightings reported across the Lehigh Valley and Warren County on social media Thursday night are raising concerns and alarm from residents.
“Drones all over Bushkill Township,” wrote on commenter around 10:30 p.m. Thursday in a local Facebook group.
“I live in Palmer Township and I believe there’s 7 drones or more flying over our neighborhood,” wrote one commenter at 6:30 p.m. in the Facebook group “All Things Palmer Twp P.A.”
Palmer Township police acknowledged the drone sightings and encouraged folks to report them. A statement was posted Friday on their Crimewatch page.
“There are sooo many flying over us,” wrote someone around 9:30 p.m. Thursday in the Facebook group Slate Belt Chatter.
Since mid-November, drone sightings in New Jersey have raised concerns and calls for action from law enforcement and elected officials. More than 3,000 sightings have been reported to the FBI and no one knows who’s flying the drones or why.
The FBI and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security downplayed any possible threat posed by the aircraft on Thursday. In a joint statement, they said “it appears that many of the reported sightings are actually manned aircraft, operating lawfully.”
The statement runs counter to earlier statements from Picatinny Arsenal, which reported 11 confirmed drone sightings. Two sightings were reported over Naval Weapons Station Earle in Monmouth County and a Coast Guard commander reported to Rep. Chris Smith that more than a dozen supposed drones were chasing a Coast Guard cutter Sunday night.
The agencies reiterated there was no evidence that the drone sightings posed a national security or public safety threat, nor that they were of foreign origin. It also said there are no reported or confirmed drone sightings in any restricted air space.
Still, eastern Pennsylvania leaders are taking the sightings seriously. Monroe County’s Department of Emergency Services urges residents to call 911 when they see drones.
Northampton County’s office of Emergency Management also acknowledged the drone sightings. That agency reported the sightings to the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency.
Northampton County Executive Lamont McClure said whoever is flying the drones should be transparent. A lack of notice from the business or government agency or hobbyist flying the drones is inciting panic, he said on Facebook.
“Without transparency, the internet will fill in the gaps, and that won’t be pretty,” he wrote.
One Facebook poster said he saw drones around midnight over northwest Bethlehem.
One person from Easton shot video of a drone around 8 p.m. Thursday.
Another alerted her Warren County neighbors.
“11 drones just flew over Lopat!!” reported one post around 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the Facebook group “What’s Really Going On P’burg?”
The Warren County Police Chiefs Association issued a statement Wednesday calling for more transparency from federal investigators.
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