FAA issues temporary ban on drone flights areas of New Jersey and New York City

Other notable communities affected by these new TFRs include Elizabeth, New Jersey’s fourth-most-populous city, Philadelphia neighbor Camden and the port city of Bayonne.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Thursday the FAA plans to issue TFRs “over some of New York’s critical infrastructure sites,” saying the action is “purely precautionary; there are no threat to these sites.”

Hochul said the state has not “detected any public safety or national security threats” and that it will continue to monitor the situation while calling on Congress to give states the “authority and resources they need to manage this evolving technology.”

For about the past month, drones have reportedly been lighting up the night skies with no real explanation of who is operating them and the purpose of the flights.

There has been, though, creeping skepticism about whether most of the reports are due to people mistaking stars or the routine fights of aircraft for drones.

Alarmed New Jersey residents and local politicians have been demanding information about the nightly hovering objects. No person, group or government agency has taken responsibility for them.