this just in tonight the mystery drone sightings lead to new restrictions for parts of New York this comes after the FAA issued temporary drone restrictions for nearly two dozen towns and cities in New Jersey but as Alisia Reed reports there are still questions and calls for transparency drones will now be temporarily banned over parts of New York Governor Kathy hokel says the faa's new restrictions will help protect critical infrastructure in the state many of the neighborhoods are near area airports earlier Thursday the FAA baned drones in 22 New Jersey areas until at least January 17th
the reports keep conflicting so sightings like this started a month ago in New Jersey hovering over the skyline and raising eyebrows not everything is clear something is hiding something Jersey City made the list the skies were pretty clear on the first night of the ban nearly 40 m away in Bridgewater our cameras captured what could have been a plane or a drone probably more transparency from what's going on in the first place would be nice in nearby Wang mayor Ronald jubin says sightings have been constant since mid November hundreds hundreds I I see them every
night he's frustrated his town didn't make the list disappointed he says there's a lack of transparency and communication no one reached out to watch Young whether we thought that was relevant here the FAA FBI and Homeland Security have all said the majority of lights in the sky have been misidentified and that there's no threat to the public people are not convinced that that is safe we need to gather more information they say there's nothing going on but we're going to shut down airspace anyway I don't get it the federal government has sent a drone detection
system to New York and New Jersey governor Kathy hokel saying these new restrictions are a precautionary measure reiterating there are no threats in Jersey City Alicia Reed CBS News New York and for a complete list of the New York and New Jersey locations impacted by the FAA drone restrictions head over to CBS new york.com
