Since mid-November, dozens of mysterious, huge drones have alarmed and panicked residents of New Jersey’s Bergen County, flying overhead at night without explanation or any seeming origin.
One of those residents is Steve Doocy.
The Fox & Friends co-host and Bergen County resident revealed Tuesday that the mystery flying objects—which some New Jerseyans described as “car-sized”—have visited the airspace directly above his house.
“They’re low, they’re about 100 yards, flying over my backyard,” he told his colleagues on the Fox News morning chat show.
Last week, the FBI, New Jersey State Police and the State Office of Homeland Security asked the public for information about the mysterious “cluster of what look to be drones and a possible fixed-wing aircraft.”
“They are buzzing overhead all the time,” Doocy said, in a later segment with tech commentator and Fox contributor Kurt Knutsson. “The scary part is when they stop. They just kind of hover for a little while.”
On Sunday night, New Jersey received 49 reports of mystery drones and, on Monday, mayors of 21 towns demanded that Governor Phil Murphy take action.
Murphy said that, while the drones do not pose a threat to public safety, “This is something we’re taking deadly seriously. I don’t blame people for being frustrated.”
Doocy’s co-host Ainsley Earhardt questioned Murphy’s public safety claim, noting the size of the drones alone could pose a danger: “They’re as big as the front of your car. If one of them falls and runs out of battery or charge, then it can kill someone.”
One of the mystery objects also prevented a medevac helicopter from picking up a badly injured patient earlier this month.
The drones—which have also been sighted in New York and Pennsylvania—have been described not only as huge in size, but as capable of advanced maneuvers.
Witnesses have said, in some cases, they appeared to turn off their lights when observed. One family claimed the time on the clock in their car changed time when one of the drones flew overhead.
Doocy offered up a theory that it could be a commercial delivery company behind the drones.
“I heard a story this morning that apparently they’re flying on a grid,” he said. “It would almost suggest someone is doing a practice run, maybe someone is doing drone delivery.”
His co-host, Lawrence Jones, said the relatively blasé reaction from senior officials made him think the government is involved: “I kinda feel like the feds have some involvement with this because they’re not reacting in a way that they should be.”
