Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Sunday called for the federal government to use its powers to identify who is behind the mysterious drones being reported hovering in U.S. airspace above concerned residents.
“New Yorkers have tremendous questions about it. We are going to get the answers for them,” Schumer told reporters after he asked the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to deploy their drone-tracking technology to identify the unidentified drones and their operators.
He suggested the federal government use a recently declassified radio wave technology to investigate the flying objects. The radio wave detector can be attached to a drone or airplane and can determine whether another flying object is a bird or a drone, read its electronic registration, and follow it back to its landing place....
