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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3)—The House Committee on Homeland Security Chair is promising new federal drone legislation this year. We’ve recently had a lot of discussion on Unmanned Aircraft Systems after drone scares in New Jersey.So, our viewer Jen wants to know; If we see drones hovering over our property, what rights do we have to take them down? Can you shoot them down?Congress may not have written the word drone in the Aircraft Sabotage Act back in 1984 but the act is now the law of the land. It protects all aircraft... and that includes drones.“If you shoot at it,” explained...

Summary At least 91 drones downed around Moscow, 337 overall in Russia Two killed by debris at meat warehouse, 18 others injured Flights briefly suspended at Moscow's four airports Largest Ukrainian drone attack on Russian capital Ukraine on Tuesday launched its biggest ever drone attack on Moscow, killing at least two workers at a meat warehouse, injuring 18 others and causing a short shutdown at the Russian capital's four airports, Russian officials said. A total of 337 drones were downed over Russia, including 91 over Moscow region and 126 over Kursk region where Ukrainian forces have been pulling back, the...

The CIA under President Donald Trump has been covertly flying MQ-9 Reaper drones over Mexico to spy on drug cartels, current and former officials familiar with the matter told CNN, part of Trump’s dramatic reorientation of national security assets to the US southern border. The missions, which have not been previously reported, come as the Trump administration moves to treat transnational drug cartels as terrorist organizations — a designation it has yet to officially make. The MQ-9 drones used for the missions are not currently armed. But they can be equipped with payloads to carry out precision strikes. The US...

Chernobyl nuclear power plant was hit by a Russian attack overnight, striking a protective shield over its destroyed fourth reactor, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. The structure, known as the New Safe Confinement, was built through international cooperation to contain the remnants of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. It was designed to prevent radiation leaks and safeguard the site and the broader area from environmental hazards. According to Ukraine’s president, the strike by a Russian attack drone carrying a high-explosive warhead damaged the dome, but the fire was extinguished, and radiation levels remained stable. The situation is being monitored to assess...

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson 🚨BREAKING: During Trump’s 2024 campaign in Pennsylvania, a suspicious drone following Trump’s motorcade was shot down by his security detail.....

Thinking about the last 4 months with the drones over NJ, the drone strike of the firefighting plane in LA and now the Philadelphia crash, I am wondering how long until the FAA gets its act together and requires all drones be registered, have a working transponder, and operators be licensed and have liability insurance? Our sky is becoming too crowded. NJ could have been solved in minutes. Same with the LA collision. I strongly suspect that Philadelphia will also be a midair collision with a drone. Their job is to keep us safe ... it is one of the...

In October 2024, an unknown man stepped out of the shadows, arriving in our nation’s capital to deliver an important message about what the public calls “UFOs” and what the government calls “UAPs,” or unidentified aerial phenomena. His name is Jacob Barber, and he says for the past 30 years, he’s worked in both an official and unofficial capacity for the United States government and its partners in the intelligence community. What he knows, and what he’s here to tell Congress, could change the world.

FRESNO, Calif. — Unusual aerial phenomena have been reported over Fresno in recent days, with one incident involving a confirmed unidentified flying object (UFO) captured on camera. The Mutual UFO Network described the footage as an "interesting find." The sighting occurred early Friday morning when a light was recorded in the sky by a FOX 26 tower camera just after 4 a.m. The light appeared to hover over downtown Fresno. Earl Grey Anderson from the Mutual UFO Network reviewed the footage and said, "Where you see that object move at the clip it moves and it's hovering again. That one...

Chinese scientists successfully conducted the first publicly announced test flight of a prototype supersonic aircraft. In this test flight, a small-scale prototype reached a maximum speed of Mach 6.56, or approximately 8,100 km/h, which is more than six times the speed of sound and considered an important milestone in the development of supersonic aircraft, according to reports by VnExpress.

…although drones sound super high-tech, most are nothing more than tiny machines with a camera attached, hardly more elaborate (or sturdy) than your average radio-controlled toy car. Which means that they might not survive a casual encounter with even a small predator—like a house cat. The drone pilot in this video is a surveyor who uses the machinery to take aerial pictures of the properties and heritage landmarks that he works on. It’s a useful technique, and one that makes his job a lot easier. But in this clip, we see a possible pitfall, in the form of a feline...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reported that an aircraft was damaged by a drone Thursday while fighting the deadly Palisades fire in Los Angeles. “Fire officials informed the FAA that a firefighting aircraft struck a drone while it was operating over the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles on Thursday, Jan. 9,” the agency issued in a statement. “The aircraft landed safely. The FAA will investigate,” the agency added. Officials have implemented several Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFRs) in the area and have warned citizens of the danger aircrafts can pose while circulating wildfires. The FAA said unauthorized air activity during the...

A recently leaked proposal from 2018 has cast new light on Dr. Anthony Fauci’s plan to covertly spray “self-spreading” vaccines on large population centers using cutting-edge biotechnology, military-grade drones, and experimental medical research. The document, codenamed DEFUSE, was submitted by Fauci’s EcoHealth Alliance to DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) and outlined plans for the deployment of aerosolized immune modulators, chimeric spike proteins, and self-spreading vaccines—over large human populations via drones. The DEFUSE proposal explicitly describes the use of aerosol delivery systems for large-area “inoculation of animals and humans,” raising the alarming possibility that such experiments may have been...

Israel will begin targeting leaders of Yemen’s Houthi rebel group, Defense Minister Israel Katz said Tuesday, vowing that Israel will not allow missile and drone fire on Israel to continue unchecked. Firing at Houthi leaders would seem to mark an escalation by Israel, which has so far targeted port infrastructure and military sites in a handful of sorties in response to repeated launches of drones and ballistic missiles from Yemen. A missile fired early Tuesday was shot down, but sirens in the Tel Aviv area caused widespread panic and a rush to shelter left one woman seriously injured. It was...

Drones at a Christmas show in Florida collided in mid-air and were sent careening to the crowd below at high speed resulting in several reported injuries — including a young boy whose mothers say is clinging to life. The Orlando Fire Department told News 6 that one person suffered a minor injury in the mishap, however, two mothers claim their son — who was apparently struck in the face by a rogue drone — was left “fighting for his life in the ER.” Startling video shows the holiday display gone wrong play out, complete with shocked gasps from the audience...

As I previously reported, among the stories about the mysterious drones in New Jersey, there was a concerning story about a bunch of drones following a Coast Guard vessel off of the Garden State. But now the word is that Coast Guard members aren't too happy with what the White House said in dismissing their experience. One of the members of the crew is speaking out and refuting what the White House is saying about the drones. The Coast Guard member spoke exclusively to the NY Post and described what they saw. He said they were looking for drones, but...

Officials in Russia say drones launched by Kyiv have hit Kazan, a city more than 600 miles from Ukraine which hosted an international economic summit two months earlier. Video on social media shared Saturday showed the drones striking apartment blocks in the capital of the Russian republic of Tatarstan where a meeting of the Moscow-led BRICS bloc took place in October. (snip)Tatarstan is a multiethnic Russian republic which is home to a significant Muslim minority. Between October 22 and October 24, its capital, Kazan hosted the summit of BRICS countries which include Brazil, India, China and South Africa, and is...

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy warned Thursday that the staggering influx of drone sightings over the Garden State the past few weeks — though harmless — is a “wake-up call” to the country’s vulnerability to potential foreign drone attacks. “Now we can say this based on the most sophisticated drone detection systems on the planet that started to arrive in New Jersey last Friday and Saturday, there is no public threat here, period. I could say that unequivocally,” Murphy said on News 12 New Jersey’s “Ask Gov. Murphy” program. But that doesn’t mean Jersey or the country as a whole...

Federal authorities and the U.S. military released a detailed statement on Monday night saying that after an extensive investigation, the mysterious drone sightings that people have seen on the East Coast do not amount to anything nefarious, nor is there any threat to the public.

This lady tries her best to zoom her camera onto a very weird point of light in the sky. Weird stuff. She did a better job than our government at using a camera phone.

The bureau also warned people not to shine lasers at what they believe are drones.The FBI’s Newark, New Jersey, office on Monday evening called on residents not to shoot or shine lasers at objects in the sky amid a spate of drone sightings across the region in recent weeks that have prompted alarm among elected officials.In a statement, the FBI said that both the bureau and New Jersey State Police are alerting residents “about an increase in pilots of manned aircraft being hit in the eyes with lasers because people on the ground think they see an Unmanned Aircraft Systems...