Drone falls out of sky and crashes into New Jersey home-owner’s yard, inflicting panic

The drone crashed in a residential space of Pequannock Township in Morris County round 8:45 pm, as revealed by cops and dispatch audio. Officers stated the craft was “a interest or toy kind of drone” and “not a big business or army grade drone,” the Pequannock Police Division instructed New York Submit.

This incident comes shortly after New Jersey cops warned of attainable “copycats.” “What we expect is it began as some form of Picatinny Arsenal base surveillance drill or operation however as soon as it exploded on-line, this turned a copycat state of affairs,” one Backyard State police chief stated.

‘God forbid one thing occurs’

After the crash on the resident’s home, the mayor of Pequannock, Ryan Herd, pulled up in a Ford Econoline work van to check out the scene. Herd stated that “it’s undoubtedly not” one of many large, car-size drones, however that he’s “completely” involved that “no one is aware of whose drones are flying over us and what they’re flying over us for and the place they’re taking off and touchdown.” “Drones are flying over our homes, which is our non-public property. My household is right here,” he added.

The incident is now being investigated by the Morris County Prosecutor’s Workplace.

Herd has urged residents to not chase after, shoot at or try and catch the massive drones. “We will’t be placing up Class 1 and Class 2 drones attempting to comply with these drones. God forbid one thing occurs and it crashes into the massive drone, and the massive drone crashes right into a home and kills six individuals — that’s going to be an issue,” he stated.

The unusual drone sightings have alarmed residents and lawmakers alike, with president-elect Donald Trump suggesting that authorities officers know extra about them than they’re disclosing. “Thriller Drone sightings everywhere in the Nation. Can this actually be occurring with out our authorities’s information. I don’t suppose so! Let the general public know, and now. In any other case, shoot them down!!!” Trump stated in a latest Fact Social publish.