Drones shut down the runways at Stewart Airport in New York for an hour

Unidentified unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have disrupted operations at Stewart International Airport in New York State. This was reported on December 14 by Governor Kathy Hokul on the social network X (former Twitter).

She stated that due to the incident at the airport, runways were closed for an hour.

Hokul also called on the government to assist the state to investigate the incident.

Before that, on December 13, US President-elect Donald Trump accused the White House of withholding information about drones over the states and called for shooting them down. Earlier, the US administration reported that they could not identify the drones that appeared in the sky over New Jersey for a week.

Earlier, on December 13, US Congressman Josh Gottheimer accused the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of withholding information about drones in the sky over New York. At that time, it also became known about an unknown drone that flew several times over a US Navy weapons depot in the state of New Jersey. When exactly the drones were spotted, it is not reported.

About unknown drones over New Jersey became known earlier, on December 11. Then Senator from the state of New Jersey John Bramnick called for a state of emergency to ban the use of drones in response to numerous reports of unknown aircraft spotted in recent weeks.