Anxiety among residents in the region have fueled lawmakers to press the federal government to understand why the drones are being spotted in such frequency.Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning.

After the recent surge of drone sightings across New Jersey, New York and other nearby states, U.S. officials said the majority of reports were actually linked to routine air traffic. Newsweek spoke to drone specialist Vijay Kumar,

The governor of New Jersey has asked residents of the state plagued with unexplained drone sighting to “calm down” as federal and state authorities warned of pilots of manned aircraft being hit in the eyes by laser pointers aimed from the ground.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and U.S. Sen. Andy Kim have both gone out on drone hunts, hoping for answers. The FBI, Homeland Security, state police and other agencies are investigating. Murphy and law enforcement officials have stressed that the drones don’t appear to be a threat to public safety,

Residents of New Jersey have been urged not to shoot down suspected drones in the sky, as the public takes matters into their own hands after days of hysteria over “UFOs”.