You're in the Senate, select Committee on Intelligence. What are you learning from federal officials? Do people know what these are? And obviously I'm not referring to airplanes when I say these. Correct. So we've had a number of these drone incursions over military bases, over highly confidential, secretive sites, over areas like arsenals, over nuclear sites over the last several years. And we recently had a two-week drone incursion over Langley.

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We just had one a week and a half ago over Wright-Patterson. These are important military bases, and we need to have better authorities to be able to take these drones down. I don't think we do know who's they are or even what technology they're using. It's a huge concern for me personally, for members of the Intelligence Committee and members of the Armed Services Committee. I created an office with Senator Rounds and other senators, Senator Rubio,

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find these unidentified aerial phenomenon, whether it's drones, whether it's spy balloons, whether it's any other kind of aircraft, and assess what are they, whose are they, what technology is being used. And that work has been reviewing hundreds of sightings over the last several years. And they figure out about half of them. Half of them they can figure out are aircraft or helicopters or drones or balloons, but there's half that they don't have enough data, they don't have enough information, or it just isn't something they can figure out. So.

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It is a concern. We should be treating it like a national security issue, especially when it's over critical infrastructure like bases or nuclear sites. Do you think the Biden administration is doing enough? I want to do much more. I'm very concerned that the FAA and the DOJ and Homeland Security aren't doing enough to assess whose drones these are and whether they are adversarial in any way. I think when they say something like,

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Well, we have no evidence that they're foreign operated or adversarial or problematic. They don't have any evidence that it's not. So I understand they want people to not be afraid, but they should be as concerned as I am because of these incursions over our bases in sensitive military sites. For two weeks, Langley had drone incursions, and it was the type of technology that our radar didn't detect them arriving. So it is problematic.

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It needs resources and we need answers.