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The Federal Aviation Administration continued its drone crackdown Friday, adding 29 cities across New York to the region’s temporary ban of unapproved drones for security concerns, as officials investigate reported drone sightings in the region amid public curiosity about the sightings.

A New Jersey drone pilot says most sightings are easily explained after people have been reporting mysterious drones in the state for weeks.

Residents of both states have been growing increasingly alarmed over the past month by unexplained bright lights in the nighttime skies and frustrated by a lack of answers.

New York has temporarily banned the flying of drones over some of the state's "critical infrastructure sites" after multiple mystery drone sightings across the country. No public safety or national security threats have been detected and the action is "purely precautionary,

The Federal Aviation Administration said on Thursday it was temporarily barring drone flights over dozens of critical infrastructure sites in New Jersey and New York. A frenzy of concern about drones in New Jersey and surrounding states has prompted a dramatic spike in the number of people in the area pointing lasers at airplanes flying overhead,

After reports of several mysterious drone sightings, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has temporarily banned drone flights over multiple New Jersey cities. According to a notice posed by the FAA on December 19,