A dozen Jersey Shore towns have been added to the drone ban issued by the Federal Aviation Authority last month, increasing the number to 57 communities statewide that have been placed under a temporary flight restriction.
Many of the location coordinates posted by the FAA about the Jersey Shore communities include water reservoirs and water treatment plants. Other locations include the Sea Streak Ferry Terminal and the NJFX Carrier-Neutral Data Center in Wall, whose company website says their campus hosts 35 global and U.S. operators, as well as “where the major cloud operators have their global backbones physically connecting to transatlantic cables to Europe and South America.”
Restrictions in Monmouth and Ocean counties went up at the end of December and are in place through much of January, according to the aviation administration. All new restrictions have been cited as “special security reasons” and have come after more than a month of mysterious drone sitings in the state…