Who?
Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ)
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Ask a Pol asks:
Curious if your delegation has ever gotten an answer on the “drone” incursions over New Jersey?
Key Kim:
“I personally have not gotten any satisfying response, because I feel like I keep hearing different things,” Sen. Andy Kim exclusively tells Ask a Pol UAP.
“I hear from, you know, FAA side, there’s nothing to see — that it was just a lot of public hysteria. But then like, I don’t know, I saw a videotape of this one company talking about how they were doing some drone testing and they were responsible for some of it. And I’m just like, ‘What is this,’ you know?”
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Caught our ear:
“I’m certainly personally intrigued by this,” Kim tells us. “But I don’t really know what to make of it in terms of what access they’ll actually provide and whatnot.”
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Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ), slightly edited for clarity.
TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Andy Kim (4-16-2026)
SCENE: Ask a Pol founder Matt Laslo catches Sen. Andy Kim in the basement of the US Capitol after he exits an underground Senate tram on his way to vote.
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Matt Laslo: “Have you see Trump’s promising to release these “UFO files” or whatever?”
Kim shakes head no.
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Laslo: ”I’m curious if you guys have ever gotten an answer on the drone incursions over Jersey?”
Sen. Andy Kim: “I personally have not gotten any satisfying response because I feel like I keep hearing different things.”
Laslo: “Yeah?”
Kim: “I hear from, you know, FAA side, there’s nothing to see — that it was just, you know, a lot of public hysteria. But then like, I don’t know, I saw a videotape of this one company talking about how they were doing some drone testing and they were responsible for some of it. And I’m just like, ‘What is this,’ you know?”
Laslo: “But you guys have never really…?”
Kim: “I’ve never gotten a clear answer from this at all, which we’re still pushing on it.”
Laslo: “Because when you guys were briefed, it was by [former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro] Mayorkas and he said, ‘We don’t know what it is.’”
Kim: “Yeah, so I was briefed by that administration. They weren’t certain, but a lot of what they were telling me was like, you know, if there was anything, it was isolated — but then it kind of grew much larger. But like, then this administration, you know, Trump said it was something real and then they said it was not. So like I really don’t know.”
Laslo: “So with him promising to open up the UFO files for decades, are you a little wary that they’ll be honest with us?”
Kim: “So is that what they say? That they’re going to…?”
Laslo: “Something like that.”
Kim: “I mean, I’m certainly personally intrigued by this, but I don’t really know what to make of it in terms of what access they’ll actually provide and whatnot.”
Laslo: “Yeah?”
Kim: “Yeah, thanks though.”
Laslo: “Preciate ya.”
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