A New Jersey mayor warned Tuesday that the troubling drone sightings over the state may be linked to missing radioactive material, although federal officials say the amount poses no serious threat either way.

Belleville Mayor Michael Melham said the drones flying in a grid-like pattern over his Essex County township appear to be “looking for something.

“What might they be looking for? Maybe that’s radioactive material,” Melham told Fox TV’s “Good Day New York.”

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A New Jersey mayor is slamming federal officials for wasting his time after a meeting on the Garden State's numerous drone sightings Monday failed to produce any new information.

Middletown Mayor Tony Perry, who attended the Zoom meeting that brought together other NJ mayors and officials from the White House, Homeland Security, FBI and FAA, said the feds were dismissive and failed to shine a light on what may be behind the surge of suspected drones flying over his state.

“In all honesty, they provided us with no new additional info. In fact, it felt a little bit dismissive,” he told NBC News.

Perry said the officials "rabbled [sic] endlessly," and he called the meeting “a waste of time.”

“Until they can tell me where these drones are coming from, I do not subscribe to the idea that they're not a threat,” the mayor said.

Bethenny Frankel is voicing her concern about the recent influx of drone sightings in New York and New Jersey.

The former “Real Housewives of New York” star, 54, took to TikTok on Monday, and revealed that a conversation with a friend with alleged connections to the Pentagon and NASA left her feeling that “something is wrong.”

“You’re gonna think I’m nuts, but why should today be different than any other day?” the Skinnygirl founder began the video.

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The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence will receive a briefing from the Biden administration about drone sightings at 2 p.m. Tuesday.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, FBI and CIA will lead the closed-door session with Republicans and Democrats on the panel.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer intends to leverage his last week at the helm of the upper chamber to push for legislation to address the uproar over drone sightings in New York and New Jersey.

Schumer (D-NY) announced Monday that he will push for a vote on legislation to "give local officials greater authority to swiftly respond to these sightings."

"The reports of the past few weeks have ignited immense anxiety and confusion for millions of people living across the Northeast," Schumer said in a Senate floor speech Monday. "Thankfully, there is no reason to believe these drone sightings pose a national security threat."

"But even so they can be disruptive if they fly over restricted airspace like airports or bases," he went on. "In the meantime, I urge DHS to take all necessary action to deploy as many drone-detecting resources as possible."

Schumer cited technology such as ROBIN systems to help local officials obtain appropriate data on the phenomenon and detect from where they are coming.

White House spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Monday that the drones zipping over New Jersey residents' homes are a "combination" of personal, professional and governmental aircraft.

"We assess that the sightings to date include a combination of lawful commercial drones, hobbyist drones and law enforcement drones, as well as manned fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters and even stars that were mistakenly reported as drones," Kirby announced, per multiple reports.

Police have recovered a massive drone that was apparently abandoned in the Brooklyn Naval Yard.

A photo obtained by The Post shows an NYPD officer holding up the unwieldy aircraft, the body of which appears to measure more than 5 feet in diameter.

Cops responded to an emailed tip alerting them to the presence of the drone, which they found on the sidewalk at Fifth Street between Market Street and Morris Avenue, sources said.

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Downed drone for thee but not for me.

New Jerseyan Michael B, a podcaster, YouTuber and paranormal investigator who delves "into conspiracies, trending topics, unexplained mysteries and the paranormal," was using his own drone to investigate a larger flying object he believed was a drone, nightly mainstays in the skies over his neighborhood — when his inexplicably ran out of battery after just a few minutes.

"There was a drone just hanging out," he told FOX 5 New York. "I had full battery life. Not 3 minutes into the flight, I lost control of the drone."

Michael lives a quarter-mile from Picatinny Arsenal, an Army arms base in Morris County that's been a hotspot for the thousands of drone sightings reported over the past four weeks. There is a temporary flight restriction in place for Picatinny's airspace until Dec. 26 because of the drone mystery.

However, despite the restricted flight area, the drone he was trying to check out with his own continued to fly. (GPS-equipped drones that fly into restricted areas protected by virtual geofencing can be repelled, stopped in place or forced to land, Fox News reported.)

The truth is out there.

President-elect Donald Trump on Monday accused President Biden and the Pentagon of hiding information about large drones spotted hovering above New Jersey and New York.

“The government knows what is happening,” Trump, 78, said after Biden representatives pleaded ignorance despite thousands of Garden State and New York City residents seeing — and in some instances photographing — the aircraft.

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Federal authorities have finally stepped up efforts to investigate a rash of mysterious drone sightings that have been made nightly over a growing swath of the Eastern Seaboard for nearly a month.

The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI are deploying drone detection technology and infrared cameras to determine what if any threat the unidentified flying objects pose, according to ABC News.

White House national security communications adviser John Kirby said Thursday it’s believed that “many” of the rogue aircraft seem to be ordinary and lawfully operated, saying there was “no evidence at this time that the reported drone sightings pose a national security or public safety threat, or have a foreign nexus.”

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New Jersey’s drone sightings — and the government’s cagey response to them — have reawakened the wild conspiracy theory dubbed “Project Blue Beam,” which claims global elites will fake an alien invasion to establish a new world order.

The outlandish theory, introduced in the 1990s by the late Canadian Serge Monast, says a cabal of the world’s most powerful people plans to covertly thrust society into chaos with fabricated supernatural events.

Those faked events include projecting alien invasions or holographic displays of religious figures into the sky — with the group then seizing control of the world amid the massive hysteria, according to USA Today.

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A critical US Air Force base in Ohio was forced to shut its airspace for hours in the latest security scare over mysterious drones, officials confirmed Monday.

The sprawling Wright-Patterson Air Force Base closed for four hours from late Friday into the early hours of Saturday because of concern about the “small unmanned aerial systems,” Bob Purtiman, the chief spokesman for the 88th Air Base Wing, told The Post.

An air traffic controller was heard warning a medical aircraft — identified as “MedFlight 8” — to “use extreme caution for heavy UAS movement over the base,” according to a recording obtained by the War Zone, which first reported the scare.

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