The reports of drones flying too high and too close to airports and aircraft have been soaring.

"If they hit in the exact, wrong part of an airplane [and] say down an engine, or in the cockpit where the pilots are, it could be catastrophic," said ABC News aviation consultant Steve Ganyard.

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New FAA numbers show that since June, pilots have reported 25 near-collisions with drones. On Nov. 19, JetBlue flight 842 out of Georgia encountered a drone as it neared JFK airport.

"About two miles out on the final, maybe around four to around 300 feet, looked like one of those unmanned drones was flying right on the final," the pilot tells air traffic control.

The tower responds: "Two-mile final, 3-400 feet?"

"That's correct," the pilot says on an audio recording from liveatc.net.

The FAA is under pressure to come up with new rules governing drones as prices have dropped and their popularity has taken off.

Photographers use drones to get never-before-seen shots. Amazon wants to start drone deliveries. Researchers have even started testing how drones could help police and firefighters get a safer view at a crash site when leaking hazardous materials are involved.

The FAA has said that its goal is to propose new rules by the end of the year.

"I think there is a great deal of demand for the potential of unmanned aircraft," said FAA administrator Michael Huerta, in an August interview with ABC News. "The thing we care about is we want to take advantage of the technology but it has got to be safe."