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White House says New Jersey drones 'authorized to be flown by FAA'

‘This was not the enemy,’ says press secretary on flurry of drones spotted in east coast skies in December

The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said on Tuesday that the mysterious drones that were spotted in skies around New Jersey and the east coast at the end of last year were “authorized to be flown by the FAA”. In the first press briefing of Donald Trump’s second administration, Leavitt said that she had “news directly from the president of the United States that was just shared with me in the Oval Office”. Drone and national security experts continued to tell the public that there was nothing to worry about, and in mid-December, a group of federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, the FAA and the Department of Defense, issued a statement saying that they had examined the tips from concerned citizens and assessed that the sightings were a mix of lawful drones, airplanes, helicopters and stars.

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