By New York Post (U.S.) | Created at 2024-12-11 20:08:35 | Updated at 2024-12-22 12:33:44
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The Department of Defense has deepened the mystery over the drones over New Jersey — and poured cold water on a claim that they came from Iran.
Defense officials do not believe the unidentified flying objects are coming from “a foreign entity or adversary,” deputy Pentagon press secretary Sabrina Singh told reporters Wednesday.
“There is no Iranian ship off the coast of the United States, and there’s no so-called mothership launching drones towards the United States.”
Singh was responding to explosive claims made by Republican New Jersey Rep. Jeff Van Drew earlier Wednesday, who told Fox News that highly-placed sources told him the drones spotted nightly over the Garden State’s skies were “very possibly” being deployed by Iran.
“I’m going to tell you the real deal. Iran launched a mothership that contains these drones,” he said. “It’s off the East Coast of the United States of America. They’ve launched drones.”
“These drones should be shot down,” he said, adding that “the military is on full alert with this.”
Following those claims, Singh insisted “there is not any truth to that.” She did not, however, offer any alternate theory about where the drones are coming from.
