White House says New Jersey drones ‘authorized to be flown by FAA’
Press secretary gives update 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”.
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