Pentagon slaps down claim New Jersey drones are from Iranian ‘mothership’
By
Peter Cordi
December 11, 2024 2:46 pm
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The Pentagon has batted down a claim from a New Jersey lawmaker that the SUV-sized drones being spotted all over New Jersey come from an Iranian “mothership” located just off the East Coast.
Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) said he received information from “very high sources, very qualified sources, very responsible sources” that the mysterious drones were identified as coming from Iran. He said the “military is on alert” to the drones and should be prepared to shoot them down.
“I’m gonna tell you the real deal,” he said in a Fox News appearance Wednesday. “Iran launched a mothership probably about a month ago that contains these drones. It’s off the East Coast of the United States of America. It’s everything that we can see or hear.”
He addressed three possible explanations for the drone sightings: It was either the United States government, a hobbyist or group of hobbyists, or an “adversarial country.”
Van Drew said, “We know it’s not our own government because they would have let us know,” and it couldn’t be hobbyists because “they don’t have the technology.” On the prospect of the drones coming from a U.S. adversary, he said that “Iran made a deal with China to purchase drones, motherships, and other technology in order to go forward.”
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