US officials have stressed that the strange drone sightings above New Jersey in recent weeks do not appear to be the work of a foreign adversary.

Mysterious drones have been flying over New Jersey, according to people posting across social media platforms in December 2024. Some of the posts suggested they were not human-made drones, but alien unidentified flying objects.

The Department of Defense denied the reports of the drones coming from Iran. "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," a spokesperson for the Pentagon told reporters.