Amid hysteria over mysterious drones spotted over New Jersey, former CIA operations officer Laura Ballman presented her theory that probably this is a classified operation being executed by the Biden administration otherwise why the White House would assert that it was nothing illegal, she asked. ​​The first mystery aircraft were spotted flying above northern New Jersey in mid-November and then several of them were reported hovering over crucial establishments. The FBI said there was no evidence of large-scale unmanned drone activity and security officials called the public's fear "a slight overreaction".
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