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ENNIFER GRIFFIN, FOX NEWS: Can you tell me what the Pentagon is doing to address this issue of drone sightings over New Jersey? It's near sensitive installations, the FBI is involved. What is the Pentagon doing?

SABRINA SINGH, DEFENSE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN: Sure. We are aware of those drone sightings that have been reported. At this time, we have no evidence that these activities are coming from a foreign entity or are the work of an adversary. We're going to continue to monitor what is happening, but at no point were our installations threatened when this activity was occurring.

GRIFFIN: Can you rule out that these are American drones, military drones?

SINGH: These are not U.S. military drones. Again, this is being investigated by local law enforcement. Our initial assessment is that these are not drones or activities coming from a foreign entity or adversary.

GRIFFIN: Representative Jeff Van Drew, a Republican from New Jersey, was just on the air saying that Iran launched a "mothership" probably about a month ago that contains these drones and that the "mothership" is off the East Coast of the United States. Is there any truth to that?

SINGH: There is not any truth to that. There is no Iranian ship off the coast of the United States, and there is no so-called mothership launching drones toward the United States.

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