WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump said on Monday that the U.S. military should tell the American public about the nature of the drone sightings that have plagued the East Coast over the last several weeks.
“The government knows what is happening,” Trump said. “For some reason, they don’t want to comment. And I think they’d be better off saying what it is our military knows and our president knows.”
Speaking at a press conference in Palm Beach, Florida, Trump said, “I can’t imagine it’s the enemy” without going into specifics. He declined to answer whether he had received an intelligence briefing on the matter.
A spate of reported drone sightings that began in New Jersey in mid-November spread in recent days to include Maryland, Massachusetts and other states. U.S. officials said on Saturday that most of the sightings involved manned aircraft and that there was no evidence of a national security threat.
(Reporting by Jeff Mason, Editing by Franklin Paul)
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