Get the Facts: What’s the state of drones in the US? [Video]

They’ve been spotted in the air, and likely on your social media feed, in recent weeks. The White House has said there’s no public threat, but still, conspiracy theorists have taken the internet by storm.Here’s what you need to know about drones in the U.S.In mid-November, reports of drone sightings started popping up in New Jersey raising public speculation over their origins. The FBI in Newark opened an investigation on Nov. 20 that is still ongoing. Officials said in a recent press release that there are a lot of unknowns about the sightings but that there doesn’t appear to be a national security risk.”To date we have no intelligence or observations that would indicate that they were aligned with a foreign actor or that they had malicious intent,” a DOD spokesperson said in a Dec. 14 background press call where speakers asked to be attributed as agency representatives, not by …