Bethenny Frankel can sleep easy tonight.
After residents of Morris County, New Jersey, including the Real Housewives of New York alum, noticed suspicious drones flying overhead in mid-November of last year, the White House has finally provided some clarification of the purpose for the aircrafts, which were approved by the Federal Aviation Association.
“After research and study, the drones that were flying over New Jersey in large numbers were authorized to be flown by the FAA for research and various other reasons,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement attributed to President Donald Trump during a Jan. 28 press briefing, per Politico. “This was not the enemy.”
Leavitt noted that some of the drones, however, were, “private individuals that enjoy flying drones.”
The White House setting the record straight on the origin of the drones—which were also spotted above Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, Virginia and Ohio, per CNN—comes after months of conspiratorial speculation by people online. Indeed, everyone from Frankel to then-President-Elect Trump had shared their theories behind the aircrafts.
