Fact Check: No Pentagon ‘Operation Necromancer’ to intercept drones over East Coast
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) said on Dec. 11 that it did not consider drones spotted over New Jersey a threat and didn’t feel the need to engage them, contrary to social media posts asserting that the Pentagon had launched “Operation Necromancer” - echoing the name of a fictional project from the Star Wars franchise - to intercept the drones.