Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Friday reacted to unexplained drone sightings and declared them to be "cases of mistaken identity where drones are actually small aircraft and people are misidentifying them.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas talks with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer about the mysterious drones flying over parts of the US.

Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas sought to assure the American people that the federal government has a handle on the reports of drone sightings on the East Coast. In an interview on ABC News’s “This Week,

Mysterious drones flying across New Jersey present no “threat” and are not “nefarious,” as far as the Department of Homeland Security knows, secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said on Friday. Multiple unidentified drones have been spotted across the state since mid-November,