The Pentagon this week confirmed news reports of unidentified drones swarming the airspace at Langley Air Force Base in Hampton last year. The Hampton base experienced incursions of unauthorized unmanned aerial systems in December, Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh told reporters on Tuesday.

The Pentagon has confirmed a number of “unauthorized” drone flights last year in restricted airspace over a Virginia base that houses the nation’s most advanced fighter jets. The Wall Street Journal first reported that for 17 days in December,