🇪🇨🇸🇻🇺🇸⚡️ — Ecuadorian fishermen say unidentified English-speaking armed men wearing U.S. flag patches have attacked fishing vessels in the Pacific using explosive-laden drones, raising questions about who is behind the operations, NYT reports.

One Ecuadorian vessel has been missing since January with eight crew members presumed dead, while survivors of two other boats reported being attacked in March. Some said they were subsequently detained and questioned by the unidentified men before being handed over to El Salvador’s navy and eventually released.

NYT found that a privately registered maritime surveillance aircraft operating from a military facility in El Salvador repeatedly flew toward and appeared to track all three vessels in the days before the incidents. The aircraft is registered to a company listing a private mailbox at a UPS store in Virginia as its address and does not appear on the Pentagon’s lists of active aircraft.

Neither the Pentagon nor the U.S. Coast Guard has claimed involvement, and it remains unclear whether the attacks were conducted by another government or a U.S.-linked military contractor.