BREAKING🚨 Armed men in uniforms with American flag patches just bombed three Ecuadorian fishing boats with drones, hooded the badly injured crews, and handed them to El Salvador's navy as "shipwreck survivors." Captain Hernán Flores was 170 miles off the Galápagos when a drone roughly the size of a pillow crashed into his boat. "We heard the explosion — boom. It was the kind of blast that left my ears ringing. Right then, I felt blood running down me," he said. His nephew Jordyn's foot was torn open. Another crewman's back was burned by the flames. Ecuador's coast guard had inspected that same boat and cleared it, finding nothing illegal. The 16 crew jumped into small auxiliary boats and headed for a blue ship that had been shadowing them, hoping to be rescued. The men aboard pointed rifles, then bound them, hooded them, and left them on deck overnight with open bleeding wounds and no medical care. They spoke English, wore brown camouflage, and some had a U.S. flag patch on the arm. They asked whether the fishermen were carrying anything illegal. When one injured man answered that they had just been inspected by Ecuador's coast guard, the armed men started arguing among themselves. In a separate strike, drones hit the Don Maca. "I went flying and slammed into a diesel tank that was sitting there," said Jaime Rubén Cervantes Macías. "People were shouting, 'Drone, drone, drone!'" Both crews were handed to El Salvador's navy, described by their captors only as shipwrecked. A third boat, the Fiorella, vanished at sea with eight men aboard. The U.N. presumes them dead. Flight data shows a maritime patrol plane based at a military airfield in El Salvador flew toward all three boats beforehand, including toward the Fiorella on the day it disappeared. The plane is on no Pentagon aircraft list and is registered to a company using a private mailbox in a Richmond, Virginia parcel store. The Pentagon says Southern Command was not involved. The CIA's answer: "We do not have any guidance to offer on this."