Wow. SOMEBODY (cough cough) may be using little robotic dragonflies to maybe spy on folks at political events like anti-war rallies.
Ain’t that too cool??!! Little spy dragonfiles!
Deserves a paragraph of exclamation marks!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If they’re for real.
So what was seen by Crane, Alarcon and a handful of others at the D.C. march – and as far back as 2004, during the Republican National Convention in New York, when one observant but perhaps paranoid peace-march participant described on the Web “a jet-black dragonfly hovering about 10 feet off the ground, precisely in the middle of 7th avenue … watching us”?
They probably saw dragonflies, said Jerry Louton, an entomologist at the National Museum of Natural History. Washington is home to some large, spectacularly adorned dragonflies that “can knock your socks off,” he said.
At the same time, he added, some details do not make sense. Three people at the D.C. event independently described a row of spheres, the size of small berries, attached along the tails of the big dragonflies – an accoutrement that Louton could not explain. And all reported seeing at least three maneuvering in unison.
“Dragonflies never fly in a pack,” he said.
Mara Verheyden-Hilliard of the Partnership for Civil Justice said her group is investigating witness reports and has filed Freedom of Information Act requests with several federal agencies. If such devices are being used to spy on political activists, she said, “it would be a significant violation of people’s civil rights.”
Wired first wrote about it on the 21st of Sept.
The Flickr dragonfly photo lords and lordesses need to work on getting some pics.
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