Nato summit drone video is probably a hoax

[flamingdem]

Last edited Sun May 20, 2012, 08:06 PM - Edit history (1)

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/05/18/nato_summit_drone_video_is_probably_a_hoax_watch_.html

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Unfortunately for the believers, the facts just don’t stack up. A government source familiar with domestic drone policy was unequivocal, telling me, “There are no unmanned aerial vehicles being operated in the Chicago area and particularly no vehicles that look like the one in the video. The vehicle pictured in the video is a very, very large vehicle, and the areas these are permitted to operate are in unpopulated areas for the most part, or where there is not a heavy concentration of people.”

The Department of Homeland Security and the Customs and Border Protection Agency are both known to operate Predator drones domestically—most typically for border surveillance. A DHS spokesperson, however, said, “The aircraft you see in the video is not a DHS/CBP aircraft.”

If any further confirmation was required to debunk the video, it was provided by the FAA, which hands out permissions for the domestic use of drones. An FAA spokesperson said, “No UAS [unmanned aerial systems] operators have asked the FAA to approve UAS operations in the Chicago area to support the NATO Summit, and the FAA has not approved any UAS operations in the Chicago area.”

[Skinner]

1. Please edit your thread title.

Replace the "_" symbols with spaces. The way you have it now is screwing up the formatting on mobile.

Thanks.

[flamingdem]

3. Wow, that's some

thesensative thsoftware as Sylvester would say

[cherokeeprogressive]

2. Buzzkill. n/t