The Pentagon deleted and reposted a video boasting about how President Donald Trump’s administration will increase its use of drone warfare. The first version featured the Metallica song “Enter Sandman” in the background. The second has no music. A Metallica representative confirmed to Rolling Stone that the use of “Enter …
Read More »In Ukraine, Drones are Now the King of Battle
It was like a scene from one of the futuristic techno-thrillers that fill the shelves of airport bookstores. On Sunday, swarms of nimble quadcopter drones carrying explosives took flight from concealed launchpads built into the roofs of cargo containers being transported by commercial trucks deep inside Russia. Their target was …
Read More »AI Mind Reading, Self-Flying Drones: Trump's CIA Nominee Discloses Clients
Donald Trump’s pick to head the CIA, John Ratcliffe, took a lucrative spin through Washington’s revolving door after his time in the first Trump administration, according to a disclosure with the Senate. In recent years, Ratcliffe has worked as a consultant and advisor for several defense contractors. Two of the …
Read More »A Citizen App for UFO Sightings Is Taking Off, Thanks to the Drone Frenzy
Dee and Joe Indiviglio like to go out on their front porch at night, and look up. That’s where they were on Dec. 4, when they saw something they hadn’t seen before above their Middletown, New Jersey, home: a group of lights, moving quickly, strangely all over the sky, for …
Read More »Dirty Bombs, Aliens, Holograms, and Orbs: Drone Mania Unleashes Conspiracy Theories
For the past month, residents of the northeast and mid-Atlantic U.S. have made thousands of reports and social media posts about supposed sightings of suspicious drones and unidentified aerial objects at night. And because government agencies have not provided an explanation as sensational as people believe their photo and video …
Read More »Politicians and Pundits Escalate Dangerous Drone Hysteria
December is a month of twinkling lights and heavy air traffic, which seem to have collided in the most curious phenomenon of this holiday season: a sudden, unfounded panic that remotely controlled drones are patrolling the night skies up and down the eastern coast of the U.S. A month ago, …
Read More »NYPD Drones to Monitor Backyard Parties This Labor Day Weekend
Outdoor gatherings in New York City may fall under the watchful eye of police drones this Labor Day weekend. “If a caller states there’s a large crowd, a large party in a backyard, we’re going to be utilizing our assets to go up and go check on the party,” assistant …
Read More »'My Son Used to Dream of Football, Now He Dreams of Hand Grenades'
KYIV – Amid hundreds of joyous civilians pouring onto the streets of Kherson to welcome the soldiers who liberated them from Russian occupation, there is a man named Mykhailo. A former soldier whose son has been serving in an elite unit in the Ukrainian military since 2016, Mykhailo – whom …
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