All Threads by Date  Ok, I Am Vindicated! Drones Spy On Us  A
few months after 9/11, we were crossing the second part of the
Triborough Bridge out of Manhatten. I was sitting in the
passenger seat and looked up in the sky -- it was a very clear
night -- and I saw something hovering high above the East River.
I thought it was a helicopter but t wasnt. I could see the shape
of it and it looked like a small jet. I thought, "wTF? Only
helicopters can hover like that that; not moving in the sky, not
little jets." ( I should add that I've been a bird watcher for
years and am used to looking skyward and identifying birds by
their shapes, their wingspan, the type of flight -- chickadees,
eg, have a bobbing flight) I mentioned this to a few people. I
was sure it was a surveillance aircraft watching the city in
some way. Some people said it was probably a harrier jet. I had
a feeling it was unmanned, like a satellite, even though it was
vaguely jet-shaped and lower in the sky then a satellite. Well,
here it is -- a dro