India's army reportedly spent six months watching "Chinese spy drones" violating its air space, only to find out they were actually Jupiter and Venus.
Can you imagine the phone call where the scientist broke the news to the army? "You idiots," said in your best Indian Gandhi voice, "those are planets!!"
"It quotes military sources as saying the objects violated the LAC 155 times. So, the army called the Indian Institute of Astrophysics to identify the objects. "Our task was to determine whether these unidentified objects were celestial or terrestrial," astronomer Tushar Prabhu told the paper. Only once the objects' movements were noted in relation to the stars were they identified as planets. The Telegraph suggests the sentry ought to be forgiven, with planets appearing brighter as a result of the different atmosphere at altitude and the increased use of surveillance drones."
Now if the Turks would just stop arresting birds as Israeli spies, perhaps we could all get along.
BUT what if the bird ARE Israeli spies? Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that they are not out to get you... ;^)
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