Extraordinary claims. Ordinary investigations.

“I’d never seen anything like it in my life,” the Washington lawyer said. “They were large for dragonflies. I thought, ‘Is that mechanical, or is that alive?’ “. That is just one of the questions hovering over a handful of similar sightings at political events in Washington and New York. Some suspect the insectlike drones are high-tech surveillance tools, perhaps deployed by the Department of Homeland Security. - Dragonfly or Insect Spy? Scientists at Work on Robobugs.

A very bizarre article to read in the Washington Post, given that it’s almost the exact plot of an X-Files episode. Only without deaths and alien cockroaches. But still, X-Files.

[via TDG]