UFO filmed hovering over Russian protesters

[Hum]

Some 25,000 pro-democracy protesters in Moscow's Bolotnaya Square had an unexpected participant in their demonstrations on Saturday when a UFO was spotted hovering above the crowd. [video 1]

Here is a somewhat blurry video capture of the scene, taken by a person in the crowd:

Several demonstrators in the crowd espied the hovering object, with reflecting blue and red lights.

Descriptions of the object--which observers say was definitely not a helicopter--included "five extended tendrils or pylons emanating from the body of the vehicle."

But just because it was a UFO, doesn't mean it was extraterrestrial.

The UFO was in sight long enough for some protesters to climb trees for a closer look. Russian news site RT.com's Vitaliy Matveev disputes the UFO theory, saying the object was at worst, a Russian government spy drone or simply a news media camera filming the protests:

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[Dot Matrix]

[Vice]

Probably some kind of police UAV. Looked like it has rotary blades and is quite small.

[Stephen Mitchell]

Helicopter

[Slugsie]

That doesn't look at all like either a helicopter, or a small drone. No, not even slightly. :shiftyninja:

It's hard to get a sense of scale from the crappy video, but there is no logical jump to UFO.

[Stephen Mitchell]

it was a drone

[AbandonedTrolley]

The link even says it was a drone from a news company.

Nothing to see here.

[ChazEG]

defo a drone, octocopter or the like.

Some are capable of haulling some quite heavy cameras.

[Detection]

Not a kick in the ass off 2012 and still UFOs can't be filmed without the video being so blurry you cant make out what it is...

I filmed an plane 10x higher than that with my phones half MP camera and could still make out what colour hat the guy in the 3rd seat from the left had on

[AbandonedTrolley]

It's Rusia, they still have Nokia 3210s and such like!

[F_C]

It will be something similar to the DraganflyerX8

http://www.draganfly.com/uav-helicopter/draganflyer-x8/

[Detection]

It's Rusia, they still have Nokia 3210s and such like!

haha

What they show, compared to the real video are completely different - the real video is nowhere near as clear as they make out in their shot

Real Video Shot

What they show

[Hum]

Drone -- zapping the crowd with mind control radiations. :laugh:

[DocM]

Helicopter, maybe a Kamov or Mil.

[+Mirumir Subscriber¹]

This is the "UFO":

And this is what it saw:

[guru]

just curious , who did you vote for zhiVago ?

[ccoltmanm]

That is amazing.

[nominak]

25,000 people, an no one there had a DSLR?

[Soulsiphon]

That's awesome. One of my fellow Masters candidates is working on an autonomous intelligent rotary powered aircraft. IIRC his is just quad-rotor.

[UndergroundWire]

That doesn't look at all like either a helicopter, or a small drone. No, not even slightly. :shiftyninja:

It's hard to get a sense of scale from the crappy video, but there is no logical jump to UFO.

You sir OBVIOUSLY have no idea what you are talkinmg about. You are confused. UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object. If you don't know what the flying object is, why isn't it a UFO.

UFO != Extraterestrial.

Facepalm on how people jump to ridiculouse conlusions.

[xendrome]

You sir OBVIOUSLY have no idea what you are talkinmg about. You are confused. UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object. If you don't know what the flying object is, why isn't it a UFO.

UFO != Extraterestrial.

Facepalm on how people jump to ridiculouse conlusions.

This... UFO clearly is the term used for any flying object that is not identified. It has nothing to do with aliens.

[Nihilus]

Helicopter, maybe a Kamov or Mil.

This is the "UFO":

Rofl. Kamov or Mil indeed. That is one mean looking assault chopper.

[Growled Member]

Drone -- zapping the crowd with mind control radiations. :laugh:

Did it work?

[qdave]

And this is what it saw:

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That globe pic is fabulous!

[Hum]

This... UFO clearly is the term used for any flying object that is not identified. It has nothing to do with aliens.

UFO has mutated over time:

UFO

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any unexplained moving object observed in the sky, especially one assumed by some observers to be of extraterrestrial origin.