{"id":8492,"date":"2011-12-14T10:27:57","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T04:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/?p=8492"},"modified":"2012-11-16T13:29:03","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T07:29:03","slug":"are-alien-probes-watching-russian-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/2011\/12\/are-alien-probes-watching-russian-protesters\/","title":{"rendered":"ARE ALIEN PROBES WATCHING RUSSIAN PROTESTERS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/category\/monsters\/out-of-this-world\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1120\" title=\"out-of-this-world\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/out-of-this-world.gif?resize=100%2C99\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"99\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/blogs\/sideshow\/video-ufo-filmed-hovering-over-russian-protesters-161925456.html\" target=\"_\">Yahoo News<\/a> has reported that some 25,000 pro-democracy protesters in Moscow&#8217;s Bolotnaya Square had an unexpected participant in their demonstrations on Saturday when a UFO was caught on video above the crowd.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>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:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Five extended tendrils or pylons emanating from the body of the vehicle.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ridus-drone-camera.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8494\" title=\"ridus-drone-camera\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ridus-drone-camera.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ridus-drone-camera.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ridus-drone-camera.jpg?resize=80%2C60&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ridus-drone-camera.jpg?resize=265%2C198&amp;ssl=1 265w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ridus-drone-camera.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The UFO &#8212; which many speculate may not be from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/category\/monsters\/out-of-this-world\/\" target=\"_\">OUT OF THIS WORLD<\/a>, but of a more homegrown design &#8212; was in sight long enough for some protesters to climb trees for a better look.<\/p>\n<p>Reporter Vitaliy Matveev has speculated that it might be a Russian government spy drone (like the one pictured left) or simply a news media camera filming the protests:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Well, being among those tens of thousands of &#8216;confused onlookers.&#8217; the only kind of debate I can recall in regards to the &#8220;object&#8221; was whether it was the police monitoring the security situation on the scene of mass protests through a drone camera or journalists taking aerial photos for their reports (or broadcasts)&#8230; despite standing quite far from the place above which the drone was hovering, I could still clearly see what it was, and so could the others.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/russia_ufo.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8496\" title=\"russia_ufo\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/russia_ufo.jpg?resize=300%2C180\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/russia_ufo.jpg?resize=300%2C180&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/russia_ufo.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>So what is this mystery object? A not-so top secret government surveillance device or a strange probe from another world?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo News has reported that some 25,000 pro-democracy protesters in Moscow&#8217;s Bolotnaya Square had an unexpected participant in their demonstrations on Saturday when a UFO was caught on video above the crowd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2504,"featured_media":12018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[1121,72,376],"class_list":["post-8492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-news","tag-probe","tag-russia-ufo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/russia_ufo221.jpg?fit=500%2C300&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10069,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8492\/revisions\/10069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}