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Russians Invade with Flying Saucer

Ridgelift writes "Wired is covering a project revived from Russia by the US Naval Air Systems Command: The Ekip, a pita-bread-shaped, stubby-winged, wheel-less, unmanned ship that weighs in at 500 pounds. 'For more than two decades, engineers at a former Soviet aerospace plant have been toiling on a drone aircraft that looks a whole lot like a prop from Plan 9 From Outer Space.'"

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  1. UFO sightings by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am a field investigator for MUFON. I've been investigating sightings here in the Midwest for quite some time now, and I've come to believe that stories like this one are planted by the government to make people believe that UFO's are secret military aircraft.

    Well, I've been out there, in the field, taking the eyewitness reports. I do not believe for a second that these craft that people are seeing are made by humans.

    Go out there, talk to eyewitnesses, talk to an abductee - you'll quickly realize that stories like this are carefully written "plants" by conspirators that reach the highest corridors of power in World Government.

    1. Re:UFO sightings by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Mior dou puivior vuexa baovai ezeek naegueha tiiseef tuiceaz, soasaaw. Ruoze zo giaz viuc moekauca. Poixeox ecie seega veepi tuatuoy coizei owianu heepu jia. Aciewauz kaeqia moodi nou ji. Unii xuoqae I neelauso saopuo. Kuiy cooj I buory ruov ruek ew du jiabii I tiolu qiodo. I gaoz edioh heido omourioh fiuj, jeih viiw la, ojeub. Laaj xii ve qeo ezia woulo kuomoeru epai, vuevo emietoe zau. Deodo I ceuxaa zaabiac I. Loufeelu suil iqee ariiju puut fae. Umuojo uri ux. Uheemo veigoa giicy zuy?

      - Xeroaen of Perusii 8

    2. Re:UFO sightings by jamesh · · Score: 4, Funny

      Damn. They got to this post and moderated it 'Funny' so nobody would take it seriously.

    3. Re:UFO sightings by sharkey · · Score: 2, Funny
      I very much doubt that the modern US has gotten its hands on alien technology.

      Explain Velcro, then.

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  2. ALIENS by adot · · Score: 2, Funny

    That goes to prove russians really are aliens.

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  3. Covering all bases... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    In Soviet Russia, saucers belong to all bases welcoming new alien overlords.

  4. Oh great. by iamdrscience · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now that Gulf War 2: Junior's Revenge is ending we have Russian/American Space Race 2: Above and Beyond to look forward to.

    Where will Hollywo^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Washington's obsession with sequels end?

  5. no drugs necessary by dandelion_wine · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Flapjack was tested near Area 51, the clandestine military base that's been an obsession of X-Filers for decades.

    "It's what originated many people's belief in flying saucers," said Phil Scott, author of The Wrong Stuff: Attempts at Flight Before (and After) the Wright Brothers. "Anyone on a lot of drugs would think it was a flying saucer."


    I know at least half a dozen people who wouldn't need drugs for this.
    It just tips the amusing/pathetic balance when they are.

  6. Oh No!!! by d3faultus3r · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not only are they sapping and impurifying our precious bodily fluids, they're in league with the aliens. close off all communications at the base, Col. Mandrake.

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  7. Re:Bad Design for Passengers.. by drinkypoo · · Score: 5, Funny
    Personally, I want to be inside the airplane, where it is considerably less windy. If your design includes placing passengers outside the aircraft, perhaps it is time to consider a significant alternation.

    (With apologies to G. Carlin)

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  8. pita-bread-shaped? by drinkypoo · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Ekip, a pita-bread-shaped, stubby-winged, wheel-less, unmanned ship

    Pita-bread shaped? And I suppose a bus is shaped like a loaf of bread, a 747 is shaped like a baguette, a croissant, and some pieces of matzoh cracker.

    Please, if there is any alternative, avoid copying text verbatim from Wired. Their editors make the ones around this joint look like the heads of mensa.

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  9. Re:UFO sightings & Microsoft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Don't you know, a lot of our technology today was no doubt seeded by these aliens! A microchip to some yahoo engineer in the 40's and 50's who thought a tube was advanced technology might well look like magic. And operating systems, who'd a thunk of those? But now we know what happened to those recycled UFO parts once they were figured out; they became the seed stock for intel, and they ran windows! Thats why they crashed, after all...

  10. aliens by sklib · · Score: 4, Funny

    We always thought aliens from outer space would descend in flying saucers, but it's actually going to be (possibly illegal) aliens from Russia.

    I, for one, welcome our vodka-drinking overlords.

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  11. Re:plan 9? by Kewjoe · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't like what you are implying. I took your bolded words and put them together and got this:

    reviving dead. all other attempts failed. use solar power. end the universe.

    So you are saying the Russians have a project that will raise the dead, and use some kind of solar power to end the universe.

    talk about paranoia. the Russians are our friends now.