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Iran Unveils Flying Saucer Using Old B-Movie Stock Photo

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @02:56AM from the death-star-in-the-desert dept.

ChronoFish writes "The FARS news agency and a host of others are reporting on Iran claiming to have created a flying saucer-like drone. There is one small problem however. The press release photos from the state-run news service are from a movie."

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Actual Picture by prakslash · 2011-03-22 03:08 · Score: 5, Informative

The news agency used a stock photo. The actual photo (clickable) is here.
1. Re:Actual Picture by Anonymous Coward · 2011-03-22 03:18 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  The actual photo is of a DraganFlyer X6 built by DraganFly in Saskatoon, Canada. I imagine the folks at DraganFly are busy answering questions this morning.