The Story Behind National Reconnaissance Office's Octopus Logo (muckrock.com)

v3rgEz writes: When the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) announced the upcoming launch of their NROL-39 mission back in December 2013, they didn't get quite the response they hoped. That might have had something to do with the mission logo being a gigantic octopus devouring the Earth. Researcher Runa Sandvik wanted to know who approved this and why, so she filed a Freedom of Information Act with the NRO for the development materials that went into the logo. A few months later, the NRO delivered.

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Re: Personally, I think it's pretty badass.

[ultranova]

They have either a dark sense of humor, big brass balls or both.

Or they are patriots desperately trying to get some kind of reaction. How else do you explain using an angry dragon with red eyes gripping the world - and especially North America - in its talons as a logo? Even in a nation where Evangelical Christianity - and thus the Book of Revelation - wasn't a big deal that is a villain logo.