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    Video: UFO filmed hovering over Russian protesters

    UPDATE: Several helpful Sideshow readers have written in with various explanations of the object. As we noted in the post, it's mostly likely a monitoring device used by journalists. One reader speculated the object is a modified, do-it-yourself "ArduCopter," while another sent in this photo.

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    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.

    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:

    Well, being among those tens of thousands of "confused onlookers", the only kind of debate I can recall in regards to the "object" 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).

    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. Needless to say, nobody was really "distracted by the UFO," as MailOnline assumes, provided more important distractions were unfolding on the ground.

    On the other hand, wouldn't the aliens want the crowds below to be distracted by earthly political conflicts as the space craft hatched bigger plans for Planet Earth? We're just saying. . . .

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    13 comments

    • Glenn  •  Springfield, Missouri  •  3 mths ago
      Feb 15th and this is news from December? Wow Yahoo needs to find something to report on. Isnt there another celevrity crack head thats dying to occupy the news for another 72 hours?
    • David  •  Pharr, Texas  •  5 mths ago
      that same type of " UFO" is here in Texas. Just hovering there everyday
    • nibul  •  Chicago, United States  •  5 mths ago
      its always a blurry camera, no one ever has a good HD camera around with all these smart phones floating around
      • Alem 5 mths ago
        Haha yea, so we wont know its a minicopter carrying a cam.
    • Brian S (brianguy)  •  5 mths ago
      that's a remote-control helicopter, ya dummies!
      • Millicent 5 mths ago
        lol ya dummies
      • Kimberly 5 mths ago
        Yea, right! You can tell it's "Man Made". I'm into UFO's, but this is just to obvious. Give me something else, please!!!
      • Gerald Childs 5 mths ago
        Your'e missing the point everyone, it's obvious it's not a UFO, even Mulder and Sculley could see that, the real problem here is that Governments are beginning to use Drones to control the people.
    • Audri Loren  •  Aurora, Colorado  •  4 mths ago
      that looks like a toy helicopter just sayin'
    • Loni  •  Hood River, United States  •  5 mths ago
      U.F.O: Unidentified Flying Object. Drone: 4. A pilotless aircraft operated by remote control.
      Just because someone says UFO! *finger pointing skyward, eyes wide, mouth agape* Doesn't necessarily mean ALIEN! *crowd panicking, stampeding, trampling the elderly in attempts to flee*
      Sure looks like a man-made aircraft to me.
    • Millicent  •  Pleasanton, United States  •  5 mths ago
      does look like a camera underneath there
    • Richard  •  Brooklyn, Michigan  •  5 mths ago
      No Alien ,space craft for sure,Let me ask the Aliens in congress to be sure....
    • Reclusive Lady  •  5 mths ago
      It's the Flying Spaghetti Monster!

      FALL TO YOUR KNEES AND WORSHIP HIS NOODLEY APPENDAGES!!!!!!
    • Justin  •  5 mths ago
      Its a freakin weather baloon!!! UFO my #$%$
    • A Yahoo! User  •  Santa Monica, United States  •  5 mths ago
      Stop this non-sense... it's either a mikrocopter or Cinestar camera copter with a DSLR mounted to it... see it? fools
    • Ryan  •  5 mths ago
      its just a rc helicopter
    • CELTS4LIFE  •  5 mths ago
      wow...could it be....me, be one of the first to actually post on an article.....never thought the day would come
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