Posthuman Blues

Suspicious movements

"The object has also triggered speculations whether it was a device for covert surveillance. At IIT, Bombay, Dr Hemandra Arya says cutting-edge technology today makes it possible to build small electric-powered autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles. A simple explanation is that it was a runaway balloon cluster; a sophisticated one is that it was an unmanned aerial vehicle powered by electric motors which would also explain the lack of sound, said Arya. 'We certainly don't need to invoke ET for this,' he said."