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India: Army 'mistook planets for spy drones'
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25 July 2013
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An Indian soldier standing guard on a mountainous road in the border area
Image caption
Border troops have noticed increased use of surveillance drones
India's army reportedly spent six months watching "Chinese spy drones"
violating its air space, only to find out they were actually Jupiter and
Venus.
Tensions have been high in the disputed Himalayan border area between the
two nations in recent years, with India frequently accusing its neighbour of
making incursions onto its territory. Things came to a head during a stand-
off in April when Chinese troops were accused of erecting a camp on the
Indian side of the de facto boundary known as the Line of Actual Control (
LAC). By that stage, Indian troops had already documented 329 sightings of
unidentified objects over a lake in the border region, between last August
and February, according to the Calcutta-based Telegraph.
It quotes military sources as saying the objects violated the LAC 155 times.
So, the army called the Indian Institute of Astrophysics to identify the
objects. "Our task was to determine whether these unidentified objects were
celestial or terrestrial," astronomer Tushar Prabhu told the paper. Only
once the objects' movements were noted in relation to the stars were they
identified as planets. The Telegraph suggests the sentry ought to be
forgiven, with planets appearing brighter as a result of the different
atmosphere at altitude and the increased use of surveillance drones.
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