A UFO spying on Muscovites protesting against parliamentary election fraud? Apparently so – at least that was the best explanation some British and US news outlets could give to the latest technical solutions in use among Russian bloggers.





­“An 'unidentified flying object'…spotted above Moscow during an anti-government protest.”





“Hundreds of pro-democracy protesters…witnessed the 'UFO' hover above them on Saturday.”





“Confused onlookers among the 25,000-strong crowd filmed the strange object on their phones.”





“Onlookers…climbed trees to grab a closer look at the mysterious craft.”



And so on, and so forth.





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).



