India: Army 'mistook planets for spy drones'

[VelocuR]

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.

BBC News - India: Army 'mistook planets for spy drones'

I couldn't believe how dumb Indian soldiers is and they have no common sense in making alot of mistakes in the past, US know it very well....

 

[Unknown101]

That is hilarious.

 

[Infinity]

I couldn't believe how dumb Indian soldiers is and they have no common sense in making alot of mistakes in the past, US know it very well....

Ya US Knew it very well.........................That's why they Penetrated deep in your country and Killed OBL.........Were entire Pakistani Establishment dumb

 

[fast]

The smell of incompetency reeks through the whole rank of Indian army and government, from the simple foot soldier fools to the high level commander fools, to the fools in MOD, to the fools in the GOI. Stupidity has won again in the India Army. Don't worry. No one has taken you seriously anyway.

 

[AADHAAR]

The smell of incompetency reeks through the whole rank of Indian army and government, from the simple foot soldier fools to the high level commander fools, to the fools in MOD, to the fools in the GOI. Stupidity has won again in the India Army. Don't worry. No one has taken you seriously anyway.

A case of over-estimating chinese capabilities.

But they turn out to be:

 

[posedion]

BBC News - India: Army 'mistook planets for spy drones'

Bad way to hide truth from public regarding UFO's, by the way many a times USAF have scrambled jets to intercept what they later realized they were trying to shoot venus down.

And US public has to believe !!!!!! That there Airforce with 100 + billion dollar budget tried this.

 

[cirr]

Bad way to hide truth from public regarding UFO's, by the way many a times USAF have scrambled jets to intercept what they later realized they were trying to shoot venus down.

And US public has to believe !!!!!! That there Airforce with 100 + billion dollar budget tried this.

You guys（from the PM to the rank-and-file soldiers，ie，right through all the social fabrics） spent 6 months staring at the smiley face of god：

all the while believing that they were UFOs or better，Chinese drones。

http://now.msn.com/planets-jupiter-and-venus-mistaken-for-spy-drones-by-indian-army

 

[nomi007]

hahaha
chinese fever

 

[qwerrty]

that explain a lot why their planes crashes so much. their pilots were chasing after planets and ran out of fuel.

 

[sincity]

It's extraordinary to mistaken 2 planets for the Chinese drone.

 

[Ankit_Pujari]

Its not as if India is the only one who spotted something & identified it wrongly.

What did pakistan wrongly identify the Blackhawk Helicopters used in the Abbotabad raid as? Oh wait, you weren't even able to spot it.

 

[PlanetWarrior]

Rather mistaken planets to be drones than to be mistaken by your "ally in the WoT" to be a band of terrorists and lose 24 soldiers to that mistake ? At least no Chinese soldiers were bombed/shot over this incident. No need to make headlines over it.

 

[AADHAAR]

Its not as if India is the only one who spotted something & identified it wrongly.

What did pakistan wrongly identify the Blackhawk Helicopters used in the Abbotabad raid as? Oh wait, you weren't even able to spot it.

Perhaps PAF did spot them.. but dismissed them as celestial objects.

that explain a lot why their planes crashes so much. their pilots were chasing after planets and ran out of fuel.

okay, so next time don't blame pilot skills or old aircraft.

 

[shuttler]

what a show of stupidity and pettiness combo.

Another indian piece at its best!

indians should cheer about it because it only takes them 6 fogging months and just 329 fogging sightings to find it out!

 

[AADHAAR]

what a show of stupidity and pettiness combo.

Another indian piece at its best!

indians should cheer about it because it only takes them 6 fogging months and just 329 fogging sightings to find it out!

See your earlier posts ... where you were using the same "news" to highlight the "wonderful chinese flying wonders".