Vanessa Alarcon saw them while working at an antiwar rally in
Lafayette Square last month.
"I heard someone say, 'Oh my god, look at those,' " the college
senior from New York recalled. "I look up and I'm like, 'What the
hell is that?' They looked kind of like dragonflies or little
helicopters. But I mean, those are not insects."
Out in the crowd, Bernard Crane saw them, too.
"I'd never seen anything like it in my life," the Washington lawyer
said. "They were large for dragonflies. I thought, 'Is that
mechanical, or is that alive?' "
That is just one of the questions hovering over a handful of similar
sightings at political events in Washington and New York. Some
suspect the insectlike drones are high-tech surveillance tools,
perhaps deployed by the Department of Homeland Security.
