UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE: REALITY VS. FICTION

Scully and Mulder watching UFO's in Deep Throat

September, 10 1993. 
Washington DC.

In the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Headquarters, special agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully investigate The X Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a medical doctor and a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries to debunk his work and thus return him to mainstream cases. 

More information: Mental Floss

Autumn 2016.  
Petworth, England. 

Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are investigating some strange lights which appear in the English sky. Mulder believes they are UFO's, Scully believes they are UAV... 

Churchill and De Havilland Queen Bee drone, 1941

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without a human pilot aboard. UAVs are a component of an unmanned aircraft system (UAS); which include a UAV, a ground-based controller, and a system of communications between the two. 

The flight of UAVs may operate with various degrees of autonomy: either under remote control by a human operator or autonomously by onboard computers. 

Compared to manned aircraft, UAVs were originally used for missions too dull, dirty or dangerous for humans. While they originated mostly in military applications, their use is rapidly expanding to commercial, scientific, recreational, agricultural, and other applications, such as policing, peacekeeping, and surveillance, product deliveries, aerial photography, agriculture, smuggling, and drone racing. 

In 1849 Austria sent unmanned, bomb-filled balloons to attack Venice. UAV innovations started in the early 1900s and originally focused on providing practice targets for training military personnel. UAV development continued during World War I, when the Dayton-Wright Airplane Company invented a pilotless aerial torpedo that would explode at a preset time. More emerged during World War II, used both to train antiaircraft gunners and to fly attack missions. Nazi Germany produced and used various UAV aircraft during the war.  

Nevertheless, they were little more than remote-controlled airplanes until the Vietnam War. The War of Attrition (1967–1970) featured the introduction of UAVs with reconnaissance cameras into combat in the Middle East. In 1973 the U.S. military officially confirmed that they had been using UAVs in Southeast Asia (Vietnam) and in Yom Kippur War. 

Some UAVs saw service in the 1991 Gulf War. UAVs demonstrated the possibility of cheaper, more capable fighting machines, deployable without risk to aircrews. 

CAPECON was a European Union project to develop UAVs, running from 1 May 2002 to 31 December 2005. In 2013 at least 50 countries used UAVs. 

Here, we have the video which discovers the mystery.

More information: The Nation

 It is already clear that, because of advances in technology, 

drones are going to play an increased role in warfare in the years ahead. It is therefore vital that the legal frameworks governing 

their use are robust and internationally recognised. 

Douglas Alexander