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India tracks Chinese UAVs with out-of-this-world persistence

India: Army 'mistook planets for spy 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.

The Calcutta-based Telegraph quotes military sources as saying the objects violated the LAC (Line of Actual Control) 155 times. So, the army called the Indian Institute of Astrophysics to identify the objects. Only once the objects' movements were noted in relation to the stars were they identified as planets.
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