I used to laugh at the 'birds aren't real' thing, but a friend showed me something that made me pause

For years, I thought it was just a silly meme making fun of other conspiracies. Then my buddy, who's an electrical engineer, pointed out a weird detail. He showed me a photo of a 'dead bird' he found near a cell tower in Phoenix, and inside was a tiny bundle of wires and a lens, no bones. He said it looked like a cheap, broken drone. I did some digging and found a 2015 patent from a defense contractor for a 'biomimetic aerial vehicle' that matches the description. Now I'm not saying all birds are fake, but it makes you wonder what else gets written off as a joke. Has anyone else seen hard proof of these 'drones' that isn't just a photoshop?

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finleyh8917d ago

My crew found a dead pigeon on a job site roof once. We poked it with a ladder and a cracked plastic shell came loose, full of little metal bits. Called the property manager, he said it was leftover from some student film project shot there months before. People leave weird junk everywhere. Check if there's a film school or a tech company nearby that does prototypes.

barbara_campbell20d ago

Look, that "dead bird" your friend found was almost certainly a prop from a movie or a prank kit. You can buy fake taxidermy birds with that exact cheap wiring online. The patent is real, but it's for military spy drones, not proof they've replaced all robins. It's a classic conspiracy move, taking a real but niche thing and blowing it up to explain everything.

vera68120d ago

My neighbor's kid brought home a "bird" that fell in their yard last spring. It was a starling, but its wing was split open. Inside was just this little gray box and some copper strands, like thin wires. No blood, no feathers stuck to anything. They put it in a shoebox, but by morning it was gone. Just an empty box on the back porch. Always gave me a chill.