‘Flying Aliens’ Harassing Village in Peru Are Actually Illegal Miners With Jetpacks, Cops Say
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Aliens sounds more believable than that
I was thinking the same thing. Even in Dubai they barely use them and now you're telling me it's a common commodity for illegal miners in Peru. Ya right.
The miners are not Peruvian nationals. It takes a lot of capital to sneak into the Peruvian jungle and start mining.
I'm a bit dubious about the jetpacks but the rest - that miners are trying to scare Indigenous locals - is legit, and it's far from the first time this has happened.
Obviously they doesn't want sand to get everywhere in Dubai.
I've never even seen one in practical use in Dubai. The most I've seen are prototypes of lab designs.
Miners with jetpacks sounds like something straight out of a Commodore 64 game
Commercial jetpacks are available for some time now, there are even jetpack attractions.
You keep saying that like you expect us to believe you...
Hope they crash and get nursed back to health by the indigenous people, undergo a spiritual awakening, and lead a violent uprising against the mining company.
I think this could make a great movie!
We could call it Fern Gully: Origins and make it a realistic CGI with expressionless talking animals (and whoever is doing the work of Robin Williams and Tim Curry these days but worse).
Oh, it's just miners with jetpacks... Wait, wtf?!
Commercial jetpacks are available for some time now, there are even jetpack attractions.
Miners are the last people in my mind that would use jetpacks. I mean, they're usually deep underground, right?
Not when they're harassing villagers obviously
I feel like underground mines are more and more a thing of thr past, I have seen many an operating surface mine but only old mines that were converted to attractions.
Not quite as fantastical as aliens, but miners with jetpacks sounds sci-fi as fuck.
Miners not minors!
(speaking of scifi...)
Great movie and a fantastic reference
Commercial jetpacks are available for some time now, there are even jetpack attractions.
I wish I was a flying miner pretending to be an alien so that I could harass villagers in Peru. That would be so awesome.
Rock and Stone!
RnD really outdid themselves with the new rocket boots.
Hypothesis: Attacks were just regular miners without jetpacks, but the villagers knew the cops wouldn't do shit about them getting attacked or kidnapped.
A bunch of rich white UFO-seekers livestreaming via satellite uplink and getting footage of it on the other hand would be far too hot for the police to bury. Plus some bonus tourist income.
It's never aliens, unfortunately.
Aliens make more sense than ilegal miners flying in jetpacks.
I'm doubting either explanation in this case.
I think this might be the first time that the official explanation is less believable than the conspiracy.
For the jetpack doubters (I was one too), someone posted this link on slashdot. Scroll down a bit and you'll see a picture of a girl who snapped a picture on her phone of what is very clearly a guy in a jetpack of some kind. The theory is the miners use them to scout new locations to see if enough minerals are present to clear a road to them.
The cops were watching Scooby Doo, and were like "Yes, lets go with that".
I thought Vice.com went under.
What a genius getaway vehicle.
CJ agrees.