# Why did the U.S. spy drone just-captured-by-Iran appeared on primetime tv nearly one year ago.

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**Created:** [December 18, 2011, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-u-s-spy-drone-just-captured-by-iran-appeared-on-primetime-tv-nearly-one-year-ago/606683 "2011-12-18T22:57:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![andrea\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecccb3/32.png) [@andrea\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrea_green)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-u-s-spy-drone-just-captured-by-iran-appeared-on-primetime-tv-nearly-one-year-ago/606683/1 "2011-12-18T22:57:10Z")

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Please see[http://i.imgur.com/SZo9i.jpg](http://i.imgur.com/SZo9i.jpg)

Is this not the same unmanned drone that Iran has been making such a big hoopla about recently?

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**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-u-s-spy-drone-just-captured-by-iran-appeared-on-primetime-tv-nearly-one-year-ago/606683/2 "2011-12-18T22:59:14Z")

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> [@andrea\_green](#):
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> Is this not the same unmanned drone that Iran has been making such a big hoopla about recently?

No, I think it’s a vacuum cleaner.

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**Author:** ![coremelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@coremelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coremelt)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-u-s-spy-drone-just-captured-by-iran-appeared-on-primetime-tv-nearly-one-year-ago/606683/3 "2011-12-18T23:01:40Z")

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No thats a closeup of the cockpit section of a B-2:  
[![](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:B-2_Spirit_original.jpg) ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:B-2_Spirit_original.jpg)

Even if it was a picture of a RQ-170 that wouldn’t prove anything one way or the other. The RQ-170 has been photographed in Afghanistan for several years and speculative renderings existed.