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Congress authorizes feds to ‘disrupt’ drones, worrying civil libertarians

By Steven Nelson
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Congress authorizes feds to ‘disrupt’ drones, worrying civil libertarians

J.C. Buehler was 3,000 feet above an Indiana farm field when he saw the drone. It didn’t appear on his single-propeller airplane’s systems, and he almost didn’t see it about 1,000 feet away.

Buehler was working as a Federal Aviation Administration examiner certifying a new pilot, who noticed the drone first. Neither knew what it was doing or whether it was legal.

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