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Not just possibly real experimental aircraft and flocks of birds and balloons and just regular airplanes and when you go out there, i go out to the desert. when you go out there at dusk, it's spooky and you can see a long way and things reflect high in the atmosphere like birds, for example. it's hard to tell what's going on at dusk. you can imagine all the experimental test flights that are going on out there and people seeing things, but what are they seeing? so, again, if it's not clear what it is, we're not comfortable with just saying, i don't know and leave it at that. we have to fill it...

Levels. investigators believe someone broke into the plant last friday. and tiny robots called quad rotors told big promise in the future. in time the technology in these autonomous mini aircraft could be used for surveillance, and it actually may save lives. we took a trip to the university of pennsylvania to check them out in this edition of technovation. they navigate through windows, fly in formation and take off and land with ease. and these tiny unmanned aerial vehicles called quad rotors are doing it on their own. >> this is a robot that completely is autonomous. and by that i mean th...

Which was by design of course. branson said the whole thing could not have gone more smoothly. after a few more test flights, a longer duration of course, branson said it should be ready to take passengers into space later this year. >> that is pretty cool because you hear talk about it, but talk is talk. you see that thing in the air, wow, some day, not so far in the future, this is going to be a reality. >> right. apparently space ship ii you saw hit mach 1.2 yesterday. that's just over 913 miles in case you want to do the math. pretty fast. who knows how much it takes to get into space, but...

National suicide. >> white house officials believe the threats are more tactical than a real move toward war. nobody knows for sure. jonathan karl, abc news, the white house. boeing says it is halfway to getting the troubled dreamliner jumbo jets back in the air. they conducted several test flights of the revamped battery system. certification test flight could take place today. a key step toward getting faa approval for them to fly again, all 50 of the next generation passenger jets were grounded in january because of batteries on two of them overheated. political and economic leaders wat...

Shame on us if we've forgotten. >> documents released yesterday showed adam lanza showed up practically armed for war, with high powered weapons, and a shut gun. he killed 20 children and six adults in less than five minutes. black smoke seen for miles around las vegas, coming from the key largo casino. more than 100 firefighters had to try to get it under control. a couple of them were hurt. nothing too serious, though, and no word yet on how this blaze broke out. the key largo has not seen any action in eight years. it was supposed to be torn down to make way for condos. those plans fell t...