Clutch Munny
05-08-2007, 03:36 AM
American defense contractors believed that a commemorative Canadian quarter was a spy device. (http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/070507/K050723AU.html) I mean, why not?
One contractor believed someone had placed two of the quarters in an outer coat pocket after the contractor had emptied the pocket hours earlier. "Coat pockets were empty that morning and I was keeping all of my coins in a plastic bag in my inner coat pocket," the contractor wrote.
Under close examination, the coins have some sort of, um, stuff on them.
"It did not appear to be electronic (analog) in nature or have a power source," wrote one U.S. contractor, who discovered the coin in the cup holder of a rental car. "Under high power microscope, it appeared to be complex consisting of several layers of clear, but different material, with a wire-like mesh suspended on top."
Natural conclusion? Without being electronic or having a power source, these 30 million coins were "radio frequency transmitters"!
The confidential accounts led to a sensational warning from the Defense Security Service, an agency of the Defense Department, that mysterious coins with radio frequency transmitters were found planted on U.S. contractors with classified security clearances on at least three separate occasions between October 2005 and January 2006 as the contractors travelled through Canada.
Further evidence that the Canada-USA border is the world's longest one-way mirror.
http://www.allnationsstampandcoin.com/images/news/poppy.jpg
One contractor believed someone had placed two of the quarters in an outer coat pocket after the contractor had emptied the pocket hours earlier. "Coat pockets were empty that morning and I was keeping all of my coins in a plastic bag in my inner coat pocket," the contractor wrote.
Under close examination, the coins have some sort of, um, stuff on them.
"It did not appear to be electronic (analog) in nature or have a power source," wrote one U.S. contractor, who discovered the coin in the cup holder of a rental car. "Under high power microscope, it appeared to be complex consisting of several layers of clear, but different material, with a wire-like mesh suspended on top."
Natural conclusion? Without being electronic or having a power source, these 30 million coins were "radio frequency transmitters"!
The confidential accounts led to a sensational warning from the Defense Security Service, an agency of the Defense Department, that mysterious coins with radio frequency transmitters were found planted on U.S. contractors with classified security clearances on at least three separate occasions between October 2005 and January 2006 as the contractors travelled through Canada.
Further evidence that the Canada-USA border is the world's longest one-way mirror.
http://www.allnationsstampandcoin.com/images/news/poppy.jpg