[Sundog]

I have read the sources at the link you provided.

My daughter made something like this with her friends, using an original Macintosh and the voltage provided to the picture tube. She did it with wire and tinfoil, and it flew.

I’m still trying to figure out the dimension to this craft, but the vertical wires are very interesting. You might be onto something. Given the 4 different dates and locations, and at least 2 configurations of the thing, it might be self-contained.

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The latest version replaces on of the spars with two short beaver tails with three whiskers each, it looks like an antenna array to me.

They also seem to have added crenelations to the bottom of the center ring, they could be antenna as well, or thrust vectoring?

I suspect it’s a prototype sigint drone/test bed.