Gaylon Murphy and Steve Zingali of Orange County, CA, designed and build 3-foot remote control flying saucers and buzz them around town, sometimes scaring the locals into calling the cops.
Nick Peterson was stunned when he saw one of the disks fly past his girlfriend's upstairs apartment."I thought, that can't be a UFO, can it?" he said. "It's pretty weird."
The disks are made of foam and weigh about a pound. Each runs on a 7.4-volt lithium battery and has a propeller.
On weekends, Murphy flies the disks in Aliso Viejo, Newport Beach, Mission Viejo and Laguna Niguel.
He and Zingali, a facilities engineer and Mission Viejo resident, have sold four of the gizmos at $1,000 each and concede that their streaking light show is part hobby, part promotion.
