Perhaps what they saw, those hard-drinking miners (they load sixteen tons and what do they get? Another day older and deeper in debt) was a drone coming or going from a pass over the Greenbrier Hotel where Dick Cheney is said to have practically lived during his vice presidency (for national security reasons). In my ignorance, and my 99 percenter's view of what West Virginny is like, I imagined The Greenbrier as a quaint,redbrick hotel in Beckley with a titanium-lined bunker in the sub-basement where Dick sipped Rolling Rock beer and polished his, er, um, hunting rifle. Later I found out The Greenbrier is an extensive and exclusive retreat and playground for the rich and snooty that makes the whole of Switzerland look stupid. Yes, they have golf, and yes, they have some very nice bunkers - perhaps the best in the world even. So it would not be odd if they also had a drone service that passes over the state's coal-mining regions when it has to poop.