Sorry, but it looks like Martin’s fantasies of unmanned aerial drones unleashing Hellfire missiles on naughty local drivers will have to remain flights of fancy. The Fairfax County Police Department said today that despite any readings into its chief’s recent comments about drones patrolling the skies over some suburban counties in the near future, Fairfax County is not planning on obtaining any of the devices for itself.

Speaking Monday on WTOP, Fairfax Police Chief David Rohrer was heard by some to suggest that with the Federal Aviation Administration’s recently released list of counties and agencies—including several Washington suburbs—that have requested to use unmanned drones, Fairfax County was among that group and could soon put the drones to use to conduct traffic patrols from high above, just as neighboring Arlington County currently does.

“Drones will certainly have a purpose and a reason to be in this region in the next, coming years,” Rohrer said in his radio interview. “Just as a standpoint as an alternative for spotting traffic and sending information back to our VDOT Smart Traffic centers, and being able to observe backups.”

But today Fairfax police insist that this should not have implied that those flighty tools of spycraft will soon be hovering over the county. Rohrer, a spokeswoman said unequivocally, was merely commenting on the technology’s emergence in the region.

“The chief never said we were going for them,” Mary Ann Jennings, the communications director for Fairfax police, said. “He was not in any way suggesting that we’re interested in trying for funding or permission to get them or in any way to make any move to try to get them.”

Rohrer, in his WTOP session, posited the drones’ potential use in monitoring traffic. But for now, Jennings told DCist, Fairfax is going to rely on its normal tools of traffic patrol—officers in the field, reports from citizens and highway cameras operated by the Virginia Department of Transportation.