Flying Saucer Fever Grips Iran, Theories Abound
Wed Apr 28,12:55 PM ET Add Science - Reuters to My Yahoo!
By Christian Oliver
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Is Iran about to be invaded by little green men or are the Americans racing through the night sky in spaceships to spy on the
Islamic Republic?
Flying saucer fever has gripped Iran after dozens of sightings in the last few days. Fanciful cartoons of alien spacecraft have adorned the front
pages.
State television on Wednesday showed a sparkling white disc it said was filmed over Tehran on Tuesday night.
More colorful Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) have been spotted beaming out green, red, blue and purple rays over the northern cities of Tabriz and
Ardebil and in the Caspian Sea province of Golestan, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Newspapers and agencies reported people rushing out into the streets in eight towns on Tuesday night to watch a bright extraterrestrial light dipping
in and out of the clouds.
An airforce officer in the Revolutionary Guards was quoted in the reformist Vagha-ye Etefaghiyeh daily saying Iran's Supreme National Security
Council should investigate whether these visitors from afar had hostile intent.
But Sa'dollah Nasiri-Qeydari, head of the Astronomical Society of Iran, told Reuters the stories were unfounded.
"In my opinion, flying saucers do not exist," he said, insisting his telescopes would have picked up invaders from outer space.
"The people who have seen these things are not experts - farmers, villagers and pilots," he added.
He said what people reported was consistent with the planet Venus, whose intense light in its current position would be given different hues by being
filtered through the atmosphere.
Sorry had to post it. It does sound like a line from 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' though doesn't it?
Maybe the US Millitary think that
Iran is backward enough to believe they're really UFO's ... Or They really are UFO's coming here to create a Peace alliance with all people's of
the Earth - like that twilight zone episode where all the Nations of Earth finally Create a Peace Alliance only to find out the Alien Beings wanted
the opposite effect.. i forget how it ends but it was very interesting