"An UFO-related incident that occurred four years ago poses
a troubling question whether any kind of cooperation is
possible between Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and
extraterrestrials," says Joseph Trainor of
UFO Roundup. "On
December 16, 1998, during Operation Desert Fox against Iraq,
a video clip aired on CNN showed a UFO hovering over
Baghdad; it moved away to avoid a stream of tracer anti-
aircraft fire. At that time we all thought it was another UFO
sighting, although captured on videotape. But now, ufologists
think it was much more than a mere incident." This may be
Iraq's version of Roswell, where the report of a crashed UFO
in New Mexico in July, 1947 was first announced, then denied
by the U.S. government. When we invade Iraq, will we
discover Saddam's been hiding a crashed UFO?
There's other unsubstantiated information about UFOs in Iraq.
On June 20, 1993, FIDOnet?s MUFONET BBS network, "Steve"
from the U.K. wrote, "The following information was published
in Amateur Radio Packet BBS on June 13 by some short-wave
transmitter for spreading all over the world. I know nothing
about the man who published the information, I also cannot
say whether his information is true. The man reported that
some aircraft was found after it was brought down by F-16
over Saudi Arabia during raids in Baghdad."
The report says, "A high-ranking source admitted that US Air
Force?s F-16 brought down a UFO over Saudi Arabia during
the Operation Desert Storm, and five countries are trying to
conceal information about this fact. I don't know details, but
it was some plane unknown to me. Saudis who were with me
at that moment, were scared so much that they asked
American, British and French investigators to come to the
crash site immediately."
The newspaper Pravda reports that Russian Colonel Petrokov
was in Saudi Arabia at the time and says he saw the crash
site before American troops from Desert Storm got there. He
says, "The aircraft was round and made of some material that
I never saw myself. About one third of the craft was torn out
by blasts of American missiles. Saudis didn't let us touch
anything, but we managed to see appliances, mechanisms
and other things that bewildered us absolutely.
"It was a relatively small craft, of approximately 15 feet in
diameter. It had three chairs, probably for crew members, but
they were so small as if meant for children. To all
appearance, space aliens were just about three feet tall.
However, it seems incredible that there were no dead bodies
at the crash site; what is more, nothing that might look like
an engine was found there as well. Probably American missiles
hit the engine immediately and destroyed it. Later, operators
of Saudi radar stations told me that no ejection or falling of
some subjects out of the craft was registered. Searching
helicopters surveyed the desert, but the pilots failed to find
any surviving crew member close to the crash site."
When the UFO was spotted heading for Baghdad, an
American plane chased it and fired a missile at it, causing the
UFO to crash. Petrokov says that when American
investigators arrived at the crash site, he was ordered to
leave. He says, "American military engineers gathered all
wreckage and removed them for further study in the USA."
His team took pictures of the site, but these were
confiscated by Russian authorities.
Arab reporter Mohammed Daud al-Hayyat says, "There are
talks about extraterrestrials in Iraq, but nothing is said about
any crash. It is rumored at a market in Sulaimaniya, to the
south of Zarzi, that aliens are Saddam?s guests. Where do
they stay then? People mention some underground base. But
Saddam has a palace in this valley, an old stronghold Qalaat-
e-Julundi. Earlier it belonged to the royal family. After the
revolution, the government took possession of the fortress,
and now, like every palace in Iraq it is 'a summer residence' of
Saddam Hussein. The fortress is mentioned here for a very
simple reason: it is practically impossible to penetrate into it.
The citadel stands on a hill surrounded with vertical
precipices on three sides; the precipices plunge down to the
Little Zab river. It is said that Saddam lets aliens stay there."
Another reporter, Mohammed Hajj al-Amdar, says, "Saddam
gave the aliens sanctuary, so that they couldn't be captured
by Americans. Nobody can reach the citadel Qalaat-e-Julundi
at night. They say that the aliens created 'watchdogs' for
Saddam. The aliens took ordinary desert scorpions and used
their bio-engineering to grow the scorpions to giant size.
Scorpions of a cow-size! They are wonderful watchdogs:
they blend in with the desert, swiftly and silently move on
their warm-blooded prey for a decisive attack. Luckless
intruders hear just some strange sound from behind stones,
then a pincer crushes their necks, another pincer crushes
their legs; then the victims is slammed to the ground and
beaten with a barbed tail six or seven times. Death comes
almost immediately."
These sound like rumors started by Saddam in order to scare
people away from Qalaat-e-Julundi. Maybe they're making
weapons there? Perhaps the U.S. government should pay
more attention to UFO reports.
According to Richard Dolan, the government pays plenty of
attention to
UFOs?they just don't tell us anything about them.
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