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| Flying saucer fever grips Iran |
| 2004-04-28 |
| Via Rooters, hat tip Jose Chung TEHRAN - Is Iran about to be invaded by little green men or are the Americans racing through the night sky in spaceships to spy on their arch-foe 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 colourful 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. JACK SCHAFFER: You know what happens to most people after seeing a UFO? MULDER: They experience "missing time." JACK SCHAFFER: Any number of "soft option kills" will do... nerve gas... low frequency infrasound beams... Hell, with high-powered microwaves, you can not only cut enemy communications, you can cook internal organs. MULDER: But abductions? JACK SCHAFFER: Don’t know as much about them. I’m just the pilot. You ever flown a flying saucer? Afterwards, sex seems trite. 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. MAN IN BLACK: Some alien encounters are hoaxes perpetrated by your government to manipulate the public. Some of these hoaxes are intentionally revealed to manipulate the truth-seekers who become discredited if they disclose the deliberately absurd deception. MULDER: Similar things are said about the men in black. That they purposely dress and behave strangely so that if anyone tries to describe an encounter with them, they come off sounding like a lunatic. 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. MAN IN BLACK: Your scientists have yet to discover how neural networks create self-consciousness, let alone how the human brain processes two-dimensional retinal images into the three-dimensional phenomenon known as perception. Yet you somehow brazenly declare seeing is believing? 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. MAN IN BLACK: No other object as been misidentified as a flying saucer more often than the planet Venus. |
| Posted by:Baltic Blog |
| #5 You Jihad Bastard. |
| Posted by: Brew 2004-04-28 11:36:53 PM |
| #4 Agghhhh. They killed Ibn-Kenny! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-04-28 10:10:26 PM |
| #3 Either that, or anal probes are being liberally applied to the black turban crowd. Cue Cartman: "Why does everything this week center around things going into, or coming out of, my ass?!" |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-04-28 10:09:39 PM |
| #2 Shhhhhhhhh Already! Geez, first our joint US/IDF Death Ray and now this! Loose lips, um, feel good! Keep 'em, uh, right where they are! No more talking! You can hum, however, that's kinda different! mumble, mumble... |
| Posted by: .com 2004-04-28 9:59:29 PM |
| #1 I hope that these are Predators or Global Hawks. Either that, or anal probes are being liberally applied to the black turban crowd. |
| Posted by: Tibor 2004-04-28 9:53:20 PM |