Flying Saucers Invade

Reuters via ABCNEWS reports that dozens of flying saucer sightings have been reported in .

According to Reuters:

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 's Supreme National Security Council should investigate whether these visitors from afar had hostile intent.

The head of the Astronomical Society of , 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.

Where is Mulder?

Comments

[Lachlan]

Mulder is pining for Scully and his sister in a dark, poor-lit apartment somewhere, surrounded by papers and dirty dishes.

[Cranial]

Or Usama?

Maybe we have been looking in the wrong place.