Strange lights, and radio transmissions in Iraq...
Around 2200 hours, about 3 hours after the begining of our shift; I stepped out on the steps of the back door (Which faces West.) to smoke a cigarette.
I saw what at 1st glance seemed to be the star that's discribed on this sight as a usual false sighting, but I realized that the star discribed was in a different part of the sky (I realized this because I like to watch it flash different colors sometimes when I'm looking at the sky.). I belive the star I sometimes watch is more to the Southwest, so it caught my attention.
Immediatly after thinking this, I observed the object to move extreamly rapid for the distance it appeared to be from our position (I am an air traffic controller, so I am aware of "normal", or fighter jet aircraft movment.). I closed my eyes, and shook my head a little to focus on the object to see if my eyes were playing tricks on me, and it continued to move rapidly, change directions instantly, and stop in place.
I called my soldier over to confirm if it was acually moving, and he confirmed. As we watched; another couple of minutes past, and over the tower radio frequency (Our facility monitors the control towers radios.) I heard a broken transmission from what sounded like a pilot that said "...yea, it's a triangle...".
Tower came over the frequency, and told the transmitter to "check freq.", which means your transmitting over our frequency, and your not supposed to. If anyone who's reading this knows anything about aviation radio language, there is nothing anywhere about any triangle that would need to be transmitted to anyone.
I continued to watch the object, using a fixed object placed in my line of sight just below it to ensure myself my eyes weren't tricking me after starring at this thing for a while. It contiued moving irratically, and moving in the same area in the sky for about 30 minutes, and then seemingly dissapeared. It was to far away to make out a shape, but it appeared that depending on the direction of movement, it was emitting different colors (Perhaps different colors on different sides of the object, and depending on what side was facing me; it would show the other colors?) I KNOW, this was not a star.
Around 2200 hours, about 3 hours after the begining of our shift; I stepped out on the steps of the back door (Which faces West.) to smoke a cigarette.
I saw what at 1st glance seemed to be the star that's discribed on this sight as a usual false sighting, but I realized that the star discribed was in a different part of the sky (I realized this because I like to watch it flash different colors sometimes when I'm looking at the sky.). I belive the star I sometimes watch is more to the Southwest, so it caught my attention.
Immediatly after thinking this, I observed the object to move extreamly rapid for the distance it appeared to be from our position (I am an air traffic controller, so I am aware of "normal", or fighter jet aircraft movment.). I closed my eyes, and shook my head a little to focus on the object to see if my eyes were playing tricks on me, and it continued to move rapidly, change directions instantly, and stop in place.
I called my soldier over to confirm if it was acually moving, and he confirmed. As we watched; another couple of minutes past, and over the tower radio frequency (Our facility monitors the control towers radios.) I heard a broken transmission from what sounded like a pilot that said "...yea, it's a triangle...".
Tower came over the frequency, and told the transmitter to "check freq.", which means your transmitting over our frequency, and your not supposed to. If anyone who's reading this knows anything about aviation radio language, there is nothing anywhere about any triangle that would need to be transmitted to anyone.
I continued to watch the object, using a fixed object placed in my line of sight just below it to ensure myself my eyes weren't tricking me after starring at this thing for a while. It contiued moving irratically, and moving in the same area in the sky for about 30 minutes, and then seemingly dissapeared. It was to far away to make out a shape, but it appeared that depending on the direction of movement, it was emitting different colors (Perhaps different colors on different sides of the object, and depending on what side was facing me; it would show the other colors?) I KNOW, this was not a star.
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Tikrit (Iraq)
Iraq
approx.30 min.
approx.30 min.
unknown
Occurred : 4/30/2006 22:00 (Entered as : 04/30/06 22:00) Reported: 4/30/2006 2:28:23 PM 14:28 Posted: 5/15/2006 Location: Tikrit (Iraq), Shape: Unknown Duration: approx.30 min. Characteristics: There were lights on the object, The object changed color, There were aircraft in the vicinity or aircraft chasing the object
Strange lights, and radio transmissions in Iraq...