The response confirmed the earlier information: No other aircraft had flown anywhere near the Black Hawks at any time during their mission.
In March 1991, shortly after most hostilities had ceased, two American soldiers in the desert about 50 miles from the Euphrates River spotted something odd in the sky.
According to the story on UFOcasebook.com, it was after midnight, and the soldiers were on guard duty, looking out for any die-hard Iraqis who might want to attack their bivouacked army unit. As it was, the unit was only partially hidden by a couple of sand dunes, so everyone was on alert. Still, as all of the Coalition bombing had ended the day before, for the first time in a long while, the night was actually quiet.
Suddenly, the two soldiers spotted a greenish ball of light high in the sky. It moved very slowly, pulsating at times, heading for the horizon. The soldiers had no idea what it was.
Moments later, their sergeant happened upon the scene. They pointed out the UFO to him, but he had no idea what it was, either. The soldiers radioed their headquarters to see if any fighter jets or commercial flights would be flying over their position. They were told no.
Still watching the UFO, the men were again astonished when the object suddenly accelerated to tremendous speed. When that happened, everything for miles around was lit up in the same greenish light. One soldier compared it to a hundred cars suddenly turning on their headlights at once. And with that, the object was over the horizon and gone.
The soldiers called their headquarters to see if any Scud missiles had been fired or if there had been any reports of planes crashing. But they were told nothing unusual had happened that night.
The next morning, about two hundred Iraqi soldiers surrendered to the American unit, eagerly giving up their weapons in the process.
Whether the Iraqis had also seen the UFO, and whether it had an effect on their surrender, was not known.
Another incident after the end of hostilities happened in the northern city of Zahko, Iraq.
According to a story found on www.rense.com a unit of American paratroopers had set up camp in a partially blasted-out building near the center of the city. The paratroopers would frequently sleep on the roof of this building, as it was cooler in the hot Iraqi nights.
One such night, a paratrooper was looking for satellites going over in the clear, starry sky, when he noticed a strange light. He thought he’d found a satellite at first, but then, inexplicably, whatever it was suddenly stopped in midorbit. It stayed motionless for a few moments, then resumed moving again.
Convinced that his eyes were playing tricks on him, the paratrooper mentioned it to one of his fellow soldiers. He asked him to watch the object as well. And at first this soldier thought it was a satellite, too — until it stopped in mid-flight again.
For the next few minutes, the two soldiers watched the object, as it would move north, stop for a few moments, then resume crossing the sky. Even stranger, anytime the object would stop, the sky around it would almost explode in brightness, the object getting brighter than the brightest star in the sky, before becoming so dim, it would almost disappear.
The first trooper finally yelled to the others in his unit, and soon up to two dozen paratroopers were watching as the object went through a series of elaborate maneuvers including slow deliberate circles and figure eights.
The sighting ended when the object stopped in the middle of a figure eight, hung motionless for a moment and then rocketed off to the northeast faster, as one witness put it, than the human eye could keep up with it.
When it comes to UFO sightings in wartime, this handful of eyewitness accounts above doesn’t seem any less plausible than any other episodes presented so far.
But a trio of other incidents, though of dubious authenticity, persist when it comes to UFO lore, the first Gulf War and beyond.
One maintains that U.S Navy ships patrolling the Persian Gulf during the war shot down a UFO. This supposedly highly classified shoot down happened during daylight hours on January 24, 1991, just a week after the hostilities had begun.
As the story goes, the unidentified flying object was first picked up on radar by a host of navy ships supporting the allied combat operations in the upper gulf. According to its radar tracks, the object was flying in a very bizarre manner and outside the realm of even the most high-tech Coalition warplane. Crews of the ships involved quickly acquired the object visually, describing it as saucer shaped, chromium plated and emitting a high-pitched piercing sound.
The object flew close to a group of American ships, including the USS Wisconsin, USS England and USS O’Brien. Then it buzzed a pair of British frigates, the HMS Battleaxe and HMS Jupiter, as well.
All five vessels fired on the object, nearly expending their ammunition before the combined barrage had any effect. The object was finally hit and was seen going down into the gulf.
But there are no reports of any wreckage ever being found.
The second incident involves an F-16 fighter jet dogfighting and then shooting down a UFO over Saudi Arabia at the height of the war.
The principal purveyor of this episode is a shadowy Russian colonel worthy of a James Bond novel. The Russian officer just happened to be in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, when the shoot-down episode took place. He claimed to be one of the first people to know the location of the UFO’s crash site, which was deep in the Saudi desert, some 250 miles northeast of Riyadh.
Saudi radar technicians told the Russian officer the details of the air battle. Four U.S. Air Force F-16s were on a mission to Baghdad when an unidentified blip appeared on their radar screens. As the Saudi technicians watched, one of the F-16s left the formation and started chasing the UFO. The UFO changed directions in an attempt to escape, but the F-16 continued in pursuit. The UFO then apparently fired a weapon at the F-16 but missed. The F-16 returned fire with two missiles — and both hit the craft. The UFO went down in flames.
The Saudis said no one was seen ejecting from the stricken craft. But even though helicopters scoured the area over the crash site, no bodies or survivors were found.
The Russian colonel said the United States immediately tried to cover up the incident, saying it never happened. But upon reaching the crash site and seeing the wreckage for himself, the Russian knew it was not from any known earthly aircraft. He estimated about one third of the object had been destroyed by the American missiles, leaving the rest scattered on the desert floor.
The colonel described the downed craft as having been circular and built of some unrecognizable material. It was about 15 feet long and, judging by the seats within, built for someone, or something, of small stature. The Russian says he saw instruments, machinery and other things that defied description. This included markings on the instrument panels that were written in some indecipherable language. The Saudis who accompanied him to the crash site were so frightened by the strange debris, and what it might mean, they requested that American investigators come to the crash site immediately.
When the U.S. military finally arrived, the colonel said he and his men were immediately ordered out of the area. They were eventually flown back to Riyadh.
The colonel was reported to have said: “There were things the Americans didn’t want us to see.”
And though his men were able to surreptitiously take photographs of the UFO’s wreckage, the next day, the colonel was ordered by authorities from his own country to turn over all photos of the crash site to them.