This is something completely random I just fell upon but found really interesting. It seems there was a series of UFO sightings in Kuwait at the end of 1978 and it was supposedly the first time UFO’s were sighted in our region. Reports of the sightings were published in newspapers and even the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) got involved. Below are some quotes I got from various places but at the end of the post is a link with a lot more details.
Finally, the investigating committee established by the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research held a press conference on January 23, spurred on, they said, by the Arab Times photograph, to which “The committee attaches special importance….” They admitted that they were “groping in the dark,” and said they could neither confirm nor deny the appearance of UFOs over Kuwait. – The Muffon UFO Journal 1979
Some local wags have made light of the first UFO sightings which came near the end of the long and traditionally exuberant holiday celebrations of Eid-al-Adha. However we have learned recently of an event coincident with one of the UFO sightings which has confounded some of our most level-headed Kuwaiti friends, and may have been what persuaded the GOK to make a serious investigation of the matter. A senior Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) official told us the the “UFO” which first appeared over the northern oil fields seemingly did strange things to KOC’s automatic pumping equipment. This equipment is designed to shut itself down when there is some failure which may seriously damage the petroleum gathering and transmission system and it can only berestarted manually. At the time of the “UFO’s” appearance the pumping system automatically shut itself down and when the “UFO” vanished the system started itself up again. This event was not addressed by the KISR committee report – Message sent by the American Embassy in Kuwait City to the State Department in January 1979
I believe. Check out these two links for more [Link 1] [Link 2]
29 replies on “First UFO sighting in the Arab world was in Kuwait”
Of course we saw UFOs. Like we saw ghosts, jin and aliens/monsters under the sea.
there is another sighting, at the satellite station.
Ever since I was a kid I’ve wanted to be like Mulder. Now all I have a huge porno collection 🙁
Dood..sssh , You risk deportation.
Next thing you want officials knocking on our doors to search for that..
oh no you have a porn collection you’re a threat to our nation aahh oh boo freaking hoo
Any mermaid sighting?
must be the same guy who swore that he saw the Eid’s crescent, turns out it was the poor old man’s grey eyelash ..
Why don’t UFO would never land on Earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q31u7o7VNto
There was a UFO sighting in Jahra around 1996, but they later determined that the guy may have been under the influence of alcohol.
Holy shit, I’ve actually seen something weird in the sky around that time too. It was a like red meteor shower but it wasn’t moving around.. It’s really hard to describe but I’m 100% sure it wasn’t normal.
I saw something very similar to this in 2008 in Salmiya. It looked like large red balls of fire hovering over the sea and then flying towards my window before going up into the sky and off in the distance. Not fireworks or anything similar. Tried to get pictures but wasn’t fast enough. Never did find out what it was.
Any chance you all were high at the time ?
Not that night 🙂
you were having wiithdrawal symptoms then.
Want to know why Americans usually are the ones to see UFO’s? Because the idea is popular in America… Do you see Jinn there?
I saw UFOs every morning watching Grendizer
Is this from Wikileaks?
Most probably they wanted to fill up on gas hence the landing at some oil field. Everyone needs petrol.
probably just a girl in an alien hijab or some turban
Actually, there was a sighting very recently of a small triangular UFO in Kuwait… about four or five months later Gizmodo posted pictures of what is suspected to be a new generation drones that matched the description of what was in Kuwaiti news papers.
I want to believe, (x-files theme song)
guys, it’s the NSA.
I remember how Arab Times reported an alien corpse on the beach and how it was sent to NASA and there was a guy who was abducted and had weird microchips under his skin. Does nobody remember those stories?, it was back in the 90s
you mean Mars Attacks?
There was another one around 82′ maybe, which gained more publicity locally and got first pages on newspapers. It was in Om Al Aish station if I recall correctly.
What were they doing in Kuwait? They usually visit America. I wonder why
There was a sighting in the early 80’s in Failka shortly before sunrise
I saw one about two years ago from my 10th floor apartment in Mangaf. It was a golf ball sized light only cloud high. It made intelligent controlled navigating maneuvers before it disappeared behind a cloud and did not re-appear. This happened on two nights within that one week and I’ve never seen it again.
Did it disappear to the clouds both the time?