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UFO case file · UFO-NUFORC-201823

Baghdad soldier's enormous disc and sky-opening claim

CE1Iraq2007-07-20

Baghdad, Baghdad governorate, Iraq

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Case description

A soldier distributing supplies at night recalled an apparent opening between clouds and part of a large dark disc with white edge lights emerging and withdrawing. The witness described raising both hands and interpreting the experience as a warning, then reporting it to a tactical operations center. No actual message, deliberate contact experiment, beings, or official report is supplied. The account was submitted nineteen years after the estimated event. Source: National UFO Reporting Center, report 201823. This account is a report of claimed observations, not independent confirmation. Visual or radar observation without a narrative establishing beings, abduction, intentional contact, or physical effects. Map position: Approximate locality anchor from GeoNames; not an exact incident coordinate. Original location wording retained.

Recorded details

Local time
02:30
Witnesses
1 - Military
Craft description
Circle
Coordinate precision
Approximate locality anchor from GeoNames; not an exact incident coordinate. Original location wording retained.
Date precision
Approximate or retrospective source date.

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