UFO case file · UFO-NUFORC-201823
Baghdad soldier's enormous disc and sky-opening claim
Baghdad, Baghdad governorate, Iraq
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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.