UFO Video Raises a Fuss in Turkey

Objects spotted near Istanbul during 4-month stretch 'serious challenge to science'

By Harry Kimball, Newser Staff

Posted Oct 21, 2008 4:51 PM CDT

(Newser) – Video taken of strange objects in the night sky over Turkey has been deemed authentic—well, at least by UFO researchers. A night watchman shot the video over multiple nights earlier this year, and it shows hovering craft and strange constellations of lights, the Sun reports. A self-described expert who verified the tape says “physical forms of UFOs and their metallic structures are clearly noticeable.”

What’s more, the researcher said, “in the close-up of some footages of the objects, entities in them can be distinctly made out.” The institute that carried out the verification (for the record, it's the Sirius UFO Space Science Research Centre in Turkey) said no fakery or computer animation was involved. The man who turned in the two-hour tape was overjoyed. “I was very excited when I saw them and I want the world to know that UFOs do exist.”

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A sketch of a British sighting. (AP Photo)

The shots were captured by night guard Yalcin Yalman in a compound in Turkey earlier this year. (ZzTheTruthzZ)

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