The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Méridional, France, page 21, on November 13, 1978.
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An "unidentified flying object" (UFO) landed close to Kuwait City in the night from last Thursday to last Friday, before taking off seven minutes later, the morning Kuwait Press reports.
According to the daily newspapers "Al-Qabas", and "Al-Watan", the landing of the UFO, having from far the aspect of a dazzling mass of light, near a satellites' listening station located at approximately 50 km in the east of the capital, took place under the eyes of the employees of the station and the Kuwait oil company, nearby.
Arrived on the spot, four employees of the company, including an American citizen, managed to see at a distance of 250 meters, a discoidal object of the size of a "JumboJet", with a retractable front landing gear and surmounted of a kind of cupola at the top, from which a red light shone, the whole bathed of powerful lights, the Press writes.
The attempts of the witnesses to contact the ministry for the Interior, the newspapers report, were useless. All telephone calls and radio being cut in the area during the seven minutes of presence of the UFO on the Kuwait ground. Suddenly, the strange object took off verticaly and at vertiginous speed, they add.
