UFO explodes over tropical island

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Quote:A UFO has exploded in mid-air over a southern Vietnamese island, it's been reported.

The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) said residents of Phu Quoc island, 10 km (6 miles) off the coast of the Cambodian province of Kampot, found shards of grey metal, including one 1.5 metres (1.5 yards) long.

It comes a day after Cambodia's air force retracted a report of a mysterious plane crash.

"The explosion happened at about 8 km (5 miles) above the ground, and perhaps it was a plane, but authorities could not identify whether it was a civil or military aircraft," VNA said in a report headlined "UFO explodes over Phu Quoc Island."

Soldiers were sent out to look for wreckage and survivors, and local authorities contacted airlines in Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand, but received no reports of missing aircraft, the official state news agency added.

Villagers in Kampot said they had heard a loud explosion and had found small chunks of metal near the coastline.

Kung Mony, deputy commander of Cambodia's Air Force, said he had been told of a foreign plane crashing in Kampot province, but later backed off his claims of an aircraft accident.

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/world/article....p;in_page_id=64

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Quote:ey up Outlaws.

just dropping in from conspiracy central. Don't fret I'm not trolling

I remember you have a resident raconteur who resides in Vietnam..Beelzebob

I wondered if much had come up in the Vietnamese press over the story:

A UFO has exploded in mid-air over a southern Vietnamese island, it's been reported.

The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) said residents of Phu Quoc island, 10 km (6 miles) off the coast of the Cambodian province of Kampot, found shards of grey metal, including one 1.5 metres (1.5 yards) long.

It comes a day after Cambodia's air force retracted a report of a mysterious plane crash.

"The explosion happened at about 8 km (5 miles) above the ground, and perhaps it was a plane, but authorities could not identify whether it was a civil or military aircraft," VNA said in a report headlined "UFO explodes over Phu Quoc Island."

Soldiers were sent out to look for wreckage and survivors, and local authorities contacted airlines in Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand, but received no reports of missing aircraft, the official state news agency added.

Villagers in Kampot said they had heard a loud explosion and had found small chunks of metal near the coastline.

Kung Mony, deputy commander of Cambodia's Air Force, said he had been told of a foreign plane crashing in Kampot province, but later backed off his claims of an aircraft accident.


http://www.metro.co.uk/news/world/articl...page_id=64

I haven't found much in the English speaking press out of Vietnam..

and I am in the process of trying to find out if Phu Quoc is anywhere near any of these areas :

Phuoc Dinh commune, Ninh Phuoc district, and Vinh Hai commune, Ninh Hai district, in Ninh Thuan province.

I enjoy reading here.Thanks

I wonder about those areas due to this :
( http://www.vnanet.vn/Home/EN/tabid/119/ite...38/Default.aspx )

just my own musings.

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Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 4:08 pm Post subject: Hmm. The Vietnamese don't believe in UFO's. So I think they just pretented that nothing happened.

There's no room for UFO's in their world view. Ghosts and spirits are very popular though.

A curious thing: Vietnamese burn fake paper dollars for their relatives in the Death Kingdom. So they can buy stuff there and be comfortable. You can also draw pictures of fashionable motorbikes or cars (or buy ready-made pictures) on pieces of paper and then burn them so that your relatives may receive them. And drive around in style in the Death Kingdom traffic.

I've never heard of a Vietnamese having been abducted by a UFO. Or even seen a UFO. But I've read some accounts of G.I's seeing UFO's during the VN war.


Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 10:24 am Post subject: nik -

Oh, it's in the VNese press today:

Vietnam probes mystery ‘UFO’ incident

It’s a mystery puzzling islanders in southern Vietnam: they heard an explosion, saw something burning in the sky, and found shards of metal debris – but quite what it was, nobody knows. A plane? Possibly.

An official in nearby Cambodia reported Tuesday that a small plane had crashed in its southern Kampot province, only to retract his comments later.

But Cambodia’s civil aviation authority said that airlines denied missing any planes and there was no trace of any crash.

Still, the reports from Phu Quoc Island – situated in the southern Vietnamese province of Kien Giang and within sight of Kampot – do point to something, according to military and provincial officials.

The island district’s military chief Colonel Nguyen Van Qui was quoted as saying yesterday that “an unidentified flying object exploded at about 10 a.m. on May 27 over the northern part of Phu Quoc Island.”

When residents found metal debris, district authorities said they contacted airlines in Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand but did not receive immediate news of any missing aircraft by late Tuesday.

“We have informed the Ministry of Defense,” Dinh Khoa Toan, deputy chairman of the island’s People’s Committee, said.

“We expect the ministry will send some experts to clarify whether the metal came from a crashed plane.

“We have collected several metal pieces in various parts of the island.”

Huynh Tan Hung, an official of the People’s Committee of the island’s Ganh Dau Commune, said local people had heard a series of noises, including a loud bang, just after 10 a.m. on Tuesday.

“We all saw something burning in the sky, north of Phu Quoc Island. The fire was in the sky near Cambodian territory. In our commune, we collected one piece of metal, measuring one meter by about 60 centimeters.”

A soldier on duty at the Military Command of Phu Quoc Island, identifying himself as Tuan, said they had received seven metal pieces that were over one meter long from local people.

“We have contacted responsible agencies and we are sure that no Vietnamese planes, civil or military, were flying there at that time,” he said.

“We don’t have sufficient facilities or experts here, so we cannot tell now whether these metal parts came from a plane.”

In Cambodia, Kampot’s deputy police chief In China said villagers reported hearing a “loud explosion,” but that all authorities had been able to find was a “small piece of metal” in the jungle near the coast.

Keo Sivorn, chief of flight operations at Cambodia’s civil aviation body, said no plane had crashed.

http://www.thanhniennews.com/society/?cati...mp;newsid=38889

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make of it what you will..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcCxmbgy9Zg


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VLADIVOSTOK, May 26 (RIA Novosti) - The Varyag, a Russian Slava-class missile cruiser dubbed 'the killer of aircraft carriers,' has started a series of live-firing exercises in the Pacific for the first time since a recent overhaul, a fleet spokesman said Monday.

Varyag, the flagship of the Russian Pacific Fleet, was commissioned in Russia's Pacific Fleet in 1989 and re-entered service in early 2008 following a major refit that lasted almost a year.

"The Varyag's crew is scheduled to conduct a series of live firing drills against ground, surface, and air targets," said Captain 1st Rank Roman Martov.

He said the exercise was aimed at checking the performance of all on-board weapons systems.

"The cruiser is equipped with a powerful array of missile systems, torpedoes and artillery systems," Martov said, adding that NATO experts had dubbed Russian combat ships of this class "the killer of aircraft carriers," as it can carry 1,000kg of high-explosives, or a tactical nuclear warhead out to a range of 300 nautical miles.

The Slava-class missile cruiser was designed as a surface strike ship with some anti-air and ASW capability. The sixteen SS-N-12 Sandbox nuclear-capable supersonic anti-ship missiles are mounted in four pairs on either side of the superstructure, giving the ship a distinctive appearance.

In addition, the cruiser reportedly carries 64 SA-N-6 Grumble long-range surface-to-air missiles (SAM) and 40 SA-N-4 Gecko short-range SAMs.

Two other ships of this class, the Moskva and Marshal Ustinov, are in service with Russia's Black Sea Fleet and Northern Fleet, respectively.



http://en.rian.ru/russia/20080526/108442780.html