Kuwait · 1978-11 (sightings); 1979-01-23 (committee press conference)
Umm Aish and the northern oil fields, 1978
Scientific contextA national science institute convened a formal committee, then told the press it was groping in the dark, while a US embassy cable recorded that automated oil pumping equipment shut itself down during the sighting and restarted when the object left.
- Where
- Umm Aish and the northern oil fields
- When
- 1978-11 (sightings); 1979-01-23 (committee press conference)
- Who reported it
- Kuwait Oil Company personnel and other observers; numbers not established
- Entities described
- None reported
- Handled as
- INVESTIGATED / UNRESOLVED
- Evidence class
- SCI-2
The record
An official file preserves that a report was made and examined. It does not, by itself, establish what was seen.
UNKNOWN
No document is attached yet. The retrieval is open work.
What is not settled
The electromagnetic-effect detail is the whole value of the case and it is exactly the detail the KISR committee did not address; it reaches us through a US embassy cable, second-hand. KISR neither confirmed nor denied anything, so nothing was concluded. A pumping-station trip has abundant mundane causes. PRIORITY: pull the January 1979 Kuwait City cable from NARA/AAD.