# UFO may have crashed in Somalia **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 28, 2007, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-may-have-crashed-in-somalia/397808 "2007-03-28T09:22:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-may-have-crashed-in-somalia/397808/1 "2007-03-28T09:22:50Z")
[This is either the best hoax I’ve heard in a while or something really very interesting](http://somalinet.com/news/world/Somalia/8920): > [@](#): > > (SomaliNet) A baffling device which resembles a satellite or Unidentified Flying Object (U.F.O) has landed in a rural area close to Buulo-Burde town, 220km north of the Somalia capital Mogadishu, eyewitnesses told Shabelle radio on Monday. > > [snip] > “In the evening of last Wednesday, a large device flew over us and some time later, we heard a big sound, BAM” said Ilyas Ali, a villager who lives nearby where this large device has fallen. > > Ilyas said in the daylight it glitters and but in the nighttime, it turns lights and speaks a strange language which can’t be understood by the villagers. That last is what makes me doubt this story the most: Why would anything that looks like a satellite talk? I’m guessing this is a hoax, but it’s an amusing one at this hour. Finding any more information on this using Google is futile. A few blogs have picked it up and they all link back to the site I linked to. I hope more comes of this, even if it is all just a put-on. ---
**Author:** ![bat312](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c77e96/32.png) [@bat312](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bat312)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-may-have-crashed-in-somalia/397808/2 "2007-03-28T09:33:20Z")
I hope is was not the moon. ---
**Author:** ![Caterpillar22](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5a626/32.png) [@Caterpillar22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caterpillar22)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-may-have-crashed-in-somalia/397808/3 "2007-03-28T09:35:12Z")
Of course it fell on a camel. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-may-have-crashed-in-somalia/397808/4 "2007-03-28T09:37:38Z")
US spy drone? ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-may-have-crashed-in-somalia/397808/5 "2007-03-28T16:05:47Z")
I think it was Joan Rivers who had a joke saying (paraphrased), “Why is it that none of the UFO sightings are over someplace like Harvard? There’s always out in the boonies and witnessed by a drunken farmer…” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-may-have-crashed-in-somalia/397808/6 "2007-03-28T17:18:43Z")
Sounds like Somalia was hit by a karaoke machine. ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-may-have-crashed-in-somalia/397808/7 "2007-03-28T17:45:21Z")
So people can look at it, report on it, but not take a photo? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-may-have-crashed-in-somalia/397808/8 "2007-03-28T17:51:08Z")
That’ll teach them to try to scam bank account details from space aliens… ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-may-have-crashed-in-somalia/397808/9 "2007-03-28T18:15:21Z")
From the story dated 3/26/07: _Details are emerging in the coming days._ Or perhaps they will not. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-may-have-crashed-in-somalia/397808/10 "2007-03-28T18:18:56Z")
This “strange language” could be ANYTHING people. What do people in Somalia speak anyway? Somali and maybe a little English? On a lighter note, of course we all know it’s probably a weather balloon that crashed b/c of the swamp gas reflecting in Venus 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-may-have-crashed-in-somalia/397808/11 "2007-03-28T18:25:34Z")
Could this be a marketing tool for _The Gods Must Be Crazy, Part 2_? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-may-have-crashed-in-somalia/397808/12 "2007-03-28T18:40:39Z")
[QUOTE=Jackknifed Juggernaut] Could this be a marketing tool for _The Gods Must Be Crazy, Part 2_? [/QUOTE] If it is, they’re [almost twenty years too late.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097443/) ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-may-have-crashed-in-somalia/397808/13 "2007-03-28T18:43:13Z")
[QUOTE=Dinsdale] From the story dated 3/26/07: _Details are emerging in the coming days._ Or perhaps they will not. [/QUOTE] They never said _ **which** _ coming days, did they? ---
**Author:** ![Twoflower](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twoflower/32/22_2.png) [@Twoflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twoflower)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-may-have-crashed-in-somalia/397808/14 "2007-03-28T18:48:40Z")
Camels in a jungle?? Jungle in Somalia?? My BS meter is pinging … ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-may-have-crashed-in-somalia/397808/15 "2007-03-28T19:35:38Z")
Sure, the Somalian Jungle Camel; it has no humps, a prehensile tale and absolutely sucks at _Catch_. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-may-have-crashed-in-somalia/397808/16 "2007-03-28T19:38:50Z")
[QUOTE=Twoflower] Camels in a jungle?? Jungle in Somalia?? My BS meter is pinging … [/QUOTE] Agreed. Camels in Somalia? Could be. Jungle in Somalia? I don’t think so. Perhaps the flying karaoke machine landed in a [mangrove forest](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Somalia) along the coast. (Scroll down on the Wiki page) Until we see a grainy out-of-focus photo of the damned thing, I will remain unconvinced. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-may-have-crashed-in-somalia/397808/17 "2007-03-28T19:40:58Z")
[QUOTE=Count Blucher] That’ll teach them to try to scam bank account details from space aliens… [/QUOTE] No, that’s the other side of the continent. But they can start … Greetings to you. You do not know this person, but I found a crashed camel from space, as you may hyave read in the international news. The driver of the camel from space, who comes from a world many thousands of light parsecs away, left me … ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-may-have-crashed-in-somalia/397808/18 "2007-03-28T19:54:36Z")
[QUOTE=Voyager] No, that’s the other side of the continent. But they can start … Greetings to you. You do not know this person, but I found a crashed camel from space, as you may hyave read in the international news. The driver of the camel from space, who comes from a world many thousands of light parsecs away, left me … [/QUOTE] Wait a minute…there’s something wrong with this R2-Zulu unit… “…Help us Obi-wan-Bin-Laden! You’re our only hope…!” ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-may-have-crashed-in-somalia/397808/19 "2007-03-28T19:56:39Z")
[QUOTE=Count Blucher] Wait a minute…there’s something wrong with this R2-Zulu unit… “…Help us Obi-wan-Bin-Laden! You’re our only hope…!” [/QUOTE] Booooooo! _tosses rotten tomatoes_ You totally bluchered that joke. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-may-have-crashed-in-somalia/397808/20 "2007-03-28T20:30:51Z")
I emailed the author of the article. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-may-have-crashed-in-somalia/397808.md?page=2)