# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![enigm4tic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@enigm4tic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enigm4tic)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-may-have-crashed-in-somalia/397808/21 "2007-03-28T20:35:44Z")
> [@](#): > > killing one camel. My bet says that some juvenile aliens were having a drunken bet on whether or not one of them could hit a single camel from just outside the orbit of Saturn (probably they caused that hexagonal storm too), and they chose to throw the inter-steller equivalent of a [Yak-Bak](http://www.optigan.com/yakbak.html) at us. ---
**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, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-may-have-crashed-in-somalia/397808/22 "2007-03-28T20:38:07Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] If it is, they’re [almost twenty years too late.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097443/) [/QUOTE] Wow. I totally missed THAT sequel. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-may-have-crashed-in-somalia/397808/23 "2007-03-28T20:42:28Z")
> [@](#): > > My bet says that some juvenile aliens were having a drunken bet on whether or not one of them could hit a single camel from just outside the orbit of Saturn (probably they caused that hexagonal storm too), and they chose to throw the inter-steller equivalent of a Yak-Bak at us. Heck, we used to dive-bomb WompRats in Beggar’s Canyon – they’re not much bigger than camels. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-may-have-crashed-in-somalia/397808/24 "2007-03-28T20:53:42Z")
[QUOTE=Jackknifed Juggernaut] Wow. I totally missed THAT sequel. [/QUOTE] While it was tolerable, it was a step down from the first one. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-may-have-crashed-in-somalia/397808/25 "2007-03-28T21:12:10Z")
Kind of sounds like Black Hawk Down. Did the locals kill the aliens and loot their spacecraft? ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-may-have-crashed-in-somalia/397808/26 "2007-03-28T21:15:31Z")
[QUOTE=Hampshire] Kind of sounds like Black Hawk Down. Did the locals kill the aliens and loot their spacecraft? [/QUOTE] 😃 ---
**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, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-may-have-crashed-in-somalia/397808/27 "2007-03-28T21:23:04Z")
Interesting. They’ve decoded it. > [@](#): > > My name is Barrister dfsers sduity ysdyaxsyay, the reason I have contacted your this time is my late good friend husband from zabysystsys passed away leaving two hundred million blatzycitis (MZ) … That’s all they have so far… ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-may-have-crashed-in-somalia/397808/28 "2007-03-28T23:22:23Z")
[QUOTE=Jackknifed Juggernaut] Could this be a marketing tool for _The Gods Must Be Crazy, Part 2_? [/QUOTE] I had that joke _all lined up_ and ready right then and there! You suck! :mad: 😉 ---
**Author:** ![lokij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@lokij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lokij)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-may-have-crashed-in-somalia/397808/29 "2007-03-29T04:51:31Z")
[QUOTE=The Chao Goes Mu] 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: [/QUOTE] The extreme southern tip of Somalia bordering Kenya is heavily forested jungle. In fact, that area is extremely active right now because it is the latest refuge of the Islamic Courts who are fleeing from Ethiopian forces. The story is suspect, but not because of the mention of the word ‘jungle’. ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-may-have-crashed-in-somalia/397808/30 "2007-03-29T05:25:57Z")
This is clearly an Eritrean/communist satellite failure. Not a big deal. The aliens will certainly start their invasion at the [Diomede Islands](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diomede_Islands). That way they get two huge superpowers to eliminate each other. China and India would be the next two countries to be convinced to nuke the rest of the world. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-may-have-crashed-in-somalia/397808/31 "2007-03-29T11:17:39Z")
"Aw, _Marklar…"_😃 ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-may-have-crashed-in-somalia/397808/32 "2007-03-29T11:22:25Z")
Three days have gone by and nobody has greeted our new alien overlords? 😕 Sheesh - before you know it they’ll go home in a huff and once again there will be nothing to investigate at a UFO site. :rolleyes: ---
**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 29, 2007, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-may-have-crashed-in-somalia/397808/33 "2007-03-29T14:04:46Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia] I had that joke _all lined up_ and ready right then and there! You suck! :mad: 😉 [/QUOTE] I should’ve waited to post it until 7:21. Damn! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-may-have-crashed-in-somalia/397808/34 "2007-03-29T14:16:43Z")
No word from the author of the article. ---
**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 29, 2007, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-may-have-crashed-in-somalia/397808/35 "2007-03-29T21:26:15Z")
[QUOTE=glee] Three days have gone by and nobody has greeted our new alien overlords? 😕 Sheesh - before you know it they’ll go home in a huff and once again there will be nothing to investigate at a UFO site. :rolleyes: [/QUOTE] I was expecting at least one “All your Basenji are belong to us” …and **Autolycus** it should have been ‘Obi Wan Mugabe’ ---
**Author:** ![Translucent\_Daydream](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/translucent_daydream/32/16170_2.png) [@Translucent\_Daydream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Translucent_Daydream)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-may-have-crashed-in-somalia/397808/36 "2007-03-29T21:59:21Z")
I can’t wait until they interview the aliens. I have been dying to know what happens when you actually beat Galliga. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2007, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-may-have-crashed-in-somalia/397808/37 "2007-03-30T07:59:53Z")
How can it resemble an Unidentified Flying Object anyway, without us first identifying what those look like? ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2007, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-may-have-crashed-in-somalia/397808/38 "2007-03-30T09:53:20Z")
[QUOTE=Count Blucher] I was expecting at least one “All your Basenji are belong to us” [/quote] I told that joke 🙂 … once, in 1962, for 20 minutes! ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2007, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-may-have-crashed-in-somalia/397808/39 "2007-03-30T11:16:03Z")
[QUOTE=Count Blucher] I was expecting at least one “All your Basenji are belong to us” [/QUOTE] Yeah, but that’s one of these “dog that didn’t bark” propositions, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2007, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-may-have-crashed-in-somalia/397808/40 "2007-03-30T11:28:39Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra] Yeah, but that’s one of these “dog that didn’t bark” propositions, isn’t it? [/QUOTE] Only if someone’s burning it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-may-have-crashed-in-somalia/397808.md?page=1)