Wednesday, January 10, 2007
 

Eyewitnesses told the Fars News Agency (FNA) that a radiant UFO had crashed in the Barez Mounts of Kerman on Wednesday morning. 
Abulghassem Nasrollahi, the Deputy General of the Kerman province in Iran told the news agency that all the aircraft in the area had been accounted for, but did not rule out the possibility that the object could be a meteor. 
Another source also told the FNA that the object was on fire with thick smoke coming from it, and claimed that this implied the object was not a meteor. However, meteors appear as bright fireballs in the sky, as they are heated to high temperatures due largely to ram pressure as they fall at high speeds through the Earth's atmosphere. Meteors often burn up completely before reaching the ground and some leave a smoke-like trail in their wake. 
Abulghassem noted that a few days earlier, in Rafsanjan, a similar incident was reported by witnesses.


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"'UFO' spotted in Istanbul, Turkey" — Wikinews, January 4, 2007


Sources
Fars News Agency. UFO Crash in Central Iran — Fars News Agency, January 10, 2007
Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA). Astronomy Picture of the Day — NASA, November 27, 1998
 Observations of Fireballs — International Meteor Organization,