A number of early risers in Jerusalem could have sworn this morning that a number of unidentified flying objects visited the holy city. A sleepy duty officer in the Jerusalem district police station received excited phone calls at 4 a.m. from citizens who saw "large and strange blue lights" over the Mt. of Olives, on the eastern bills of the city.
At first, police officers tended to dismiss the reports as mere dreams, but when they themselves went outside, they, too, saw objects flying over the hills. The Air Force and the meteorological service station were notified. There was no immediate explanation for the phenomenon, but it was assumed that the source of light was merely a bright star. The Jerusalemites joined millions all over the world who followed the recent UFO sightings in Australia and in Europe.
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