We've built a flying saucer, boasts Iran (bet I could build a paper plane to take it out....)

[The Straight Story]

We've built a flying saucer, boasts Iran

It's not clear how far or how high it can fly – or even how big it is and what makes it take off.
But an aircraft created by scientists in Iran is, they claim, the world’s first flying saucer.

Called the Zohal - or Saturn in English - it said the unmanned spaceship is designed for 'aerial imaging' but added it can be used for 'various missions'.

The hardline Fars news agency illustrated its story with a photo of a flying saucer, akin to one appearing in a 1950s Hollywood B-movie, hovering over an unidentified wooded landscape.

The reports gave no indication of the spaceship’s size. But they indicated it was small by claiming, somewhat bizarrely, that it can also fly indoors.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1367204/Iran-builds-worlds-flying-saucer-Looks-like-belongs-1950s-B-movie.html#ixzz1Gx0o5v7H

[JHB]

1. Will they dogfight Saddam's transcontinental RC model planes?

Don't think it's the first, either.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/07/flying-saucer-drone-hovers-over-hapless-human/

[nebenaube]

2. lol

They want us to shoot at Jeebus when he comes back!

[old mark]

3. K&R- I built one when I was about 8 years old-came in a cardboard box,

and I had to glue it together and paint it...Besides, there is this...:
http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/mufonontario/avro/avrocar.html


and this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_UFOs

Not the first-not even close.
Mark

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. Cool! Is that kid from Colorado in it?

Hehe.

[catbyte]

5. That sounds like something from The Onion... :)