A mystery unidentified flying object or UFO was chased by police for nearly an hour in Dubai. The UFO, described as being a bright oval-shaped object with hazy edges rather like a cloud, was first spotted by a police patrol over Hamria at approximately 10 minutes past night.
Within minutes, the Gulf News started receiving calls from people who had sighted it moving steadily along the coastline.
Other police patrols, including an offshore police patrol boat joined the chase and shortly afterwards it was seen on Dubai-side.
There were no reports, however, of it having landed, and eventually it vanished as mysteriously and as quickly as it had first appeared. The sightings in Dubai are believed to be the first of a UFO in the UAE.
Machine gun fire shatters curfew
Long bursts of machine gun fire and other shooting flared in several areas of Teheran for more than three hours last night as demonstrators shouting religious slogans took to the streets in defiance of a military-enforced curfew.
Some reports said thousands were in the streets. Shooting and shouts of "Allah Akbar" (Allah is great) by both men and women could be heard in widely separated areas and it appeared there was widespread defiance of the curfew and a ban by the military-led government on She'ite Muslim mourning processions. The demonstrations and shooting started shortly after curfew.
Creek tragedy
A 50-year-old Indian workman was still missing and believed drowned following a collision between two tugs in Dubai's Creek.
Abdulrazak Ali was one of two men who were thrown overboard Thursday when the tug Germac 31 collided with a Gulf Navigation Company tug near the mouth of the Creek. The other man, a 25-year-old Pakistani Qambar Zaman Shamir was unconscious when he was pulled from the water.
