What is this mysterious aircraft filmed 'blitzing Taliban base in Afghanistan'? Footage shows 'UFO' blasting terrorists' encampment

  • Cosmic intervention as U.S.-led ISAF plans withdrawal from the country
  • Clip shot by U.S. Marines shows unknown craft bombarding Taliban camp
  • It appears to be unlike any known U.S. military drone

By Damien Gayle

Published: 07:40 EST, 8 May 2014 | Updated: 08:45 EST, 8 May 2014


With Nato forces withdrawing from the badlands of Afghanistan, the country's people need all the help they can get to keep extremists from once again seizing power.

But it seems a new intervention has come from an unlikely source... outer space.

U.S. Marines captured this incredible footage of what looks like a UFO hovering over a Taliban encampment - then blowing it to kingdom come.

The cosmic coalition: Huge explosions are seen as an unidentified aircraft bombards a Taliban base in Afghanistan, in this screengrab from a video shot by U.S. Marines fighting in the war-torn country

The cosmic coalition: Huge explosions are seen as an unidentified aircraft bombards a Taliban base in Afghanistan, in this screengrab from a video shot by U.S. Marines fighting in the war-torn country

Fire photon torpedoes! Muzzle flash-like lights can be seen emerging from the underside of the aircraft

Fire photon torpedoes! Muzzle flash-like lights can be seen emerging from the underside of the aircraft

Devastating: The huge plumes of smoke from the attack obscure the view of the UFO

Devastating: The huge plumes of smoke from the attack obscure the view of the UFO

The clip was reportedly filmed by U.S. troops fighting in Afghanistan in March. Shot by a soldier standing next to a stationary armoured column, it shows a bizarre triangular object hanging in the sky not far ahead.

As soldiers look on, the craft slowly moves into position, before what appear to be muzzle flashes soundlessly emanate from its underside.

 

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A split-second later and huge explosions erupt as the fearsome space weapons hit the site of the purported Taliban camp, sending up plumes of smoke that obscure the view of the mysterious bomber.

After the smoke clears, the cameraman zooms in to shoot a close up view of the UFO, which looks unlike any known U.S. military drone.

 
Grainy: A close-up view of the mysterious aircraft, which has come at the right time for Afghanistan as the U.S. led International Security Assistance Force plans to withdraw from the country at the end of this year

Grainy: A close-up view of the mysterious aircraft, which has come at the right time for Afghanistan as the U.S. led International Security Assistance Force plans to withdraw from the country at the end of this year

If the unidentified aircraft is from outer space, it has come at the right time for the Westnern-backed government of Afghanistan.

Most international troops are slated to withdraw at the end of the year, and there are fears that the Afghan army and police are not ready to take over the job of securing the country.

Despite a decade of war since a U.S.-led coalition invaded Afghanistan and toppled the Taliban regime, it remains a crucible of extremism, a place where women have few rights, and a major source for the international heroin trade.

But with possible alien intervention, it could be that a new era has finally begun for Afghanistan's embattled people.

Perhaps it is time to rename the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), to the Inter-Stellar Assistance Force...

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DM is so gullible! Absolutely zero research into this fake video that was made as a joke.

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Funny thing this is 1980's technology.

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It's the flight of the navigator

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Totally Fake, the same footage can be found on YouTube, just mirrored and without the Fake aircraft added in. The footage is from Iraq, not Afghanistan. Just go to YouTube and search for "JDAM Destroying a Bomb Factory "

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I should have known, since I didn't hear the aliens tell tale "Pew Pew Pew" before the explosions.

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I lett the basic same comment earlier yesterday but the DM did not publish ......... Can't stuff up a popular news story

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Obvious fake - Everyone know Aliens don't use guided iron-bombs....They use lasers.

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So, They're not aliens... :D

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I haven't been able to take a video that grainy since VHS-C.

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So, they're not "aliens"...

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Nice cred', Mail. Complete tabloid level malarkey.

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such intelligence insulting BS the internet breeds these days. puhhlease.

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Well, from the video it's obviously an Imperial Star Destroyer. Probably just the Galactic Empire practicing for its Star Wars VII role...

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Lot of armchair military commanders here, thinking they know definitively what this is and is not. From my perspective, as one who used to analyze footage like this for the military on active duty in Intel, it looks like a fairly cut and dry bombing. Nothing ethereal or supernatural, just looks different from this angle.

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I was in the USAF for over 24 years as a weapons troop and have loaded thousands of weapons on multitude aircraft and it amazes me how many ACC¿s (armchaircommanders) there are. Besides being an old utube video of a JDAM strike, no aircraft commander would release weapons so close to a target as to have the resulting explosions envelop them. If this was a real UFO they could have wiped out this target from 50000 feet in the air. Come on Alex, Paul Begly, Daily Mirror, etc, etc, Please RESERCH your stories, that's what REAL journalists used to do

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