The Central Intelligence Agency placed its assets in the African nation of Zimbabwe on high alert in the summer of 2008 after a UFO was spotted hovering directly over the country’s main airport.
The incident, which took place July 2, 2008, is detailed in a cable that was released Friday as part of a third tranche of UFO files made public pursuant to President Trump’s February declassification order.
The cable, which was circulated throughout the US government and military hierarchy in the final months of the George W. Bush administration, described a craft that “hovered at an undetermined altitude directly over the Harare airport.”
“At one point during observation, ‘beams’ were observed emanating from the object,” read the cable, which also quoted observers describing the UFO as “disc-like in shape with a hollow center, [with] a series of rotating lights on the underside of the airframe.”
Soon after it was spotted, “the rotating lights under the object shifted colors and the object quickly ascended to higher altitudes and out of visual range.”
The cable indicates the sighting led to vigorous internal debate about whether the aircraft was “an advanced reconnassiance device belonging to a foreign government, or whether the object was an unidentified flying object of extraterrestrial origins.”
Without reaching a conclusion, the cable related, “this incident [redacted] had resulted in the decision to place the Zimbabwe [redacted] on high alert.”
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