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UFOs In The News From Colorado To Iran To Sammy Hagar’s Brain

Posted 3/26/2011 8:50 am by

It’s a big week for UFOs in the news. Even the world of rock and roll has gotten in on the alien act.

The Iranians have built their own flying saucer. Folks in Colorado captured video of a triangular set of lights in the sky.

And maybe even bigger, former Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar said aliens “downloaded” the info in his brain.

Let’s start with Iran. According to Fars News Agency, the unmanned flying saucer named “Zohal” was revealed at a ceremony attended by ceremony  Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei.

Zohal was described as:

The flying machine is equipped with an auto-pilot system, GPS (Global Positioning System) and two separate imaging systems with full HD 10 mega-pixel picture quality and is able to take and send images simultaneously.

Just what America needs to hear, that something else will be flying through the skies over the Middle East.

Unusual things were flying over Lafayette, Colorado on Monday night. A father and son both witnessed a set of red lights in a slow-moving triangular formation. FAA officials said they saw no unusual blips on the radar that evening, but the video shows something out of the ordinary.

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Weather balloons, Japanese lanterns, UFOs? You make the call.

But whatever you do, don’t call Sammy Hagar a non-believer in something beyond planet Earth.

In his recently released biography Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock, written with Joel Selvin, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer reveals  during an interview with MTV that he has had encounters with other beings who psychically tapped into his brain to “download” his mental info.

This was before his hardcore rock and roll days. Can you imagine how freaked out the aliens would have been if they made this contact with Hagar later in his life? Cabo Wabo indeed.

So keep looking up into the sky and keep your camera handy. You never know what you might spot.

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