"These B&W photos from the 1930s from the Middle East are astounding! In most of the classic texts on UFOs, I have yet to read much about -- if anything -- about the Middle East and UFOs in modern times. The Koran, the Jewish Scriptures, the Essene scrolls and other ancient documents, epic poems like Gilgamesh and The Enuma Elish (to name a couple), and even compilations like 1001 Arabian Nights certainly contain enough accounts of flying things that were not part of the natural fauna and flora.
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Seriously, it would be a grand addition to the literature of UFOs if someone would publish a book about UFO sightings in the Middle East and its environs in modern times (15th-21st centuries). Zechiaria Sitchin has exhaustively covered the topic from the days of ancient Sumeria up to about the time of the sack of Jerusalem by Rome in 70 C. E./A.D. Jim Marrs and William Bramley, in their own texts, have covered almost everywhere else. Erich von Daniken did a world tour in his books, but he missed a lot, too.
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It is time that the newly discovered accounts of UFOs over the ruins of Babylon -- for starters -- are placed shoulder to shoulder with the accounts with which students of the subject are already well-versed.
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Question: Does the development of oil fields have something to do with attracting UFOs?"