Pictured above is not the actual UFO-like drone developed by Iran. The image above is from The Fars news agency and their illustration of what Iran’s drone could look like. Iranian officials have described the drone to be UFO-like and used for aerial-imaging. Naming it, Zohal (or Saturn in English) the craft is said to resemble the classic UFO shape and be equipped with GPS, HD video and runs on autopilot.

If this is true, then it would be a marvelous piece of technology. The drone could be used to transport medical equipment or aid in war-torn places or help enhance our mapping systems. On the other hand, it could be used to fight in humanless wars. Think SkyNet!

Full source: Daily Mail UK

Iran has solved the age-old mystery of UFOs: they do exist and they are made in the Iranian capital, Tehran.

The Middle East country today boasted that it has built the world’s first flying saucer. It is called Zohal – or Saturn in English – and is an unmanned spaceship designed for ‘aerial imaging’.

But it can be used for ‘various missions’, Iran’s official media enthused. It was unveiled on Tuesday when Iran also claimed it launched a new rocket into orbit with a test capsule capable of carrying a monkey into space.

Tehran’s hard-line Fars news agency illustrated its story with a photo of a Hollywood-style flying saucer hovering over unidentified wooded hills.

The landscape looked suspiciously like a picturesque scene from Wales, the Rhine valley or the Rockies.

The Iranian reports gave no indication of the spaceship’s size. But they implied it was small by claiming that Zohal can also fly indoors – without explaining what purpose this would serve apart from demonstrating its versatility and manoeuvrability.

‘Easy transportation and launch and flying making less noise are some of the advantages of the device,’ said ISNA, Iran’s students’ news agency.

‘The device belonging to the new generation of vertical flyers is designed for aerial photography,’ ISNA added.

‘It is equipped with autopilot, image stabiliser and GPS and has a separate system for aerial recording with full HD quality!’

Iran, which prides itself on its 2,500 year-old civilisation, is also keen to show that it is at the cutting edge of modern science.

Tehran’s ambitious space programme alarms the West because the same technology used to send missiles into space can be used to build intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching Britain.

Last year Iran announced it had successfully fired a rocket that hurtled a mouse, turtle and worms into space. Tehran insists it will be able to send a man into space by 2020.

For Iran’s firebrand and intensely ambitious president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the space programme is a defiant message that the Islamic Republic has reached a peak of progress despite international sanctions over its nuclear programme.

The auto-piloted flying saucer was said to have been unveiled at an exhibition of ‘strategic technologies’ attended by Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

At the same time Iran’s Space Agency launched a test spacecraft designed to sustain life in orbit.

The state IRNA news agency said the capsule was carried by a rocket called the Kavoshgar-4 (Explorer-4) 75 miles into orbit before returning to earth.

There were no living creatures on board because it was a test flight, which Ahmadinejad had promised would take place before the end of the Iranian year on March 21.

Iran’s often outlandish claims of scientific virility usually prove difficult to confirm.

American naval forces in the Persian Gulf have yet to come across a ‘super-modern’ radar-evading flying boat Iran claimed to have tested four years ago.

Whether excited Ufologists have better luck spotting Iran’s flying saucer remains to be seen.

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