James McCampbell:
Nov. 9 - Dec. 14, 1978; vicinity of Kuwait
A senior official of the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC)
reported to the embassy that the UFO "...which first
appeared over the northern oil fields seemingly did
strange things to KOC's automatic pumping equipment.
This equipment is designed to shut itself down when
there is some failure which may seriously damage the
petroleum gathering and transmission system and it can
only be restarted manually. At the time of the UFO's
appearance the pumping station automatically shut
itself down and when the UFO vanished the system
started itself up again. Eight UFOs were sighted
between Nov. 9 and Dec. 14,1978, in the vicinity of an
oil-gathering center near Kuwait City, Kuwait The
government appointed a committee of experts from the
Kuwait Institute For Scientific Research to
investigate. An Institute representative, Ratib Abu
Id, told U.S. embassy officials that they had rejected
the idea of espionage devices and did not know enough
about the subject to rule out spaceships.