Driving Route 66 and hunting for UFOs

A film crew from Europe is coming this weekend to Needles, Calif., to do a story about Route 66 and a UFO crash that occurred in 2008, according to the Mohave Daily News.

The crew will mainly be there to talk to Frank Costigan of KTOX radio in Needles.

He said the radio station, KTOX, gets inquiries from Europeans all the time. Costigan is one of the witnesses to have seen the object crash and saw the government officials caravanning into town.

Costigan didn’t have the name of the crew on-hand, but knows they intend to try and have the show available on the Travel Channel for U.S. residents to view. The intention is to have the video viewed all over Europe, Canada, the U.S. and Australia, Costigan said.

I confess that I hadn’t heard about the UFO crash. This report from About.com provides a summary of what happened (that we know of) on March 14, 2008:

Those who saw the object descending, claim that it was of a turquoise color. Any idea of the object being a meteorite was quickly dismissed because of the presence of a number of helicopters, which appeared to be searching for the object. Eyewitnesses claimed that the group of helicopters eventually located the object, and toted it to an unknown location.

And here’s a good overview from a local TV station:

I reckon it was an experimental military drone aircraft — like the ones used in Pakistan against al-Qaida and the Taliban — that wandered too far from a nearby base during test flights. I certainly don’t think it was from outer space.

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