"Our Friends from Out of Town"

       The M1 tank is "crown jewel of the American field arsenal", designed to take a direct hit from a missile, and the front and sides are the most heavily armoured sections. In 2003 they were lined up in the desert of Kuwait in units of 100: ten rows of ten tanks, preparatory to the invasion of Iraq. Then one night Luis Elizondo, in his capacity of Special Agent in Charge, received the call: "Sir, you need to get out here now. There's something you need to see."  So, having driven an hour into the desert to see for himself, Elizondo was shown a remarkable sight. A small hole, perfectly round, without rough edges, heat ablation or metal vitrification had been punched into the side of the tank. Not only that, but shining a light through it revealed an identical hole on the other side. It was just like a cookie cutter had taken a core sample of the armour - and the same holes existed in the adjacent tank. Nothing on earth could have done such a thing. The only clue to causation was that a Bedouin goatherd had seen a brilliant green flash in the night sky, directly over the tanks. But several years later Elizondo started to think it might have been produced by what his colleagues called "our friends from out of town"