What is flying over Israel these days? Last Saturday the Israeli military shot down a UFO flying in from the Mediterranean Sea and yesterday the country closed their civilian air space because of yet another unidentified flying object sighting.
According to the Herald Sun, Israel's civilian air traffic was stopped for several minutes after an unidentified flying object was spotted inside Israeli air space.
The air space was closed without any cause being stated but Air Force jets were sent to the area.
Closing Israeli air space rarely happens and it proves how much tension the military is under since Saturday's encounter with a flying object. The air force shot the object down on its second attempt. The first missile missed the object which was eventually downed by a Panther missile, the military's most advanced air-to-air projectile.
Officials say that soldiers searched for the remains of the object in Southern Israel but there's no word if anything was found.
Was the event leading to the closing of the air space and Saturday's encounter caused by an unidentified flying object? Some of the media believe that it wasn't a space craft but a drone operated by Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite militia.
Hezbollah has had drones fly over the Jewish state a few times over the years. In July 2006, Israel shot down an unarmed drone operated by Hezbollah over the state's territorial waters. In April 2005, a pilotless Hezbollah aircraft flew over part of northern Israel without being downed.
It's possible that Israel's government believes that it's easier for the public to swallow that the objects were drones operated by Hezbollah as opposed to real flying saucers from another planet.
But what was Israel shooting at and brought down this past Saturday? And what forced Israel to close its civilian air space?
Whatever the objects were soaring over the country, drones or UFOs, they were enough to make the government suspicious of these strange objects.
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