the Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center studied the footage in great detail for ten days, and as a result of the study the Sirius UFO Space
Sciences Research Center concluded that the UFO sightings were geniniue and not a hoax. On January 17, 2008 the Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research
held a press conference at the Dedeman Hotel flocked by the high number of attendees. The incident was announced to the public at this press
conference and the aforementioned sightings were part of the news covered in both local and foreign media, TV, and newspapers as well as Internet
portals. Following these developments some parties who appeared on various TV shows, starting with Prof. Adnan Öktem from the Istanbul University
Department of Astronomy Sciences, Prof. Mehmet Emin Ozel from the18 March University Department of Physics and Prof. Kerem Doksat from the
Istanbul University Department of Psychiatry claimed with great prejudice that the footages taken in Kumburgaz were a hoax made up by a mockup or
computer animation without having conducted an analysis or any kind of study.
This extraordinary incident took place in a compound in Kumburgaz/Istanbul was witnessed by nearly a dozen of residents and filmed by a night guard
in several different times. The images captured are expected to have a tremendous impact throughout the world and be listed as the most important
UFO/extraterrestrial images ever filmed.