Not missile tests: Pak.

ISLAMABAD, AUG. 23. Pakistan has rejected as ``baseless and ridiculous'' reports that mysterious flying objects sighted over western Baluchistan province last week were missile tests.

``As a matter of established practice, Pakistan has notified all concerned, including neighbouring countries, whenever it has carried out medium and long-range missile tests,'' a Foreign Ministry statement today said.

Military officials and a Government spokesperson contacted by AFP today said they knew nothing of the results of the investigations. The objects appeared to be flying in formation, trailing flames, over six districts of Baluchistan, including the capital Quetta, witnesses and officials said.

Witnesses said they ``looked like missiles'' but a military spokesman later ruled out the possibility they were weapons and suggested they were probably comet fragments.

He said there were no Air Force or commercial planes in the area at the time and Air Force radar monitors reported nothing out of the ordinary. Air Force officers in Quetta refused comment.

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