On Tuesday, October 8, 1996, Egypt's Interior Ministry announced that policemen and citizen hunters had shot and killed "two unknown animals" in Armant, a city on the east bank of the Nile 500 kilometers (310 miles) south of Cairo.

According to the Reuters report, "The animals, which have some resemblance to large hyenas or wild dogs, have killed three people and injured dozens in a series of nocturnal attacks around Armant."

The fellahin (local people) call the creatures "salaawa," a colloquial name meaning "female ghouls." Folklore has it that these ghouls inhabit ancient tombs in the nearby Valley of the Kings. However, no one has been able to identify the species.

The night of October 7, Egyptian police and local citizens with rifle permits set up ambushes near the fields along the Nile and opened fire on the animals as they came out of the brush.

(Editor's Comment: Hmmmm, from the description, they sound like hyenadons, an animal that supposedly became "extinct" during the Pliocene Period three million years ago. How many more of these quadrupeds are wandering out there in the Sahara? Paging Indiana Jones...)

From: UFO ROUNDUP

Islamic UFO files, by Alfredo Lissoni, Italy's National UFO Center.