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Posted on 10/21/2001 10:49:07 PM PDT by TheOtherOne

Image from US Defense Department video made available Saturday Oct. 20, 2001 shows U.S. military personnel, from an unknown location, packing a copy of the now famous photo showing firefighters hoisting the American flag at Ground Zero in New York following the collapse of the World Trade Center last month. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard Myers announced Saturday that US special forces "attacked and destroyed targets" in Afganistan. (AP Photo/DOD Pool) Image from US Defense Department video made available Saturday Oct. 20, 2001 shows U.S. special forces boarding an unidentified aircraft at an unknown location. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard Myers announced at the Pentagon Saturday that US special forces "attacked and destroyed targets" in Afganistan and the video showed ground troops clearing an airfield building by building. (AP Photo/DOD Pool) More than 100 elite U.S. special forces troops conducted a lightning raid into Afghanistan, October 20, 2001 and were flown out of the country. One U.S. official said there were no U.S. casualties in the raid itself near the Taliban stronghold city of Kandahar, but two Americans died in the crash of a support helicopter in Pakistan. BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE REUTERS/U.S. Department of Defense/Video HO In this image from a U.S. Defense Department video, made available Saturday, Oct. 20, 2001, U.S. special forces parachute from an unidentified aircraft over an unknown location, believed to be near Kandahar in Afghanistan. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard Myers announced Saturday that U.S. special forces "attacked and destroyed targets" in Afganistan. (AP Photo/DOD Pool) In this image from a U.S. Defense Department video taken with an image intensifier, made available Saturday, Oct. 20, 2001, U.S. special forces are seen inside a building at an unspecified location believed to be near Kandahar in Afghanistan. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard Myers announced Saturday that U.S. special forces "attacked and destroyed targets" in Afganistan. (AP Photo/DOD Pool) In this image from a U.S. Defense Department video taken with an image intensifier, made available Saturday, Oct. 20, 2001, military personnel walk up the loading ramp of an unidentified aircraft at an unknown location. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen Richard Myers announced at the Pentagon Saturday that U.S, special forces "attacked and destroyed targets" in Afganistan. (AP Photo/DOD Pool) In this image from a U.S. Defense Department video taken with an image intensifier, made available Saturday Oct. 20, 2001, U.S. special forces line up inside an unidentified aircraft flying over an unknown location. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard Myers announced Saturday that U.S. special forces "attacked and destroyed targets" in Afganistan. (AP Photo/DOD Pool)

Seems like they come from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind".

That was my first thought too.

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