I came across a few interesting 'giant' accounts by foreign soldiers stationed in Afghanistan during the almost two-decade war. Many unanswered questions remain.
This account occurred during heightened U.S. activity in the country. While their experiences were unsettling, they were part of a larger pattern of foreign service men encountering large humanoid anomalies.
"I was an FMV analyst from 2012 to 2018. We were doing pre-op in Northeast Afghanistan searching for patterns of life on damn near every warm body we saw. We watched to see if we could ID any weapons. After about 20 minutes what we thought were two dudes huddled together under a blanket stood up. This guy made the rest of the dudes look like children in terms of height. He stood up and walked over to a mud hut that he had to bend way over to get into. He was at least 8 to 9 feet tall"
While stationed in the Kunar Province a US Army infantry team leader was tasked with overseeing a village suspected of being a hotspot for IEDs. The mission itself was standard observe, report, and engage if necessary. However, this assignment would be far from routine.
"I was deployed as an infantry team leader in the Kunar Province of Afghanistan from 2008 to 2009. One night we sat in on an observation patrol to overlook a village that we suspected IEDs were coming out of. Due to a successful IED recovery a few weeks prior my Lieutenant gave me a new thermal imaging system called the Recon 3.
I started to look across the valley and that led me to look along the spur we were sitting on and I saw a very large heat signature at the top of one of the false peaks. I did everything I could to get as clear of an image as I could suspecting that it was a group of Afghans huddled together around a light as they tend to do in the mountains.
All of a sudden the heat signature stood up as one being. The trees in that area grew up to about 10 to 12 feet tall. This thing was at least as tall if not taller than the trees that surrounded it. It started taking steps parallel to my position and was covering the ground quickly with ease. Its stride was slow and relaxed yet it moved with incredible speed that led me to believe that this creature was gigantic. It very quickly traversed the landscape and I lost sight of it along a neighboring spur. I did not believe what I saw initially, assuming I'd imagined it. I never had seen anything like that in my life."
Many soldiers had reported that they were aware of other reports from foreigners in Afghanistan, describing encounters with redheaded giants, including the infamous 'Giant of Kandahar' account. One particular U.S. Commander mentioned that the local Afghan tradition of men dying their hair and the hair of their goats bright orange was a practice he had initially dismissed as a cultural oddity. However, he later began to believe it was some kind of ritual rooted in the worship of these giant ancient beings.
Another similar anomaly was reported in Northern Afghanistan, this time captured through the lens of a Reaper drone.
"I was in the Northern part of the country scanning around, doing my thing, and looking at stuff. I found a super small mud hut which is where I saw the giants. They were 3, maybe even 4 meters tall. There's a ruler tool that tells you how wide your crosshair is and the people were as tall as the crosshair was wide.
The few mud huts were extremely rudimentary, like just a mound with some holes for a door and windows. They didn't do anything crazy, just normal people things, tending fires and other chores. I wish I could say they did something exciting but really just mopped around their small clearing. There were a few goats tied up and a fire that one person was tending. It's hard to tell details but they seemed to wear rugged clothing. I would guess similar to Afghan traditional wear. They seemed heavily cloaked. The only interesting thing was their size. The goats looked like cats next to them. This was all in infrared at night so they showed up as black humanoid heat signatures.
I wish I could have used our daytime camera. I always wondered if they had red hair and I only monitored them for like 10 minutes before we were too far away to see."
Here is another account.
"I was an intel officer in the Australian Army at the time and deployed to Uruzgan Province. I was on PK, what your Yanks would call security or sentry. In the early hours one morning, I was scanning across the valley with the thermal imager looking for threats, and saw a large human-like figure that looked different from normal because it didn't have the usual clothes the Afghans would wear. It looked like a person, but lankier. It walked behind a few compounds and I could see it from the chest up. This was when I really noticed its size. I thought it was around 600 meters away but when I did a more detailed scan, as it was also unusual to see individual people at that time of night, I realized it was further away. So I adjusted to get the range and was shocked to see it was 1,800 meters away!
It wasn't in any hurry and I followed it for about 5 minutes before it went out of my field of view. It was just walking. It kept looking around, especially near the compounds. I have no idea what it was but it would have been at least 4 meters tall. I don't know of anyone else who saw anything like it. I never told anyone about it before but it has stayed with me over all these years."
NOTE: Apparently, there have been many other giant sightings by foreign soldiers throughout Afghanistan. I may delve into the theory of Afghan men dyeing their hair red as a simulation of the red-haired giants at another time. Lon
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