LONDON

INTELLIGENCE SOURCES IN Europe are claiming that an Iranian ballistic missile fired at the United Kingdom, may actually reached England but then turned back, finally running out of fuel over the Mediterranean.

It is thought that the missile’s onboard computerized guidance system, which had a visual component, may well have mistaken the state of some of the British capital’s street for previous warhead damage and decided that it was not worth detonating.

“The missile then searched for secondary targets among other British cities, but recorded that all it could see was desolation below, so it ended up turning back,” explained an anonymous European Union intelligence officer.