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Possible 'Mile-Wide UFO' Spotted by British Airline Pilot
Fox News ^ | 22 June 07 | Fox News

Posted on 06/23/2007 8:56:38 AM PDT by stm

That's what the pilot and passengers of a British jetliner want to know after they reported seeing an unidentified flying object fitting that description outside their aircraft windows over the Channel Islands.

The craft is allegedly one of the largest UFOs ever seen, the Evening Standard reported Friday.

Citing an official air-miss report on the incident several weeks ago in Pilot magazine, the newspaper stated that Aurigny Airlines Capt. Ray Bowyer first caught sight of the object while flying close to Alderney , one of several islands in the English Channel located off the Normandy coast.

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"It was a very sharp, thin yellow object with a green area," Bowyer, 50, told the Evening Standard, noting that he used a pair of binoculars to view the flying craft more closely. "It was 2,000 feet up and stationary. I thought it was about 10 miles away, although I later realized it was approximately 40 miles from us.

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I know passengers are permitted to drink on flights but pilots can now as well?
1 posted on 06/23/2007 8:56:42 AM PDT by stm
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To: stm
Unless its dimensions can be estimated by radar... visual descriptions of a UFO’s size are usually worthless.
2 posted on 06/23/2007 9:03:53 AM PDT by johnny7 ("But that one on the far left... he had crazy eyes")
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To: johnny7

And we all know the Asgard can easily hide from our detection devices. They probably showed up to protest the lame ending to SG1.


3 posted on 06/23/2007 9:16:14 AM PDT by Duke Nukum (One, two! One, two! And through and through)
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To: stm

duplicate

‘Mile-wide UFO’ spotted by British airline pilot
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1854931/posts

Mile-wide UFO’ spotted by British airline pilot
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1854587/posts

One of those earlier is locked, with an admin
admonishment to use Search. “UFO” fails to find it,
however.

Anyway, I’m betting lennie.
(lenticular cloud)
At their thin edges, they can get quite colorful.
Used to watch ‘em between sailplane flights.


4 posted on 06/23/2007 9:21:06 AM PDT by Boundless (Legacy Media is hazardous to your mental health)
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