Posted on 01/07/2014 10:16:08 AM PST by BenLurkin
It was certainly a close encounter, but with precisely what remains a mystery.
An airline pilot has reported a near miss in which a “rugby ball”-shaped UFO passed within a few feet of his passenger jet while flying near Heathrow Airport.
The captain told the aviation authorities who have investigated the incident that he was certain the object was going to crash into his aircraft and ducked as it headed towards him.
The investigation has been unable to establish any earthly identity for the mysterious craft, which left the aircrew with no time to take evasive action.
The incident occurred while the A320 Airbus was cruising at 34,000ft, around 20 miles west of the airport, over the Berkshire countryside.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Flight crews on commercial airliners fly a lot, obviously, and while they tend to be too busy to just stare out of windows, thanks to their number of hours in flight see more UFOs (in the basic sense of unidentified) than perhaps most people do. Used to be the FAA had a form to file for UFO sightings, but doing so generally led to grounding, so few got filed.
That said, I’d be curious about any ground-based sightings of large, long-lived meteorites in the area below the encounter.
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