Posted on 06/22/2007 7:27:08 AM PDT by Havok
One of the largest UFOs ever seen has been observed by the crew and passengers of an airliner over the Channel Islands.
An official air-miss report on the incident several weeks ago appears in Pilot magazine.
Aurigny Airlines captain Ray Bowyer, 50, flying close to Alderney first spotted the object, described as "a cigar-shaped brilliant white light".
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Aurigny Airlines captain Ray Bowyer, 50, described what he thought to be a UFO as 'a cigar-shaped brilliant white light', similar to the image supplied by Dennis Plunket of the British Flying Saucer bureau
As the plane got closer the captain viewed it through binoculars and said:
"It was a very sharp, thin yellow object with a green area. It was 2,000ft up and stationary. I thought it was about 10 miles away, although I later realised it was approximately 40 miles from us. At first, I thought it was the size of a [Boeing] 737.
"But it must have been much bigger because of how far away it was. It could have been as much as a mile wide."
Continuing his approach to Guernsey, Bowyer then spied a "second identical object further to the west".
He said: "It was exactly the same but looked smaller because it was further away. It was closer to Guernsey. I can't explain it. This was clearly visual for about nine minutes.
"I'm certainly not saying that it was something of another world. All I'm saying is that I have never seen anything like it before in all my years of flying."
The sightings were confirmed by passengers Kate and John Russell. John, 74, said "I saw an orange light. It was like an elongated oval".
The sightings were also confirmed by an unnamed pilot with the Blue Islands airline.
The Civil Aviation Authority safety notice states that a Tri-Lander aircraft flying close to Alderney spotted the object.
"Certain parts of the report have not been published. I cannot say why," said a senior CAA source.
Earlier this year however, the MOD declared its intentions to open its UFO files to the public.
No one on the plane had a digital camera?
ping
I love that show, but damn is he brutal!
They did and there are pictures
There is unreleased radar information
Wow!
Looking forward to them being published. The caption attached to the story image indicates it is not a photo of this incident.
Caption:
Aurigny Airlines captain Ray Bowyer, 50, described what he thought to be a UFO as 'a cigar-shaped brilliant white light', similar to the image supplied by Dennis Plunket of the British Flying Saucer bureau
I couldn’t be on that show, I would end up burying the carving knife in that sorry so and so’s head.
Sounds good to me.
Lenticular clouds aren’t rare, but getting one thin enough, and at the right angle for solar iridescence, probably is. I’ve seen lenticular clouds many hundreds of times, but a uniform color iridescence in a single cloud only twice in my life (and neither was even a lenticular cloud). For comparison, I have seen the green flash twice, and sundogs probably hundreds of times. I’m in my 40s, and I not only tend to notice such things, I often look for them.
This SEL pilot always steers clear as I'm concerned about the 'ups' and 'downs' therein.
So, how do you determine where the 'up' and 'down' areas are based on the cloud orientation??Interesting home page, btw...
Heading to a Council on Foreign Relations meeting, no doubt.
GROPE, GROPE . . . .
any fool hardy rationalization
anything but accepting the simple facts of trained observers’ reports.
Must be that insecurity thing.
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