'Mile-wide UFO' spotted by British airline pilot
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'Mile-wide UFO' spotted by British airline pilot

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.