Manchester bound plane ‘had UFO near miss’
08.08.10
A 'near miss' between a passenger plane and a UFO near Manchester Airport is included in a number of previously secret files released by the Government. The close encounter was officially reported by the flight crew of a Boeing 737 back in January 1995.
The incident on 6 January 1995 involving a passenger plane in the night sky above Manchester is included in the latest batch of MoD files documenting alleged UFO sightings now released by the National Archives. The pilot and first officer of the plane described seeing a large grey object fly so close past the plane it made them duck. It is one of a number of MoD files documenting alleged UFO sightings.
What makes this particular incident interesting is the credibility of the witnesses: the pilot and first officer of a BA aircraft who reported it as an 'air miss'. In a detailed report to the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), the pilot confirmed that he was about 4,000 feet up over the Pennines, 8 or 9 miles south east of Manchester Airport, when the two men both saw something flash past the cockpit window.
The pilot described seeing a 'lighted object fly down the right hand side of the aircraft at high speed in the opposite direction.' His first officer - who instinctively 'ducked' as it went by - said it was a 'wedge-shaped' object possibly with a black stripe down the side which he estimated was 'between a light aircraft and Jetstream' (a small passenger plane) in size.
The pilot said the object had 'a number of small, white lights, rather like a Christmas tree' adding that he was able to track the object for around two seconds looking through the windscreen and side window. Both said that what they had seen was 'a solid object and not a [meteorological] phenomenon, balloon or any other craft' with which they were familiar, including a Stealth bomber.
The investigation failed to identify the object.
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