'Mile-wide UFO' spotted by British airline pilot

[jefferson_dem]

:popcorn:? ... :scared:? ... :hide:? ... :wow:? ... :yoiks:? ... :shrug:?

'Mile-wide UFO' spotted by British airline pilot
22.06.07

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".



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.

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http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23401615-details/'Mile-wide+UFO'+spotted+by+British+airline+pilot/article.do

[BurtWorm]

1. Swamp gas.

:yawn:

[ananda]

2. I wonder what it was.

For real.. I'm so curious.

[zippy890]

3. more from the article

"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."


Oh I do hope its a real UFO and not some horrific military technology

[Initech]

4. Holy crap! The aliens are coming!

:scared:

[WillyT]

11. Have You Ever Read This ???

It'll blow your mind.

:hi:

[quispquake]

14. One of my all time favorites...

Oh how I wish this was happening!!! At this point, I'm ready for some benign aliens to show us the way...

[shadowknows69]

49. The aliens in Childhood's End weren't exactly beneficent IIRC

Been about 20 years since I read it though.

[AlienGirl]

54. I loved that book during early adolescence! The aliens weren't bad

The aliens had just come to midwife Earth's population into the next (non-physical) stage of being. During the transformation, the Earth itself "hatched" and the core was visible (if my other computer were online, I'd upload a picture I painted at about age 13 showing how I imagined that looking).

The parallels between the changes humanity was undergoing as a whole in the book and the changes my own brain was going through in real life (as hormones made me go from pretty much emotionally self-sufficient to feeling an intense need for peer acceptance and one-on-one bonding with a romantic partner) completely fascinated me, and I read that book over and over for a few years.

(As an aside: my pre-adolescent brain was much, MUCH easier to live with. If there were some way to go back to that essentially asocial, self-contained state, I would. It wasn't that I didn't *love* people, but I didn't *need* them, exactly.)

Tucker

[shadowknows69]

59. Thank you AG

as I said it's been a while. Was pretty deep stuff for my age at the time I guess. Apparently the Overlords were only evil to thoe afraid of the change or evolution in general. That A.C. Clarke is a smart one aint he.

[soothsayer]

58. beware of the staged alien invasion (holographs) designed to make us beg for a 1 world gov

(the new 'terror'), followed by the staged 2nd ocming of Christ to set up a new religion and an NWO. Be skeptical when the 'invasion' starts, my sheeple. Just sayin.

[Mind_your_head]

63. I understand what you're saying - some others will as well eom

[Mz Pip]

16. Best Sci-Fi novel

I've ever read.

Perhaps the Overlords have finally arrived to make sure we don't anihilate ourselves before we can make the next evolutionary leap.

Then again, probably not.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[WillyT]

30. Hey Pip !!!

:bounce::hi::bounce:

[symbolman]

55. Talk about synchonocity

I was just explaining the premise of this book yesterday to my wife - how there's a "Hundredth monkey" thing going on right now, I told her about the babies being born that seemed autistic, but in fact their bodies were HERE and their Essence was Elsewhere, skipping across the surface of Mars, etc.

This is a MUST READ, it ain't "Stranger in a Strange Land", but it ain't that far off either :)

[MuseRider]

13. They can't be any worse

than the Bush** administration. Left to their own desires we would actually be better off with a short rectal probe from an alien than what these guys would do to us. :)

[Renew Deal]

22. Do you want your head melted off with a laser beam?

The aliens will harvest us. BTW, I am posting this from my panic room. ;)

[MuseRider]

24. Won't happen

I know how to yodel!

[Initech]

53. Very true!

[Renew Deal]

20. This is retribution for visiting Mars.

:silly:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

36. Are they illegal?

If so they better keep on flying before the politicians decide to turn them into a wedge issue!

[Horse with no Name]

46. They don't have to worry

America doesn't have boners for green aliens, only brown ones.

[jobycom]

5. Dick Cheney's ego, out for a spin while his heart shut down for a few hours.

:shrug:

[RaleighNCDUer]

6. Oh, that's just a lil'un.

The ones in Independence Day were 15 miles wide.

[terrya]

10. That's a relief

I was just trying to picture Bush leading an attack on those aliens ala the movie.

[mainegreen]

7. Inclined to believe it's an optical illusion until someone gets a picture more like this:

You know, more manufactured like and less like a prism/distortion effect.

[Lex]

9. If you zoom in on that pic

maybe it does look like that close-up. :rofl:

[GreenPartyVoter]

23. LOL

[unpossibles]

25. but would we even recognize the signs of "manufacture" from a species

so advanced it could travel here?

Just playing Devil's advocate, and I can see what you're saying, but I'm not sure a truly alien species would necessarily be recognizable to us, much less its use of technology. I guess what I am saying is, we should not anthropomorphize too much in that the conditions which lead to our development are most likely not the same conditions which may lead to some other form of life.

Then again, maybe I am wrong and all aliens look like humans. Or worse, look like Dubya!

[mainegreen]

31. True, but ships would still be made some how.

Ufo pictures however often look very much like light optical illusions you see with some regularity on a day to day basis, though much grander and larger in scale.
Aliens making ships that look like blobs of light? Personally I'd find a ship that wasteful energy wise unlikely. Or perhaps the ship is made of light, but I find that bordering on preposterous. Given the laws of physics seem to be universal, and that we are probably correct or mostly correct on the big points of physics, as space ship would still resemble a solid material container, even though it might be a mind numbingly bizarre one, as opposed to looking like a blobby sun-dog.

Still you never know.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

41. It could have a swamp-gas blobby-sun-dog camouflage shield.

[mainegreen]

43. True.

But would you really want to meet the aliens who would do such a thing?
:P

[A-Schwarzenegger]

47. Yes! I think they would be very artistic, complex, and eccentric.

We would have many different things to talk about.

[johnaries]

8. Didn't this happen a while back?

I know the article has today's date, but I remember this from months ago.

[Canuckistanian]

19. It seems to have happened Apr. 25th, 2007

http://www.ufoinfo.com/sightings/ci.shtml

[dkofos]

12. Take me away!! I've had enough of this planet.

[Rabbit of Caerbannog]

15. Damn illegal aliens! Looks like

we'll have to build that wall a bit bigger (and over our heads) :P

[Mz Pip]

17. That's not even the real picture

If you read tha caption on the picture in the article it says it looked like the picture taken from a UFO archive.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

18. Just Elvis driving his new ride to a gig in Vegas.

[DS1]

21. Clenis

[damntexdem]

26. Does the UFO get a special award as largest ever reported?

Will the ETs in the crew get a shot at a network reality show? ;-)

[BlooInBloo]

27. I just now saw one that was **2** miles wide!!! There. I win.

[Throwing Stones]

28. It's Cheney's ride home...

The "Death Star" - they're idling above the planet in case Waxman gets too close.

[xultar]

29. BUHWAWAWA! Now that was funny.

[IDemo]

32. Dubai an alien location?

could be..

[Throwing Stones]

33. wow - is that an actual building in Dubai?

I've never seen it before - maybe doubles as a secret flying saucer, for the prince of darkness's intergalactic travel?

[earthboundmisfit]

35. It is rather podlike!

Looks a whole lot like a milkweed pod. Weird design.

[IDemo]

39. It's under development, the 'Iris Bay' building

http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=553

[Quantess]

38. Will Las Vegas build a replica?

Looks like a casino to me.

[Mr. Ected]

34. They've Come TO SERVE MAN

It's a cookbook!!!

(chillingest sci-fi exhortation EVER).

[bmbmd]

52. And-

we're all on the menu.

[RedCappedBandit]

37. Take me WITH you!!!!!!

[BushOut06]

40. Just looks like a flash of bright light to me

Could be anything. A meteor, perhaps.

[karlrschneider]

42. Lenticular cloud. Cap'n Ray's doing too much Tanqueray.

;-)

[Fox Mulder]

44. I'll get right on it.

:D

[The Straight Story]

45. It was just the sun reflecting off candy crowley's ass

if it had been my ass it would have only been half a mile.

[Horse with no Name]

48. You're going to Hell for that remark

;)

[shadowknows69]

50. Fat people Hell Straight Story

Where we all get to make you smell our huge, stinky arm pit flesh for all eternity. Some of us who aren't Candy Crowley have weight problems too my friend.

[The Straight Story]

51. Yeah I know, I am one of them currently :) But she is fair game in my comedy play book

[symbolman]

56. Wow

I guess the right wingers are going to have to get extra funding to make the border WALL a little Taller :)

Those damn wiley Mexicans..

[IChing]

57. Hale-Bopp has returned

come on gang,
drink the cool-aide
so we can return to heaven's gate.

[shadowknows69]

60. "It was a very sharp, thin yellow object" I actually saw this in NY possibly

I was coming back from a Doctor's appointment recently over a fairly hilly road so your perspective on a part of the sky was fleeting and that's why I could only catch this thing for a couple seconds but it was enough. I hesitate to call this my first "official" UFO sighting in my life because it was so quick but it was quite striking. It was broad daylight and big puffy clouds covered some of the sky which gave me the perspective that it was in front of the clouds but still pretty far up there. It literally did look like "a very sharp, thin yellow object". Alost like a short piece of spaghetti on the sky, just sitting there. At least I think because as I said as I went around the curve I was on I lost that part of the sky in trees and hills. I desperately looked around as I rounded the curve, should have stopped, and I had lost it. I found the cloud patterns it was near before eventually but nothing. No contrails of any kind either. I've been a believer for a long time and I look for em but this was one of those. You notice it because you weren't looking kind of things. I wish they had stopped for a chat. B-)

[krispos42]

61. I seriously doubt it's an alien

We would have seen them coming, absent of some sort of mythical (but entertaining) hyperdrive. Solar sail, nuclear fusion, antimatter... the energy required to slow down a spaceship from near-light speed would be visible for light-weeks or more. And the time to drag a ship down from those kind of velocities, even given plenty of energy, is measured in months.

I kinda like to think that if a giant spaceship capable of generating megawatts or gigawatts of energy was pointing that energy at us for the better part of a year, we'd, yanno, notice. Or something.

If you allow things that are currently theoretically impossible, things like hyperdrive, warp drive, superluminal drive, jump drive, Alderson drive, gravity polarizers, impulse drive, or whatever, then it all goes out the window and you can pretty much do what you want.

But much as I'd like to allow it, I can't. So... that means I don't know what it is, but I know what it isn't.

[shadowknows69]

62. Dimensional travel might be the answer to why we can't see them coming

Who says they're from out there. They could be popping in from the universe that's contained in air molecules for all we know. That's what me and my "stoner scientist" friends came up with when we were 17 anyway.

[Gabi Hayes]

64. It's Hugo Chavez, closing the

lens on the final TV camera in Venezuela!

[defendandprotect]

65. PILOT, Crew and Passengers saw . . .

This is becoming less unusual that pilots are standing up and telling the truth about UFOs and what they see.

http://www.disclosureproject.org/

[entanglement]

66. Lou Dobbs: "UFOs full of illegal green space aliens are arriving to take your jobs..."

n/t