It is being widely reported in Channel Islands' media that an Aurigny pilot en-route from Southampton to Alderney earlier this week sighted two UFOs over the English Channel.
The reports were followed up by a further report from another pilot in the area and a radar trace reported by Jersey ATC.
The Aurigny chap was apparently so shaken up by his experience that he did not feel able to fly the return flight until he had a long sit down and a cup of tea.
"However, a similar encounter in 1978 over the Bass Straits in Australia, where the pilot was in radio contact with the ground throughout, resulted in the pilot never being heard from again, so these phenomena are important to study."
Phwor! Wonder was it little green men, black helicopers or men in white coats that resulted in him "never being heard from again" ....
Yes indeed I'd heard the same story, a friend of mine dash skipper heard the exchange on Jersey zone, he believed that the other pilots who saw them were a blue islands jet stream crew, he also went to GCI tower after landing and confirmed that zone had a radar trace.
Scary that the American military in their secret machines can get this lost!! (or so we hope!)
Nick Pope, who used to investigate UFOs for the Ministry of Defence said: "While no witnesses are infallible, pilots are trained observers and less likely than most people to misidentify something mundane.
What part of pilot training is that then? Is it tested? Performance A, perhaps.......or very comprehensive MCC?
Why is it that, for some people, any mention of 'UFO' requires immediate recourse to 'little green men' or other similar funnies.
It's a perfectly legitimate topic for sensible discourse and I, for one, would prefer that to the usual weak jokes that are always present in whatever media.
It would be nice to hear from the pilot involved. He's probably so afraid of having the mickey taken that we probably won't.
Hardly the sort of reporting culture present in the rest of aviation.
Absolutely. Many years ago as one of a bunch of students who had read "Eye and Brain" I discovered first hand that so-called 'trained observers' often made the worst mistakes. A memorable case was the two policeman who chased Venus across the South West as it "hovered in front of their car". Allegedly they wouldn't be shifted, even when confronted with star charts, met reports and the heading of the roads they were tearing along.
Hi there all ,
i flew myself for a different company nearly a year out of Alderney and what i found out that all the Aurigny pilots there("greetings by the way") are very good and experienced Pilots,definately no Freaks or people who need attention.
Also i doubt that the "Alcohol Fumes " of ACI have projected these kind of reflections to worry a experienced Trislander pilot,which normally are busy enough flying that "Camel"Single hand over the Channel.
One thing to think about i guess is that The french are right next door with the nuke Plant ,so maybe they practiced some stuff.
I flew myself along the French coast yesterday and didnt see anything ..though i was night cargo so maybe too late..
Anyways ....dont denie what you cannot understand..discuss and try to understand ...
And nooo i dont believe in any green men ...but im not also that foolish too think were the only ones....
Cheers
The Aurigny chap was apparently so shaken up by his experience that he did not feel able to fly the return flight until he had a long sit down and a cup of tea
Thats exactly the way I used to feel when I got off a Ryanair flight.....
This image has been doing the rounds on e-mail. Apparently from a passenger breaking mobile phone rules... Looks like it could well be strange light on a cloud formation to me, not quite what the local media are making it out to be.
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