[quote=Shaggy Sheep Driver
Scuttlebut at the time reckoned it was the USAF messing about with stealth aircraft, though this was, I understand, strongly refuted by them. And the RAF said they knew nowt, either.
SSD[/quote]
No surprises there, then......
While career considerations may well affect the number of 'incidents' reported, there does nevertheless seem to be a steady trickle of reports (around1-3 annually) in the monthly MOR Summaries (usually listed in the ATC category, though the reporters seem to be mainly aircrew - I don't recall seeing any from controllers, despite some having witnessed such phenomena to my certain knowledge).
Those which do get reported seem to have been as a result of the perceived proximity of the 'object' (which is how they are usually described) and are thus reported as Airproxes, which suggests that there are still more which go unreported because they weren't as close.
What the 'objects' are however, is quite another matter.......
RC