Siloesid
Plagiarism? I think not.
I can't even find your post so it certainly isn't on this thread.
As for the incident occuring on the 2nd May you may well be correct, however I had googled 'Birmingham Post Police Helicopter' and the first article came up with a UFO story and Nov 24th date at the top.
S78
Got to say that many of us welcome the analysis Pete gives us and appreciate all the work he puts in to produce the figures.