The question it begs for me is, if you
are buzzed by a low flying aircraft at night, how the heck do you get the tail number to complain without shining some kind of light ? I would have thought there was a difference between shining a (diffuse) torch at the tail and a concentrated green alser at the cockpit window, but it appears not...
The torch looks like one of those 5 million candlepower (allegedly) ones and the beam isn't that diffuse. If it was pitch balck as he's claiming, then I suppoer he'd have to light up the whole a/c to find the tail. I suspect the crew were using NVG too which would increase the effect of the torch. If the account is true, the rainge involved is a lost less than most l@ser attacks.