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6-21-07
Showing posts with label British. Show all posts
Showing posts with label British. Show all posts
Monday, June 25, 2007
Friday, June 22, 2007
'Mile-Wide UFO' Spotted by British Airline Pilot
By This Is London
6-22-07
6-22-07
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".
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. It was 2,000ft up and stationary. I thought it was about 10 miles away, although I later realised it was approximately 40 miles from us. At first, I thought it was the size of a [Boeing] 737.
"But it must have been much bigger because of how far away it was. It could have been as much as a mile wide."
Continuing his approach to Guernsey, Bowyer then spied a "second identical object further to the west".
He said: "It was exactly the same but looked smaller because it was further away. It was closer to Guernsey. I can't explain it. This was clearly visual for about nine minutes.
"I'm certainly not saying that it was something of another world. All I'm saying is that I have never seen anything like it before in all my years of flying."
The sightings were confirmed by passengers Kate and John Russell. John, 74, said "I saw an orange light. It was like an elongated oval".
The sightings were also confirmed by an unnamed pilot with the Blue Islands airline.
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.
Earlier this year however, the MOD declared its intentions to open its UFO files to the public.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
UFO Spotter Shocked By Worldwide Interest
By Joel de Woolfson
This Is Guernsey
5-29-07
CAPTAIN RAY BOWYER is shocked that his
UFO sighting has made news around the world.
The Aurigny pilot’s story was featured in The Sun and The Independent, which dedicated a whole page.
The internet took the sighting global, with hundreds of UFO websites featuring it. But the biggest surprise for Captain Bowyer was a small article in the New Zealand Herald, that country’s largest paper.
‘My mum lives in Auckland and said she saw it in the paper there,’ he said.
‘The story has gone all over the world. I didn’t think it would ever get further than Alderney or Guernsey, so it’s unbelievable how much attention it has got.’
The 50-year-old said he had been overwhelmed by the response.
‘I have had about 50 people speak to me and all told me of sightings within the islands,’ he said.
‘There appear to have been so many around the triangle of Alderney, Guernsey and Jersey. It’s really strange that there seem to have been so many in that area.’
Captain Bowyer believed that by coming forward, he had made it more acceptable for other people to talk about their experiences.
‘I have been really impressed with the quality of reporting and I wanted to thank the press for that because I know it could have been sensationalised.’
‘Many people have told me their stories and I would like to collate them.
‘The amount of people who have had similar sightings in a similar area has made me want to investigate what has been happening in the Channel Islands.’
* UFO sighting details can be passed to Captain Bowyer, by letter at La Croix Guerin Cafe, St Martin’s.
Thursday, May 03, 2007
UFO 'Evidence' Grows
By Joel de Woolfson
This is Guernsey
5-3-07
A RETIRED Air France pilot has backed Aurigny’s Ray Bowyer’s UFO sighting.
Captain Jean-Charles Duboc claimed he saw a huge object over Paris on 28 January 1994 while flying an Airbus 320 from Nice to London.This is Guernsey
5-3-07
A RETIRED Air France pilot has backed Aurigny’s Ray Bowyer’s UFO sighting.
It was well documented in the French media and on internet sites.
The 55-year-old’s sighting was supported by fellow flight crew and French radar, which picked up the object about 25 miles east of Paris for 50 seconds.
‘The observation of Captain Ray Bowyer is really impressive for several reasons,’ he said.
‘The fact it was daytime, a huge size, low altitude, nine minutes of sighting, passengers and another crew to confirm it.
‘In fact, Captain Bowyer’s observation is very similar to mine, except there was two objects and they were very low.’
However, unlike Captain Bowyer, who gave no suggestion as to what the UFO might have been, Captain Duboc believes the one he was was from another world.
‘My position about the sighting off Alderney is that an extraterrestrial civilisation wants to develop contacts with our planet and that they deliberately organise UFO sightings.’
He said that in the last 60 years, there have been approximately 1,300 sightings by pilots and about 15% have been confirmed by radar.
‘It is a really scary reality, but pilots have exceptional training and are the best qualified observers to identify UFOs.’
Air France would not say if Captain Duboc had flown for it because of data protection laws.
Captain Duboc said the size of the objects seen by Captain Bowyer and a Blue Islands pilot was similar to that of the UFO he saw which he described as a huge lens with a bank angle of 45 degrees.
‘We soon realised it was about 25 nautical miles away and it didn’t move. It was absolutely huge because it is impossible to see an airplane distinctly at that distance.
‘The dimensions of that object could have been around 500 metres and we saw it for between one and two minutes before it dematerialised in about 10 to 20 seconds.’
AURIGNY pilot Ray Bowyer has today told of his delight at the response to his UFO sighting.
The 50-year-old captain, who claimed he saw two identical objects as he was approaching Alderney from Southampton, said he had been inundated by people telling similar stories.
‘Since the story has been publicised, I must have had a least 20 people come up to me and tell me their story,’ he said.
He said it has had a very positive impact.
‘I think what it has done is make it acceptable for other people to tell their stories. It seems to have lubricated people’s tonsils to talk about this sort of experience.’
Captain Bowyer’s UFO sighting received national media attention last week and the story has been seen by people all over the globe after being picked up by various news websites.
He said the stories people had told him varied greatly.
‘I must say that some of the people said things that I thought could be explained. However I reckon that there are people out there that have seen stuff that cannot be explained.’
He added that he had received a lot of support from fellow pilots.
‘In the profession it’s fairly well known that if you come forward and tell these sort of stories, you become unemployable.’
Captain Bowyer praised his bosses at Aurigny for their understanding.
‘I think if I had not had eight years with the company it would not have been mentioned. But I’m lucky that I had the security with Aurigny and I want to thank them for their support.
‘It’s really nice that other people have come forward to say that they have had similar experiences.’
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Testing His UFO Theory
By Joel de Woolfson
The Guernsey Press
4-28-07
THE UFOs seen by two airline pilots earlier this week could have been military test planes.
Another pilot, Flybe’s Troy Queripel, put forward thatThe Guernsey Press
4-28-07
THE UFOs seen by two airline pilots earlier this week could have been military test planes.
theory yesterday.
‘There is military air space all around Guernsey and there is a lot of activity in that space. We call them danger areas,’ said the 40-year-old.
‘My theory is that it could have been some sort of military test aircraft that entered our air space by mistake.’
The objects were seen by Aurigny captain Ray Bowyer and confirmed by the pilot of a Blue Islands aircraft.
Reports were sent to the Ministry of Defence for further investigation.
French military air space starts 20 miles west of Guernsey and occupies an area of approximately 150 square miles.
British military air space starts 40 miles north of Guernsey and Captain Queripel believes military involvement was the likeliest explanation.
‘I am not trying to discredit anything that Ray said because I saw him 45 minutes after the incident and he was clearly shaken. He obviously saw something.
‘But think about the stealth bomber and the U2 spy plane. They were being tested for years before anyone was aware of them.
‘The stealth bomber had been around for 25 years before anyone knew about it. The first the Iraqis knew of it was when it was above them dropping bombs.’
He said it is impossible to know what is being tested today.
‘The U2 spy plane was taking photos over Russia and they knew nothing about it at first.’
Captain Queripel, who has been a pilot for seven years, said military air spaces around the island are off-limits to commercial planes.
‘They are called danger areas for a reason: enter them at your peril. You can ask for permission to go through, but it would usually be denied.’
He added: ‘Two per cent of me thinks it was little green men, but the other 98% thinks it was the military testing new technology that we haven’t even heard of.’
Thursday, April 26, 2007
British Pilot, Passengers Say They Saw UFOs
By Aero News.net
4-26-07
Galactic Visitor, Or Greenhouse Reflection?
The BBC says a commercial airline pilot reported seeing two unidentified flying objects in the sky near Guernsey.4-26-07
Galactic Visitor, Or Greenhouse Reflection?
The pilot reportedly estimated the bright yellow flat discs were twice the size of a Boeing 737, and spotted them Monday, 12 to 15 miles north east of the island.
"This is not something you see every day of the week -- it was pretty scary," pilot Ray Bowyer said, adding he originally thought the sun was reflecting off greenhouses in Guernsey.
John Spencer, deputy chairman of the British UFO Research Association, says pilot UFO sightings have been reported since the 1940s, and generate excitement because pilots are trained observers. In Monday's case, the sightings were verified by passengers and other pilots in the area.
Of course, many UFO sightings are later dismissed as misidentified aircraft, weather balloons, or unknown natural phenomena. Britain's Ministry of Defense says it will not be carrying out an investigation in this particular case.
Still, Spencer tells the BBC you can't just dismiss them all.
"Such light effects are often popularly thought to represent alien visitors but many UFO researchers believe they more likely represent natural, atmospheric, phenomena not yet fully understood by science," he said.
"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."