Manchester flight had UFO near miss

08.08.10

A 'near miss' between a plane and a UFO near Manchester Airport is included in a number of previously secret files released by the Ministry of Defence. The close encounter was reported by the flight crew of a Boeing 737 on the evening of January 6, 1995. The incident involved a passenger plane in the sky above Manchester is and included in the latest batch of MoD files documenting UFO sightings released by the National Archives.

The pilot and first officer of the plane described seeing a large grey object fly so close past the plane it made them duck. What makes this particular incident interesting is the credibility of the witnesses: the pilot and first officer of a BA aircraft who reported it as an 'air miss'. In a detailed report to the CAA, the pilot described seeing a 'lighted object fly down the right hand side of the aircraft at high speed in the opposite direction.' His first officer said it was a 'wedge-shaped' object possibly with a black stripe down the side that he estimated was 'between a light aircraft and Jetstream' (a small passenger plane) in size.

The pilot said the object had 'a number of small, white lights, like a Christmas tree' adding that he was able to track the object for 2 seconds looking through the windscreen and side window. Both said that what they had seen was 'a solid object and not a [meteorological] phenomenon, balloon or any other craft' with which they were familiar, including a Stealth bomber. The investigation failed to identify the object.

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