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From: David Clarke <crazydiamonds@compuserve.com>
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 15:38:28 -0400
Fwd Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 23:24:07 -0400
Subject: Re: Jet Crew Tell Of Close Encounter With UFO


>From: John Hayes <jhayes@cableinet.co.uk>
>Subject: Re: Jet Crew Tell Of Close Encounter With UFO
>Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 20:21:04 +0100

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>Evening Standard (London)  27th April.
>UFO mystery as pilots see red

>An unidentified object described as "a great red light in the
>sky" and "big as a battleship" has caused consternation in the
>skies over the North Sea.

>Pilots reported being buzzed by a "long, cylindrical object" at
>28,000ft and one pilot and his crew described how the underside
>of their jet became bathed in an "incandescent light".

>The Civil Aviation Authority has confirmed that a comprehensive
>report of the sightings has been handed in, although both it and
>the Ministry of Defence deny that they are investigating it.

>The Luton-based plane, a Debonair BAe146, was flying company
>executives from Sweden to Humberside airport when, it is
>claimed, the object came to a sudden halt before speeding by the
>airliner in the incident on 3 February, 58 miles off the coast
>of Denmark.

I have today obtained a copy of the official report by Debonair
to the Civil Aviation Authority concerning the above sighting,
which occurred on 3 February 1999.

The report was filed as "a mandatory occurrence report" and the
CAA were taking no further action as "there was no danger to the
aircraft or passengers."

A spokesman for Debonair said the pilot is currently on leave
and a request has been put out for him to make a statement to
the press when he returns.

It was added that the pilot assumed the lights beneath the jet
were those of another aircraft at the time they were seen. She
said the company had been "snowed under" with inquiries from the
press about the sighting.

The Debonair report to the CAA report reads:

"Unidentified bright light below BAe146 at FL280.

"Area below a/c illuminated for 10 seconds by incandescent light
which was not considered by reporter to be an a/c landing light.

Reporter stated three other a/c reported seeing it moving at
high speed or static. ATC informed but they reported no other
a/c in vicinity. Five minutes later a radar return was present
at 75 miles on weather radar. Atmosphere reported as stable and
no other a/c were in vicinity."

The aircraft involved was a British Aerospace 146, a small four
engined jet flying on a chartered flight from Linkoping in
Sweden to Humberside Airport in East Yorkshire.

The UFO was reported whilst the aircraft was flying at 28,000
feet, 58 miles off the Danish coast above the North Sea. Tracey
Law, of Humberside Airport, said the report was made by the
pilot to the CAA on landing, but there was "no mention made
whatsoever of UFOs in the original report..it has since been
embellished. It was not mentioned to us officially as it
happened outside of our airspace."

In particular she mentioned the description of the UFO as being
"as big as a battleship" being manufactured by the press,
Humberside Airport said they believed the sighting had been
caused by "a light reflection from the underside of the jet."
Flight Lieutenant Tom Rounds of the RAF at the Ministry of
Defence, Whitehall, said the MOD had learned of the report via
the Press.

He said stories that the object had been tracked by RAF radar
were "laughable" as the UK radar could not pick up objects 58
miles off the Danish coast.

Flt Lieut Rounds said the MOD were not investigating the report,
and had not received any report concerning it from the CAA.