Investigation launched after pilots report close encounter with UFO

[Hervé]

Investigation launched after several pilots report close encounter with UFO (AUDIO)

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Published time: 12 Nov, 2018 13:17
Edited time: 12 Nov, 2018 13:22
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The object was spotted off the coast of Ireland's county Kerry, FILE PHOTO. © Pixabay

Several sightings of an unidentified object flying at “astronomical” speed before disappearing off the coast of Ireland has sparked an investigation by the Irish Aviation Authority.

The UFO was first spotted by a baffled British Airways pilot last Friday (November 9) at approximately 6:47am local time while flying over the south-west coast of Ireland.

Trevor Buckley‏ @IrishAero

Very interesting report on Shannon high level Friday 9 November at 0630z with multiple aircraft with reported sightings of a UFO over County Kerry. Skip to 17 minutes to listen reports on @liveatc http://archive-server.liveatc.net/einn/EINN-High-Nov-09-2018-0630Z.mp3 … #Aviation #UFO #Ireland

9:18 AM - 11 Nov 2018
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The pilot was flying a Boeing 787 from Heathrow to Montreal when he made a call to Shannon Air Traffic Control (ATC) to ask if there were military exercises taking place in the airspace.

You can listen to the archived recording of the call from 17 minutes here.

ATC said there were no military exercises underway and added:

“There is nothing showing on either primary or secondary [radar].”

“OK. It was moving so fast,” the pilot replied.

“Alongside you?” asked the controller.

The pilot went on to describe the UFO that appeared along the left side of the aircraft and then “rapidly veered to the north.”

The pilot said they saw “a bright light” that “disappeared at very high speed.” She said that she did not believe it to be on a collision course but was “wondering” what it could be.

A Virgin Airlines Boeing 747 pilot then joined the conversation to suggest that a meteor or some other object was re-entering Earth’s atmosphere. The pilot said there were “multiple objects following the same sort of trajectory,” and that they were “very bright where we were.”

When Shannon ATC asked the pilots which direction the objects were heading, the Virgin Airlines pilot said it was in his “eleven o’clock position” with “two bright lights over to the right,” that then climbed away at speed. “Very interesting, that one,” said the pilot.

After a third pilot chimed in to say “Glad it wasn’t just me,” and reported a UFO that was “astronomical, it was like Mach 2,” (2,500kph or twice the speed of sound), Shannon ATC told the BA pilot that “other aircraft in the air have also reported the same thing so we are going to have a look and see.”

The Irish Aviation Authority said they had filed a report of the “unusual air activity” following reports from a “small number of aircraft on Friday.”

“This report will be investigated under the normal confidential occurrence investigation process,” read the IAA statement to the Irish Examiner.

[Sunny-side-up]

Interesting that none of the pilots seemed worried about reporting the sighting, no worries of being ridiculed.
Interesting at point 30: pilot said it 'banked right' Now I wonder if it banked like he said or if it just turned right, big deference if it just turned.
Interesting post

Quite refreshing to have a just audio report, is it easy to forge such a recording?

[Bob]

So I started doing historical searches for UFO Ireland, UFO over Cork, UFO over Kerry.. T

The question I had in my mind was, is this part of Ireland historically significant for UFO encounters? (the if-so WHY? question remains unanswered)..

there's more historical, but here are a couple video's, may be hoaxed, who knows..

Nick Pope weighs in on one..

Each video is a bit less than 3 minutes each/

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=2rIHvdRtstg

this one below is really strange the choice of audio used as background.. which makes it seem like a hoax. But again, who knows?

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q-IQL2NhEZk

the website these were obtained from is: https://www.irishcentral.com/culture...d-photos-video

this one below though is reported to have been captured at night by a low light level security camera up in Northern Ireland.. its only a 30 second clip: from http://www.educatinghumanity.com/201...a-ireland.html

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=GWj1i0KaHRM

is it possible that something like the above is what the pilots saw in the OP post 1?

[Agape]

Miles Johnston could know something about it, I will ask, he’s just been to Dublin ...the most original of Irish UFO researchers ..

https://thebasesproject.org

[aoibhghaire]

Its no surprise that there were sightings off the Kerry coast and multiply witnessed by pilots. The south west of Ireland for a long time has had a high concentration of UFO sightings. In particular, bordering Cork and Kerry provides a range of interesting UFO types, some classical to large constructs. Their are books and film material describing the whole history of UFO activity over the decades.

https://www.mercierpress.ie/irish-bo...os_in_ireland/

The book Conspiracy of Silence, describes a significant concentration of sightings in the south west of Ireland. In particular, in the Counties West Cork and Kerry during the 1990s. Multiple witnessed sightings of UFOs, the size of an aircraft carrier and accompanying discs. In 1997, London based Carlton TV succeeded in filming a UFO over Bantry Bay, on the border of Cork and Kerry. The recording was based on a scientific model which demonstrated specific orbital tracks and intersections when a UFO events may occur. This was probably the first scientific theory on UFOs put into practice confirming the model. The documentary was shown in both the UK and USA. Other multiple witnessed sightings and recordings from Boyle, County Roscommon were shown on Irish national TV in February 1998 based on the model.

https://www.mercierpress.ie/irish-bo...her_mysteries/

The book States of Denial has case studies of UFO events in Ireland and an interesting correlations of UFO events just before aircraft disasters. In this case an Aer Lingus aircraft crashes off the coast of Tuskar Rock in 1957.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/CIRCLE-DECE.../dp/1980221545

The book Circle of Deceit shows major case studies of animal mutilations in Ireland.

Smirsh Films: TELL ME CAPTAIN STRANGE 2001 IFB/RTE 52’ Shown on Irish National TV (2001)
First major film documentary of UFOs witnessed over Ireland. Demonstrating that they are not simply the product of the imagination. Witnesses from very different backgrounds and from all corners of Ireland describe there UFO sightings and encounters. UFO craft witnessed and photographed in Kerry in 1947 same as the Roswell type. The main focus of the film is the hotspot of Boyle, County Roscommon.

“full of highly plausible stuff”
Declan Lynch, THE SUNDAY INDEPENDENT Viewable by start of July 2012

[Did You See Them]

It's making the MSM

https://news.sky.com/story/ufo-inves...tings-11552908

[Agape]

It’s on BBC too but don’t ask the “skeptics club”, for them it’s all about nothing and “we have seen those number of times” and it will be probably classified as meteorite, reflection of Moonlight or popping weather balloon.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46181662

I agree that sightings need to be bigger, last longer, appear on cameras in detail and leave measurable evidence,
soonest


Wait, there’s something we have observed in South America last year( my friend did),
that seems to make sense and was photographed , number of times , at least long ago..

http://tarotdemaximo.blogspot.com/20...pio-y.html?m=1

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=i8aGw8WYYzI

[WhiteFeather]

The question always asked.... Is it ours, or from the stars? Interesting to say the least. I really can imagine that POS Henry Kissinger flying one of these. Lmao