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	'Mile-wide UFO' spotted by British airline pilot

Newfman

6-23-2007 7:13 AM

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6-23-2007 9:31 PM

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Nothing on the National UFO Reporting Center site about this. Oh well.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4b5524e3-2b5e-4012-b8b0-0c26e6c09a3f/F37E7C01-AF15-44B5-97D7-5AC0566B5F33/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23401615-details/%27Mile-wide+UFO%27+spotted+by+British+airline+pilot/article.do" href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23401615-details/%27Mile-wide+UFO%27+spotted+by+British+airline+pilot/article.do" style="font-size: 11px;">www.thisislondon.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23401615-details/%27Mile-wide+UFO%27+spotted+by+British+airline+pilot/article.do"><P>One of the largest UFOs ever seen has been observed by the crew and passengers of an airliner over the Channel Islands. </P><P>An official air-miss report on the incident several weeks ago appears in Pilot magazine.</P><P>Aurigny Airlines captain Ray Bowyer, 50, flying close to Alderney first spotted the object, described as "a cigar-shaped brilliant white light".</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23401615-details/%27Mile-wide+UFO%27+spotted+by+British+airline+pilot/article.do"><P>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. </P><P>"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.</P><P>"But it must have been much bigger because of how far away it was. It could have been as much as a mile wide."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23401615-details/%27Mile-wide+UFO%27+spotted+by+British+airline+pilot/article.do">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.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F37E7C01-AF15-44B5-97D7-5AC0566B5F33/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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