UFO CRAZE WATCH:Passenger Jet in Near Miss With UFO...

A PASSENGER jet coming in to land at Heathrow had a near miss with a UFO, the MoD files revealed.The Alitalia flight’s captain, Achille Zaghetti, was at 22,000ft when he saw the brown, 10ft-long, missile-shaped object 1,000ft above him.He said: “At once I said, ‘Look out’ to my co-pilot, who looked and saw what I’d seen.”Air traffic controllers also reported an unidentified object on their screens.The incident in 1991 over Lydd, Kent, was investigated-but after ruling out a missile, weather balloon or space rocket, the MoD left the matter unsolved.The unexplained close encounter with the Alitalia jet is one of many recounted in military UFO documents made available online today by the National Archives.Pilot Mr Zaghetti added: “As soon as the object crossed us I asked to the ACC (area control centre) operator if he saw something on his screen and he answered 'I see an unknown target 10nm (nautical miles) behind you’.”A CAA document notes that Southern TV broadcast a story about a 14-year-old boy who reported seeing a missile flying at low level before climbing through the cloud and disappearing on the same evening.Radar images showing the UFO were initial labelled “cruise missile??” but it was quickly established that it was not a military weapon.By July 2 the MoD had concluded that the object had not come from the Army firing ranges in the Lydd area and that there was no known “space-related activity” that night.An unnamed Whitehall official wrote: “It is our intention to treat this sighting like that of any other Unidentified Flying Object and therefore we will not be undertaking any further investigation.”There were, however, a number of other similar incidents recorded the same year.
Investigation
On June 17 1991 four passengers on board a Dan Air Boeing 737 saw a “wingless projectile” pass beneath the aircraft as it climbed from Gatwick Airport headed for Hamburg.Gatwick air traffic control were alerted but said they were “unaware of anything unusual occurring at that time”.The MoD said a weather balloon was released in the area at around this time, but it noted that the description and timing did not match.Then on July 15 the pilot of a Britannia Airways 737 reported seeing a “small black lozenge-shaped object” travelling at speed as they approached Gatwick.An investigation found that the object “did not seem to fit any recognisable piece of aviation equipment” and failed to reach a firm conclusion.Dr David Clarke, a UFO expert and journalism lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, said the documents would shed new light on relatively little-known sightings.He admitted that some conspiracy theorists will already have decided that the release of the papers is a “whitewash”.
“Because the subject is bedevilled by charlatans and lunatics, it is career suicide to have your name associated with UFOs, which is a real pity,” he said.“The National Archives are doing a fantastic job here. Everyone brings their own interpretation. Now you can look at the actual primary material - the stuff coming into the MoD every day - and make your own mind up.”The National Archives files also included a letter from a woman claiming that SHE was an alien. She said she was from a planet of “warrior women” and her spaceship came down in Britain during World War Two.She included a sketch of herself in flowing robes with a male alien. The MoD appears not to have replied to her letter.


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