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- PILOT'S CLOSE ENCOUNTER DELIGHTS UFO FANS 03/02/96
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- The Times of Malta
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- British UFO enthusiasts were delighted yesterday when an official committee
- admitted it was baffled by a pilot's report of a lighted, wedge-shaped object
- flying near his Boeing airliner.
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- "Despite exhaustive investigations the reported object remains untraced," said
- the report by the Joint Airmiss Working Group of the Civil Aviation Authority
- (CAA).
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- A British Airways Boeing 737 was approaching Manchester airport in northern
- England on January 6 last year when captain Roger Wills and co-pilot Mark
- Stewart saw the object.
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- It approached the right-hand side of the aircraft at high speed from the
- opposite direction. "The first officer (Stewart) instinctively 'ducked' as it
- went by," the report said.
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- "It made no attempt to deviate from its course and no sound was heard or wake
- (wind turbulence) felt. He felt certain that what he saw was a solid object -
- not a bird, balloon or kite."
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- It said Wills described the object as having "a number of small white lights,
- rather like a Christmas tree."
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- The report said the object was unlikely to have been a military or light
- aircraft or a small flying device such as a paraglider.
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- "To speculate about extra-terrestrial activity, fascinating though it may be,
- is not within the group's remit and must be left to those whose interest lies
- in that field," it said.
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- One British UFO enthusiast, Eric Morrison, who believes unidentified flying
- objects may come from space, said he was not prepared to leave the matter
- there.
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- "Now that the CAA have actually come out with this statement saying that it was
- unidentified, we should go straight back to them and try and get them to give
- us a further statement and possibly even speak to the pilots," he told BBC
- television.
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