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- MANCHESTER UFO INCIDENT 03/02/96
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- Source: Reuter
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- LONDON (Reuter) - British UFO enthusiasts were delighted Friday 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 Jan. 6 last year when Capt. 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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