Britain Releases More UFO Sighting Files
By RAPHAEL G. SATTER,
AP
LONDON (Oct. 20) – Alitalia pilot Achille Zaghetti thought it was a missile.
Zaghetti was at the helm of a jet from Milan to London’s Heathrow Airport on the evening of April 21, 1991 when a flying object streaked across his field of vision.
“At once I said, ‘look out, look out,’ to my co-pilot, who looked out and saw what I had seen,” Zaghetti wrote in his report. “As soon as the object crossed us I asked to the ACC (area control center) operator if he saw something on his screen and he answered ‘I see an unknown target 10 nautical miles behind you.'”
An investigation later ruled out a missile — but never ruled anything in, either.
The close encounter is one of many reported UFO sightings among 19 files that Britain’s National Archives posted Monday to the Web.
The new material covers UFO sightings between 1986 and 1992.
While the 1,500-page batch of documents debunks a host of UFO sightings, others like Zaghetti’s near-miss with a UFO remain unexplained.
On June 17, 1991, four passengers on a Hamburg, Germany-bound Dan Air 737 spotted “a wingless projectile pass below and to the left of the aircraft” as the flight climbed out of London’s Gatwick Airport.
“It would seem to have passed fairly close by as the passengers were able to see it quite clearly,” the Civil Aviation Authority wrote in its report.
More disturbing was a sighting a month later by crew aboard a Gatwick-bound Britannia Airways Boeing 737, who saw a “a small black lozenge-shaped object” zipping past about 100 yards to the left of the aircraft.
The airport confirmed seeing an object on its radar and clocked it traveling at 120 miles per hour. Air traffic controllers quickly warned the next aircraft to turn out of the object’s flight path, although by then the object had disappeared from view.
Speculation centered on a weather balloon released in the area the same day, but an investigation could not determine what the UFO was.
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They released pictures of the aliens poking Kirsan in the butt.
One of the aliens looked like Markus Roberti…
HI SUSAN,
ARE YOU INTERESTED IN UFOS?
I REMEMBER AN OLD POST OF YOURS FROM ROSWELL NM.
I BELIEVE THEY ARE HERE AND HAVE HAD A HAND IN OUR DEVELOPMENT FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS. THE ANCIENT ASTRONAUT THEORY IS A VERY INTERESTING SUBJECT. WHAT DO YOU THINK?
I basically agree with the UFO Skeptic website maintained by noted astrophysicist Bernard Haisch. The title doesn’t mean it’s a debunking site—he defines “skeptic” carefully and it’s pretty evenhanded. Haisch has courted some controversy in various (other) ways, even in regard to his Wikipedia page itself, but he’s academically solid, and he does not make a living off “ufology”. The Wikipedia page pulls a key passage from his site.
My own opinion is divided. If (A) we are indeed being watched over by ETs (who became more interventionist after Hiroshima), then I have two relevant opinions: (1) With regard to Haisch’s “Some Thoughts on Keeping it Secret”, I say definitely yes and disagree with his opinion that world cultures could absorb the shock. (2) The best way to keep it secret is to hide it in plain sight, i.e. mix in “real” and “fake” sightings. In particular, I agree with this Dec. 7, 2006 item that the 12/1/06 Krasnoyarsk UFO was a hoax, a conclusion I reached on 12/1/06 itself when asked to search Russian reports that day.
(B) If not, then we encounter the Fermi Paradox: since most exobiology models predict other advanced civilizations should be within our radio range, why aren’t they here? Among the various depressing answers summarized on that page, the one I agree with most is the Hedonistic Imperative—I’ve actually linked George Dvorsky’s comments on an essay by sociologist Geoffrey Miller. Put another way, the relativistic difficulty of voyaging in Outer Space makes us prefer to explore Inner Space—a combat familiar to the 97% of (US) families whose teenage children prefer video games to homework!
An even more difficult question—but the easiest to study—is whether if (B) is true, the policy in (A)(2) is still valid, even on top of whatever is the natural rate of humans to be deceived by aerial phenomena. An important test case for the latter is the 1996 TWA 800 explosion, in which dozens of Long Island witnesses claimed on the night-of that they saw a streak of light ascend—and saw?/inferred? it came from water-surface level (which would make it a missle).