Official UFO Files - Sky News 20 October 2008

A passenger jet coming in to land at Heathrow Airport had a near miss with a UFO, according to newly-released Ministry of Defence files.

The captain of the Alitalia airliner was so concerned he shouted "look out" to his co-pilot after seeing the brown missile-shaped object shoot past them overhead.

The mysterious incident near Lydd in Kent (UK) in 1991 was thoroughly investigated by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and the military.

But having ruled out the object being a missile, weather balloon or space rocket, the MoD closed the inquiry and left the matter unsolved.

The unexplained close encounter is one of many recounted in military UFO documents now made available online by the National Archives.

Documents show the McDonnell Douglas MD80 aircraft was en route from Milan to Heathrow at 22,000ft with 57 people on board when pilot Achille Zaghetti saw the strange object 1,000ft above him.

The 19 UFO Files Include:

:: US Air Force pilot's account of being ordered to shoot down a UFO.

:: MoD request that Army and Navy helicopters should not take photos of crop circles.

:: Letter from a woman claiming to be an alien.

He recounted: "At once I said, 'look out, look out,' to my co-pilot, who looked out and saw what I had seen.

"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'."

The files show 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.

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 a number of other similar incidents recorded in the same year.

On June 17, 1991 four passengers onboard a Dan Air Boeing 737 saw a "wingless projectile" pass beneath the aircraft as it climbed from Gatwick Airport headed for Hamburg.

And 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.

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[TheBadlydrawn]

Man made fiction

[Assization]

We are not alone

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[hangingonat60]

We know "they" are here already. The technology boom since the 1950's..."they" gave us the microchip and fiber optics. We are an intelligent species - we know they are here. I guess we just want our goverment to contirm it?

[celticnomad]

wow, i like the " and we will get it part" ,just how do u manage to talk so much bull and manage to sleep at night?

[yocbjone]

did you hear that? "it may cause fear" it may or may not, u don't know. what IF the stories are true and we didn't pay attention, maybe they come down some day, maybe we would have regretted that we didn't know anything, oh.. "sorry that we used ridicule to put you in fear of being insane."

and now the discussion is starting on some channels, then more channels, more countries.. then, its to late for the governments, cus then you see, the world will demand the truth.

and we will get it.

[woweewooza]

It's beginning to unfold.

[YHVH72]

Yea I been hearing about these documents were released. I think the French documents would be more interesting. But not shit will come of this, because they'll just offer a "rational explanation" and explain away the sightings, even while the eye witnesses are telling them they are crazy as fuck, that's not what they saw. bastard liars. too much video today for their bullshit rational explanations on paper.