Airline pilots report UFO sighting over Ireland

Airline pilots report UFO sighting over Ireland

We don’t want to alarm you, but multiple pilots may have spotted a UFO zooming over Ireland last week.

Air traffic controllers at Shannon Airport received the first call early Friday morning on November 9 from a British Airways pilot, the Daily Telegraph reported.

“It came up to my left-hand side, then rapidly veered to the north,” the pilot said, sounding almost embarrassed.

“Is there a military exercise?”

“There’s nothing showing on either primary or secondary (radar),” Air traffic controllers responded.

The pilot, who was flying a Boeing 737 from Montreal to London, said she saw a “bright light” that was travelling at a very high speed.

“(It) was travelling so fast — in fact you can no longer see it. We were just wondering. We didn’t think it was likely on a collision course, but just wondered what it could have been,” she said.

But she wasn’t the only one to report the strange phenomenon.

Two more pilots contacted air traffic control with similar sightings just minutes later.

tenor

A Virgin Airlines pilot on their way from Orlando to Manchester cut in and confirmed he had also seen something he described as a “meteor or another object making some kind of re-entry.”

“There appeared to be multiple objects following the same sort of trajectory. They were very bright from where we were … two bright lights that seemed to bank over to the right and climb away at speed at least from our perspective,” he said.

Another pilot piped in and said the speed of the objects was “astronomical, it was like Mach 2 (2500km/h).”

“Glad it wasn’t just me,” another remarked.

Irish aviation authorities have confirmed they are investigating reports of “unusual air activity”.

“Following reports from a small number of aircraft on Friday 9 November of unusual air activity the IAA has filed a report,” the Irish Aviation Authority said.

“This report will be investigated under the normal confidential occurrence investigation process.”

Whatever the outcome of the investigation, we for one are convinced that something very spooky is taking place in Irish airspace.

Watch the skies, folks!

anigif_enhanced-6576-1444761343-3

Email the Travel Weekly team at traveldesk@travelweekly.com.au

ireland ufo

Latest News

  • Destinations
  • News

APT Launches 2025 Asia Adventures

APT has launched its Asia Adventures for 2025, including new luxury holidays in India, Sri Lanka and Japan. Five new tours lead guests to the highlights of India, including a seven-night cruise along the rarely travelled Lower Ganges aboard the Ganges Voyager. Further south, Sri Lanka’s greatest destinations are revealed on a new 15-day Land […]

  • Cruise
  • Luxury
  • News

Seabourn announces Western Kimberley Traditional Owners as Godparents of Seabourn Pursuit

Seabourn has named Western Kimberley Traditional Owners, the Wunambal Gaambera, as Godparents of the ultra-luxury purpose-built Seabourn Pursuit. It is the first cruise line to appoint Traditional Owners as godparents of a ship. Seabourn Pursuit embarks on its inaugural season in the Kimberley region this June. The naming ceremony will take place on Seabourn Pursuit’s […]

  • Luxury

Malolo Island Resort opens brand new Spa

Fiji’s Malolo Island has added another string to its bow – opening its $1.3 million day spa on Thursday, 18th April 2024. (Lead Image: matriarch Rosie Whitton with spa staff) Located at the edge of the resort’s luscious patch of tropical rainforest, the new “Leilani’s Spa” adds another level of elevated experiences to Malolo’s already […]