Something very strange occurred in the pre-dawn skies over southwest Ireland on
November 9th, 2018 and we have a recording to prove it.
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/24849/listen-as-multiple-airline-pilots-report-very-high-speed-unidentified-objects-over-Ireland
The Irish Aviation Authority is investigating a new mysterious aviation incident
that recently occurred over the country. The details are similar in some
respects to reported sightings of unidentified flying objects over Oregon,
Arizona, and New York, incidents that The War Zone was the first to report on.
In the pre-dawn hours on Nov. 9, 2018, about 45 minutes before sunrise, at least
three different airliners flying over or off the coast of southwestern Ireland
reported seeing multiple unidentified objects flying near them at incredible
speed. Authorities in Ireland confirmed they were looking into the situation on
Nov. 12, 2018, but offered no additional information.
"Following reports from a small number of aircraft on Friday, November 9, of
unusual air activity, the IAA has filed a report," the country's aviation
authorities explained. "This report will be investigated under the normal
confidential occurrence investigation process."
Publicly available audio of conversations between the passenger planes and
Shannon Flight Information Region air traffic controllers offer more detail
about what happened. At 6:47 AM local time, a British Airways 787, using the
callsign Speedbird 94, radioed in to ask if there were any military exercises
going on in the area, which there were not.
"There is nothing showing on either primary or secondary [radar]," Shannon
pilot responded.
She further explained that the object had appeared as a "very bright light" and
had flown along the left side of their 787 before it "rapidly veered to the
north" and then "disappeared at very high speed." There is no indication of
concerns about a possible collision.
A second pilot, flying a Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747 and using the callsign
Virgin 76, then joined the radio conversation to say that they too had seen more
than one bright light or even "multiple objects following the same sort of
trajectory." He repeated the details about the objects being very bright and
moving at extremely high speeds, likening their appearance to an object
re-entering the earth's atmosphere from space.
"Glad it wasn't just me," someone chimed in at one point. "No, ah, yeah, very
interesting that one," the pilot of Virgin 76 replied and noted that the two
very bright objects went from 11 o'clock off their nose before climbing away at
high speed.
The pilot of another aircraft, a Norwegian Air 737, was also party to the
overall conversation. Eventually, air traffic controllers said that they had
received multiple reports about the objects and would pass the information on to
authorities.
The entire audio is available here. It begins 17:50 and ends right after the
20:00 minute mark.
http://archive-server.liveatc.net/einn/EINN-High-Nov-09-2018-0630Z.mp3
While objects regularly enter the earth's atmosphere, and some are quite
spectacular looking if they make it to lower altitudes, they do not fly up
alongside aircraft, make hard lateral maneuvers, and then accelerate away at
high speed. And they definitely don't climb away after descending. Pilots see
shooting stars more than most and they aren't children who comment on just any
pretty sight they see with air traffic controllers. This was clearly a very
unusual occurrence as seen from the cockpit.
This incident, like others we have felt worthy of reporting on before, was also
corroborated by multiple aircraft, and in this case, those aircraft were spread
quite far apart. The fact that Speedbird 94 provided a 'close-up' account of the
incident while Virgin 76 conveyed a 'wide-angle' account that made this
encounter even more compelling.
We have reached out to a number of authorities for comment and more information
regarding this bizarre incident, we will report back if we find out more.
*
|
|