LONDON (Reuters) - The Irish Air Force has launched an investigation into the bodies of an unidentified aircraft flying at high speed and emitting bright, "airplane-shaped" lights over the country after being spotted by pilots in a commercial airline.
The inquiry began after a pilot on board British Airways flight BAA 94, from Montreal, Canada, bound for London's Heathrow Airport, approached the control tower at Shannon Airport at 6:50 am on November 9. , To tell them about seeing an unknown object moving above its plane.
According to various British and Irish media, the pilot asked if there were any military maneuvers off the west coast of Ireland, according to a recording monitored by Airlive.
The control tower responded to the inquiry by saying that there were no military maneuvers or exercises in the area, and "nothing on the main or secondary radars was shown."
The pilot of the plane told the watchtower that the bodies of an unidentified aircraft were "moving very fast." "It appeared on our left side and then quickly turned north."
The pilot said that these strange flying objects were issued "very bright light, and disappeared very quickly," but stressed that these objects were not on a collision course with the aircraft, according to the newspaper "Guardian" British.
Not only was the British Airways plane flying, but other pilots saw flying objects in the same area.
On a flight from Orlando to Manchester, a pilot on a Virgin Airlines flight said he saw what he thought was a "meteorite" or "another object of a kind of re-entry."
"Multiple objects follow the same kind of path and it's very bright, it looks like several flying objects were following the same path, and they looked very bright from the area where we were flying," the Virgin said.
"I'm glad I was not the only one who saw it," said a third pilot.
A fourth said he saw "two bright lights" according to the BBC.
Another pilot described the speed of these flying objects as "very high", and they were probably Mach 2 speeds, two times faster than the sound.
A spokesman for the Irish Air Force told the Irish Times that the agency had opened an investigation into the incidents and would report it.
But the spokesman ruled out that the objects were flying objects. "These flying objects are unlikely to be aircraft from another planet," he said.
