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Ray Bowyer

Also known as: Captain Ray Bowyer, Captain Bowyer, Pilot Bowyer

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accountRay Bowyer, a professional pilot with eighteen years of experience, observed a stationary, cigarlike object with sharp edges and pointed ends at 2:06 P.M. during a flight to Alderney.

accountDuring the April 23, 2007 flight, Captain Ray Bowyer observed a second object moving in formation with the first, and a passenger seated behind him borrowed his binoculars to view the objects.

accountOn April 23, 2007, an Aurigny Air Services flight piloted by Ray Bowyer departed from Southampton, England, for Alderney, Channel Islands, and encountered two unidentified objects.

accountOn April 23, 2007, an Aurigny Air Services flight piloted by Captain Ray Bowyer departed from Southampton, England, for a flight to Alderney in the Channel Islands.

claimThe United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence concluded that it could not definitively identify the objects sighted by Captain Ray Bowyer because the reported flight position was in French airspace.

accountOn April 23, 2007, Captain Ray Bowyer and passenger Kate Russell observed "sunlight-colored" objects near Alderney, which Bowyer estimated to be the size of a "reasonably large town."

claimThe U.K.’s Ministry of Defence concluded that because the flight position reported by Captain Bowyer was in French airspace, a definitive identification of the objects was not the British government’s responsibility.

accountPilot Bowyer filed a report regarding the Alderney UAP sighting with the British Civil Aviation Authority's Mandatory Occurrence Report system, which included a sketch of the objects.

accountRay Bowyer observed a second object that appeared to move in formation with the first object he sighted during his flight to Alderney.

accountLeslie Kean and James Fox, the director of the documentary 'The Phenomenon,' organized a UAP-focused event at the National Press Club that featured fourteen speakers, including Major Jafari and Captain Ray Bowyer.

accountLeslie Kean and James Fox organized an event at the National Press Club featuring fourteen speakers, including Major Jafari and Captain Ray Bowyer, to discuss UAP sightings.

claimPilot Bowyer estimated the size of the observed objects to be about the size of a "reasonably large town."

accountCaptain Ray Bowyer, the pilot of the April 23, 2007 Aurigny Air Services flight, had eighteen years of professional experience and had flown the Channel crossing over a thousand times in the previous decade.

accountCaptain Ray Bowyer, a professional pilot with eighteen years of experience, observed a stationary, gleaming yellow light with a long, thin, cigarlike shape and sharp edges while flying near the Channel Islands on April 23, 2007.

accountCaptain Ray Bowyer filed a Mandatory Occurrence Report with the United Kingdom's Civil Aviation Authority regarding the UAP sighting near Alderney, estimating the objects were each the size of a reasonably large town.

accountCaptain Bowyer filed a report with Britain’s Civil Aviation Authority regarding the sighting of objects he estimated to be the size of a "reasonably large town."

accountCaptain Ray Bowyer filed a Mandatory Occurrence Report with the UK Civil Aviation Authority regarding the sighting near Alderney, which included a sketch of the objects he observed.

accountCaptain Ray Bowyer observed a gleaming yellow light at 2:06 P.M. while flying a routine route, which he initially mistook for sunlight reflecting off glass vineries before observing it through binoculars and identifying it as a stationary, cigarlike object with sharp edges and pointed ends.

quoteCaptain Ray Bowyer stated at the National Press Club: "I would have been shocked if I was told that the C.A.A. would obstruct an investigation, or if the C.A.A. told me that what I had seen was something entirely different. But it seems that pilots in America are used to this kind of thing, as far as I can tell."

accountAt 2:06 P.M. on April 23, 2007, Captain Ray Bowyer observed a stationary, cigar-shaped, gleaming yellow object with sharp edges and pointed ends while flying an Aurigny Air Services plane near the Channel Islands.

accountDuring the April 23, 2007 incident, Captain Ray Bowyer observed a second object moving in formation with the first, and a passenger behind him borrowed his binoculars to view it.

accountCaptain Ray Bowyer, a pilot who witnessed UAP objects near Alderney, filed a report with the British Civil Aviation Authority that included a sketch of the objects and his professional opinion that each object was approximately the size of a reasonably large town.

accountUsing 10x magnification binoculars, pilot Ray Bowyer observed that the yellow light was a corporeal object with a long, thin, cigarlike shape, sharp edges, and pointed ends, resembling a wheel viewed in profile.

accountDuring the April 23, 2007, flight, pilot Ray Bowyer used binoculars with ten-times magnification to observe the object, which he noted was stationary and radiated a brilliance that was difficult to describe.

accountCaptain Ray Bowyer, a pilot with eighteen years of experience, observed a second object moving in formation with the first cigar-shaped object he encountered on April 23, 2007, while flying near the Channel Islands.

accountRay Bowyer observed a second object moving in formation with the first yellow, cigarlike object during his flight on April 23, 2007.

quoteCaptain Ray Bowyer stated at the National Press Club: 'I would have been shocked if I was told that the C.A.A. would obstruct an investigation, or if the C.A.A. told me that what I had seen was something entirely different. But it seems that pilots in America are used to this kind of thing, as far as I can tell.'

accountOn April 23, 2007, Captain Ray Bowyer of Aurigny Air Services, while piloting an eighteen-passenger plane from Southampton, England, to Alderney, observed a stationary, cigarlike, yellow object at 2:06 P.M. that radiated a brilliance he described as "difficult to describe."

accountAt 2:06 P.M. on April 23, 2007, Captain Ray Bowyer observed a gleaming yellow light directly ahead of his aircraft while flying from Southampton to Alderney.

accountDuring the April 23, 2007, sighting near the Channel Islands, a passenger seated behind Captain Ray Bowyer borrowed his binoculars to view the objects.