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Alderney

Also known as: Alderney Channel Islands

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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.

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.

accountThree weeks after the initial sighting, the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence released documentation regarding the Alderney UAP encounter, which included corroborating radar data from an air-traffic controller on the island of Jersey and a statement from a second commercial pilot who observed the objects from a different direction.

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. Ministry of Defence concluded that it could not definitively identify the objects sighted near Alderney because the reported flight position was in French airspace.

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

claimCaptain Bowyer estimated the sunlight-colored objects observed near Alderney were each about the size of a reasonably large town.

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.

accountKate Russell and her husband observed 'sunlight-colored' objects while near Alderney.

accountOn April 23, 2007, an Aurigny Air Services flight carrying eighteen passengers departed from Southampton, England, for a routine flight to Alderney in the Channel Islands.

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, 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.

accountThree weeks after the Alderney sighting, the UK Ministry of Defence released documentation that included corroborating radar data from an air-traffic controller on Jersey and a statement from a second commercial pilot.

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.

accountOn April 23, 2007, Kate Russell and her husband observed sunlight-colored objects while traveling on a flight near Alderney.