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Continental Europe2018-11-09foreign government record

Ireland 2018 Pilot Reports

On November 9, 2018, commercial pilots flying for British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, and a Norwegian carrier reported very bright, fast-moving objects passing their aircraft off the southwest coast of Ireland. Shannon Air Traffic Control confirmed nothing showed on military radar, and the Irish Aviation Authority opened a formal investigation under its confidential occurrence reporting process.

On November 9, 2018, commercial pilots flying for British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, and a Norwegian carrier reported very bright, fast-moving objects passing their aircraft off the southwest coast of Ireland.

Brief

On November 9, 2018, commercial pilots flying for British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, and a Norwegian carrier reported very bright, fast-moving objects passing their aircraft off the southwest coast of Ireland. Shannon Air Traffic Control confirmed nothing showed on military radar, and the Irish Aviation Authority opened a formal investigation under its confidential occurrence reporting process. The first pilot, on a British Airways flight from Montreal to Heathrow, reported an object overtaking the aircraft at very high speed at FL360 northwest of Cork. Two subsequent crews corroborated similar observations within minutes. The IAA's preliminary conclusion, reported in mainstream press, leaned toward meteors but was explicitly not definitive; the underlying occurrence report remains catalogued under the IAA's confidential filing process rather than published.

Metadata

Date
2018-11-09
Year
2018
Location
Off the southwest coast of Ireland (Shannon ATC airspace)
Region
Continental Europe
Status
confirmed
Tag
foreign government record
Primary
Pilots report UFO sighting off Irish coast
Source type
article
Sources
2

Key Points

  • On November 9, 2018, commercial pilots flying for British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, and a Norwegian carrier reported very bright, fast-moving objects passing their aircraft off the southwest coast of Ireland.
  • Shannon Air Traffic Control confirmed nothing showed on military radar, and the Irish Aviation Authority opened a formal investigation under its confidential occurrence reporting process.
  • The first pilot, on a British Airways flight from Montreal to Heathrow, reported an object overtaking the aircraft at very high speed at FL360 northwest of Cork.
  • Two subsequent crews corroborated similar observations within minutes.

Most Interesting

  • The first pilot, on a British Airways flight from Montreal to Heathrow, reported an object overtaking the aircraft at very high speed at FL360 northwest of Cork.
  • On November 9, 2018, commercial pilots flying for British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, and a Norwegian carrier reported very bright, fast-moving objects passing their aircraft off the southwest coast of Ireland.
  • The IAA's preliminary conclusion, reported in mainstream press, leaned toward meteors but was explicitly not definitive; the underlying occurrence report remains catalogued under the IAA's confidential filing process rather than published.

Timeline

  1. 2018-11-09 · Encounter

    On November 9, 2018, commercial pilots flying for British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, and a Norwegian carrier reported very bright, fast-moving objects passing their aircraft off the southwest coast of Ireland.

  2. 2018 · Source record

    Pilots report UFO sighting off Irish coast is the preferred source material attached to this encounter.

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