Fascinating subject this, from lurking here I know you're an SME on aviation - the black helicopters will be with you soon
@Raven2008 ...
I'm a civvy but from being a bairn I've had UFO sightings.
The Tehran incident is a beauty, I've not heard about the Egyptian one.
Probably thread drift but the Cosford Incident,William Schaffner & BA5061 intrigue me (I've got a serious tin foil hat as has the dog).
I was a witness to the Howden Moor incident on the 24th of March 1997.
(I am under MH & on meds)...
We were out in Barnsley on student night, heard a light aircraft about 2100 & saw the nav lights heading roughly west. Thought nowt of it.
Wednesday morning on day release from my NVQ agriculture (now on my second degree & an MSc so not much of a mong).
One of the lads lived at a farm (SK2397), it was an RVP for the local MRT & Charles took MRT & [his words] the Army up on the tractor & trailer as far as he could get.
A few other lads went up because it sounded & looked like an aircraft had gone down, IIRC Crowden, Edale & ?Glossop MRT were scrambled.
I used to go up every weekend & knew the Dark Peak we'll.
The following Saturday I went up, went from Langsett
@Ritch , over Cut Gate, Harden Moss up to Cat Clough Head, there I saw what looked like a Sea King had put down (two sets of dual tyres & a single) MRT etc had been flown up, I think two Sea kings had been scrambled.
I saw nowt bar the Sea King depressions but speaking to lads & aquiantences who went up thinking it was a potential aircraft crash it was a genuine shout & at 17 years old & volunteering to go on the moors to search says summat.
In the end nothing was found, the BGS said it was a bolide & the RAF said that a couple of Phantoms/Tornados went over Sheffield.
There were questions asked in Parliament but nothing has been "disclosed" conclusively.
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(Not my FoI).