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The Alderney Sighting

Off Alderney, Channel Islands

An airline captain watches two huge yellow objects hang over the sea.

Captain Ray Bowyer, flying a scheduled Aurigny passenger service from Southampton, saw a bright yellow, cigar-shaped object hanging in the sky near Alderney, then a second one closer to Guernsey. He watched them for several minutes.

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When
23 April 2007
Where
49.7140, -2.2000
Group
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Seen from the Aurigny flights between Southampton, Guernsey and Alderney.

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UFO Cases of Britain

It happened in the spring of 2007, in an age of mobile phones, satellite imagery and routine aviation safety reporting, and it was made by a working airline pilot with years of experience flying the same short route over the same stretch of sea.

Fifty-four real and closely examined British UFO cases, weighed with honesty rather than hype. From Rendlesham Forest, the best-documented UFO case the United Kingdom has ever produced, to the Berwyn Mountains, the Broad Haven schoolchildren, the Calvine photograph and the Bonnybridge hotspot, each case sets out what was seen, who saw it and what the explanations are.

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