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The Irish Aviation Authority has officially launched an investigation after multiple commercial aircrafts reported seeing an unidentified flying object off the southwest coast of Ireland last Friday. In the bizarre recording from air traffic control, the pilots seemed pretty confused when they radioed ground control to ask about the strange bright light they saw flying around them.
This already sounds like the opening scene of an alien invasion movie to me, so that’s why it’s not weird at all that I’m sitting in my basement writing this post with a tin foil hat on. Not. At. All.
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At about 6:47 am on November 9, the pilot of a British Airways flight travelling from Montreal to Heathrow contacted Shannon Air Traffic Control (ATC) asking if any military exercises were going on in the airspace around her. There wasn’t. ATC responded, “There is nothing showing on either primary or secondary [radar].”
And the plot thickens…
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The pilot goes on to describe how the “bright light” appeared on her left-hand side then suddenly turned north and disappeared at a very high speed. “We were just wondering what it might be”, she’s heard saying.
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Moments after, another pilot from a Virgin Airlines plane radioed ATC about multiple objects following the same trajectory, and said they were very bright from where he was. After first commenting that maybe it was a meteor making re-entry, he goes on to say that it appeared as if the objects “climbed away at speed, at least from our perspective”.
A third pilot than chimes in, “glad it wasn’t just me”. In a separate recording, he claimed the object was travelling at “astronomical” speeds, at least Mach 2 (2,500 km/h).
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You know what they say: if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and talks like a duck, then it’s probably an alien.
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According to reports from the Irish Examiner, the British Airways flight was passing over Kerry at the time, while the other two flights were heading eastbound in high-level airspace, 24,500 ft and above.
The Irish Aviation Authority has since released a statement, “Following reports from a small number of aircraft on Friday, November 9, of unusual air activity, the IAA has filed a report. This report will be investigated under the normal confidential occurrence investigation process.”
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Via IMDb/Men in Black 3
In other words, just leave this one up to the Men in Black.
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Unsurprisingly, experts are already pointing the finger at a meteor shower as the culprit of this strange sighting, which is obviously code for secret government cover-up, right?
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If you want to listen to the audio recording, here it is.
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So, have at it conspiracy theorists!
H/T: Irish Examiner
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