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On April 23, 2007, captain Ray Bowyer〔Ray Bowyer was a flight calibration pilot before qualifying as airline pilot, accumulating 7,000 flight hours by 2010. He flew for eight airlines before serving as line captain for Aurigny Air Services. See Kean, 2010, p. 297〕 was flying a routine passenger flight for the civilian airliner Aurigny Air Services, when he and his passengers gained progressively clearer views of two UFOs during a 12〔 to 15〔 minute period. Bowyer had 18 years of flying experience,〔〔 and the 45-minute flight was one that he had completed every working day for more than 8 years.〔〔 Their journey of 45 minutes took them from Southampton on the southern coast of England, southwestwards to Alderney,〔 being from France, and the northernmost of the Channel Islands.〔 Their particular flight path had them converging on two enormous, seemingly stationary and identical airborne craft, which emanated brilliant yellow light. A pilot of a plane near Sark, some to the south, confirmed the presence, general position and altitude of the first object from the opposite direction.〔Joel de Woolfson, Pilot’s UFO shock, The Guernsey Press & Star, St Saviour, Jersey, April 26, 2007〕 Radar traces also seemed to register the presence of an object, which Ray Bowyer believed to be correlated with the position and time of the sighting.〔 A study by David Clarke〔David Clarke (Ph.D. Folklore) is a lecturer on journalism at Sheffield Hallam University and consultant to the UK National Archives on their UFO file releases. See Alejandro Rojas, 2011, (Credible UFO sighting by pilots and crew in new UK files )〕 however, could not establish a definite link, as the radar reflections of passenger ferries may have affected at least some of the readings. ==Observation== }} The April 23 observation was preceded, ten weeks earlier, by a sighting of an initial two, and a subsequent twenty to twenty five unexplained lights in formation over the northern extremity of Alderney's coastline. These were noticed at 6:15 AM on February 14 by builder Paul Gaudion.〔 The passengers of flight A-Line 544 departed in a BN2a Mk3 Trislander aircraft at 2:00 PM in fine weather with good visibility.〔 They rose to an altitude of and were cruising on autopilot about south of the Isle of Wight, when captain Bowyer was doing paper work and looking out for other aircraft.〔 At this point he noticed, exactly in the direction of Guernsey, i.e. southwest and twelve o'clock ahead, what appeared to be a brilliant yellow lamp or light. He considered that it might be an aeroplane, or alternatively, reflections from the ground, as Guernsey was immediately behind it.〔 The reflection of the sun off a greenhouse was a possibility, but surprisingly, for a minute and then a couple of minutes, the apparition continued. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2007 Alderney UFO sighting」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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