UFOs and the CAA
No, that wasn’t a slip of the keyboard. I did mean CAA and not CIA. Granted, the latter has played a distinctly strange and still-unresolved role in the UFO puzzle for decades. But for today, at least, they’re off the hook. So, for those non-Brits that read the blog, you may be asking: what is the CAA? Alternately, you may not be asking that question. But. I’m gonna tell you anyway.
A public service corporation, the Civil Aviation Authority was established by the British Parliament in 1972 as a specialist aviation regulator and provider of air traffic services. Following its separation from the National Air Traffic Services in 2001, the CAA is now the U.K.’s independent aviation regulator, with all civil aviation functions (such as economic regulations; airspace policy; safety regulations; and consumer protection) integrated within a single, unified body.
And, with sightings such as the O’Hare encounter of last year and that of freight pilot Jorge A. Narvaez in Nevada on December 29 of last year currently in the news, I figured it might be a good time to reveal some of the “pilot encounters” reported to the CAA. I could list countless such reports spanning several decades - but instead I’m going to focus on the 1980s, a period that saw some truly bizarre reports reach the CAA.
Bear in mind that much of the documentation that has surfaced officially from the CAA is in the form of brief, raw data. That doesn’t take away the fact that credible people were seeing incredible things, however. Wth that said, check out these CAA-originated reports (presented in their original form):
19 Sep 79 Vicenza - UFO observed passing 200 feet below aircraft. Milan control reported no traffic.
11 Jun 80 Vicenza - UFO passed close to aircraft. Object appeared to be like a fighter aircraft drop tank.
13 Feb 81 Lyon - Unidentified foreign object seen on aircraft radar. A sizeable oval shaped target appeared on radar center-line at limit of range tracking at very high speed. No visual sighting made.
12 Jun 82 Dinkelsbuhi - Large translucent object 500 feet long at 41,000 feet. ATCC [Air Traffic Control Center] requested subject aircraft to investigate this object which was found to have the form of a double rectangle summounted by a globe (egg shape) crowned by a silver cone. Object observed by all on board.
21 Jun 82 Brindisi - Unidentified object sighted by pilots. Object passed down left hand side at same height as aircraft (FL230) & 2 miles away. Black shiny doughnut shape about the size of a car. Object was tumbling and judged to be stationary.
18 Aug 83 Florence - Unidentified flying object seen by crew. Large black object, balloon shaped with large white spot on it, observed 10 NM SE of Firenza. No attachments to object. SUPP. INFO.: Italian CAA replied no met [meteorological] balloon could possibly have been present at the indicated place or time.
24 Aug 84 Ipswich - UK Reportable Accident - A/C [Aircraft] struck object in cruise. Propeller, fuselage, cowling & control runs damaged. The A/C was flying in slight turbulence when a bump was felt. Just before descent the right hand engine control was found to be seized so an asymmetric approach & landing was executed. On inspection it was apparent that the left propeller had struck an unidentifed object, propelling it through the cabin roof, with a piece exiting through a window. There were several holes in the fuselage & damage to the engine, aileron & rudder trim cables. Three pieces of foreign metallic object were found, including a small cylindrical magnet. The UFO has not been identified. No information received concerning nature or origin of UFO.
26 Oct 84 Reading - Unidentified flying object: bright light 65 Deg Elev, 200 Deg T, duration 7 minutes.
20 Dec 84 Herald - Bright white lights arced across A/C track. No range activity in channel. Lights also seen by another A/C.
5 Feb 86 5427N 0530W - Bright light passed upwards in front of A/C. A/C was crossing east coast of Ireland on descent. Light travelled towards A/C from a 2.30 position range approx 11/2 miles and passed 1000 feet above travelling right to left 1 mile ahead. Burst of green light observed at peak of its ballistic flight. A/C ht [height] 1450 ft. CAA closure - possibly flare fired at about time of OCC by Aldergrove. Pilot considered this unlikely but no other explanation has emerged.
21 Aug 86 Belgrade - Non UK Airmiss missile type object passed 500 ft above on reciprocal track A/C heading 290 MAG at FL 390. Object was black, cigar shaped, without wings. Belgrade radar informed on RTF. CAA closure - foreign authority advised.
And for fans of UFOs of the Black Triangle variety, here’s one final, post-1980s report from the files of the CAA:
1 May 1994 - Sighting of unusual object. Member of public reported seeing a black boomerang-shaped object, which apppeared to hover over RAF Northolt, above 30,000 feet, before tumbling approx 2000-3000 feet, while rotating through 180 degrees on its axis. No other reports of anything unusual received - possibly A/C in Bovingdon stack seen from odd angle in setting sun.
Remember: UFO does not mean alien spacecraft. It might do. It might also imply classified aircraft, research balloon, off-course missile, and a multiplicity of other things. But something unusual is being seen in our skies: just ask the CAA.
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Jan 31 2007 
January 31st, 2007 at 11:30 am
Hmm… for a second there, I thought you meant the Canadian Automobile Association, of which my dad is a member.
Hmm… he did used to tell my siblings and I he was from Mars…
PK
January 31st, 2007 at 11:56 am
Hmmmm…
Could it be true that PK himself is actually an alien infiltrator - working his way into our ranks? Plotting and planning the first wave of some dire, extraterrstrial invasion force?
Was it actually PK who “infected” my tuna sandwich in Puerto Rico with some fast acting virus designed to give me a bad dose of the Montezuma’s, and thereby preventing me from finding the Chupacabras?
I see the truth now. We’ve been fooled all along by this north-of-the-border fiend.
The CAA, PK, tuna-fish lunches: the conspiracy is a secret no more.
I know you can’t remain in human form forever, Paul, and that eventually you’ll mutate back to your real alien appearance. I’ll be watching…
January 31st, 2007 at 2:24 pm
Ooh, ooh! Nick! Nick! [That’s me being all excited].
Reading all those accounts’s just inspired me to attempt a drawing/painting of something I saw in the night sky over Liverpool about a week or so ago (off the top of my head).
By my standards it’s almost ordinary, very unsurreal, very unbizarre, yet it’s still a little doozy, and still just a little odd.
It’s something I really did see, but I’m also using it as an excuse to try out me new toy, an art board and stylus type thingy for me pc.
Normally I’d use real paints and a brush, so allow for me getting the hang of the bleedin’ thing - at the very least, expect a wobbly scrawl.