Case · UFO Afrinews No 21, January 2000
Capt Graham Sheppard: disc in the airway, 1967
1967 ยท airway between London and Scotland, Preston Radar Control sector, United Kingdom
Outside the region. Hind reprinted this case from elsewhere; it has a file here but no place on the map.
What was reported
On a clear summer day Sheppard was flying an airliner of unstated type from London to Scotland when Preston Radar Control warned the cockpit of fast-moving traffic coming the opposite way along the airway. He and his co-pilot then watched a disc-shaped craft about 30 feet wide race into view and pass within metres of the aircraft, staying in sight for around five seconds. Hind adds that after Sheppard discussed his sightings on television in 1993 he was castigated by the British Airways public relations office and took early retirement a few years later.
What Hind made of it
Cited as an older pilot report in Hind's essay questioning whether pilots deserve more credence than other witnesses; she notes the professional cost to Sheppard of speaking out.
In their words
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You have a fast-moving, opposite direction traffic in the airway.
Cross references
- UAP Potpourri No 426, July 1999