Article by Isaac Crowson November 22, 2020 (thesun.co.uk)
• On September 1, 2020, preparing to land a Boeing 737 packed with passengers at the Leeds Bradford airport in northern England, the jet’s two pilots “suddenly saw a bright light and an object which appeared to be moving toward the aircraft, almost head on, slightly up and to the left” according to the Airprox report. Witnesses say the UFO came within ten feet of colliding with the commercial flight arriving from Spain.
• The incident was rated a ‘Category A’ event by the UK Airprox Board – which monitors and investigates near-miss aerial events. “The object appeared without warning and there was no time to act,” said the report. After landing, the pilots were told that a police helicopter had seen lanterns flying in the area. But the report stated that “Neither of the pilots believed what they saw was a lantern.” Investigators ruled that “a definite risk of collision had existed”.
• The near miss in Leeds came three days before a drone came three feet away from striking an Easyjet Airbus A320 which had taken off from Manchester Airport carrying 186 passengers. At 8,000ft over Greater Manchester, the ‘drone’ would have been flying 20 times above the legal height. There have been more than 400 reported incidents in the past five years.
A UFO came within seconds of colliding with a passenger jet in a terrifying close call.
The rogue object came at the packed Boeing 737 plane “almost head on” as pilots prepared to land at Leeds 
Bradford airport.
The scare on September 1 was rated a ‘Category A’ event by the UK Airprox Board – which monitors and investigates near-miss events.
The unidentifiable object – which could have been a drone or lantern – was just 10 feet away from the flight arriving from Spain.
The Airprox report revealed: “Both pilots suddenly saw a bright light and an object which appeared to be moving toward the aircraft, almost head on, slightly up and to the left.
“The object appeared without warning and there was no time to act.”
After landing, the pilots were told that a police helicopter had seen lanterns flying in the area.
But the report added: “Neither of the pilots believed what they saw was a lantern.”
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