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UFOs spotted off Irish coast under investigation - C C - Nov 13, 2018
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46181662
EXCERPT: The Irish Aviation Authority is investigating reports of bright lights and UFOs off the south-west coast of Ireland. [...] Apostolos Christou, an astronomer from the Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, said what the pilots saw was probably a piece of dust entering the earth's atmosphere at very high speed. "It was most likely what are commonly called shooting stars," he said....
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RE: UFOs spotted off Irish coast under investigation - Magical Realist - Nov 13, 2018
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/24849/listen-as-multiple-airline-pilots-report-very-high-speed-unidentified-objects-over-ireland
"Just before dawn last Friday, pilots from at least three different airlines--British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, and Norwegian Air--flying over or off the coast of southwestern Ireland reported seeing multiple unidentified objects flying nearby at incredible speed. Military exercises? Negative. Meteors or space junk? Not likely, since such objects "do not fly up alongside aircraft, make hard lateral maneuvers, and then accelerate away at high speed," according to Tyler Rogoway of The Drive. This story is breaking all over, from the Associated Press, BBC News, and other sources, but The Drive, notably, has the tape of the two minutes of conversation between the astonished airline pilots (beginning at 17:50 and ending after 20:00 minute mark). Irish authorities are looking into the situation. (PH)"---- https://www.anomalist.com/