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UFO. United Kingdom

ID #1607514602
Added Wed, 09/12/2020
Author July N.
Sources
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Status
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Initial data

Initial information from sources or from an eyewitness
Incident date: 
19.04.1984 16:00
Location: 
Восточная Англия
United Kingdom

Air traffic controllers at an airport in the East of England witnessed a glowing sphere that looked like a "wrinkled up mass of silver paper" land on a cross runway and then take off into the sky in a maneuver they deemed impossible for the plane. 

It climbed 3,000 feet (900 m) in less than a second. 

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Incident with an air traffic controller. At 1600 GMT, air traffic controllers at an airport in the East of England watched as a glowing sphere that looked like "a cluster of silver paper wrinkled up" landed on a cross runway and then soared into the sky in a maneuver they deemed impossible for the plane. It climbed 3,000 feet (900 m) in less than a second. 

Original news

Date:  April 19 1984
Location:  East Anglia Apt, England
Time:  16.00 GMT.
Summary:   Air traffic controllers at an eastern airport in England witnessed a glowing sphere that looked like “masses of silver paper crinkled up” touch down on a cross runway, then rocket skyward in a maneuver they judged impossible for aircraft. It climbed 3000 feet in under a second. Air Traffic Controllers incident. At 16.00 GMT air traffic controllers at an eastern airport in England witnessed a glowing sphere that looked like ‘masses of silver paper crinkled up’ touch down on a cross runway, then rocket skyward in a maneuver they judged impossible for aircraft. It climbed 3000 feet in under a second. 
Source:  International UFO Reporter, March-April 1986, p. 5

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