НЛО. Турция

A major airport in Brit holiday hotspot Turkey was shut down by a UFO.

At least 26 flights were grounded over 12 hours after the mystery craft buzzed a passenger jet as it came into land at Gaziantep airport.

The unidentified flying object appeared on the aircraft's radar at 9,000ft above the southern city.

Air traffic controllers, who reportedly spotted it separately, had no idea what it was.

They immediately ordered all scheduled flights to be diverted to airports in Adana and Sanliufa.

Turkish news outlets said 13 departures and 13 arrivals were cancelled.

The airport remained shut for 12 hours on Saturday before reopening when the collision risk was deemed to have passed.

Investigators are probing the incident which came hours after US Government adviser Dr Garry Nolan stunned an international conference by revealing America has retrieved wreckage from crashed UFOs.

The pathology professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, who has published more than 300 research articles and holds 40 US patents, told thought think-tank Salt iConnections in New York engineers had worked on "reverse-engineering downed craft".

That means attempted to recreate them from debris.

Dr Nolan, 62, said he was "100%" sure not only has extraterrestrial intelligence visited Earth but "it’s been here a long time...and it’s still here".

UFO investigators are probing 510 reported close encounters between US military personnel - including many Top Gun pilots - spanning seven decades.

Many are said to have happened near nuclear-powered aircraft carriers or missile bases.

More than 3.8million Brits visited Turkey last year (2022) though Gaziantep is a less popular airport for UK holidaymakers due to its proximity to the Syrian border.