An airliner with 180 passengers was involved in a near-miss with a UFO over the Glasgow suburb of Baillieston as it made its final approach to Glasgow Prestwick Airport.
The unidentified flying object – described by the flight crew as “blue, yellow and silver” – loomed ahead of the Airbus A320.
Then it flew underneath the jet before the pilot had any time to react.
Both the plane’s pilots reported seeing the object 300ft ahead when the aircraft was on its final approach to Glasgow Airport.
One immediately told air traffic control: “Not quite sure what it was but it’s definitely quite large and it’s blue and yellow.”
He filed a report when he touched down at Glasgow and said the collision risk was high.
The investigation has ruled out the presence of any aircraft or stray weather balloons, adding to the mystery.
The incident is recorded in an official report by the UK Airprox Board, who probe near-misses.
While air traffic control said they could see nothing else in the area at the time of the incident, the control centre at Prestwick did detect an “unidentified track history” 1.3 nautical miles east of the A320’s position 28 seconds earlier.
The traffic collision avoidance system on the plane detected nothing.
Last night, UK Airprox confirmed that the pilots had reported the object about 3500ft above Baillieston – 13 miles east of Glasgow Airport.
They said they could not name the airline because “anonimity encourages a robust reporting culture of such events”.
The jet was descending in clear conditions with the sun behind it last December 2, when both the pilot and the non-flying pilot saw “an object ‘loom ahead’ at a range of about 100m,” the report said.
POINTLESS FACT: Glasgow Prestwick Airport is the only piece of UK soil which Elvis Presley ever stepped foot on when the United States Army transport plane carrying him home stopped to refuel in 1960, whilst en route from Germany
Glasgow Prestwick Airport
It added: “The object passed directly beneath before the crew had time to take avoiding action or had ‘really registered it’.
“They were both agreed that it appeared blue and yellow (or silver) in colour with a small frontal area but that it was ‘bigger than a balloon’.
“The controller stated that he was not talking to anyone else in that area and that nothing was seen on radar.
“A further detailed review of individual radar sources did not yield any conclusive radar data that matched the A320 pilot’s description of the encounter.
“The Air Traffic Control unit’s own radar replay also showed no surveillance traces in the immediate vicinity of the A320 at the time.”
UFO near-miss: Airliner about to land in Glasgow comes within 300ft of colliding with mystery object in sky - Daily Record
The unidentified flying object – described by the flight crew as “blue, yellow and silver” – loomed ahead of the Airbus A320.
Then it flew underneath the jet before the pilot had any time to react.
Both the plane’s pilots reported seeing the object 300ft ahead when the aircraft was on its final approach to Glasgow Airport.
One immediately told air traffic control: “Not quite sure what it was but it’s definitely quite large and it’s blue and yellow.”
He filed a report when he touched down at Glasgow and said the collision risk was high.
The investigation has ruled out the presence of any aircraft or stray weather balloons, adding to the mystery.
The incident is recorded in an official report by the UK Airprox Board, who probe near-misses.
While air traffic control said they could see nothing else in the area at the time of the incident, the control centre at Prestwick did detect an “unidentified track history” 1.3 nautical miles east of the A320’s position 28 seconds earlier.
The traffic collision avoidance system on the plane detected nothing.
Last night, UK Airprox confirmed that the pilots had reported the object about 3500ft above Baillieston – 13 miles east of Glasgow Airport.
They said they could not name the airline because “anonimity encourages a robust reporting culture of such events”.
The jet was descending in clear conditions with the sun behind it last December 2, when both the pilot and the non-flying pilot saw “an object ‘loom ahead’ at a range of about 100m,” the report said.
POINTLESS FACT: Glasgow Prestwick Airport is the only piece of UK soil which Elvis Presley ever stepped foot on when the United States Army transport plane carrying him home stopped to refuel in 1960, whilst en route from Germany
Glasgow Prestwick Airport
It added: “The object passed directly beneath before the crew had time to take avoiding action or had ‘really registered it’.
“They were both agreed that it appeared blue and yellow (or silver) in colour with a small frontal area but that it was ‘bigger than a balloon’.
“The controller stated that he was not talking to anyone else in that area and that nothing was seen on radar.
“A further detailed review of individual radar sources did not yield any conclusive radar data that matched the A320 pilot’s description of the encounter.
“The Air Traffic Control unit’s own radar replay also showed no surveillance traces in the immediate vicinity of the A320 at the time.”
UFO near-miss: Airliner about to land in Glasgow comes within 300ft of colliding with mystery object in sky - Daily Record
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