UK Airprox Board

Britain's Ministry of Defence no longer investigates UFOs. One official body still looks closely at strange encounters in British airspace. The UK Airprox Board examines near misses involving aircraft and reports to the Civil Aviation Authority. It took the Britannia Airways black lozenge case near Gatwick in 1991, and its working group could not explain it, judging there had been a possible risk of collision. In 2012 it logged the Glasgow A320 encounter over Baillieston as Report 2012166, finding no surveillance data showing an object beneath the aircraft.

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The Britannia Airways Black Lozenge near Gatwick

July 15, 1991 · Descent towards London Gatwick Airport, West Sussex, England

United Kingdom

UAP · Diamond · 12 sources

44Partially documented

Glasgow A320 near miss with a blue and yellow object over Baillieston

December 2, 2012 · Baillieston, east of Glasgow, Scotland

United Kingdom

UAP · Unknown · 15 sources

21Thinly documented

Official investigator; Report 2012166, risk category D

Heathrow "Rugby Ball" UFO Near Miss (Airprox 2013086)

July 19, 2013 · Over Reading, Berkshire, about 20 miles west of Heathrow Airport

United Kingdom

UAP · Cigar · 25 sources

14Thinly documented

Official body that investigated the encounter