
DECEMBER 21, 2012 âŠâŠâŠGLASGOW SCOTLAND
Pilot describes moment an Airbus with up to 220 people on board came dangerously close to crashing into âUFOâ as it came in to land. Plane narrowly avoided the âblue and yellowâ object at 3,500ft.
Drama happened 13 miles outside Glasgow Airport. Nothing else was noticed on the radar at the time. Object passed beneath the plane before crew could avoid it.
The plane was less than 10 seconds away from hitting the object as it flew over Baillieston on the outskirts of Glasgow at 3,500ft and prepared to land.
Despite an extensive investigation, the UK Airprox Board â which investigates reports of near misses â was unable to identify the âblue and yellowâ object which passed below the Airbus 320.
The pilot was clearly shocked and reported that there had been a âhighâ risk of collision following the incident on December 2 last year.
He told his control tower: âWe just had something pass underneath us quite close. Have you got anything on in our area.â
They replied: âNegative. Weâve got nothing on radar and weâre not talking to any traffic eitherâ
The unidentified flying object passed directly beneath the plane before either of the crew had a chance to take action to avoid it.
Both pilots described the object as âblue and yellow (or silver) in colour with a small frontal area but that it was âbigger than a balloonâ.â
The airline involved has not been identified by the report authors. Several companies fly in Airbus 320 planes from the airport and they can seat up to 220 people â although the number of seats varies.
Approach: The plane was 13 miles away from Glasgow Airport (pictured) when it came within seconds of colliding with the unidentified object.
The report authors said they had not been able to work out what the object was.
They wrote: âThe controller stated that he was not talking to anyone else in that area and that nothing was seen on radar. Search action was taken with no result and the A320 pilot stated his intention to file an Airprox.
âAdditionally, a further detailed review of individual radar sources did not yield any conclusive radar data that matched the A320 pilotâs description of the encounter.
Near miss: A diagram in the report which shows the pilotâs direction of travel and the unidentified object which is marked as âCPA 1246â
PILOT REPORTS âUFOâ AS HE LANDS AT GLASGOW AIRPORT
This is a transcript of what the A320 pilot told the control tower.
A320: âGlasgow Approach [A320 C/S]â
Air Traffic Control: â[A320 C/S] pass your messageâ
A320: âEr yeah we just had something pass underneath us quite close and nothing on TCAS have you got anything on in our areaâ
Control: âEr negative er weâve got nothing on er radar and weâre n-not talking to any traffic eitherâ
A320: âEr not quite sure what it was but it definitely er quite large and itâs blue and yellowâ
Control: âOK thatâs understood er do you have a an estimate for the heightâ
A320: âMaybe er yeah we were probably about four hundred to five hundred feet above it so itâs probably about three and a half thousand feet.
ââŠwe seemed to only miss it by a couple of hundred feet it went directly beneath us ⊠wherever we were when we called it in it was within about ten secondsâ⊠couldnât tell what direction it was going but it went right underneath usââ
Control: âdo you suspect it might have been a glider or something like thatâ
A320: âwell maybe a microlight ⊠it just looked too big for a balloon.â
âThe Air Traffic Control unitâs own radar replay also showed no surveillance traces in the immediate vicinity of the A320 at the time.â

Once on the ground the A320 pilot gave a further description of the event to the Glasgow Aerodrome Controller.
The pilot said: âWe seemed to only miss it by a couple of hundred feet it went directly beneath us â wherever we were when we called it in it was within about ten seconds; couldnât tell what direction it was going but it went right underneath us.â
Asked if he thought it was a glider, the pilot replied: âwell maybe a microlight â it just looked too big for a balloon.â
But the board ruled out any such aircraft and were baffled.
âThe board initially considered likely candidates for the untraced aircraft. The A320 crew had not been able to assimilate any information regarding the form of the untraced aircraft in the fleeting glimpse they had, reporting only a likely colour,â it said.
âMembers were of the opinion that, in the absence of a primary radar return, it was unlikely that the untraced aircraft was a fixed-wing or rotary-wing aircraft or man-carrying balloon.
âIt was considered that a meteorological balloon would be radar significant and unlikely to be released in the area of the Airprox.
âA glider could not be discounted but it was felt unlikely that one would be operating in that area, both due to the constrained airspace and the lack of thermal activity due to the low temperature.
âSimilarly, The board considered that a hang-glider or para-motor would be radar significant and that conditions precluded them, as they did para-gliders or parascenders.
âMembers were unable to reach a conclusion as to a likely candidate for the conflicting aircraft and it was therefore felt that the Board had insufficient information to determine a cause or risk.â NOTE: The above image is CGI.
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