March 2009 highlights guide

 p55 – 57
Further investigation papers about the sighting of a large diamond-
shaped UFO over Calvine (Scotland). Here the task sheet notes that
"sensitivity of material suggests very special handling" (see also p37 –
38, and DEFE 31/179 p157 – 158)
 p67 – 69
UFO report made to Scottish air traffic controllers by an airline captain
flying over the North Atlantic on 4 January 1992. Report was assessed
as sounding "like some form of meteorological phenomena".
 p87
Burning white lights, flames and rumbling sounds reported by dozens
of people over Wales and Hereford in December 1991 were traced to a
USAF pilot who jettisoned fuel that was ignited by the aircraft's
afterburner.
 p111 – 112
Intelligence summary of sightings in Kazakhstan dated October 1991.
p149
A RAF pilot and his student flying at 2,000ft near Cranwell
(Lincolnshire) on 11 September 1991 saw a “possible missile” shoot up
to 25,000ft and appear to explode. An investigation was undertaken
involving RAF and civilian police, and checks were made on radar.
 p157
Following the report that six RAF Tornado jets were overtaken by a
UFO during an exercise over Germany (see p180 – 182 for the report)
UFOlogists who enquired about the incident were advised to contact
the Dutch Air Force.
 p180 – 182
The crews of six RAF Tornado jets reported being overtaken by a giant
UFO, whilst flying over Germany during an exercise controlled by
Dutch radar on 5 November 1990. The pilots believed that this could
have been a test flight for the then top-secret USAF Stealth Fighter.
Their brief report and internal discussion can be found here (further
details p157). It later emerged that the pilots had actually seen burning
debris from a Soviet rocket body, used to launch a satellite into orbit.
DEFE 31/181
 p46 – 72
Numerous reports of moving lights in the sky over South-Western
England and South Wales in the early hours of 31 March 1993. These
are later traced to the re-entry of a Russian Cosmos rocket body which
burned-up, decaying over the North Atlantic (sketches at p61)