It was a cloudless night and the police helicopter was carrying out surveillance over Birmingham when the attention suddenly switched from ground to sky. Beside it was a small aircraft beaming out continuous blue-green lights.It came within almost 300ft, forcing the pilot to swerve out of its path, and appeared to circle the helicopter in a cheeky gesture before flying off. Initially the pilot and two police observers dismissed the near miss at 1,500ft as a close encounter with a model plane. But despite searching the area with a thermal camera, the pilot was unable to find any signs of radio-controlled activity.
The British Model Flying Association also dismissed this possibility, saying the mystery object was flying too high to be a miniature craft, while gliders, kites, balloons and a laser light show were further excluded from the possibilities.
All of which leads UFO experts to believe that alien forces were at work.
Details of the incident, which happened at about 9.50pm on May 2, were revealed yesterday in a document compiled by experts from the Airprox Board, which records near misses and reports them to the military and air traffic control units.
The report describes the strange other aircraft only as 'small and probably non-metallic' and its intent as possibly ' sinister'. It adds that the pilot informed radar operators but they saw nothing on their equipment. He told the Airport Board that he thought 'the intent may either have been sinister or just someone messing around'. (Source: Daily Mail)