By Tim Binnall
Aviation authorities in England have released a report on a curious case wherein a Royal Air Force jet nearly collided with a doughnut-shaped UFO. The odd incident, which was revealed by a local media outlet this past Saturday, is said to have occurred last November over the city of Newcastle during a training exercise involving a military transport plane. As their flight was making a turn, crew members noticed what they thought was a drone flying ahead of the aircraft. However, when they passed the odd object, the personnel aboard the jet were left mystified by what they saw.
According to the UK Airprox Board, which investigates such aerial incidents, the mysterious object "passed level with the flight deck windows and a few feet outside the wing tip." This vantage point allowed the crew to get a fairly good look at the anomaly and they described it as dark, circular object measuring two to three feet in diameter with a hole in its center. Although they characterized the object as a drone in their report, the board conceded that the peculiar shape of the craft left them "unable to determine the nature of the unknown object."
The report went on to note that, while they could not identify exactly what the object was, the case was particularly troublesome as the two craft only passed within about a foot of each other. To that end, they mused that "providence had played a major part in the incident" as there was "a very high chance" that the jet would have collided with the UFO had it not been turning at the very moment that the sighting took place. Fortunately, that did not occur and, instead, the crew aboard the aircraft were simply left with a particularly strange tale from that day's flight.