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Retired British pilot Chris Crowther shares his remarkable UFO sighting and discusses the implications for air safety and the underrepresentation of British pilots in the UFO conversation.

UAP Files Podcast S4|E27 In this episode of the UAP Files Podcast, I’m joined by retired British pilot Chris Crowther, who spent 42 years flying, logged around 22,000 hours in the air, and flew both aeroplanes and helicopters during a long aviation career that included several years in West Africa.Chris shares a remarkable UFO sighting he experienced on 8 February 1978 while flying over the Wash on a corporate flight to Norwich. After a warning from Eastern Radar about unidentified traffic ahead, he says he and the captain saw around 12 black spherical objects flash past their aircraft at extraordinary speed, right at their altitude and in the opposite direction. Objects he later links to a very similar case: Airbus A320 UFO over Medellin, Colombia.We break down that sighting in detail, discuss why cases like this are so important, and talk about why British pilots seem so underrepresented in the UFO/UAP conversation compared with the United States. We also get into the stigma around reporting sightings, the lack of official reporting in the UK, and why Chris believes this is as much an air safety issue as it is a mystery.We also discuss a more recent sighting Chris had decades…

People in this episode

Host: UAP Files Podcast

Guest: Chris Crowther

Topics covered

• UFO sightings
• aviation
• air safety
• British pilots
• UAP conversation
• stigma around reporting
• historical cases

Keywords

• UFO
• UAP
• aviation
• sighting
• air safety
• British pilots
• Chris Crowther
• Rendlesham Forest
• Eastern Radar
• aircraft

Mentioned in this episode

Places: West Africa, Norwich, Rendlesham Forest

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