Is it a bird, a plane, or a UFO? That’s the question that police in the West Midlands asked themselves as their helicopter was approached by what could only be described as an unidentified flying object.
According to the UK Airprox Board (UKAB), a police helicopter almost crashed into a UFO on May 2nd earlier this year when it was flying about a beauty spot in the area, Sandwell Valley Country Park.
The police helicopter was an EC-135 Eurocopter, and the pilot claimed to have seen lights 100 metres away from him. He reported swerving the helicopter so as to avoid being hit by the UFO at 21:50.
According to reports from the crew of the helicopter, the lights circled them before flying away.
The pilot of the police helicopter believes that the craft that circled was most likely a radio controlled model of some kind, either a plane or a helicopter. However the crew of the helicopter did try and pick up radio controlled activity with a thermal camera, but didn’t detect anything.
A West Midlands Police spokesperson confirmed the incident, stating:
As far as they were concerned, nothing was picked up on Birmingham Airport radar and the object was probably a radio-controlled model aircraft.
The helicopter was conducting a search at the time and was flying at low level.
Was it a radio controlled helicopter, a plane or something alien?