From: Nick Balaskas <nikolaos.nul>
Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:05:07 -0500
Archived: Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:13:57 -0500
Subject: Re: Greek UFO Incident Involving Air Force &


>Source: All News Web - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

>http://www.allnewsweb.com/page2992994.php

>7-2-2009

>Greece: Amazing UFO Incident Involving Air Force And Airline
>Michael Cohen
>m.cohen.nul

>A remarkable UFO incident that occurred in the skies over Athens
>over a year ago but was kept secret by the Greek Aviation
>Authority and the Greek Air Force has recently come to light and
>is receiving extensive media coverage in Greece. A recording of
>the conversation (in Greek) between the pilot involved and the
>airport control tower has been made public and can be listened
>to below. A copy of the official document named 'Lightning 2'
>commanding two F-16's to intercept the UFO can also be viewed
>below.

<snip

>Possibly the most bizarre aspect of this sighting is that
>although the object was witnessed simultaneously by three pilots
>with decades of flying experience between them, staff at
>multiple radar and ground control stations and the Greek Air
>Force, who actually sent jets up to chase it, it has been
>dismissed by some Greek Government officials as a mistaken
>sighting of...wait for it, Venus! This, despite the fact that
>the captain of flight 266 remains convinced he saw a UFO.

>With that in mind, are these Government officials planning to
>request an investigation into the capability, if not sanity, of
>their country's Air Force ground control staff? Don’t hold your
>breath.

<snip>

>Below is the recording of the pilots conversation with the
>airport control tower:

>[Video Player]


Hi Everyone!

There are some questions that first need to be answered before
we can say for sure that the bright light or UFO that was
reported in the sky over Greece was indeed the planet Venus.

According to the video clip, the narrator says, in Greek, that
Olympic Airways Flight 266 was a London to Athens flight (not
Athens to London as in the article below). In the same clip the
pilot of Flight 266 says that he thinks this light in the sky
many be another aircraft at about the same height as his
aircraft (which implies an elevation in the sky close to zero
degrees). The pilot also says that this light is to his right
and the Athens control tower says they have nothing on their
radar. These additional facts are very important in determining
if this bright light in the sky was indeed the planet Venus.

Venus is the third brightest object in the sky after the Sun and
Moon and is only present in the sky up to a maximum of about 4
hours before sunrise or after sunset.

Since the reported time of this UFO sighting was 3:20 a.m. and
sunrise in London and Athens for October 11, 2007 was 7:17 a.m.
and 7:29 a.m. respectively, a difference of about 4 hours, it is
possible that the bright light could have been the planet Venus
seen just above the eastern horizon. The effects of atmospheric
refraction so low in the sky would also make this star like
light (Venus?) seem to move erratically and to be constantly
shifting its shape as was reported.

If we assume that Flight 266 orginiated in Athens, then the
light the pilot saw to his right would most certainly have be
Venus. If the flight originated in London to the north-west of
Athens, then that light would more to the south since his
aircraft would be heading in a south-easterly direction (unless
the pilot was close to Athens and thus in a different heading in
preparation for landing). If that light in the sky was indeed
low in the sky and in a southern direction, it could not have
been the planet Venus.

On the day of this UFO sighting, Venus was close to it maximum
brightness and was a close companion in the sky with Saturn, a
less bright planet located just a few degrees away (and below)
from Venus. Did the pilot of the Flight 266 also report seeing
Venus too - a very bright light very low in the sky that he
could not be miss? Venus has frequently been confused as a UFO,
even by experienced observers of the sky, especially when it is
so low in the sky that it appears to be a distant aircraft
flying at about the same altitude as Flight 266. Those of us who
live not far from busy airports are familiar with the slow
moving or momentarily stationary lights seen just above the
horizon in the general direction of the airport. It is easy to
confuse the planet Venus with a UFO, especially during pre-dawn
or post-dusk times on very dark Moonless nights as on the date
of this reported UFO sighting.

Greek F-16s (and Canadian F-18s) are routinely dispatched to
intercept unknowns over their territory (for example, Turkish
jets probing our defenses or Israeli warplanes practising long
distant bombings). The fact that civilian and military radars in
Athens and in nearby Parintha Mountain did not pick up the UFOs
further suggests that the light seen by Flight 266 and confirmed
by two other commercial aircraft (Flights 730 to Kos and Flight
700 to Rhodes) which would have been flying on easterly and
southeasterly directions, was indeed Venus since this planet
would have been visible very low in the sky in front of these
two civilian aircraft.

From the times the Greek fighter planes were dispatched suggests
that there was a second UFO in the sky over Greece (this time a
real one?) later that same morning.

This would not the first time the Greek Air Force was called out
where a UFO incident was covered-up. For example, in 1990, there
was a UFO crash in central Greece where debris was collected and
later analyzed (see first URL below). Although there were many
witnesses to this UFO incident (this time it was not the planet
Venus) nothing official was ever released - a policy followed by
all world governments.

http://www.v-j-enterprises.com/ufogreek.html

For example, just a few days before this UFO crash in Greece
there was another one in Canada (see second URL below). From
eyewitness accounts, a variety of aircraft from both NORAD and
the Canadian Armed Forces were involved in the apparent recovery
of the wreckage. Again, no official report was ever released to
the public of this little known Canadian UFO crash incident.

http://www.cseti.org/crashes/157.htm


Nick Balaskas



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