Greece: Amazing UFO incident involving Air Force and airline.

Antaletriangle · 02-07-2009, 05:04 PM

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

Michael Cohen m.cohen@allnewsweb.com
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.
On 11 October 2007 at 3:20am the captain of Olympic Airways flight 266 from Athens to London noticed an extremely unusual object moving erratically to the west of Athens. The object was somewhat star like in appearance however much brighter and larger with a constantly shifting shape.
Meanwhile the captains of Olympic Airways flights 730 to Kos and 700 to Rhodes reported the same thing. The sighting was then confirmed by Athens Airport control tower, whose employees observed the object moving towards Karystos, a small town on the Greek island of Euboea. At this point the Greek Air Force was contacted.
The Greek Air Force confirmed that they too were visually monitoring the object from their radar station at the top of Parintha Mountain near Athens and had observed that it was travelling at incredible speed and did not fit the description of any terrestrial craft. The staff at the Air Force radar station later described the UFO as large, of an unusual shape and very bright. Air force staff were requested to photograph the craft and did so (no pictures have come to light yet).
At this point two F-16’s were sent up too intercept the UFO, while the various control towers monitored the object from earth. The object then shot off at incredible speed skyward and the Jets failed to indentify anything. While both staff at the Athens Airport and the Parintha Mountain Air Force Radar Unit confirmed that they clearly observed the object their radars picked up nothing.

The ensuing deliberate cover-up of this incident by the Greek authorities is being treated as fact by that country's media.

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.
It is hardly surprising that if indeed aliens are visiting earth they would take an interest in Greece, that cradle of western civilization. What is more surprising is western media’s complete non-coverage of this incident and the continuing and sometimes absurd attempts by governments to deny the obvious as far as UFOs are concerned. Perhaps the ancient Athenian culture of intellectual curiosity and questioning existing belief systems has been replaced by one of secrecy, concealment and the idea that the public does not have the right to know what is happening in the universe around them.

The link above is the recording of the pilots conversation with the airport control tower it's in Greek:if anyone can please translate??

Antaletriangle · 02-07-2009, 09:08 PM

WILDROSE translated the video message for us!!

TRANSLATED......

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

"THE DOCUMENT"
11 NOVEMBER 2007, THE FLIGHT 266 LONDON-ATHENS DURING THE FLIGHT
THE CAPTAIN COMUNICATE WITH THE CONTROL TOWER OF ELEFTHERIOS VENIZELOS...
HEAR THE CONVERSATION:

THE PILOT : OLYMPIC 266, CONTROL TOWER YOU RECEIVE ME?
CONTROL TOWER : PROCEED
THE PILOT : IT'S FLYING ANOTHER AEROPLANE NEAR ME?
CONTROL TOWER: NEGATIV, WHY?
THE PILOT: IN MY RIGHT SIDE I SEE, ALMOST IN THE SAME HIGHT,
UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT MOVING FROM WEST TO EAST..
CONTROL TOWER: NO, DOESN'T EXIST NOTHING, DID BOTHERING YOU?
THE PILOT: UNTIL NOW, NO, THE ROUTE AND HIS HIGHT IT'S NOT STABLE
CONTROL TOWER: WHAT EXACTLY DID YOU MEAN? BECAUSE, I DON'T HAVE ANY OBJECT ON THE RADAR
THE PILOT: THE FLUCTUATION OF THE SPEED AND THE DIRECTIONS ARE WITHOUT CONTROL
CONTROL TOWER: OLYMPIC, CONTINUE THE ROUTE AND THE HIGHT CONFORM TO THE PLAN AND WE KEEP CONTACT.

Thanks wild rose X.
-- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Another translation:
Hi Michael,

]

Narrator: Nov 7th 2007, Flight 266 London to Athens, during the flight the Olympic Airways pilot communicates with flight control at Eleftherios Venizelos airport (Athens International), listen to the conversation:

Pilot: Olympic 266, tower are you receiving me?

Tower: Go ahead

Pilot: Is another airplane flying near me?

Tower: Negative, why?

Pilot: I see on my right, at approximately the same altitude, an unknown target flying from the South to the East

Tower: No, there's nothing there, is it bothering you (in your way)?

Pilot: For the moment no, but its altitude and heading are not stable.

Tower: What exactly do you mean because I have no target on radar.

Pilot: It is increasing speed and its headings are erratic.

Tower: Olympic, continue on your present heading and altitude according to plan and we are staying in contact.

Narrator: That's the end of the conversation, but what follows is neither alarm nor panic, just chilling questions. What everyone can't get out of their heads are the words of the pilot, (they replay the above conversation).

The usual explanations have been offered, i.e. it was Venus and the apparent movement was due to unusual atmospheric phenomena.

Antaletriangle · 02-10-2009, 10:34 AM

I just received this email from the guy who originally posted this report online,surprise,surprise!

"Hi-BTW the mainstream press has picked my Greece story-and in case you think there is no conspiracy on this issue-no matter how much I tell the journalists that the censoring of the report is the most interesting part of the event they just will not go there!",

Mike

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...er-Athens.html
Fighter jets scrambled after UFO follows plane over Athens
F-16 fighter jets were scrambled to intercept a UFO seen following a London-bound passenger jet.

By Matthew Moore
Last Updated: 9:30AM GMT 10 Feb 2009

The object was spotted by the pilot of Olympic Airways flight 266 from Athens, and the sighting was corroborated by staff at Athens Airport and a nearby Greek air force base. Pilots of two other passenger jets also reported seeing the body.

The eyewitnesses described it as looking like a large star, although it was moving erratically and constantly changing shape.

Two fighter jets were sent to investigate the sighting over the Greek capital in November 2007 but the object shot up into the sky and vanished before they could get a clear view.

The incident was kept secret by the Greek authorities for more than a year, but is now generating huge interest after official documents and recordings of the conversation between the pilot and control tower were released.

An Olympic Airlines spokeswoman said: "I can confirm the incident. It is the first of its kind involving our pilots."

Greek officials say that the object, which was not detected on any radar, was probably a mistaken sighting of the planet Venus in the Autumn night sky.

This is not the first time that a passenger jet has had a close encounter with a UFO. Documents released by the Ministry of Defence last year disclosed that an Alitalia flight had a near miss while landing at Heathrow in 1991, with the pilot describing an object "similar to a missile – light brown or fawn – about three metres in length but without any exhaust flame".

02-07-2009, 05:04 PM	#1
Antaletriangle Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: U.K. Posts: 3,380	Greece: Amazing UFO incident involving Air Force and airline. http://www.allnewsweb.com/page2992994.php Michael Cohen m.cohen@allnewsweb.com 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. On 11 October 2007 at 3:20am the captain of Olympic Airways flight 266 from Athens to London noticed an extremely unusual object moving erratically to the west of Athens. The object was somewhat star like in appearance however much brighter and larger with a constantly shifting shape. Meanwhile the captains of Olympic Airways flights 730 to Kos and 700 to Rhodes reported the same thing. The sighting was then confirmed by Athens Airport control tower, whose employees observed the object moving towards Karystos, a small town on the Greek island of Euboea. At this point the Greek Air Force was contacted. The Greek Air Force confirmed that they too were visually monitoring the object from their radar station at the top of Parintha Mountain near Athens and had observed that it was travelling at incredible speed and did not fit the description of any terrestrial craft. The staff at the Air Force radar station later described the UFO as large, of an unusual shape and very bright. Air force staff were requested to photograph the craft and did so (no pictures have come to light yet). At this point two F-16’s were sent up too intercept the UFO, while the various control towers monitored the object from earth. The object then shot off at incredible speed skyward and the Jets failed to indentify anything. While both staff at the Athens Airport and the Parintha Mountain Air Force Radar Unit confirmed that they clearly observed the object their radars picked up nothing. The ensuing deliberate cover-up of this incident by the Greek authorities is being treated as fact by that country's media. 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. It is hardly surprising that if indeed aliens are visiting earth they would take an interest in Greece, that cradle of western civilization. What is more surprising is western media’s complete non-coverage of this incident and the continuing and sometimes absurd attempts by governments to deny the obvious as far as UFOs are concerned. Perhaps the ancient Athenian culture of intellectual curiosity and questioning existing belief systems has been replaced by one of secrecy, concealment and the idea that the public does not have the right to know what is happening in the universe around them. The link above is the recording of the pilots conversation with the airport control tower it's in Greek:if anyone can please translate??

02-07-2009, 09:08 PM	#2
Antaletriangle Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: U.K. Posts: 3,380	Re: Greece: Amazing UFO incident involving Air Force and airline. WILDROSE translated the video message for us!! TRANSLATED...... http://www.allnewsweb.com/page2992994.php "THE DOCUMENT" 11 NOVEMBER 2007, THE FLIGHT 266 LONDON-ATHENS DURING THE FLIGHT THE CAPTAIN COMUNICATE WITH THE CONTROL TOWER OF ELEFTHERIOS VENIZELOS... HEAR THE CONVERSATION: THE PILOT : OLYMPIC 266, CONTROL TOWER YOU RECEIVE ME? CONTROL TOWER : PROCEED THE PILOT : IT'S FLYING ANOTHER AEROPLANE NEAR ME? CONTROL TOWER: NEGATIV, WHY? THE PILOT: IN MY RIGHT SIDE I SEE, ALMOST IN THE SAME HIGHT, UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT MOVING FROM WEST TO EAST.. CONTROL TOWER: NO, DOESN'T EXIST NOTHING, DID BOTHERING YOU? THE PILOT: UNTIL NOW, NO, THE ROUTE AND HIS HIGHT IT'S NOT STABLE CONTROL TOWER: WHAT EXACTLY DID YOU MEAN? BECAUSE, I DON'T HAVE ANY OBJECT ON THE RADAR THE PILOT: THE FLUCTUATION OF THE SPEED AND THE DIRECTIONS ARE WITHOUT CONTROL CONTROL TOWER: OLYMPIC, CONTINUE THE ROUTE AND THE HIGHT CONFORM TO THE PLAN AND WE KEEP CONTACT. Thanks wild rose X. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Another translation: Hi Michael, ] Narrator: Nov 7th 2007, Flight 266 London to Athens, during the flight the Olympic Airways pilot communicates with flight control at Eleftherios Venizelos airport (Athens International), listen to the conversation: Pilot: Olympic 266, tower are you receiving me? Tower: Go ahead Pilot: Is another airplane flying near me? Tower: Negative, why? Pilot: I see on my right, at approximately the same altitude, an unknown target flying from the South to the East Tower: No, there's nothing there, is it bothering you (in your way)? Pilot: For the moment no, but its altitude and heading are not stable. Tower: What exactly do you mean because I have no target on radar. Pilot: It is increasing speed and its headings are erratic. Tower: Olympic, continue on your present heading and altitude according to plan and we are staying in contact. Narrator: That's the end of the conversation, but what follows is neither alarm nor panic, just chilling questions. What everyone can't get out of their heads are the words of the pilot, (they replay the above conversation). The usual explanations have been offered, i.e. it was Venus and the apparent movement was due to unusual atmospheric phenomena. Last edited by Antaletriangle; 02-07-2009 at 10:28 PM.

02-10-2009, 10:34 AM	#3
Antaletriangle Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: U.K. Posts: 3,380	Re: Greece: Amazing UFO incident involving Air Force and airline. I just received this email from the guy who originally posted this report online,surprise,surprise! "Hi-BTW the mainstream press has picked my Greece story-and in case you think there is no conspiracy on this issue-no matter how much I tell the journalists that the censoring of the report is the most interesting part of the event they just will not go there!", Mike http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...er-Athens.html Fighter jets scrambled after UFO follows plane over Athens F-16 fighter jets were scrambled to intercept a UFO seen following a London-bound passenger jet. By Matthew Moore Last Updated: 9:30AM GMT 10 Feb 2009 The object was spotted by the pilot of Olympic Airways flight 266 from Athens, and the sighting was corroborated by staff at Athens Airport and a nearby Greek air force base. Pilots of two other passenger jets also reported seeing the body. The eyewitnesses described it as looking like a large star, although it was moving erratically and constantly changing shape. Two fighter jets were sent to investigate the sighting over the Greek capital in November 2007 but the object shot up into the sky and vanished before they could get a clear view. The incident was kept secret by the Greek authorities for more than a year, but is now generating huge interest after official documents and recordings of the conversation between the pilot and control tower were released. An Olympic Airlines spokeswoman said: "I can confirm the incident. It is the first of its kind involving our pilots." Greek officials say that the object, which was not detected on any radar, was probably a mistaken sighting of the planet Venus in the Autumn night sky. This is not the first time that a passenger jet has had a close encounter with a UFO. Documents released by the Ministry of Defence last year disclosed that an Alitalia flight had a near miss while landing at Heathrow in 1991, with the pilot describing an object "similar to a missile – light brown or fawn – about three metres in length but without any exhaust flame". Last edited by Antaletriangle; 02-10-2009 at 11:11 AM.