They saw UFOs!

SIX TURKISH AIRLINE CREWS SAW THE UFOs OVER AFYON
A controversy erupted in Turkey last week as six airline crews came forward and said they saw the flotilla of 10 to 15 self-luminous UFOs over the city of Afyon.

The UFOs were seen over Afyon, a city 250 kilometers (150 miles) southwest of Turkey’s capital, Ankara, at 5:30 a.m. on Friday, November 1, 2002. “My co-pilot said there was a strong light coming towards us,” said a pilot, who was flying at 22,000 feet (6,600 meters) at the time. “I was so frightened that it would hit us that I switched off the automatic pilot and took the yoke myself. The thing flew from one side of the horizon to the other in the space of a minute. When it was in front of us, it looked to be in one piece. But by the time it disappeared on the right-hand side of us (the west–J.T.), it was already divided into many pieces. I didn’t believe in E.T.s before. But after experiencing this incident, I have definitely started to believe in extraterrestrials.”

The eyewitness air crews included the following:

(1) Flight 590, a Boeing 747 piloted by Captain Ercan Eken and First Officer Sinan Yilmaz of Sun Express Air, flying between Afyon and Yalova in western Turkey.

(2) A twin-engined Boeing 737-800, piloted by Captain Yilmaz Atli and First Officer Bulent Demirturk of Sun Express Air, over Afyon.

(3) A DC-10 piloted by Captain Salih Gumus and First Officer Fatih Aksoy of Inter Air, over Afyon.

(4) A DC-10 of Hapag Lloyd Airlines, whose crew picked up the UFO flotilla on their airborne radar.

(5) Captain Muhsin Aktar and his crew, who were on the ground in Antalya, a seaport city 400 kilometers (250 miles) south of Ankara, doing a pre-flight walkaround of their jetliner prior to their flight to Stuttgart, Germany.

(6) Captain Vedat Gurbuz, Cabin Supervisor Bilge Yilmazturk and Flight Attendant Hatice Inceler were on the ground at Adnan Menderes International Airport in Izmir, a port city on the Aegean Sea, when they saw the UFO overflight.

The UFOs were also videotaped that morning. “Halil Yalzin, 44, and his wife Emine were driving on the Balikesir-Susurluk Highway when they encountered strange lights. Yalzin said, ‘First my wife saw the object. Then the bright object started to move and scattered light around. I stayed in the car and got my video camera ready. Then the object grew larger and started to break into pieces. It spread around like a firework (display) and disappeared behind a mountain. After sunrise, we saw that it had trailed a black line of smoke. This smoke did not disappear for a long time.”

“Nekmi Ecici, chairman of the Turkish Airline Pilots Association (TALPA), stressed that the pilots who reported having seen the UFOs have at least thirty years of experience, and they are sophisticated enough not to confuse the objects they saw with lights, meteors or stars.”

“The video taken by Halil Yalzin was studied by Dr. M.E. Ozel and Dr. Hafez Keypour” and TUVPO, the Turkish research group. According to TUVPO, the scientists “found that the objects were not UFOs. They were Leonid meteors.”

However, science writer James E. Oberg of Houston, Texas stated, “The event was apparently the atmospheric entry of the third-stage booster that carried the (Russian) three-man Soyuz TMA-1 into orbit two days earlier (October 30, 2002). Once again, even the pilots wanted to believe they saw a fleet of true UFOs.” (Many thanks to Haktan Akdogan of Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center and Esen Sekerkarar for these reports.)
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