Did UFO fly over UK skies?

THE intriguing possibility that a real UFO may have passed over Havering was revealed this week.

Documents released for the first time state that 17-years ago, a mysterious missile-shaped object travelling at an estimated 120mph, almost caused an aeroplane on route from Milan to Heathrow to crash in the Kent countryside at 7.58pm on April 21st 1991.

The unexplained close encounter is one of many recounted in military UFO documents released by the National Archives this week.

The baffling incident caused the captain of the Alitalia plane, carrying 57 passengers, to shout: "Look out, look out!" to his co-pilot as he attempted to avert a mid-air collision at 22,000 feet.

The sighting lasted around 3.5 seconds before the strange craft disappeared from radar screens.

Just over two hours later Brentwood Police received a report of a dark flying object that had no engine noise or lights. Although no reports exist, it almost certainly would have passed over Havering.

The case was investigated by the Civil Aviation Authority and military experts were forced to rule out the possibility of it being a missile, weather balloon, or space rocket.

Their final conclusion was that the craft was in fact a UFO.

Just weeks after the UFO sighting, a family did report seeing three orbs flying over Rise Park, Romford.

A witness said on the UFO Info website: "It was a clear, warm evening. My mother called me to come into her room and look up at the sky. Upon looking up, I saw three orbs in the sky coming together at what appeared to be a slow speed. The whole event went on for at least 15 to 20 minutes.

"We then lost sight of two of the orbs and the third began to move away. It moved faster and faster until it was out of our visual range."