Crack Luftwaffe fighter pilots were scrambled in a UFO drama over German airspace, it emerged today.
The mystery object was tracked moving across the entire country at high speed after being spotted by Germany's air traffic controllers on January 19.
Now an official report into the UFO sighting is being compiled by the country's air traffic safety office, the DFS.
Investigators have already checked and excluded conventional aircraft, weather balloons and freak atmospheric conditions.
“We have ruled out all the conventional possibilities - it is a mystery,” said DFS spokesman Axel Raab.
German air force jets were put on red alert, and there were dozens of reports of the object as it flew across southern Germany, including several airports which were put on emergency standby.
It eventually vanished above Grafenwoehr, an area used by American troops on training exercises.
Raab said: “When it vanished from the radar we believed that whatever it was had crashed - but there was no crash site to be seen.”
“It is a complete mystery. It confused radar operators because it kept flicking on and off the screen as if some of the time it just wasn’t there. Then it simply vanished completely into thin air.”
Source: Austrian Times
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