Huge UFO mystifies Brits

LONDON, June 23 (UPI) -- Britain has been buzzing over an airline pilot's official report that he thought he saw a huge "cigar-shaped" UFO.

The London Evening Standard reported Saturday that Pilot, Britain's largest-selling general aviation magazine, had reported Aurigny Airlines Capt. Ray Bowyer spotted an object near Alderney that he later described as a "cigar-shaped brilliant white light."

"It was a very sharp, thin yellow object with a green area; it was 2,000 feet up and stationary," Captain Bowyer said. "I thought it was about 10 miles away, although I later realized it was approximately 40 miles from us .... It could have been as much as a mile wide."

The stunned pilot then spotted a second object in the distance.

"It was exactly the same but looked smaller because it was farther away," Bowyer said. "I can't explain it. This was clearly visual for about nine minutes."

The Evening Standard said the pilot's sightings were confirmed by a couple of passengers, Kate and John Russell, and by another unnamed pilot with the Blue Islands airline.