The Irish Aviation Authority is investigating reports of bright lights and UFOs off the south-west coast of Ireland.
It began at 06:47 local time on Friday 9 November when a British Airways pilot contacted Shannon air traffic control.
She wanted to know if there were military exercises in the area because there was something "moving so fast".
The air traffic controller said there were no such exercises.
The pilot, flying from the Canadian city of Montreal to Heathrow, said there was a "very bright light" and the object had come up along the left side of the aircraft before it "rapidly veered to the north".
She was wondering what it could be but said it did not seem to be heading for a collision.
Another pilot from a Virgin plane joined in and suggested it might be a meteor or another object re-entering the earth's atmosphere.
My initial impression reading the headline was that it was just some pissed up Irishmen. But then I read that it was a British Airways pilot who first reported it and they're always sober and well adjusted. So apparently ET is visiting Ireland. Not sure why they would bother but there it is.
Are we going to have to fight off ET? Are the Russians doing sneaky things? Is the female pilot just being hysterical because it's her time of the month?
