Published Friday 27th April 2007 11:33 GMT
Two experienced airline pilots at the controls of separate flights have reported seeing a mystery object “up to a mile wide” hovering off the coast of Alderney on Monday, This is Guernsey reports.
Captain Ray Bowyer, 50, of local airline Aurigny, spotted a “bright-yellow light” 10 miles west of Alderney at about 3pm during a flight from Southampton while his aircraft was 30 miles from the island at 4,000ft.