Faa Offers Explanation For Amherst Ufo Ufo News

By REBECCA EVERETTwww.gazettenet.com1-22-13 AMHERST - The Federal Aviation Administration says a military aircraft was flying over Amherst Jan. 8 when residents reported seeing a mysterious object flying silently overhead.However, a spokesman for an area military base said descriptions from town residents don't match with what he knows of the aircraft.Residents in the Amherst and Pelham area reported that between 5:45 and 6:30 p.m. a triangular or diamond-shaped aircraft - about the size of two or three cars, by one account - appeared to travel silently, slowly and unusually low over the area.After receiving an inquiry from the Gazette, officials at an FAA facility at Bradley International Airport, which provides radar coverage for western Massachusetts, reviewed radar data in the Amherst-Pelham area for Jan. 8 from 5:45 to 6:15 p.m., said James Peters, a spokesman for the FAA."The only aircraft that was operating in the area was a military aircraft doing practice approaches to Westover (Air Reserve Base)," Peters wrote in an email to the Gazette.Westover's chief of public affairs, Lt. Col. James Bishop, initially said on Jan. 9 that the base had no record of an aircraft flying in the area after checking with the on-duty controller....Continue Reading... See Also:Mysterious Object Has Town Folk Baffled UFO NEWS VIDEOUFO NEWS Glasgow Man Investigating Diamond Shaped UFO Filmed Over His HomeMY UFO EXPERIENCE "We Stood There and Watched This Diamond Shaped Group of Stars As It Moved Very Slowly Over Both of Our Homes" SHARE YOUR UFO EXPERIENCERead more >>