Turkish pilots claim seeing green-lighted UFO flying near EgyptAir crash site

ANKARA (Web Desk) – While experts are trying to resolve the mystery behind the EgyptAir MS804 crash in the Mediterranean sea, two Turkish airline pilots have claimed they saw a UFO flying over their plane just an hour before the Egyptair crash.

According to Turkey’s Hurriyet Daily News, the pilots spotted the unidentified flying object with green lights at an altitude of 17,000 feet, some 500 miles away from the location where A320 plunged into the sea.

The pilots said that while they were passing over the Turkish capital’s Silivri district, they saw an unidentified object with green lights pass 2,000 feet to 3,000 feet above their passenger jet. They conveyed this information to the control room as well.

EgyptAir flight MS804

What we know so far:

As dawn approaches in Egypt, with first light set to assist the search and rescue operation, here is a summary of what we now know about missing EgyptAir flight MS804, which has been missing since 2.30am local time (04.30 GMT) Thursday morning.
EgyptAir has rowed back on an earlier announcement that wreckage belonging to MS804 had been spotted in the Mediterranean, close to the Greek island of Karpathos. “We stand corrected,” the airline’s vice-president Ahmed Adel said. The debris “is not our aircraft”.

The Egyptian navy, air force and army are searching the sea to the north of Egypt’s coast, with French, Greek, British and US support.

Egypt’s aviation minister Sherif Fathy said terrorism was more likely than technical failure to be the cause of the crash. “The possibility of having a terror attack is higher than the possibility of having a technical [problem],” he told reporters.