Airplane Ufo Or Venus

On January 14 of last year, an Air Canada pilot flying from Toronto to Zurich, Switzerland, woke up from a nap to see an alarming sight out the cockpit window: what appeared to be a flying object (presumably another plane) flying directly at him. He immediately took evasive action, sending the jet into a steep, sudden dive that injured 16 people and almost resulted in a mid-air collision with another aircraft flying 1,000 feet lower.It was a terrifying, bizarre event over the Atlantic Ocean, but what makes it even stranger is that, according to a new report from the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, the pilot was reacting to an optical illusion. The pilot thought it was a UFO -- quite literally: an unidentified object flying at the plane. Yet there was no aircraft, identified or otherwise: the pilot had instead seen reflected sunlight from the planet Venus.Read more >>

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