Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe MACCLESFIELD, England, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- British investigators said they were unable to identify a "flying man" reported by the pilot and first officer of a plane. The United Kingdom Airprox Board, which investigates near-misses in British airspace, said the pilot and first officer of the Airbus 320, which was headed for Manchester Airport, spotted what appeared to be a "flying man" over Macclesfield, England. Advertisement "The crew only saw it fleetingly, there was no time to take avoiding action and they reported that they based their assumptions on it being a person under a canopy," the report said. However, the report said neither the pilot or the first officer "can remember seeing a canopy." The British Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association said the weather conditions at the time of the June 13 incident would have precluded the possibility of a lone skydiver in the area, and it would have been unlikely for the crew to miss seeing a parachute, as it "would have been the most obvious object by a -significant margin." The Airprox report said the crew "could not be certain that it was not a person-shaped balloon," but weather conditions made that possibility unlikely. Advertisement
