Keeping you Abreast: What’s all this about a UFO in Scotland?

There were a few reports this week about a passenger plane having a near miss with a UFO over Scotland, but we want to know if it was real or just a great white farce.

There were some worrying reports this week that claimed an Airbus A320 heading for Glasgow Airport on 2 December last year passed an ‘unidentified flying object’ about 300ft underneath it.

The report by the UK Airprox Board (the lads who specialise in air crash investigation) said the pilot of the aircraft had reported that the unidentified object didn’t show up on radar, but the risk of collision had been ‘high’. The report also said that the UFO was blue and yellow or silver in colour...

According to the BBC, once the aircraft landed the pilot told the Glasgow Aerodrome Controller: "We seemed to only miss it by a couple of hundred feet, it went directly beneath us. Wherever we were when we called it in it was within about 10 seconds. Couldn't tell what direction it was going but it went right underneath us."

Sounds a bit strange, but it probably has a reasonable explanation, right? Well, when asked if he thought the UFO was a "glider or something like that" the pilot replied: "Well maybe a microlight. It just looked too big for a balloon."

So what the hell was it? Well, the Daily Record over in the UK think that they’ve finally solved the mystery and as it turns out, the UFO was, eh... a balloon.

However, it wasn’t just any massive balloon, but a great white shark shaped helium balloon.

Speaking to the Daily Record, James Orsmond, 25, said: “The report claimed the object was blue and yellow and silvery. I just thought, ‘Aw naw...’ because that was the colour of [his son’s] remote control shark and it went missing round about the time of the incident.”

So there you have it. Yet another strange story solved thanks to good ol' logic and reasoning. Or maybe that’s exactly what MI5 wants us to think...