Announcing the launch of UK Pilots Reporting UAP
On 12 February 2024, a new website, UK Pilots Reporting UAP (www.ukpilotsreportinguap.co.uk) was launched. The site is the brainchild of Gary Heseltine, a long-time respected British UFO/UAP researcher and author.
Heseltine, a former police detective and the current Vice President of the International Coalition for Extraterrestrial Research (ICER) has now decided to tackle the issue of UK pilots who have had encounters with UAP.
He has put together a small specialist team of leading UK UAP researchers (Alan Foster, Dave Hodrien and Chris Gaffney) who will investigate British pilot reports (and other aviation personnel including radar operators and Air Traffic Controllers).
The team stress that there are genuine air safety implications for pilots who for decades have been seeing strange objects in the sky that they cannot explain.
Since 2017 there has been a resurgence of interest in the subject of UFOs, now referred to as Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), especially in the United States where there have been a number of Congressional Hearings held recently.
The issue of ‘air safety’ in relation to UAP encounters is now the subject of proposed new legislation (in association with Americans for Safe Aerospace – https://www.safeaerospace.org) in the U.S. that seeks to coordinate and standardise UAP reporting procedures and also calls for greater transparency on the issue with regard to pilot reports.
Heseltine believes that all countries should be doing likewise and wants to raise the issue of pilots reporting UAP in British airspace to the highest levels of government and the aviation industry.
Selected media quotes from Heseltine:
“UAPs are seen by pilots on every continent and the UK is no different. There needs to be a worldwide, coordinated and standardised set of reporting procedures along with greater transparency on the issue.”
“I believe the time is now right for a new phase of research. In recent years the U.S. authorities have confirmed that craft of unknown origin are flying in their airspace with impunity, many of which move in ways which seemingly defy our current understanding of physics.”
“I have no doubt whatsoever that UK pilots and International pilots (transiting through UK/Irish airspace) are encountering similar objects but they rarely report the incidents for fear of it effecting their career and being the subject of ridicule. It’s high time British pilots were encouraged to come forward without such stigma being involved and that there should be a transparent, standardised set of reporting procedures to deal with such reports.”
“The stigma that has dogged the UFO/UAP issue for decades is fast receding with a worldwide resurgence in interest in the subject in recent years. These objects are real and represent a clear air safety issue in the UK which needs to be fully addressed.”
UK Pilots Reporting UAP* aims to address these issues.
We appeal to British pilots and aviation personnel to come forward and contact us. Your communications will be treated in the strictest confidence.
Gary Heseltine, founder and press spokesperson
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 07970 364368
*UK Pilots Reporting UAP is a not-for-profit website.
