Ray Bowyer

Capt. Raymond Anthony 'Ray' Bowyer flew for Aurigny Air Services for about 8.5 years on the Channel Islands routes, with 18 years' flying in all. On 23 April 2007, at the controls of Trislander flight 544, he reported two brilliant yellow cigar-shaped objects west of Alderney live to Jersey ATC and filed a CAA Air Safety Report with a drawing. He has since told the story under his own name: in Leslie Kean's 2010 book, on television in 2008 and 2014, and to The Times in 2021, where his size estimates grew and he argued for two solid craft.

Cases (1)

• 2007Two yellow 'cigars' off Alderney, seen by two airline captains (23 April 2007)

Connected

• James Fox personFeatured in I Know What I Saw
• Leslie Kean personChapter in UFOs (2010)

Sources

• MoD, 'UFO Reports 2007' log (gov.uk, 6 Jul 2007): entry for 23-Apr-07 14:09 near Alderney
• Guernsey Press, 'Pilot's UFO shock' (26 Apr 2007), archived by Patrick Gross
• Guernsey Press, 'Renewed interest in pilot's UFO sighting' (9 Apr 2014)
• Baure, Clarke, Fuller and Shough, 'Unusual Atmospheric Phenomena Observed Near Channel Islands, UK, 23 April 2007', Journal of Scientific Exploration 22(3):291-308 (2008)