It sounds like the beginning toIndependence Dayor , perhaps , Attack the Block – reports of shiny lights soar at “ astronomical ” fastness have been received by zephyr traffic controller officials in Shannon , County Clare , in southwest Ireland .

thing started last Friday at 6.47am ( local metre ) when a British Airways pilot call in postulate about military exercises . She was flying a plane on route to Montreal , Canada , when she pick out a " very shiny light " , which approached the left side of the aircraft and then “ rapidly trend to the north”,the BBCreports . It did not appear to be guide for a collision , she say .

There were no military exercises take place at that time but atmosphere dealings control did receive another report from a Virgin Atlantic pilot describing " multiple object following the same sorting of trajectory " . The airplane pilot said he saw " two lustrous luminosity " on the correct side of the sheet , which then proceeded to rise away rapidly . He remember they could be meteors or object re - enter the Earth ’s atmosphere .

Yet another pilot aver the speed of the object was “ galactic ” , “ like Mach 2 ” – that is , a charge per unit that is twice the f number of sound . Technically ,   this would make the flight object ultrasonic and much faster than your commercial-grade even aircraft , which run to travel at speed of   Mach 0.64 , and around the same speed as a Concorde .

A representative from Shannon Airport has said that they will not comment on the incident before the investigation wraps up . But before hoi polloi on   Twitter could come up with too many outlandish possibility fromGuinness - loving MartianstoDonald Trump ’s " outer space Force",Blackrock Castle Observatoryswept in to deaden any unjustified excitement .

supply , for safe measure , that UFOs usually turn out to be weather balloons , bourdon , skydivers , and human - operated aircraft .

Or a shooting star – which chairman of Astronomy Ireland ,   David Moo , toldthe Irish Independentis the most likely explanation .

[ H / T : The BBC;the Irish Independent ]