Silent Vulcans! produced by Phil Davis. Silent Vulcans - Invade British Air Space. In January of 1995 two pilots landing a British Airways 737 passenger jet at England's busy Manchester Airport, were startled by the sudden appearance of an aircraft flying directly at their plane. They observed an enormous triangular craft, unlike any they knew, flying so close to the window of the cockpit that the copilot ducked on instinct. Early this year Britain's Civil Aviation Authority released the surprising results of a year long investigation into this incident: the pilots did in fact see a craft and it could not be identified by sight or by air traffic controls. The Manchester sighting of a triangular shaped craft was one of hundreds that have occurred worldwide. In Great Britain these craft have been called "silent" vulcans, named after the now obsolete 1950 v-shaped Avro Vulcan bombers. In other parts of Europe and in New York's Hudson Valley eyewitnesses have had similar sightings of enormous, brightly lit, wedge-shaped craft flying very low to the ground, in crowded air space, undetected by radar, in complete silence. Witnesses were often highly qualified observers -- professional and military pilots, meteorologists, and police -- and yet no country seemed able to identify the UFOs. Skeptics in England dismiss the Silent Vulcan sightings as test runs by classified upgrades of the original Vulcan. But UFO researchers counter: "You don't test your top secret military hardware in busy airspace over a large city at four thousand feet." The above quicktime clip of a Vulcan animation -- 1.3 megs -- was created by Sightings graphics team Planet Fez!