Does the UK have a blind spot on UFO sightings?

Does the UK have a blind spot on UFO sightings?Just nowShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleFelicity SimperAlex Dunlop/BBCRetired pilot Chris Crowther recalls seeing something he could not explain while flying over NorfolkAfter more than four decades in the cockpit, retired pilot Chris Crowther has seen just about everything the skies can offer.Over a 42-year career, he logged an extraordinary 22,000 flying hours on routes around the globe.But one incident has puzzled with him for nearly half a century.It happened in 1978, as Crowther, who lives near Wroxham, Norfolk, was piloting a light aircraft on approach to Norwich Airport.Ben Debuse/BBCA computer-generated image created by the BBC depicts the object Crowther says he sawIn a split second, he says, something crossed his path – something he still cannot explain.Decades later, the memory remains as vivid as ever, raising a question that continues to intrigue aviation professionals and the public alike: what exactly are we seeing in our skies?"We were coming across The Wash at 7,500ft (2,300m) when Eastern Radar [a joint civilian/military air traffic control centre that existed until 1988] called up and said, 'We've got unidentified traffic, opposite direction, fast moving... height unknown,'" Crowther recalls."We looked up and in that split second, something went past our starboard wing tip, so fast it was very hard to define, but I still have the image in my mind of what looked like a dozen dark objects, perhaps the size of a football... something like that, that went winging right past our wing tip... and then they were gone."Getty ImagesIn the United States, witnesses have testified about claimed UFO encounters and even discussed alleged secretive government programmesCrowther did not report this sighting, but his account is far from unique. In recent years, sightings of claimed unidentified flying objects (UFOs) – now more commonly referred to as unidentified anomalous phenomen...