{"id":2679,"date":"2016-09-27T22:03:37","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T22:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/?p=2679"},"modified":"2020-06-11T23:34:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T23:34:44","slug":"national-police-air-service-npas-united-kingdom-films-ufo-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/national-police-air-service-npas-united-kingdom-films-ufo-video\/","title":{"rendered":"National Police Air Service (NPAS), United Kingdom, Films UFO Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Background<\/h3>\n<p>On 23 September 2016, the\u00a0National Police Air Service (NPAS), United Kingdom, posted the following to Twitter:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Any suggestion?? Nothing seen by local ATC&#8230; \ud83d\udc7d?? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Hu07DLmn3z\">pic.twitter.com\/Hu07DLmn3z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NPAS St Athan (@NPAS_StAthan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NPAS_StAthan\/status\/779325831101423617\">September 23, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The British Earth and Aerial Mysteries Society posted the following description and background for the video:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong>This rare footage was captured from a National Police Air Service helicopter&#8217;s FLIR camera by the pilot; however, the clip that you see here may have been copied from a screen rather than being the original recording, which obviously, the Police would be reluctant to release to the public.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For those who do not know, the FLIR is a thermographic camera that senses infrared radiation.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>It has been reported that this UFO had heat, and travelled into the wind at a 1000 ft.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The pilot&#8217;s comments were that the object wasn&#8217;t visible in daytime mode, only in the camera&#8217;s infrared mode.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The clip was shared online by NPAS St Athan, the National Police Air Service based in South Wales.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>They explained to their Twitter followers that the footage, which says it was 8.30pm, was actually taken about 9.30pm when it was pitch dark.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The filming was set to &#8216;black hot&#8217;, which means there is heat coming off the craft.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;Really difficult to judge the size but we filmed it for just over seven minutes as we were coming back into land,&#8221; they add.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Commenters have asked if it was a balloon or lantern, but the pilot believes it wasn&#8217;t.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background On 23 September 2016, the\u00a0National Police Air Service (NPAS), United Kingdom, posted the following to Twitter: &nbsp; Any suggestion?? 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