Ryanair plane in 'near miss with UFO' (video)

A passenger has captured the moment a Ryanair plane came close to being hit by a UFO.

The footage was captured by a Dutch woman on a plane heading for Spain, and appears to show a black flying object come close to the plane's wing, before the pilot makes a sharp turn, apparently to avoid it, reports the Daily Star.

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The footage, which we first spotted at the Mirror, has been viewed around 150,000 times, and was uploaded to YouTube by Lions Ground. It was titled: "Hostile UFO captured by Dutch passenger of Ryanair plane (Netherlands)."

The caption read: "A Dutch passenger captured UFO on video while on board the Ryanair airbus Netherlands (Eindhoven), heading to Spain. Coincidentally, the passenger was recording because she enjoyed the view. After 4 minutes recording this UFO event happened. The engines made a lot of noise and the pilot made suddenly a sharp maneuver. The UFO endangered the aircraft. A lot of panic was on that plane."

A YouTube user called Turkey UFO Incident wrote: "Not too sure about this one, could be a bird."

One other user echoed that sentiment, writing: "Birds travelling the other way."

Another person wrote: "It wasn't hostile, if it was hostile it could have taken out that plane. The UFO was just playing, the pilot did avoid it, it was too fast - the UFO avoided the jet!"

One man thought it could be a drone, and wrote: "Still could be a military drone. Nothing definitive without being able to slow it down more. Nice Capture though!"

And one man was sticking with aliens, writing: "Aliens are here and they are plant-like insectoid beings designed for high speed space travel. They do get hungry and ingest through an exoskeleton membrane and have a defense system built in which makes human contact a difficult challenge."

What do you think? Is it a bird? Or a drone? And is the video even real? Leave your thoughts below.

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