Photographed unidentified flying "sausage" over Söderköping

Carl-Johan Wall took the phone and photographed the object hovering in the airspace above Söderköping.

Photo: Carl-Johan Wall

The Swedish pilot pupil Carl-Johan Wall was about to land when a giant hot dog came floating by.

Posted 3/31/2011 15:51.

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A week ago, was paralyzed air traffic over Heathrow after several pilots reported that a flying object that was floating around at 8000 feet above the airport.

It was speculated that it could be a paraglider or a hang glider, but so far none have been able to give a satisfactory answer to what the object was.

Carl-Johan Wall fear what could happen if the object had landed in a jet engine.

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Sausage in 1400 feet

Yesterday was also the Swedes their own UFO mystery, after a long sausage-like object was observed in the skies over The town in the south-east of the country.

Pilot apprentice Carl-Johan Wall was out on a test flight in a ettmotorsfly, and had been airborne for 50 minutes when he spotted the flying object at about 09.15 yesterday.

- "No, you have to see," my instructor said to me. There was a sausage-like object and hovered. We circled around it at a safe distance and I picked up the phone to take a picture, "says Wall to nrk.no.

Cake was on the 1400 foot and was led by the ever increasing wind.

Thought it was a hang glider

Wall contacted the tower and reported the item, but they did not get it up on their radar.

- It was a long break from the people in the tower. They probably wondered what we had been drinking, laughing Wall.

He has heard about the episode from the airport last week, and also first thought it might be a case of a hang glider.

- But then we saw that there was no line below it, but that it was just a long sausage.

Could be dangerous

It was Aftonbladet who first told about the mysterious object. The newspaper's readers have speculated what it was so outside the cockpit Wall route yesterday morning.

Several believe that the object is balloon toy "Solar Airship." The black plastic cake filled with air, and the heat from the sun causes it to float into the air.

According to a Norwegian online store that sells the balloon is made ​​of thin plastic and is eight feet when it is filled with air. The balloon comes with a 50-meter line, and your readers think that the balloon may have worn out and continued to rise.

Wall fear what would have happened if the balloon had landed in an aircraft engine:

- We saw it because we were flying slowly. But the drivers of a larger aircraft with a speed of 250 knots would not had time to react. Had it ended up in a jet engine would have died right away, "said Wall.

- It could have posed a significant hazard to air traffic as it rose all the time.Only during the time we circled around it, it rose 500 feet, "he says.

- Not the same subject

It was the SAS captain Johan Kylborn as the object of Sandvika when he would go in for a landing at the airport on Thursday of last week.

NRK has shown the image of the object Kylborn Wall saw, but he says it is similar to the one he saw.

- I have met balloons, either weather or helium balloons, but nothing that resembles the cake that was seen in Sweden, says Kylborn previously has said he believes the object in Norway was a hang glider or a microlight.

- I can not see any connection between the event in Söderköping and what we saw during the approach to the airport.