{"id":482091,"date":"2022-04-04T11:40:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T06:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=482091"},"modified":"2022-04-04T13:18:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T07:48:57","slug":"pilots-report-fireball-and-lights-in-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pilots-report-fireball-and-lights-in-the-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilots report \u2018fireball and lights\u2019 in the sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pilots of around 30 aircraft reported to Calcutta airport about \u201ca fireball and lights\u201d in the sky on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>According to airport sources, pilots of around 30 planes flying on Calcutta Air Traffic Control airspace, which includes even parts of neigh-bouring states, reported about having seen such lights between an altitude of 30,000 to 39,000ft. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have reported the matter to the Met office, the Indian Air Force and the Defence Research and Development Organisation. But we have not spotted any such thing,\u201d said an airport official.<\/p>\n<p>Sanjib Bandyopadhyay, the deputy director general of IMD, Calcutta, said: \u201cI don\u2019t have any such report.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pilots of around 30 aircraft reported to Calcutta airport about \u201ca fireball and lights\u201d in the sky on Saturday evening. According to airport sources, pilots of around 30 planes flying on Calcutta Air Traffic Control airspace, which includes even parts of neigh-bouring states, reported about having seen such lights between an altitude of 30,000 to 39,000ft. \u201cWe have reported the matter to the Met office, the Indian Air Force and the Defence Research and Development Organisation. But we have not spotted any such thing,\u201d said an airport official. Sanjib Bandyopadhyay, the deputy director general of IMD, Calcutta, said: \u201cI don\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}