EgyptAir crash: Turkish pilots claim UFO spotted before crash

The mystery surrounding the tragic crash of EgyptAir Flight 804 into the Mediterranean Sea seems to be getting murkier. Now, two Turkish Airlines pilots have claimed that an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) with green lights passed over their aircraft shortly before the EgyptAir Flight went missing.

Quoting The Sun, news.com.au reports that the pilots, who were flying from Bodrum to Istanbul, reportedly saw the unidentified object last Thursday night, close to Istanbul's Silivri District when the plane was at 17,000-ft at 11.30 pm.

According to The Hurriyet Daily News, the Air Traffic Control at Istanbul was told by the Turkish Airlines' pilots that an unidentified object with green lights passed 2,000 to 3,000 feet above them.

The pilots added that the object, which they are guessing is an UFO, then disappeared all of a sudden.

Meanwhile, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has said that a submarine has been deployed to the Mediterranean Sea to search the black boxes of the Egyptian aircraft that went missing en route from Paris to Cairo.

While parts of the aircraft's wreckage have been recovered, including passengers' personal belongings, life vests, aircraft chairs and even body parts, scouring the Mediterranean is still on to find the fuselage, flight data and cockpit voice recorders that would likely reveal what went wrong on the flight.

So far, no survivors have been found, and authorities are still examining what could have caused the plane with 66 people aboard to crash into the sea early on Thursday.

-ANI