And this sighting took place
In the middle of the night, when it's dark, and things are hard to see.
How unusual.
In the BBC report, it's odd that despite the comments from the police spokesperson
>>"South Wales Police said the helicopter did not give chase"
>>""The crew are very experienced and responded in a professional manner in relation to what they saw."
the subsequent comments:
>>""But it is certainly not advisable for police helicopters to go chasing what they think are UFOs," (MoD spokesperson)
>>"Cardiff International Airport said air traffic control provided a service to the police helicopter to ensure it had appropriate air space, including allowing it space to return to RAF St Athan to refuel."
*would* seem to have squared rather better with an original story that suggested the helicopter might have tried to follow the sighting.
Unless the airport's statement amounts to nothing more than standard operating procedure bordering on the bleeding obvious ("We routinely help helicopters to go to where they need to refuel rather than dropping out of the sky"), it would appear to be referring to a specific incident of a helicopter going somewhere and then returning.
If the police didn't try to follow it, and didn't get any footage of it, what does 'responding in a professional manner' involve, beyond asking someone on the ground what the thing you saw was, which you'd think almost anyone might have done?
Why would the police even mention that the helicopter *didn't* give chase, rather than just saying what it did do, unless there was already the suggestion out there that it had done so, which the BBC article would rather seem to have fearlessly failed to go into.
I'd wonder if the original BBC story had been that the helicopter had tried to do some following, but that had then been denied by the police and the article amended accordingly?
However, if the helicopter had gone nowhere, I'd wonder about the provenance of the claimed MoD and airport comments?