UFO spotted by American Airlines pilot

[Munson]

LISTEN: Pilot reports UFO spotting; airline not denying, says speak to FBI https://t.co/bJokCj0dGd

— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 24, 2021

American Airlines not denying UFO spotting, says talk to the FBI

Pilot said it "looked like a cruise missile type of thing"

By Paul Best | Fox News

An American Airlines passenger jet traveling from Cincinnati to Phoenix encountered a UFO over northeastern New Mexico Sunday afternoon.

The pilot on flight 2292 radioed around 1:00 p.m. CST that the UFO was flying right on top of them, according to a radio transmission recorded by Steve Douglass on his blog, Deep Black Horizon. American Airlines verified to Fox News that the transmission is from flight 2292.

"Do you have any targets up here? We just had something go right over the top of us," the pilot said in the radio transmission.

"I hate to say this but it looked like a long cylindrical object that almost looked like a cruise missile type of thing moving really fast. It went right over the top of us."

American Airlines confirmed that the radio transmission is authentic, but did not give any further comment on the possible alien encounter.

"Following a debrief with our Flight Crew and additional information received, we can confirm this radio transmission was from American Airlines Flight 2292 on Feb. 21," an American Airlines spokesperson told Fox News in a statement. "For any additional questions on this, we encourage you to reach out to the FBI."

The FBI did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday.

Flight 2292 was around 37,000 feet at the time of the sighting, and Albuquerque Center did not respond because local air traffic interfered, according to Douglass. The flight went on to land in Phoenix, Arizona.

New Mexico is home to White Sands Missile Range, which is located in the southern part of the state and is described as the Department of Defense's "largest, fully-instrumented, open air range."

White Sands Missile Range did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday.

Thousands of UFO sightings are reported each year, but encounters by pilots have received increased attention recently.

In February 2018, two pilots separately encounter an object beaming light at roughly 50,000 feet in eastern Arizona, the Arizona Republic reported.

Between 2014 and 2015, Navy pilots encountered numerous UFOs traveling at hypersonic speeds up to 30,000 feet in the air, the New York Times reported.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Cntrygal

It looks like this isn't going to happen yet.

Well, we still don't know the origin of the Covid virus.

[Inspector]

They are from......France.

[Cntrygal]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Well, we still don't know the origin of the Covid virus.

Maybe they are preparing for their invasion!

[vonBobo]

Originally Posted by Cntrygal

Since it appears that we're not going to have a zombie apocalypse in the near future, I'd be okay with a small extraterrestrial invasion. Maybe then some of the HumanToHuman hatred/ugliness could slow down (or stop altogether).

I so appreciate this but I also don't see it happening, there are divisions even among the same team. We create sects within sects, we include and exclude seemingly out of necessity.

Early in the internet days I thought that was going to bring the people of the world together, now we can go talk to people all over the world and skip having to hear the propaganda from our politicians and war mongers. Wow **** was I wrong.

[Pants]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-milita...154910933.html

There have been "a lot more" UFO sightings than has previously been made public, Donald Trump's former intelligence chief has said, as the US government prepares to release a declassified report on unidentified flying objects.

The Pentagon has evidence of UFOs breaking the sound barrier without a sonic boom and other “difficult to explain” phenomena, said John Ratcliffe, the Director of National Intelligence under the Trump administration.

"There are a lot more sightings than have been made public," Mr Ratcliffe told Fox News. "Some of those have been declassified.

"And when we talk about sightings, we are talking about objects that have seen by Navy or Air Force pilots, or have been picked up by satellite imagery that frankly engage in actions that are difficult to explain," he said.

Wow. Maria Bartiromo gets former DNI John Ratcliffe to talk about UFOs ahead a deadline for the government to disclose what it knows about them...

"Usually we have multiple sensors that are picking up these things...there is actually quite a few more than have been made public" pic.twitter.com/qu4VlzrZw1

— Daniel Chaitin (@danielchaitin7) March 19, 2021

"Movements that are hard to replicate that we don't have the technology for. Or traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom."

The Pentagon’s report is expected to be released by June 1, and is part of a $2.3 trillion (£1.6 tn) legislation signed into law by former president Donald Trump in December.

Lawmakers expressed concern that there is no comprehensive process within the federal government for collecting and analysing intelligence on unidentified aerial phenomena, “despite the potential threat from foreign adversaries”, which is why a sweeping report on all relevant information is essential, according to the bill's text.

“Weather can cause disturbances, visual disturbances,” Mr Ratcliffe went on. “Sometimes we wonder whether or not our adversaries have technologies that are a little bit further down the road than we thought or then we realised.

“But there are instances where we don't have good explanations for some of the things that we have seen.”

Mr Ratcliffe’s remarks came several months after the Pentagon declassified three well-known UFO videos, acknowledging that the footage was shot by US Navy pilots.

Harry Reid, a former senator who donated $22 million to the government's UFO investigations, has said the release of a small number of sightings over the years "only scratches the surface" of what the government has on file.

"The US needs to take a serious, scientific look at this and any potential national security implications," Mr Reid said. "The American people deserve to be informed."

The US government has looked into UFOs for decades, most notably between 2007 and 2012 when the Pentagon began its Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, funded by Mr Reid.

Last April, the Pentagon officially acknowledged three incidents reported by Navy F/A-18 Hornet fighter pilots after years of speculation that pilots were encountering alien spacecraft during training missions.

In the clips, UFOs were seen moving at incredible speeds and performing seemingly impossible maneuvers. In one, a circular object flying far in front of a jet, while a second caught a small object racing over land.

The latest developments come amid a surge in sightings.

Sightings were up in 2020 compared to the previous year — with more than 6,600 recorded during that period, according to National UFO Reporting Center data.

It is thought the rise is partly to do with many people being home and taking up stargazing due to coronavirus lockdowns.

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