Originally Posted by : 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.
Originally Posted by O.city:
I don't think we can say anything on it if they are. They're so advanced as you say, their thinking would be completely foreign to us. I doubt they'd need any minerals or to invade if they're that advanced.
I'd also guess they've figured out how to travel faster than light, be it bending space or something. Who the hell knows.
Yup, it would basically be the equivalent of us watching an ant colony do its thing out of pure curiosity.
Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud:
The notion that an advanced alien civilization visiting Earth while being caught on radar shouldn't be "fun" in any way, shape or form.
Alien visitation can mean only a few things. Either they're scouting the planet for necessary resources such as water or other highly valuable minerals and mineral deposits or they're planning an invasion.
If an alien civilization can travel at lightspeed throughout the universe, there's nothing currently in human technology and innovation that can match their technological prowess.
Humans would be as consequential to them as insects are to us.
Those things would all violate the prime directive. [Reply]
Originally Posted by O.city:
I don't think we can say anything on it if they are. They're so advanced as you say, their thinking would be completely foreign to us. I doubt they'd need any minerals or to invade if they're that advanced.
I'd also guess they've figured out how to travel faster than light, be it bending space or something. Who the hell knows.
Science Fiction has influenced people to believe that humans and a highly technological race of aliens could live side by side in the galaxy, despite the fact that humans don't even get along with humans.
There is no reason to believe that an alien civilization would want to "reach out" to humanity and become allies, as there is no reason for them to do so, other than invasion or stripping our planet of resources.
An alien civilization, who's harnessed the power of hyperspace travel could likely destroy all life on Earth in a matter of seconds. Why would they want to become allies with such an inferior species other than to conquer, pillage and destroy our immensely inferior civilization? [Reply]
Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud:
Science Fiction has influenced people to believe that humans and a highly technological race of aliens could live side by side in the galaxy, despite the fact that humans don't even get along with humans.
There is no reason to believe that an alien civilization would want to "reach out" to humanity and become allies, as there is no reason for them to do so, other than invasion or stripping our planet of resources.
An alien civilization, who's harnessed the power of hyperspace travel could likely destroy all life on Earth in a matter of seconds. Why would they want to become allies with such an inferior species other than to conquer, pillage and destroy our immensely inferior civilization?
I tend to agree. Do you see how we treat animals who are less intelligent than us? While we are one of the, if not most compassionate species on the planet there is very little reason to believe alien life would be benevolent. Best case scenario is they make us their pets [Reply]
So these guys can travel across the galaxy, to observe us or something, for which they need to be deep inside our atmosphere for some reason - and despite the inconceivably advanced technology needed to travel across deep space, they keep screwing up and letting planes spot them.
Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud:
... Why would they want to become allies with such an inferior species other than to conquer, pillage and destroy our immensely inferior civilization?
