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 Fish:
This thing easily exceeded the known limitations of the most highly advanced high performance aircraft in the world by a factor of 10, and yet the US military just sat on this unclassified video for decades without classifying it, and didn't blink when it was released unauthorized by some known UFO conspiracy folks? :-)
I'm not addressing the classification of the video. Why the government does what it does isn't at issue here.
I am specifically directing my comments around the physical limitations of known aircraft, regardless of inventory, as well as basic aerodynamics.
Here's what's so funny about you and people like you. For decades scoffers have asked, "why can't someone get a good picture of one of these UFOs?"
Well now we have several clips of objects that were scanned/recorded by multiple state-of-the-art military-grade sensor arrays, on a multitude of bandwidths, under nearly perfect weather conditions. Backed up by eyewitness accounts from multiple veteran Naval aviators with a perfect visual environment.
Basically, it doesn't get any better than that from an observational perspective. If that clip showed a Mig-29 or a ship on the surface, you would have no problem believing your own lying eyes, or completely believing the system display.
But because it's an unfamiliar object in the HUD, suddenly the FLIR must've been faulty. Well, every FLIR aboard every F/A-18 that flew off those carriers went bad for every flight over the course of every day for a few weeks. Uh huh. Sounds perfectly reasonable.
Oh, and so did the radar suites of the missile boats also in the task force. The most advanced radar-intercept system ever devised by Man, in two different Ticonderoga-class ships both failed in exactly the same way, at exactly the same time, for exactly the same duration.
Right. Makes all the sense in the world.:-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by Fish:
This thing easily exceeded the known limitations of the most highly advanced high performance aircraft in the world by a factor of 10, and yet the US military just sat on this unclassified video for decades without classifying it, and didn't blink when it was released unauthorized by some known UFO conspiracy folks? :-)
These same questions get brought up to these folks in the Navy with the same bewilderment (my initial reaction was similar to yours). Nobody knows what these objects are and nobody knows what to do about them. [Reply]
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). [Reply]
FYI: if the radar data from the Ticonderoga-class cruisers is accurate, and there's no real reason to believe it isn't, when those objects were bouncing between 50,000 ft. and sea level, they were traveling in excess of 35,000 mph.
You know what man-made machines can do that inside Earth's atmosphere? NOTHING.
The fastest man-made air-breathing machine ever built, the X-43A scramjet achieved a terminal velocity of just 7,000 mph, and took 10 seconds to reach that velocity. It also was launched from an altitude of more than 43,000 ft., as a launch from a lower altitude would've torn the ship apart as it accelerated through Mach 5.
According to the former VP of Lockheed-Martin's SkunkWorks division, what those things were doing, simply by bouncing from 50,000 ft. to sea level and back again, represents a leap in aerospace technology of probably more than 100 years. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Megatron96:
FYI: if the radar data from the Ticonderoga-class cruisers is accurate, and there's no real reason to believe it isn't, when those objects were bouncing between 50,000 ft. and sea level, they were traveling in excess of 35,000 mph.
You know what man-made machines can do that inside Earth's atmosphere? NOTHING.
The fastest man-made air-breathing machine ever built, the X-43A scramjet achieved a terminal velocity of just 7,000 mph, and took 10 seconds to reach that velocity. It also was launched from an altitude of more than 43,000 ft., as a launch from a lower altitude would've torn the ship apart as it accelerated through Mach 5.
According to the former VP of Lockheed-Martin's SkunkWorks division, what those things were doing, simply by bouncing from 50,000 ft. to sea level and back again, represents a leap in aerospace technology of probably more than 100 years.
Got nothing on a radio controlled copter though :-):-) [Reply]
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).
It looks like this isn't going to happen yet. :-) [Reply]
