The FAA Can’t Explain UFOs Reported By Pilots Over Arizona Desert
Two commercial airline pilots flying over the Sonoran Desert reported seeing a UFO flying several thousand feet above them last month. The Federal Aviation Administration released audio of their communication with air traffic controllers, though no further explanation was provided.
The story was first picked up by The Drive, a website that monitors aviation and air traffic throughout the U.S., and details a conversation between Albuquerque’s air traffic control, a Learjet 36 pilot, and an American Airlines commercial pilot flying an Airbus A321.
Near the border between Arizona and New Mexico, around 38,000 feet, the pilot of the private jet asked Albuquerque if he knew of something that just passed overhead.
“Was anybody above us that passed us like 30 seconds ago?” the Learjet pilot said.
“Negative,” the air traffic controller said.
“Ok, something did. It looked like a UFO,” the pilot and co-pilot said.
Following this exchange, the air traffic controller asks an American Airlines Flight 1095 pilot to let him know if he sees anything pass over him within the next 15 miles. The pilot responds sounding slightly confused.
But within a few seconds the commercial pilot confirms seeing something pass over him. The pilot said he couldn’t tell whether it was in motion or not, but that it gave off a big reflection.
“Yeah, something just passed over us. I don’t know what it was, but it was at least two-three thousand feet above us. Yeah, it passed right over the top of us,” the pilot said.
After some time passes the commercial pilot wonders whether it was a Google balloon, part of the company’s Project Loon – testing weather balloons to transmit WiFi in rural and remote areas.
His question is quickly met with a response from the private jet pilot, saying it was doubtful that it was a balloon and likely a UFO.
The FAA has responded to the incident, confirming the legitimacy of the recorded exchange, but offering no explanation. The administration’s response acknowledged the fact that it keeps a tight record of all military activity in the area and is also aware of all airborne weather balloons.
The Drive said the FAA was helpful in their response, but that air traffic control at Albuquerque was unaware of the incident at the time they contacted them. The author found it bizarre that such a scenario was not widely known or being investigated, considering the UFO didn’t have a transponder and wasn’t responding to attempted communication, despite flying in a highly trafficked area.
A few months ago, The Drive covered a similar story regarding a UFO following alongside a commercial airliner in northern California and Oregon that elicited a response from the military. Both the FAA and Air Force admitted that it scrambled F-15 fighter jets to intercept the unidentified craft, though they lost track of the target.
These instances of pilots encountering UFOs comes at an oddly coincidental time, after the announcement of the Pentagon’s black budget program to study the phenomenon. The amount of coverage from mainstream media publications has been significant, leading many to believe we may be on the precipice of some type of disclosure event.
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John Warner IV Discusses the State of UFO Disclosure
Over the past several years, the disclosure movement has taken some interesting turns as videos of UFOs (or UAPs) tracked by the Navy have been made public. With esteemed media outlets reporting on the matter, and credible Navy pilots coming forward to describe their experiences, motley groups of researchers, celebrities, and government insiders have banded together to steer the narrative.
Within that group is Christopher Mellon, the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence in the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, who also happens to be a member of one of the most highly influential families of bankers and politicians in American history.
Mellon first announced his role in the recent alleged disclosure movement through his involvement with To The Stars Academy, a bizarre amalgam of scientists, intelligence officials, and former Skunk Works engineers led by eccentric rockstar Tom Delonge.
While Mellon’s rhetoric around the UFO/UAP topic has been relatively conservative and pretty much what one would expect from a former intelligence bureaucrat, his cousin John Warner IV has recently begun to discuss his views on the subject from a more radical perspective.
Warner IV is the son of former Sen. John Warner III who served as Secretary of the Navy from 1972 to 1974 in the Nixon administration. During his storied career in military and politics, Warner III married Catherine Mellon, before divorcing and starting a second marriage with the immensely famous Elizabeth Taylor.
Needless to say, Warner IV was privy to a stimulating upbringing, rubbing elbows with famous movie stars, top military brass, royal families, and banking moguls, including his grandfather Paul Mellon who was a fox hunting buddy of the legendary Gen. George Patton. In fact, this is one of the relationships in which Warner IV says he was given his first drips of disclosure about UFOs.
According to Warner IV his grandfather was cold and distant from his mother, but the two shared a male bond that led to some interesting conversations, especially regarding his time in Eastern Europe in the late 1940s.
“He said, ‘I was with Patton at the end of the war in Czechoslovakia… I was with Patton in Pilsen and we went into a warehouse and looked at all the Wunderwaffe stuff. You know rocket works, V2, maybe some V3 parts, the Flugelrad with the jet engines and all this stuff. And you know I saw this big disc aircraft,’” Warner IV said his grandfather told him.
“And I said, ‘Oh, is that the Flugelrad with the BMW jet engines?’ and he was like, ‘No…no’ and that was the end of the conversation,” Warner IV said.
