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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Alleged Tic Tac UFO Recorded Above Space Force Base
A Tic Tac-shaped UFO was spotted hovering above the U.S. Space Force base in Colorado. UFOs have allegedly interfered with nuclear weapons sites before, but what is their interest in Space Force?
An alleged UFO caught on camera by local UFO spotter Jason Suraci, and posted on social media, appears similar to the Navy’s Tic Tac video from 2004, and according to Saraci, the UFO shapeshifted into another figure altogether. All of this is happening in the highly populated area of Aurora, Colorado, just east of Denver around Buckley Space Force Base. UFO activity around government facilities is nothing new. They have shown an interest in, or concern with, nuclear weapons and testing grounds. In 1967, Bob Salas, then a US Air Force Weapons Launch Officer at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, said UFOs were spotted in the area followed by something alarming.
“I was on alert duty at the time, March 24, 1967. There were two of us in the capsule and I got one call, first that they were seeing strange lights in the sky, and they weren’t behaving like aircraft.” Salas said. “I kind of dismissed that, didn’t take it too seriously, but the second call was very serious because the main security guard upstairs was then screaming into the phone, he was very frightened obviously, he was looking at a glowing, red-orange object hovering above the front gate, and right after that call all ten of our missiles shut down. So the object was above us when that happened. This was not supposed to happen, our systems are very reliable, they are not interconnected in a way where if one missile goes down, they all go down. They’re all independent and they all went down for the same reason that was guidance and control system failure.”
It wasn’t until 1996 when Salas started speaking publicly about what happened and learned there were more people who had the same experience internationally.
“As a result of my coming forward, I can say that other people have also come forward and come to me with their stories and I was able to validate some, others not. Those that I was able to validate, are in my latest book “Unidentified: The UFO Phenomenon,” including incidents at NATO bases overseas,” Salas said.
