Vegas Helicopter Pilot Reports UFO Visible Only With Night Vision
At about 9 pm on Saturday, March 16, a bizarre exchange between an air ambulance helicopter and ground control in Las Vegas revealed a pilot’s sighting of a UFO, which he claims was only visible with the aid of night vision. When the pilot reports the situation to an air traffic controller, he excitedly responds with “oh, that’s awesome…”
According to a recording of the interaction, the pilot flying an Agusta 119 Koala helicopter radioed in to ask if ground control had anything on their radar flying at about 7,000 feet, nine miles west of Las Vegas’ McCarran International Airport. The pilot refers to this vicinity as the “Southern Hills area,” a corner of the Vegas metro area.
The air traffic controller quickly responds saying he does not have anything in that area, to which the pilot responds telling him he can only see it with his night vision goggles on.
The short interaction was recently uploaded to SoundCloud and can be heard below. But the real investigative digging thus far, has come from Tyler Rogoway at The Drive, who has consistently kept his finger on the pulse of all things strange and unexplained going on in the aviation world.
While the pilot guesses that the object could have been a balloon, it seems it would have to have been a rather large balloon to be at that altitude and be observable from nine miles away – the distance the pilot claims he was flying at when he witnessed it.
What makes Rogoway’s investigation into the matter even more mysterious is that when he attempted to contact Air Methods, the helicopter’s company headquarters and the operations base, to speak to the pilot, he was met with resistance.
Rogoway says he was told the company couldn’t comment and that the pilot was prohibited from speaking to anyone about the event. Instead they redirected him to someone else within the company who hasn’t given any response in “well over 24 hours.”
So, what could it have been that the pilot witnessed?
Several commenters on Rogoway’s article who appear to have various degrees of experience in aviation bring up the possibility that the pilot may have witnessed a hot air balloon. Though it seems highly unlikely a hot air balloon would be floating at 7,000 feet in highly trafficked airspace in the middle of the night. Also, the average altitude that hot air balloons typically reach is somewhere between 1,000 to 3,000 feet.
Others point to the relatively obvious fact that Vegas is not far from the notorious Groom lake Air Force base, a.k.a. Area 51. Was this some type of secret aircraft with cloaking technology being tested by the military?
Or could it be the possibility that everyone secretly wants it to be? The response from Air Methods certainly doesn’t seem to support any of the mundane explanations.
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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.
