American Airlines pilot reports "long, cylindrical object" zoom by while flying over New Mexico
By: BY ALEX SUNDBY - CBS NEWS
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American Airlines pilot reports "long, cylindrical object" zoom by while flying over New Mexico
An American Airlines pilot saw what he described as a "long, cylindrical object" zoom over the jetliner he was flying to Phoenix in the skies above New Mexico Sunday. The FBI said it's aware of the incident, and the Pentagon said the military wasn't conducting any tests in the area that day.
"Do you have any targets up here?" one of the pilots of American Flight 2292 asked air traffic controllers, according to a recording of the transmission obtained by CBS News. "We just had something go right over the top of us that — I hate to say this — looked like a long, cylindrical object that almost looked like a cruise-missile type of thing moving really fast that went right over the top of us."
American confirmed the transmission was from Flight 2292 heading from Cincinnati's airport to Phoenix. The airline referred additional questions to the FBI, which said it was aware of the incident.
"While our policy is to neither confirm nor deny investigations, the FBI works continuously with our federal, state, local, and tribal partners to share intelligence and protect the public," spokesman Frank Fisher of the FBI's field office in Albuquerque, New Mexico, said in a statement. "Anyone who is aware of suspicious or criminal activity should contact their local law enforcement agency or the FBI."
The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement the pilot reported the sighting over New Mexico shortly after noon Sunday. The agency said air traffic controllers didn't see any object in the area on their radarscopes.
A Pentagon spokesman told CBS News national security correspondent David Martin the reported sighting happened about 400 miles away from the Army's White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico. The spokesman said the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, known as DARPA , the Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Strategic Command didn't conduct any tests from the missile range Sunday.
First published on February 25, 2021 / 1:09 PM
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Hope that it didn't look like this one
Maybe it looked like this - a screen-shot from Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home. Fortunately the whales in our oceans have not yet been eradicated.
LOL, I was just watching that last night!
The number 1 question on my most recent movie quiz - it's my favourite Star Trek movie.
Well... as long as it's long and cylindrical. If it were round and flat.....
above, mention of cameras in the cock pit, looking for long cylinder like objects....sounds like a triple X mile high club med with flying Dildo's embed
hold that image...
It's the Martians retaliating.
good one
Maybe they were checking on the whales.
Or they were fixing to destroy the planet.
Was James Kirk the pilot???
Maybe the airlines should start keeping cameras in the cockpit.
I am surprised they don't. The data could come in handy.
I would have cameras pointing out of the cockpit too.
Looks like we got the same idea at the same time.
Great minds.
OK, you may laugh but then there is this:
LOL. I had never heard of a magazine called Canadian Weekly World News and if it WERE authoritative I probably would have, so I searched it and I did find this. Does this news source concern you?
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C'mon, Buzz...
I'm pretty sure Perrie's post was tongue-in-cheek.
Yes
Ok...problem.
It describes the beings merging into a single spherical object then it goes on to discuss "spheres"...plural.
I think the KGB was messing with the CIA and got the last laugh
Nothing unusual 'bout that - happens all the time.:-)
Odds are this was a classified missile test launch. What a coincidence that White Sands was 200 miles away! Plausible deniability anyone?
Isn't it kind of risky to launch missiles into the vicinity of ongoing commercial airline traffic, or that commercial airlines should be flying into the area of missile test trajectories, whether or not classified? I would have thought that simply is not permitted to happen.
Buzz - there's DoD/FAA protocol regarding air traffic over the White Sands AOR. All traffic, vehicular and airborne, is restricted from driving on any of the roads in the AOR or any aircraft flying "near" the AOR for one hour prior to launch and one hour after termination of the flight of the test vehicle. The White Sands missile range is a restricted air space meaning that no non-military aircraft is allowed to fly within its AOR.
So, no, there were no air/ground traffic in that area during the flight of the American Airlines a/c.
In addition if it was a missile, it could have veered off range because of a error. All the more reason for the USAF/DOD to deny it's existence.
When I was stationed there a missile test took out a road. Opps.
I think I heard about that.
Now that's a plausible story
Air Force? Because it wouldn't surprise me
Sorry Ed - Army folks, not AF. But, everyone knows the Army couldn't hit the broadside of a barn standing right in front of them
I have a lot of stories about White Sands...
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Were you at the Sands or Holloman?
Yeah, maybe. There used to be a time when you could rely on what people said or what you read.