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American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on Sunday

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Re: American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on Sunday

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Aren't the recent explosion in UFO news and declassifications a little strange? Especially the ads Northrup Grumman is running talking about invisible aliens amongst us? Is this some sort of propaganda campaign? Distraction from something else? Enticing public support for the new space force to fluff some politician's pockets?

Re: American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on Sunday

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How come aircrafts are not equipped with color video for later visual confirmation? If a pilot claimed something, we can at least see what they are describing as well, and maybe more details that they didn't catch with video. Also are commercial pilots not allowed to carry smartphones? Did the pilots not record outside the cockpit window with their phones? Hearing of this UFO is pretty exciting, and it would be even…

Tracking cameras on civilian passenger plane seems like a whole lot extra stuff for operator to maintain and service compared to the benefit of capturing an UFO pictures once every few months.

Re: American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on Sunday

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AA confirms it came from an employee not that it was a UFO. LMAO

They confirmed the incident so unless the pilot/copilot were just completely fabricating it, they did in fact have contact with a UFO - that doesn't mean aliens - just something unidentified.

Re: American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on Sunday

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I think the proper term here is "Unidentified Flying Object" for a reason. The pilot clearly said it looked like a cruise missile. The notion that "Unidentified = Alien" is rather far fetched. The acronym should be more accurately called "Undisclosed Flying Object".

Also the most straightforward explanation. UAVs and ALCM's can be dropped from high altitudes and have hundreds of miles of range and all look very similar, plus who knows what they're developing. The whole Southwest has plenty of military airspace and their toys don't always play nice with commercial air traffic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air-launched_cruise_missile

Re: American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on Sunday

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post #11

Aren't the recent explosion in UFO news and declassifications a little strange? Especially the ads Northrup Grumman is running talking about invisible aliens amongst us? Is this some sort of propaganda campaign? Distraction from something else? Enticing public support for the new space force to fluff some politician's pockets?

New movie coming out https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/harry-reid-ufo-coverup-090047...

Re: American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on Sunday

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> I hate to say this but it looked like a long cylindrical object that almost looked like a cruise missile type of thing Holy smokes, that would be quite alarming. American Airlines confirms...the radio transmission was from one of their pilots. OK. It will be interesting to see how the 6-month pentagon directive goes. (I personally have no opinion on this, as to weapon or sky dolphins or aliens) One of my pet theori…

What is your conclusion here/what are you saying. Are you claiming this could be extraterrestrial?

Re: American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on Sunday

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> I hate to say this but it looked like a long cylindrical object that almost looked like a cruise missile type of thing Holy smokes, that would be quite alarming. American Airlines confirms...the radio transmission was from one of their pilots. OK. It will be interesting to see how the 6-month pentagon directive goes. (I personally have no opinion on this, as to weapon or sky dolphins or aliens) One of my pet theori…

Or, you know, it could just be secret military aircraft from one of the multiple bases in the general area.
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