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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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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".

It's a huge mystery how an airline pilot could possibly see a cruise missile shaped object right outside of the White Sands Missile Range. Probably aliens.

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?

Northrup Grumman is running ads about invisible aliens? What? Do you have a link??

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…

I imagine the pilots where busy flying the aircraft.

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?

Not the OP, but sometimes I wonder whether some of these events are effects of testing by foreign militaries, and the DoD wants to hide knowledge of foreign military technology (because maybe they're trying to copy it).

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

UFO means "unidentified flying object", and if the pilot didn't know what it was, it was unidentified. Probably some kind of military drone that went off course.

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".

Did you mean to reply to another comment? The article doesn't make any mention of "alien".
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