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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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post #15

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.

Our senses are not very reliable either. There's room between "fabricating it" and "it really happened". Aren't pilots typically overworked/tired and fairly bored for long streches as well? Seems like likely circumstances for some atypical half-dream or a trick of the eyes.

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

#33

> 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?

My point is that A) coming to a conclusion as to what the object is may be way too early, and B) the coverup that urgently needs to be exploded and brought to a conclusion ASAP is the "don't look into things" approach to things we don't already know about.

Again: I personally have no opinion on this, as to weapon or sky dolphins or aliens.

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

#34
post #13

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.

Because that would make a civillian passenger transport indistinguishable from a recon asset.

You know what happens to recon assets that frequent hostile airspace, don't you? There are legitimate reasons to not build functionality into something.

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.

Does it even have to be a secret aircraft? Unless the pilots have relevant qualification, it doesn't even necessarily look the way they described it, due to any number of physics factors.

That's why I said--I have no opinion as to what it is. Why leap to conclusions in either direction, which just gets subjective way too early?

If you're saying, "it's probably..." then that's your call, but being so subjective, the attractiveness of having reached an answer so fast could also prevent you from learning that it's something else. A.k.a blindspot.

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

#38
post #30

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".

UFOs in american english are a common colloquial term for aliens from mars (or other sci fi plots)

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

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post #30

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".

The last two paragraphs of the article is clearly talking about aliens.

> Former CIA Director John Brennan thinks there may be life on other planets too. December’s Covid-19 relief bill included a directive to the Pentagon and intelligence agencies to share what they know about UFOs within 6 months. People with the highest of security clearances think there’s something out there.

> ‘Something’ of course doesn’t necessarily mean extraterrestrial in origin, even though New Mexico is home to Roswell…

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