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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 by earthtourist »

Besides the U.S. Navy videos, there's only one video (out of hundreds I've seen) that has me genuinely wondering if it might be real evidence of an advanced vehicle (aliens or not). It seems to match this American Airpline pilot's description in some ways.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-91Nobn2xk

Anyone have any guesses?

Best guess I've seen was that it was a supply canister or drop tank. But it seems to pause in mid-air at 0:32, travel horizontally, and is over a civilian area where it seems unlikely that something would be dropped. It does look somewhat like a cruise missle but a lot slower.

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

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Post by jand »

tyrust wrote: post #30
geocrasher wrote: post #8

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".

> Former CIA Director John Brennan thinks there may be life on other planets too.

Found this in the article. This is close enough to "aliens!" if added to an article about airline incidents.

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

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Post by themodelplumber »

jimmysjohn279 wrote: post #27

How is this not on film in 4k stereo in the age of smart phones and dash cams

At 37K feet, above the airplane, tracking really fast moving objects, in the direction the cockpit is facing, we are expecting a phone or a dash cam? C'mon

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

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Post by ceejayoz »

batmaniam wrote: post #10

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…

> Hearing of this UFO is pretty exciting, and it would be even more exciting to have actual photographs of it from official sources.

It would be, indeed.

There's probably a simple explanation for the fact that when the general public started carrying around high-quality camera equipment at all times, UFO/alien sightings went down and police brutality incidents started cropping up.

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

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Post by joe_the_user »

geocrasher wrote: post #8

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".

The way that "Unidentified Flying Object" and "Alien Spacecraft" have become synonymous is a remarkable pernicious evolution of language.

It's a strange thing - I don't think there's any conspiracy to create a cult, just a certain bias in the use of symbols makes "I couldn't explain what that was" become "intelligent creatures from other worlds created this effect".

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

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Post by vnxli »

kube-system wrote: post #40
tyrust wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 neces…

Is that 6 months up yet? I forgot to put that date into my calendar

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

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Post by 01100011 »

date227 wrote: post #31

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/30121/chinas-high-spee...

That's the first thing I thought of when I heard about this. If the US was testing its drones, I think it would prefer to keep them in a restricted airspace. On the other hand, if I were a foreign power looking to flaunt my new drone tech, I'd take it over the area that seems to be rife with sensitive bases.

Still, it's most likely this is a US drone on a long range testing mission(or just flying off course due to a sw bug).

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

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Post by ceejayoz »

EamonnMR wrote: post #23
batmaniam wrote: post #10

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.

There's really not all that much to do in an airliner during the cruise phase. The computer's mostly in control.

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

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Post by themodelplumber »

jandrese wrote: post #21
geocrasher wrote: post #8

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.

Are there cruise missiles that operate at those altitudes? Seems like "sitting duck" height for a cruise missile.
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