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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 themodelplumber »

> 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 theories is that there is no big "coverup of the known" with UFOs. Instead it's a coverup of the unknown.

We humans have basically built up a pile of experiential-scientific debt, due to leftover 20th century "don't look into it, don't ask questions" psychology which was rampant in world militaries and governments.

If there's a UFO coverup, it's likely a natural human coverup due to leftover human evolutionary speedbumps like the delayed-frightened animal response.

One specific example:

“There’s no doubt it was something beyond anything we know or understand. […] I have concerns, but I don’t think we can do anything about it. I think this is beyond us. So: Quit worrying about it.” --Lt. Colonel Charles Halt, USAF, who actually experienced the Rendlesham Forest incident

(Can you imagine a military leader with similar psychology managing a department of UFO research?)

Another researcher's take:

“…not only is there a UFO coverup, but they [government / miltary] simply have no idea what they are. They really don’t.” --John Greenwald

IMO we should train our elected and appointed leadership to look into things--otherwise in many cases they will refuse to do so when their subjective leanings are calling the shots. This is basic, foundational strategy for contingencies...

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

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Post by geocrasher »

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".

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

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Post by ALittleLight »

andrewflnr wrote: post #4

"Long cylindrical" doesn't even sound like whatever weirdness is going on in the Navy tapes. I'm guessing military experiment that got off track somehow.

David Fravor, who I believe is the Navy Pilot that is the public face of the "Navy tapes" you are referring to, described the object as a "Tic Tac" - which is cylindrical. Still, I'd bet on some experimental (or just rare) type of human/American aircraft. Second place theory is that a pilot is making a joke or resigning or something, similar to how a developer might open a sev-1 ticket to tell his soon to be former company that he is resigning. (Although, hopefully "mischievous prankster" is an attitude that is heavily discouraged among commercial airlines pilot)

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

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Post by batmaniam »

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 more exciting to have actual photographs of it from official sources.

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