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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 eru »

human wrote: post #78
mike_d wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is absolutely zero chance a cruise missile would be fired without closing the airspace to civilian aircraft. The pilot was at 37,000 feet and said the object was above them. Commercial planes top out at about 42k feet and would have shown up on ADS-B. A U-2 flying at 60k would look like a long cylindrical object about the size of a cruise missile (in the same way a 747 looks small from the ground), and not show…

Tell that to the people on the plane that was shot down above Ukrainian airspace.

I'm not sure how that's related? Ukraine was a warzone at the time.

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

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Post by ianai »

kube-system wrote: post #53
vnxli wrote: post #45

There’s an Air Force base in New Mexico. Could totally be something from there. Or aliens I don’t know

There's three Air Force bases in NM.

And two national labs, and a nuclear waste repository. They basically say “yes” to government projects.

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

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Post by jml7c5 »

earthtourist wrote: post #41

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…

Looks like something near the camera. Note that its movement (particularly at 0:32) is correlated with camera movement.

It somewhat resembles the reflection from a strand of spider silk. Maybe something caught on a long strand of spider silk?

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

#105

Post by jonnycomputer »

mike_d wrote: post #74
jandrese wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

There is absolutely zero chance a cruise missile would be fired without closing the airspace to civilian aircraft. The pilot was at 37,000 feet and said the object was above them. Commercial planes top out at about 42k feet and would have shown up on ADS-B. A U-2 flying at 60k would look like a long cylindrical object about the size of a cruise missile (in the same way a 747 looks small from the ground), and not show…

0 chance implies no one makes mistakes.

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

#106

Post by Anther »

ttt0 wrote: post #83
kube-system wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> 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. Seems like that Covid-19 relief bill was about everything but the Covid-19 relief, lol

It most assuredly was. The amount of fat in that bill is stunning. This rather proves it.

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

#107

Post by wormik »

eru wrote: post #101
human wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tell that to the people on the plane that was shot down above Ukrainian airspace.

I'm not sure how that's related? Ukraine was a warzone at the time.

And still is at the time :(, just nobody cares anymore

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

#108

Post by redis_mlc »

lend000 wrote: post #56
jandrese wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Because cruise missiles regularly do close unannounced fly-by's of passenger jets in civilian airspace /s.

FYI: foreign governments are known to lock onto airliners in flight from naval and land-based weapons systems. Russia is thought to have shot down a few airliners "by accident" that way when they didn't disengage.

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

#109

Post by wonder_er »

mike_d wrote: post #74
jandrese wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

There is absolutely zero chance a cruise missile would be fired without closing the airspace to civilian aircraft. The pilot was at 37,000 feet and said the object was above them. Commercial planes top out at about 42k feet and would have shown up on ADS-B. A U-2 flying at 60k would look like a long cylindrical object about the size of a cruise missile (in the same way a 747 looks small from the ground), and not show…

> There is absolutely zero chance a cruise missile would be fired without closing the airspace to civilian aircraft.

Sometimes the military misses a lot of items on the checklist, and accidentally ships a nuclear missile where it didn't intend [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_United_States_Air_Force_n...

I wouldn't say "absolutely zero chance", but I'd say "it's unlikely this was an expected outcome, and it's possible that someone is in deep trouble right now."

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

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Post by hcrisp »

earthtourist wrote: post #41

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…

The pause at 0:32 looks to me like a parallax effect [0] which would have occurred if the person holding the camera moved slightly right, counteracting the object's natural movement. I don't know why there are no contrails or seemingly no wings but the movement is less mysterious.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax

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