American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on Sunday

Post by tomphoolery » Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 3:10 AM UTC

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…

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 3:12 AM UTC

mike_d wrote: post #74

jandrese wrote: post #21

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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…

Post by anigbrowl » Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 3:14 AM UTC

rococode wrote: post #62

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".

We've really gotta adopt a new term for this stuff. It's fine to be pedantic and say "well 'UFO' doesn't actually mean aliens in the first place", but the acronym has clearly been co-opted by pop culture to be closely tied with aliens for decades now. Even a minor change like "UFOB" (which has been used by the USAF officially) would probably make a big difference. People will continue to say UFO to mean aliens, and t…

Post by zepto » Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 3:16 AM UTC

boomboomsubban wrote: post #75

ryebit wrote: post #55

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Going a bit further, once an object has been confirmed as alien, then it's not really "Unidentified" anymore, now is it? Almost a linguistic catch-22 version of the "ATM Machine" phrase. Not redundant, but guaranteed to be either colloquially misinterpreted, or technically incorrect. It's kinda weird how words can just get coopted by popular use. Take calling someone a "Nimrod" -- before Loony Tunes, that would have…

>Going a bit further, once an object has been confirmed as alien, then it's not really "Unidentified" anymore, now is it? Somehow confirming that it is not from Earth doesn't identify it. There are multiple types of flying objects, like planes and missiles, and could be multiple different aliens groups it could be from.

Post by anigbrowl » Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 3:18 AM UTC

salawat wrote: post #34

Ralfp wrote: post #13

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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.