The FAA Can’t Explain UFOs Reported By Pilots Over Arizona Desert
Two commercial airline pilots flying over the Sonoran Desert reported seeing a UFO flying several thousand feet above them last month. The Federal Aviation Administration released audio of their communication with air traffic controllers, though no further explanation was provided.
The story was first picked up by The Drive, a website that monitors aviation and air traffic throughout the U.S., and details a conversation between Albuquerque’s air traffic control, a Learjet 36 pilot, and an American Airlines commercial pilot flying an Airbus A321.
Near the border between Arizona and New Mexico, around 38,000 feet, the pilot of the private jet asked Albuquerque if he knew of something that just passed overhead.
“Was anybody above us that passed us like 30 seconds ago?” the Learjet pilot said.
“Negative,” the air traffic controller said.
“Ok, something did. It looked like a UFO,” the pilot and co-pilot said.
Following this exchange, the air traffic controller asks an American Airlines Flight 1095 pilot to let him know if he sees anything pass over him within the next 15 miles. The pilot responds sounding slightly confused.
But within a few seconds the commercial pilot confirms seeing something pass over him. The pilot said he couldn’t tell whether it was in motion or not, but that it gave off a big reflection.
“Yeah, something just passed over us. I don’t know what it was, but it was at least two-three thousand feet above us. Yeah, it passed right over the top of us,” the pilot said.
After some time passes the commercial pilot wonders whether it was a Google balloon, part of the company’s Project Loon – testing weather balloons to transmit WiFi in rural and remote areas.
His question is quickly met with a response from the private jet pilot, saying it was doubtful that it was a balloon and likely a UFO.
The FAA has responded to the incident, confirming the legitimacy of the recorded exchange, but offering no explanation. The administration’s response acknowledged the fact that it keeps a tight record of all military activity in the area and is also aware of all airborne weather balloons.
The Drive said the FAA was helpful in their response, but that air traffic control at Albuquerque was unaware of the incident at the time they contacted them. The author found it bizarre that such a scenario was not widely known or being investigated, considering the UFO didn’t have a transponder and wasn’t responding to attempted communication, despite flying in a highly trafficked area.
A few months ago, The Drive covered a similar story regarding a UFO following alongside a commercial airliner in northern California and Oregon that elicited a response from the military. Both the FAA and Air Force admitted that it scrambled F-15 fighter jets to intercept the unidentified craft, though they lost track of the target.
These instances of pilots encountering UFOs comes at an oddly coincidental time, after the announcement of the Pentagon’s black budget program to study the phenomenon. The amount of coverage from mainstream media publications has been significant, leading many to believe we may be on the precipice of some type of disclosure event.
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Bob Lazar—perhaps no other name is as provocative in ufology as the man who introduced the world to the government’s most classified military facility, colloquially known as Area 51. Claiming to have once been employed at a secret test site in the Nevada desert, Lazar alleges he worked to reverse engineer one of nine alien spacecraft he says are hidden there.
The story begins in the 1980s, when Lazar was contracting as a physicist at Los Alamos National Labs in New Mexico — the infamous home of the Manhattan Project where the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were designed. Prior to his employment at Los Alamos, Lazar claims to have studied physics at MIT, and electronic technology at CalTech.
While at Los Alamos, Lazar recounts a process in which he was heavily vetted and specifically asked about his interests outside work, including the construction of a particle accelerator he built in his master bedroom. Soon, he said, he was tapped by military defense contractor EG&G to conduct highly-secretive work at a clandestine site within Area 51 known as S-4. Lazar says his superiors worked to get him what they called a “Majestic” clearance level in order to enter the facility.
In 1989, Lazar decided to blow the whistle and share his story on Las Vegas news station KLAS-TV, obfuscating his face and using the pseudonym “Dennis,” in an exposé with investigative reporter George Knapp. Eventually, he would shoot a follow-up with his face and true identity exposed, while also revealing that “Dennis” was the name of his alleged supervisor at S-4.
Since then, Lazar has been in some way related to countless attempts to either prove or debunk the conspiracy that the U.S. government (and/or a defense contractor) is in possession of highly advanced spacecraft not of this world, and that it has kept this knowledge hidden from the public for decades.
