Two For One

Two For One

Date: February 24, 2018

Location: Airspace Over Southern Arizona

2 airline pilots spotted a mysterious, reflective object hovering some 40,000' over southern Arizona, and the Federal Aviation Administration, FAA, is stumped.

According to radio transmissions between the befuddled pilots and air traffic controllers, the sighting occurred around 3:30 p.m. local time, somewhere over the Sonoran Desert near Phoenix.

Was anybody above us that passed us like 30 seconds ago?

The first pilot asked while flying a Learjet West toward California.

Negative, an air traffic controller at the FAA's Albuquerque Air Traffic Center in New Mexico answered.

OK, the pilot responded. Something did.

The object, whatever it was, was flying high, at least a few thousand feet above the jet, which was cruising at an altitude of around 37,000', the New Times reported.

A few minutes later, the FAA asked another nearby flight, an American Airlines Airbus traveling in the same direction, to keep an eye out for anything passing over it in the desert.

The confused pilot agreed.

And sure enough, within a few minutes, the Airbus crew saw the same mystery object fly over their plane.

Yeah, something just passed over us, the Airbus pilot reported.

I couldn't make it out, whether it was a balloon or what, but it had a big reflection on it and it was several thousand feet above us, going the opposite direction.

Several weeks later, authorities are still stumped as to the object's origin.

Beyond these 2 pilot reports, the FAA couldn't verify that any other aircraft were around.

It likely wasn't a weather balloon, the FAA reported, nor a military craft.

We have a close working relationship with a number of other agencies and safely handle military aircraft and civilian aircraft of all types in that area every day, including high altitude weather balloons, an FAA representative told the New Times.

In other words, whatever the UFO was, the FAA should have known about it.

But it didn't.

This report comes just a few months after a former Pentagon official revealed that the government has been quietly running an official UFO detection program since 2007.

An investigation into the program by The New York Times turned up striking footage taken by 2 Navy fighter pilots, who appear to encounter a mysterious glowing object midair.

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