Two American Airlines pilots saw the strange object while flying over New Mexico describing it as “a long, cylindrical object” which came stunningly very close to the aircraft as it was flying over New Mexico. The incident occurred on Feb. 21, 2021, above northeastern New Mexico.
The FBI reported that it was aware of the incident, which occurred Sunday during a flight from Cincinnati to Phoenix and the pilot called air traffic control shortly after noon local time to report seeing the UFO, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
“Do you have any targets up here?” the pilot is heard asking on a radio transmission. “We just had something just go over the top of us that — I hate to say this — looked like a long, cylindrical object that almost looked like a cruise missile type of thing moving really fast. It went right over the top of us.”
“Following a debrief with our Flight Crew and additional information received, we can confirm this radio transmission was from American Airlines Flight 2292 on Feb. 21,” the airline company said.
The pilots claim that at around 1:00 p.m. Central Standard Time, they spotted an unidentified flying object (UFO) soaring right over them at 37,000 feet.
According to The Drive, the flight took off from Cincinnati, Ohio without a hitch. Headed to the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, the plane soon found itself at cruising altitude as passengers did their best to bide the time. Little did they know, however, that the pilots in the cockpit were dealing with the unexplainable.
It was somewhere above northeastern New Mexico that the airmen radioed the Air Route Traffic Control Center in Albuquerque for answers. According to Q13 Fox, the transmission was recorded and intercepted by experienced radioman Steve Douglass, who published it on his blog, Deep Black Horizon.
“Do you have any targets up here? We just had something go right over the top of us,” the pilot said.
But perhaps most remarkable is the fact that none of the passengers aboard saw the UFO or even knew that the pilots had.
Meanwhile, radarmen on the ground and amateurish ufologists frantically tried to investigate what had trespassed on the Airbus A320 that day. American Airlines, however, seemed reluctant to acknowledge that the incident had occurred.
“At this time, we do not have any indication the radio transmission was from the flight crew onboard American Airlines Flight 2292 on Feb. 21,” the company stated.
However, it is believed there were no signs of fabrication or otherwise suspicious elements within the transmission, itself. After initially dismissing the transmission, American Airlines publicly confirmed it.
“Following a debrief with our Flight Crew and additional information received, we can confirm this radio transmission was from American Airlines Flight 2292 on Feb. 21,” it said. “For any additional questions on this, we encourage you to reach out to the FBI.”
American Airlines is one of the largest airline corporations in the world. The fact that it not only confirmed its pilots encountered a UFO but also suggested that any inquiries be relayed to the FBI, is news to behold — particularly after the Pentagon admitted last year that the Navy witnessed some startling UFOs.
America has a history of citing UFP with perhaps hundreds of mysterious encounters with UFO reported over lonely countrysides and American skies. The mysteries are yet to be unfounded.