Article by Luke Kenton February 22, 2021 (dailymail.co.uk)
• On February 21st at about 1pm local time, a commercial jet travelling from Cincinnati to Phoenix had a close encounter with a fast-moving, ‘long cylindrical object’ at 36,000 feet over northeast New Mexico. In the 20-second audio below, the pilot of American Airlines Flight 2292 can be heard telling Albuquerque Air Traffic Control: “Do you have any targets up here? We just had something go right over the top of us. I hate to say this but it looked like a long cylindrical object that almost looked like a cruise missile type of thing – moving really fast right over the top of us.” The airliner was travelling around 460 miles per hour at the time and went on to land in Phoenix without further incident.
• The American Airline radio transmission was intercepted by Steve Douglass who runs the Deep Black Horizon blog. In a statement to DailyMail.com, American Airlines confirmed the authenticity of the audio clip obtained by Douglass. According to Douglas, no significant military aircraft presence was noted in the area at the time. According to The Drive, the incident happened not too far from the sprawling White Sands Missile Range and the Mount Dora Military Operating Area. But the likelihood that a missile may have ‘gone off the reservation’ during a test or exercise is slim. Commercial pilots would’ve been pre-notified to any such safety hazard.
• The encounter is reminiscent of another incident that occurred in the same area three years ago. In that incident, on February 24, in 2018, two pilots on different air craft – a Learjet and an Airbus – reported having close encounters with a mysterious object flying above them at 37,000 feet over southern Arizona near the New Mexico border. The sightings occurred within minutes of each other. The pilot of a Learjet asked Air Traffic Control: “Was anybody above us that passed us like 30 seconds ago?” When the dispatcher replied ‘no’, the pilot laughed insisting it must be a ‘UFO’.
• Moments later, the pilot of American Airlines Airbus announced: “Yeah, something just passed over us, like a – 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.” When asked if the object was in motion or hovering, the pilot said: “Couldn’t make it out whether it was a balloon or whatnot. But it was just really beaming light or could have had a big reflection and was several thousand feet above us going opposite direction.” That pilot later told local media: “It was very bright but it wasn’t so bright that you couldn’t look at it … It didn’t look anything like an airplane.” “What was weird about it, normally, if you have an object and the sun is shining this way, the reflection would be on this side, but this was bright all the way around. It was so bright that you really couldn’t make out what shape it was.”
An American Airlines flight travelling from Cincinnati to Phoenix on Sunday shared a bizarre close encounter with what its pilot
described as a fast-moving, ‘long cylindrical object’.
The encounter, which occurred at 36,000 feet above the remote northeast corner of New Mexico, west of Des Moines yesterday, involved AA Flight 2292, an Airbus A320, according to The Drive.
In a radio transmission intercepted by Steve Douglass, who runs the Deep Black Horizon blog, the pilot can be heard telling Albuquerque Air Traffic Control: ‘Do you have any targets up here? We just had something go right over the top of us.
‘I hate to say this but it looked like a long cylindrical object that almost looked like a cruise missile type of thing – moving really fast right over the top of us.’
The plane was said to be travelling at around 460 miles per hour at the time.
In a statement to DailyMail.com, American Airlines confirmed the authenticity of the audio clip obtained by Douglass.
20-second audio of Flight 2292 pilot’s report to air traffic control (‘The War Zone’ YouTube)
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