Officially confirmed fragments of radio communications from two civilian aircraft with radar from the Albuquerque Air Traffic Control Center vividly confirm the passage of a highly luminous or reflective unknown object over civilian ships in February. Although there are plenty of attempts to explain what happened, the incident remains unclear to this day.
According to the portal TheWarzone, fragments of radio communications were recorded on February 24, 2018, and they confirm the content of negotiations between civil flight control in Albuquerque with two civilian aircraft: Learjet 36 (N71PG) of Phoenix Air and flight 1095 (Airbus A321) of American Airlines.
It all started with an inquiry by the Learjet crew around 3:30 pm local time, when the pilots were surprised to ask the Albuquerque Air Traffic Control Center if the ground station was registering air traffic that was occurring in front of their aircraft. At this point, the Learjet itself was at an altitude of about 37,000 feet (approximately 11,280 meters) between the Sonoran Desert State Preserve and the border with New Mexico. The response from Albuquerque was negative - the radar did not reflect what the pilots saw in front of them. Moreover, one pilot called this object "UFO", and the second supported this definition with an interjection.
Learjet and Airbus routes superimposed on each other during object observation.
Just a few minutes later, Albuquerque dispatcher contacted the pilots of American-Airlines Flight 1095, flying along the same corridor as the Learjet, but with a slight delay. The controller asked the pilots of the "Airbus" for the next 15 miles "to pay attention to something that could fly over their plane." The pilot confirmed receipt of the information, after which the dispatcher briefly explained the situation. "Just let us know if you see anything."
Soon a Learjet pilot intervened in negotiations between Albuquerque and the Airbus and said: “I don't know what it was. It was not an airplane, but it was and flew in the direction opposite us."
Less than a minute later, the Airbus pilot switched on again and said: “Yes, something flew right over us, something like … No, I have no idea what it was, but it flew at least two to three thousand feet above us. Yes, it flew right over us. " The Albuquerque dispatcher confirmed the pilots' information without comment, then asked if the object was flying or just hovering in the sky. “I could not determine whether it was a balloon or not, but it either glowed by itself, lito reflected light very strongly. He was several thousand feet above us and was flying in the opposite direction. " And this information was also accepted by the dispatcher on the ground without comment.
Further on the recording, the voice of another pilot is heard, who asked if this could be a "Google balloon", to which the American-Airlines pilot replied that "it is rather unlikely," and another voice added: "UFO."
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In fact, the version of an air probe or similar research facility cannot be completely ruled out, writes the expert TheWarzone, since all this took place in a region actively used by the military for its own purposes. To the east is White Sands Missile Range and Holloman Air Force Base. To the south is the city of Tucson with two major aviation facilities: Davis Monten Air Force Base and Tucson International Airport. To the north is Phoenix, with its Luke airbase, which houses training units for F-35 and F-16 pilots. To the west is the Yuma Marine Air Base with numerous functional units. In addition, Fort Huachuca is located slightly south of the site of observation of the object, where many units of unmanned drones are deployed.
But at the end of the article, the author writes that despite such circumstances and environment, which the crews and dispatchers were well aware of, direct witnesses in Learjet and Airbus do not believe that this could explain what they saw, remaining in the position that it was a UFO … But the journalists, despite the US Freedom of Information Act, did not receive an answer to the portal's request to the military department.