Posted on 06/04/2009 3:05:09 AM PDT by JoeProBono
Federal and Texas authorities are tying to locate the source of a “strange object” the pilot of a Continental Express plane reported flying about 150 feet beneath his plane in southeast Texas.
Flight 2822 from Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport continued safely on to South Carolina and Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport.
Liberty County Sheriff’s Department Cpl. Hugh Bishop said deputies looked for a possible launch or landing site for the item but had not found anything yet.
“We are going to try and come up with a more definite track of this object and its path,” sheriff’s chief deputy Ken DeFoor said in an article for the Houston Chronicle. “We are trying to find out where it came from, where it went, and who may be responsible for it.”
A spokeswoman for ExpressJet Airlines, which operates Continental Express, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the pilot followed standard operating procedures.
Kristy Nicholas said the pilot of the Embraer 145 told flight controllers that the “strange object” he saw never showed up on his radar Friday night. The pilot reported a “missile or rocket” flying near his airplane on Friday.
Nicholas said the plane, with 23 passengers and three crewmembers, had just passed 11,000 feet, going to 16,000 feet.
DeFoor said no one was injured and the pilot didn’t have to take evasive action.
He said they were checking with the owners and presidents of local rocket clubs to see if anyone had fired rockets. He did not know if anyone was in the area at the time.
DeFoor said a Continental Airlines pilot reported a similar incident in May 2008. He said it was roughly in the same area as Friday night’s report.
“While we have no information to indicate there was a criminal act, we certainly do not rule anything out and certainly would not want to speculate on what it may or may not have been,” FBI spokeswoman Shauna Dunlap said.
BO on another flying AF-1 on another “photo OP”?
As I stated in another thread......
“No doubt some thirty something year old living in his parents basement with subscriptions to ‘Flying Saucer Digest’ and ‘Mad Magazine’ is blogging right now on how that object must be an alien aircraft that traveled thousands of light years to retrieve a semen, urine, and stool sample from a farmer named Billy Bob in a subconscious attempt to find significance in an other wise insignificant life and to help forget the horrible memory of his one attempt at copulating with his fat neighbor several years earlier but was distracted by thoughts of ‘Mother’ not approving and some bright lights in the sky above.”
not the first time.
Michelle testing a new broomstick?
WOW- WHAT A HORRIBLE THING TO SAY ABOUT SOMEONE ELSE.
IT EVEN LOOKS LIKE YOU PUT A LOT OF THOUGHT INTO IT. THAT’S SO ODD.
FOCUS ON SOMETHING GOOD IN LIFE INSTEAD
I actually saw the guy on TV yesterday. He was going on about USO’s, I think Unidentified Submersible Objects.
He was relating how there was a base deep under the sea off Catalina Island from which aliens emerged to zap air planes with super magnetic pulses.
Second incident in same area in a year.
“WOW- WHAT A HORRIBLE THING TO SAY ABOUT SOMEONE ELSE.
IT EVEN LOOKS LIKE YOU PUT A LOT OF THOUGHT INTO IT. THAT’S SO ODD.
FOCUS ON SOMETHING GOOD IN LIFE INSTEAD.”
I wasn’t directing that to anyone in particular, especially any FReeper. I was describing a TYPE of person.
It took about 5 minutes for me to write that post. Loser types are not hard to understand at all.
I do focus on good things. I was taking a break from it.
oh i’m so sure
Now who’s being negative?
Thanks. Apparently one was drawn out of the woodwork.
Yeah, and it went after you with all capital letters. Don’t you feel ashamed of yourself?
I am just so upset by what you said.
My mom told me she is too, and I can do anythign I want, it’s my basement.
you guys are so mean
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