Posted on 11/23/2017 7:59:40 AM PST by BenLurkin
Numerous pilots reported they saw the aircraft, but none came close enough to identify it. Ultimately, Oregon Air National Guard F-15 fighters from Portland International Airport were sent up to investigate, but saw nothing. The War Zone article also cites two Reddit users familiar with the incident and who seem to corroborate much of what the air traffic controller audio has to say.
The aircraft was near Crater Lake, Oregon when air traffic controllers started asking nearby pilots about it. The aircraft was described as a white object flying north between 35,000 and 40,000 feet. At one point in the air traffic controller audio clip, one pilot says the mystery bird is 12 to 15 miles away, and distances from other aircraft ranged from four to 20 miles. Another pilot, observing the aircraft, estimates an airspeed of 370 knots, or 425 miles an hour on the ground, also noting he is not getting a TCAS transponder signal.
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One pilot, United Flight 612, is asked by air traffic if he sees the mystery aircraft at his 3 o’clock position and quickly pipes up, “Yeah we got him, he’s about four miles away.” It is apparent from the tone of his voice he had been watching the object, which he later describes as a “white speck” “about four or five thousand feet above us,” for some time.
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“Sometimes, based on ATCs reply, we were identified and reported as a UFO sighting”
What, was the controller having some fun? They were working you and they said that?!
That’s funny.
I misstated. . .the airliners reported us as a UFO.
One controller said: “United flight XXX, that’s an F-15 thinking he is a space-shuttle.”
Harvey Weinstein GTHOOD.
asking out of ignorance, here...what do\can the spy satellites “see” ?
Algore coming back from the Galaxy Global Warming Summit
Maybe its a new form of the X-15? My bet is a top secret air force plane, getting ready for a secret mission to North Korea—a plan to take out the Rocketman that’s making such a fuss. One bomb well placed and his sister is ruler and makes a deal with Trump. In a few years it will become a tourist site—and Trump will build a hotel there. Get some food for the folks and she will be proclaimed queen—of a new North Korea. Fear works well to control the masses—but so does love—as the media is discovering with Trump.
I wonder how many UFO sightings were logged when the HABU was still in operation? :-)
LOL! I forgot about him! :)
Oh wow!
Hey, I saw this episode of Star Trek with revamped graphics, really well done. Some of the original ST is kinda hard to watch but I like this episode!
May have been a Russian ‘open skies’ flight.
May have been a commercial, corporate, or military flight with a bad transponder.
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