Jet Encountered Apparent UFO Over New Mexico
The Claim
An American Airlines jet encountered evidence of alien life over northeastern New Mexico Sunday afternoon.
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Emerging story
On February 25, 2021, Fox5NY tweeted that “An American Airlines jet encountered an apparent UFO over northeastern New Mexico Sunday afternoon.”
Twitter users shared the tweet hundreds of times, with many of them saying that the airplane encountered alien life.
Misbar’s Analysis
Misbar’s investigation found that the pilot on American Airlines flight 2292 radioed around 1:00 p.m. CST and said that an unidentified object was flying right on top of them.
In the radio transmission, you can hear the pilot say, “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. It went right over the top of us.”
According to multiple sources, American Airlines confirmed that the radio transmission is authentic, but did not give any further comment on the UFO. An American Airlines spokesperson told Fox News in a statement, “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. For any additional questions on this, we encourage you to reach out to the FBI.” The FBI said it was aware of the incident.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released a short statement: “A pilot reported seeing an object over New Mexico shortly after noon local time on Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021. FAA air traffic controllers did not see any object in the area on their radarscopes.”
According to the National UFO Reporting Center, there are thousands of Global UFO sightings each year.
Many of them go unexplained like this UFO sighting over New Mexico. Since the UFO sighting did seem to occur, but since we cannot verify whether it was an encounter with alien life, we rate this claim as commotion.
