U.S. flight encounters unidentified cylindrical object at 36,000 feet

An American Airlines plane recently encountered an unidentified cylindrical object over New Mexico. An American Airlines plane prepares to land at an airport near Baltimore (Baltimore), March 11, 2019.

(American Airlines) pilots recently witnessed a fast-flying cylindrical object at tens of thousands of feet and alerted the airport tower. The peculiar incident came to light because of a leaked recording of the pilot’s call with the tower.

According to ABC7, an American Airlines flight number AA2292 was on its way to Phoenix when it encountered an unidentified object at 36,000 feet (10,923 meters) above New Mexico.

The pilot of the aircraft was in contact with the tower in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The call was intercepted by radio junkie Steve Douglass, who shared the recording online.

The recording shows the American Airlines pilot asking the tower, “Do you see any targets out here? There’s something that just flew right over us. I hate to say it, but it looks like a long cylindrical object, almost like a cruise missile, moving fast right above us.”

Douglas told the station, “I heard this plane basically over all the other planes because the cadence of his voice seemed excited.”

Although the pilot mentioned in the conversation that the unidentified object could be some kind of military weapon, Douglas considered it unlikely because he heard the conversation instantly and there were no military aircraft in the sky at the Time and no military tests were announced.

He said, “It was a Sunday, basically a day off for the military.”

He explained that if the military was going to conduct the test, they would have notified the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in advance, told commercial aircraft to avoid the test area, and followed a strict flight path so as not to interfere with their test. But that didn’t happen that day.

The FAA is believed to be coming out to investigate the UFO sighting. Douglas noted that there are several possibilities the FAA can rule out, including military branches or foreign governments.