Posted on 02/25/2021 10:54:16 AM PST by RoosterRedux
*snip* [just updated info included below. See link below for full article]
As The War Zone points out, New Mexico is indeed home to White Sands Missile Range, the sprawling stretch of desert where the U.S. military has long tested everything from nuclear weapons to V-2 rockets. The site is actually the birthplace of America’s space program, and today is home not just to a space capsule landing field, but the latest in weapons tech, too, from lasers to electromagnetic railguns.
But White Sands is approximately 400 miles away from the site of Sunday encounter’s west of Clayton, New Mexico, and it’s unlikely a weapon like a cruise missile could have “gone off the reservation” during a test, The War Zone’s Tyler Rogoway observes.
Scott Stearns, the chief of public affairs at White Sands, told Fox News the missile range wasn’t testing anything on Sunday. “We have no idea what it could have been or if anything similar has been sighted in that area before.”
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In a Reddit thread about the incident on r/UFOs, user Can_Not_Double_Dutch, who purports to be an airline pilot, provides information that raises additional questions about the “very weird” encounter:
Airline pilot here: Between 28,000'-40,000' (FL280-FL400) aircraft are in RVSM (Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum) airspace, which means crossing traffic can be + or - 1,000' from you. This airspace is highly controlled. And if another aircraft is transmitting on their Transponder code then you can see that aircraft on your TCAS (Traffic Collision system). For ATC controllers and pilots not to be able to see this UFO on any of their systems is very weird. And pilots never want to be the one to say UFO on radio.Even if authorized to fly through military airspace the ATC controllers would say military airspace is cold. If missiles are being tested then a NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) would be issued and airspace closed off.
So I would say something was up there and passing by airlines.
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Dang. I told my little aliens to be careful when they went out. Warned them they’d be seen ;D.
Re-entering rocket booster?
This is a job for Spaaaaaaaaaace Forrrrrrrrrce
Not the FIB
New scramjet with test pilot? High speed...very stubby wings....at the right angle would look like a cylinder.....
What does the FIB know beyond “GET TRUMP!” ?
Perhaps NASA or Air Traffic Control should be queried.
Imagine if this happened on Bidet’s watch:
https://www.history.com/news/ufos-washington-dc-news-reports
Bidet would claim it was white supremacist insurrectionists in the flying saucers....
Why not a Tic-Tac shape?
Why not a Tic-Tac shape?
Get ready for our lying jackass leaders at the top to unveil a manufactured alien crisis, just like this manufactured Covid crisis. We are living in a time of universal deceit!
Airline pilots are not really credible, they drink, use drugs, they generally have bad eyesight, little aviation experience and are just not reliable witnesses.
The communist Chinee secreting a new, killer virus into America via a secret ‘skunkwork’ project that Beijing Joe gave them?
Who the hell really cares right now.
Fan made remake of the 1981 Heavy Metal Corvette re-entry scene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8l121LGlWU
And the original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_KXgFpguE0
Why is the FBI confirming this instead of the Air Force/Military?
Btw, in the audio from the pilot made it clear he would have rather kept this incident to himself.
Is it headed towards Grover’s Mill, New Jersey?
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