4 articles tagged “FAA”.
A 26-year air traffic controller has gone on the record about what civil radar does with unidentified targets: filters them out, then wipes the raw data after 45 days. Both rules live in the same FAA order.
Airline pilot UAP reports are up. Before you reach for the tinfoil, here's what changed about the reporting system, not necessarily the skies.
In 1986 the crew of a Japan Airlines 747 reported being paced by lights — and then by something enormous — for the better part of an hour over Alaska. The FAA investigated, the radar was ambiguous, and two bright planets were hanging in exactly the wrong place.
In 2006, a dozen United Airlines employees at Chicago's O'Hare said a metallic disc hovered over a gate, then shot straight up and left a clean hole in the overcast. The FAA's answer was a 'weather phenomenon' it declined to investigate.