Analysis
Why Commercial Pilots Are Reporting More Sightings — And Why That Doesn't Mean More UFOs
Airline pilot UAP reports are up. Before you reach for the tinfoil, here's what changed about the reporting system, not necessarily the skies.
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History
JAL Flight 1628: The Night a Jumbo Jet Was Shadowed Over Alaska
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.
History
The O'Hare Disc: The UFO That Punched a Hole in the Clouds
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.