An American Airlines pilot reported seeing “a long cylindrical object” flying over his plane during a flight from Ohio to Arizona on Sunday.
The encounter with the unidentified flying object took place in New Mexico while flight AA 2292 was going to Phoenix from Cincinnati.
The pilot called air traffic control shortly after noon, local time, on February 22 to report seeing the object, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
“Do you have any targets here? We just put something on top of us,” the pilot is heard saying in a recorded radio broadcast and published on the Deep Black Horizon blog. “I hate to say that – it looked like a long cylindrical object that almost looked like a type of cruise missile moving very fast. It went right over us.”
The FAA told NBC News in a statement that air traffic controllers “did not see any objects in the area on their radarscopes”.
American Airlines confirmed that the radio call came from one of its flights, but has postponed further questions to the FBI.
“After an interrogation with our flight crew and additional information received, we can confirm that this radio broadcast was from American Airlines flight 2292 on February 21,” said the airline.
The FBI told NBC that it is investigating the incident.
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