The pilot, who was reportedly operating a Learjet late last month for Phoenix Air, had spotted an unfamiliar object pass overhead, so he radioed the regional air traffic control center in Albuquerque. “Negative,” an air traffic controller said. It’s still not clear what the pilot saw, although another pilot would soon report the same thing. Lynn Lunsford, a spokesman for the FAA, said in a statement Wednesday to The Washington Post that the air traffic controller was “unable to verify that any other aircraft was in the area.”But he alluded to several possibilities. Former Navy pilot describes UFO encounter studied by secret Pentagon programThe government admits it studies UFOs.

Source: Washington Post March 28, 2018 20:52 UTC