UFO. United States

« …veuillez être attentifs à toute activité étrange que vous verriez dans la région, et si c’est le cas, rapportez-la nous. Nous avons reçu des dépêches de plusieurs pilotes concernant des objets ressemblant à des OVNIs volant dans les environs. »

Le phénomène OVNI continue de faire les gros titres dans le monde entier. Et les observations d’OVNI sont en augmentation. Nous avons maintenant des rapports sur un objet volant non identifié vu par des avions de ligne au-dessus de l’Oklahoma. Selon le Liberation Times, un phénomène aérien non identifié (UAP) a fait que l’équipage d’un des vols s’est senti « effrayé, sans voix et choqué. » La rencontre a eu lieu au-dessus de l’Oklahoma/Kansas le 2 octobre 2022. Ben Hansen, animateur de Discovery+, a obtenu des enregistrements d’un vol Delta s’adressant au contrôle du trafic aérien (ATC) de Kansas City. L’observation a eu lieu aux premières heures du matin. Dans l’enregistrement, on entend un pilote décrire une lumière très brillante dans le ciel. La lumière s’estompe, puis redevient brillante. Le pilote mentionne que l’OVNI faisait cela depuis 15 minutes. L’équipage n’a pas pu dire s’il s’agissait d’un trafic aérien ou non.

Au-dessus du Kansas

On a d’abord pensé que le trafic inconnu était lié à une possible activité militaire à Warrensburg, Missouri, où se trouve la base aérienne de Whiteman. Il s’agit d’une base où sont stockées des armes nucléaires. Cependant, l’ATC a rapidement écarté cette théorie, déclarant que la base serait située à 5 heures du pilote, et non à 10 heures. Selon le vol Delta, l’objet ne se déplaçait pas, ce qui laisse penser que la lumière suivait la même direction que lui. « C’est toujours à 10 heures, et ça n’a pas bougé. Je ne peux pas vous dire la distance, mais ça devient très lumineux et ça s’estompe jusqu’au néant. » Selon les témoins, l’OVNI se trouvait au nord de l’avion qui a signalé la lumière, donc probablement au-dessus du Kansas, juste de l’autre côté de la frontière avec l’Oklahoma.

Activité étrange

L’ATC n’ayant pas pu identifier le trafic, un équipage de conduite a également signalé qu’il était « beaucoup plus haut », peut-être hors de portée des radars. Un Airbus 320 est signalé par l’ATC comme étant à 130 km à 10 heures, mais le pilote de Delta semble écarter cette possibilité, répondant : « À moins qu’ils ne fassent des 360 avec leurs phares allumés, je ne vois pas ce que c’est d’autre ». Alors que des événements étranges se déroulaient dans l’avion, une hôtesse de l’air se trouvait dans la cabine. Dans une interview accordée au Liberation Times, une personne sous couvert d’anonymat a déclaré : « L’agent de bord qui a répondu à la transmission par radio n’a fait que répéter ce que le contrôle du trafic aérien lui a dit, « veuillez être à l’affût de toute activité étrange que vous voyez dans la région, et si c’est le cas, faites-nous un rapport. Nous avons reçu des dépêches de plusieurs pilotes concernant des objets ressemblant à des OVNIs volant dans les environs. »

Les pilotes parlent

« L’officier de vol a répondu « reçu » une fois que le pilote est revenu de sa pause, l’officier de vol a répété la transmission, le pilote a en quelque sorte ignoré le message alors j’ai demandé « croyez-vous à ce genre de choses ? ». Il a répondu que non, j’ai demandé la même chose à l’officier de vol, et il a répondu : « Oui, il y a définitivement quelque chose d’autre ici avec nous, beaucoup de pilotes en ont été témoins et je viens d’un milieu militaire, donc j’ai toujours été au courant. » Cette rencontre est la dernière d’une série rapportée par Ben Hansen. Elle survient peu de temps après qu’un rapport de la Commission du Sénat sur le renseignement ait noté que « les menaces du transmédia pour la sécurité nationale des États-Unis se développent de manière exponentielle ».

Il est temps d’agir

Lors de l’évaluation préliminaire de l’UAP en juin 2021, 11 quasi-accidents entre des aviateurs et des objets inconnus ont été signalés comme des menaces pour la sécurité des vols et, éventuellement, pour la sécurité nationale. Toutefois, le rapport ne porte que sur la sécurité des vols militaires, et non sur celle des vols commerciaux, qui pourraient mettre en péril la sécurité des passagers et des équipages. Dans une interview accordée à Liberation Times, Ryan Graves, ancien pilote de l’aéronavale et coprésident de la communauté d’intérêt de l’AIAA sur les phénomènes aérospatiaux non identifiés, a évoqué les problèmes de sécurité des vols commerciaux. Selon M. Graves, les compagnies aériennes ne devraient pas attendre que la science ait déterminé l’origine d’un cas particulier de PAN. Des efforts peuvent être déployés dès maintenant pour réduire l’incertitude des équipages par la collecte de données et des mesures de sécurité.

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Written by Christopher Sharp - 1 November 2022

The newest reported incident involving multiple commercial aircraft and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena occurred on 2 October 2022.

Pilots described a very bright light which repeatedly disappeared before reappearing.

The incident, which occurred over the skies of Oklahoma left an experienced crew member feeling “scared speechless”.

Incident follows a newly uncovered trend of UAP incidents encountered by commercial aircraft.

Ben Hanson: "It's very concerning that most of these UAP incidents are reported and then end with nothing more than a few casual alerts and joking commentary by pilots and controllers.”

Ryan Graves: “Airlines shouldn’t wait until there is settled science on the origin of any particular UAP case. There are prudent data collection and safety measures that can be implemented now to alleviate aircrew uncertainty.”

FAA statement to Liberation Times: “If the pilot report can be corroborated with supporting information such as radar data, it is shared with the UAP Task Force. The FAA collaborates with other government agencies such as the Department of Defense (DOD) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on UAP.”

This article is accompanied with a newly released video by former FBI special agent and Discovery+ host, Ben Hansen, who has obtained the associated flight recordings.

A newly uncovered incident involving multiple commercial airlines and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) over the skies of Oklahoma on 2 October 2022, caused the crew on board one flight to feel “scared speechless” and “shocked”.

The incident occurred in the early morning hours and in recordings obtained by FBI special agent and Discovery+ host Ben Hansen, a Delta flight can be heard speaking to Kansas City Air Traffic Control (ATC), stating:

“I could just see a really bright light and then it fades and then it comes back and then it fades and it’s been going on for 15 minutes, so we’re not sure if it’s traffic or not.”

The American Airlines flight can be heard responding, “alright, then we’re not crazy then, I think,” before suggesting the UAP could relate to potential military activity at Warrensburg, Missouri, the location of Whiteman Air Force Base, where nuclear weapons are stored. 

However, that theory is ruled out by ATC, who state Warrensburg would be at the pilot’s 5 o’clock, not 10 o’clock, where the UAP could be seen.

The UAP is described by the Delta flight as not moving suggesting the light was following its direction, commenting to ATC:

“It’s always at 10 o’clock and it hasn’t moved. I can’t tell you distance but it gets really bright and dims out to nothing.”

The UAP appeared to be to the north of aircraft reporting the light, meaning it may have been over the Kansas area, across its nearby state border with Oklahoma. ATC could not identify the UAP, and one flight crew also reported it to be “a lot higher”, perhaps out of Air Traffic radar range.

ATC can be heard telling the Delta flight that there is an Airbus 320 80 miles away at 10 o’clock, but the Delta pilot appeared to rule this out, responding:

“Unless they’re doing 360s with their lights on, I don’t know what else it is.”

A flight attendant serving on board one nearby aircraft was in the cockpit as the events unfolded. The person speaking on condition of anonymity told Liberation Times:

“The flight officer who responded to the transmission over the radio just repeated what Air Traffic Control told him, “please be on the lookout for any strange activity you see in the area, and if so report back to us. We’ve gotten dispatched from several pilots about UFO-like objects flying around in the surrounding areas.” 

“The flight officer responded “copy” once the pilot came back from his break the flight officer repeated the transmission, the pilot kind of disregarded the message so I asked “do you believe in that type of thing?” He replied that he did not, I asked the flight officer the same, and he replied: “yea, there’s definitely something else out here with us, plenty of pilots have witnessed it and I come from a military background so I’ve always known about it.”

The flight attendant told Liberation Times that she felt scared during the flight, due to what she had heard, commenting:

“The entire situation had me very uncomfortable because I’d never heard anyone in the industry ever mention it. I am one of those flight attendants that can handle everything, I love turbulence and I never crack under pressure but that experience left me speechless. 

“Because for the first time in my 14 years of flying I was faced with the fact that we are sharing airspace with an unidentified object flying around us. Not gonna lie, I was scared and speechless.”

The flight attendant relayed the information to other flight attendants, who she describes as being shocked:

“I told the other crew members with whom I was flying what happened all of which were brand new flight attendants having only been there less than six months. They all looked shocked and began asking me questions since I was the more senior.”

Speaking about the flight recordings and statements made by the flight attendant, Ben Hansen told Liberation Times:

"Even while setting aside the topic of extraterrestrials, we live in a very dangerous world with political adversaries that would love to fly freely above our airspaces to collect information or launch attacks.  

"It's very concerning that most of these UAP incidents are reported and then end with nothing more than a few casual alerts and joking commentary by pilots and controllers.

“I expect more from those in charge of managing and defending our airspace.  Due diligence should entail investigating until a reasonable explanation is found; or alternatively, a detailed response plan is implemented for those incidents that cannot be resolved."

Ben Hansen, whose YouTube channel you can subscribe to here

This latest encounter is just one of a number of recent incidents reported by Ben Hansen, and follows a Senate Intelligence report, which stated that ‘transmedium threats to United States national security are expanding exponentially.’ 

The UAP Preliminary Assessment of June 2021 stated that ‘UAP threaten flight safety and, possibly, national security,’ following 11 near misses between naval aviators and unknown objects. However, the report only addressed military flight safety, not commercial flight safety, which could jeopardise the security of passengers and flight crew.

Ryan Graves, a former naval aviator, who co-chairs the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena Community of Interest, spoke to Liberation Times on the topic of addressing flight safety on commercial flights. Graves commented:

“Airlines shouldn’t wait until there is settled science on the origin of any particular UAP case. There are prudent data collection and safety measures that can be implemented now to alleviate aircrew uncertainty. 

“The AIAA UAP Community of Interest is bringing together aviation safety subject matter experts to help enable safety policy changes within the appropriate agencies with data and facts."

Ryan Graves, who recently appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience

Liberation Times has contacted American Airlines, to ask whether the airliner perceived UAP as a flight risk and if the company encourages pilots to report incidents. No comment has been received. 

Speaking to Liberation Times, one former Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) official confirmed that UAP has historically been detected by the FAA, stating:

“Radar has occasionally shown objects without transponder ID roaring across the sky. Sometimes these objects would pivot, go up, and out of detection range.”

When asked to comment on recent flight encounters between commercial aircraft and UAP, the FAA confirmed that information has been shared with the UAP Task Force (UAPTF) and that it collaborates with both the Department of Defense (DoD) and NASA. An FAA spokesman told Liberation Times:

“The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) documents UAP sightings whenever a pilot reports one to an air traffic control facility.

“If the pilot report can be corroborated with supporting information such as radar data, it is shared with the UAP Task Force. The FAA collaborates with other government agencies such as the Department of Defense (DOD) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on UAP.

“The DoD's newly established All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) serves as the government’s centralized clearing house for UAP reporting impacting national security or safety.

“NASA recently announced a team, of which the FAA is a part, to study UAP.”