American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on Sunday

Re:American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on... by soheil on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @10:36PM (#26246302)

I'm so sick of the term UFO being applied to stuff like this. Even the pilot said it looked like a cruise missile but lo and behold the first conjecture in the article by the journalist is that it could be extraterrestrial and only at the end they say oh yeah it could also just be a military thing since you know there are a trillion military bases right under where it was flying over.

I think we need a new term, maybe: Not an Extraterrestrial Flying Object NAEFO, never mind...

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Re:American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on... by remir on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @10:52PM (#26246390)

To be fair, the pilot said it looked like a cruse missile probably because that's the only reference point they could use.

Let's hope the US military was testing stuff and that's what it was.

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Re:American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on... by soheil on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @11:32PM (#26246592)

To be real fair most likely even a cruise missile would not look anything like a cruise missile if one zoomed past by when you're busy flying an airplane.

Let's not want to believe [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-Files:_I_Want_to_Believe

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Re:American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on... by throwawayalien on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @01:16AM (#26247155)

Why are you "sick" of it, what triggers such a response in you?

There's a reason people like to put such a spin on articles like this, and it isn't only because they want more clicks.

It's because it's related to one of the most important questions humankind has ever asked for many centuries.

That, and there are a lot of these reports throughout the history about this. And in very recent times, Pentagon officially recognized such phenomena - phenomena that is very similar to what is described in the article. Is it, then, so unreasonable to use a similar tone in such an article?

Why would you be "so sick" of it? Instead of allowing yourself to wonder at the sheer vastness of the universe and asking yourself similar questions, why would you choose to be so put off by it?

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Re:American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on... by philliphaydon on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @10:49PM (#26246369)

The pilot said: "it looked like", so it's technically Unidentified. It flew over the top of the plane. So it's Flying though the air. And it wasn't an animal of any sort so it must have been an Object. Sounds like a UFO.

UFO != extraterrestrial

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Re:American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on... by czbond on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @10:38PM (#26246313)

I think the term now in use is UAP - Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.

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Re:American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on... by Izkata on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @11:09PM (#26246493)

Downvoters - UAP is indeed a term used nowadays: https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/23...

> On Aug. 4, 2020, Deputy Secretary of Defense David L. Norquist approved the establishment of an Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Task Force (UAPTF). The Department of the Navy, under the cognizance of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security, will lead the UAPTF.

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Re:American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on... by blhack on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @11:03PM (#26246451)

>the pilot said it looked like a cruise missile

What percentage of commercial airline pilots do you think have ever seen a cruise missile?

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Re:American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on... by snypher on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @12:09AM (#26246807)

I'd guess at least half. Anyone who was alive during Desert Storm could describe one, they were all over TV at the time.

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Re:American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on... by ta8645 on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @10:52PM (#26246387)

I agree. But your suggested acronym to fix it is a bit over the top. Perhaps: Uninteresting Friendly Object.

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