At least four pilots testified UFOsothers are ‘moving too fast’ above Oregon last week.
A spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told DailyMail.com that one of the pilots “reported seeing unidentified lights flying in Seattle Air Route Traffic Control (ATC) airspace” during the December 7 incident.
While regulators can’t confirm the availability of FAA radar data that would confirm sightings, FAA ATC audio reveals pilots are in panic mode.
The pilot of the ambulance said he saw a bright light, a ‘red light,’ following his plane at high speed, before it returned to the Pacific.
‘I don’t even know how fast it was,’ an air ambulance pilot, with Life Flight’s Air Medical Transport service, can be heard on the tape.
Later on Sunday night, December 8, a United Airlines pilot reported a strange group of strange lights over the Eugene, Oregon-area, according to local news.
‘We see three or four goals. They are all high. Up and down,” a United pilot told Seattle ARTCC (ZSE). ‘It’s crazy.’
A United Airlines pilot, a Life Flight ambulance pilot and two other Horizon pilots all witnessed UFOs – some ‘moving at high speed’ – in Oregon last week. Above, a photo of one pilot he encountered, as obtained by local NBC affiliate KGW 8.
Two other pilots with Horizon Airlines also told ZSE operators that they also saw mysterious and bright UFOs on Sunday night, according to one pilot who spoke to the NBC team. KGW 8 Stories.
But it was the Life Flight ambulance pilot who made the most surprising statement about the UFO or UAP incident, telling ZSE air traffic controllers that one of the lights was rotating in a ‘corkscrew pattern.’
The Life Flight pilot reported that lights appeared on his plane’s collision avoidance system, possibly discounting thoughts of mysterious lights or SpaceX Starlink satellites or distant space events.
“You are allowed to drive if necessary – left or right – to avoid the UFO out there,” the pilot told the ambulance driver.
Nearby, the glowing UFO came within ’20 miles or so’ of the medical plane, according to the pilot.
He said: ‘It keeps going towards the sea and then it goes back, and then it goes back to the sea.’
‘It’s amazing. It is (a) red, round.’
In a statement to DailyMail.com, the FAA said it shares only UFO/UAP cases reported to traffic controllers and the Pentagon.
“If information such as radar data is consistent with the report, the FAA shares it with the UAP Task Force,” an FAA spokesperson said via email.
Above, a photo of two UFOs taken by one of the pilot’s witnesses. Some dedicated UFO researchers – including University of Utah mechanical engineer Dr Douglas Buettner – believe the lights may be mysterious Starlink satellites.
The Seattle Air Route Traffic Control Center (pictured above) is responsible for managing and ensuring the proper separation of air traffic in Washington state, most of Oregon, parts of Idaho, Montana, Nevada and California – as well as neighboring areas west of the Pacific Ocean.
But the Air Force did not respond to a request for clarification, which caused confusion because the Pentagon officially. terminated the UAP Task Force on November 23, 2021.
However, the FAA wrote about the Pentagon’s UAP investigation office: ‘The Department of Defense All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office serves as a clearing house for UAP that affect national security or defense.’
‘Many US government agencies have programs or programs to study and write UAP. However, these agencies also work cooperatively,” the FAA said.
Some dedicated UFO researchers, including University of Utah physicist Dr Douglas Buettner, lean towards the idea that the lights (or some of them) were the unidentified Starlink internet satellite, launched by SpaceX.
“I’ve been looking at two other people, and they say it’s related to Starlink,” Dr. Buettner told KGW 8 News. ‘All it is – is the sun hitting the satellite perfectly, and it’s reflected back into your eyes.’
Dr Buettner told DailyMail.com that: ‘I say 60 to 80 percent of confidence (…) I want to take the radar from the airport,’ he said by email. ‘And we can try to pull the planes that were talking about ADS-B a lot. ‘
Short for Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast, ADS-B hardware collects and records the location of the aircraft, the aircraft’s flight data (communication, navigation, and other computer information) and other information for future use.
Since May this year, Dr Buettner has also been a member of the non-profit organization Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies (SCU)which is dedicated to exploring the mysteries of space like this.
Oregon has enjoyed the attention and interest of UFO hunters such as home of UFO Festwhich was held in the small town of McMinnville in Yamhill County. Every month, the McMenamins hotel in Oregon in this town holds its own world festival.
Speculators have tried to use radiometry to estimate the distance and size of the McMinnville UFO: a method borrowed from astronomy that estimates the distance of an object thought to be very dark, when it fades to gray in the distant image.
The famous McMinnville UFO photos remain two of the most famous and well-studied ‘flying saucer’ photos in modern history, having first appeared in LIFE magazine in June 1950.
Taken by Oregon farmer Paul Trent, McMinnville’s photographs have been analyzed by Carl Sagan’s astronomer William Hartmann; US Navy optical physicist, Bruce Maccabee; and former satellite image specialist for the European Space Agency, François Louangebut it is not explained in detail.
‘This is one of the few UFO reports in which all the factors investigated, geometric, psychological, and physical seem to be consistent with what flies in a strange, silvery, metallic, disk-shape, tens of meters in diameter, and apparently. artificial, flew in front of two witnesses,’ Hartmann wrote in his review of the US Air Force-paid Condon Report.
In 1975, Bruce Maccabee, a US Navy optical physicist, was able to analyze the original image of Trent in order to determine if the unknown object could be a model hanging by a rope.
‘Nobody found the thread,’ Maccabee told DailyMail.com, ‘but if the Trents were lucky and picked a thread that wasn’t black but white or gray you wouldn’t have seen it.’
