Unknown over Southern, AZ
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Bt. roughly 3:30 p.m. and 4:15 p.m. local. A series of strange events occurred high up in the flightlevels above Southern Arizona. N71PG, a Learjet 36 belonging to Phoenix Air, and American Airlines Flight 1095, an Airbus A321, had independent close encounters with a strange craft flying at around 40,000 feet. The planes were flying east at about 37,000 feet between the Sonoran Desert National Monument and the New Mexico border when the incident took place. 2018-02-24-FAA-Southern Arizona.mp3
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #139545). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2018-02-21 → 2018-03-10