Pilot Reports Ufo Hovering Beside Jet, Leaving Air Traffic Control Stunned
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A plausible third option is a mundane terrestrial object and not an alien spacecraft. Even the article (despite throwing up as much alien hype as it can) points out that it could have been a weather balloon. As trite an explanation as that is, it's not impossible.
I don't believe it's aliens, and I suspect there must be multiple phenomena involved (including some hoaxing) but it can't all be nothing. Attention seeking doesn't really work because until recently reporting this sort of thing would get a pilot grounded.
That brings up a good question. Should some of these pilots be forced into a psychological evaluation in addition to a retake of their 3rd class medical? Or perhaps include a mandatory psychological evaluation as part of the medical.
The mundane nature of these kinds of reports suggest at least something other than mental illness or drug use might be going on. People aren't reporting being tailed by a Romulan Warbird (obviously, because they would be cloaked.) You'd think the stories would be weirder, but "I saw an object I can't explain do things I also can't explain" doesn't read as a trip to me. Just a lot of unknowns.
That works for me too. Last year I was taking a picture of the sunset and a swarm of UFO's went past my camera. I knew what they were (flock of birds that eat the deer's food) but my camera was in in a mode that could not focus fast enough. I declined to report the UFO's.