A video filmed by pilots claims to show a “pulsating orb” falling from the sky — and experts think it could be a UFO.
The mysterious “yellowish-white” orb was spotted on 19th March, 2020 over Mexico by two FedEx pilots as they looked out their windshield near Monterrey. Weirdly, the object didn’t appear on the plane’s radar.
The footage from the cockpit of the Boeing 767, obtained by the Daily Mail, was analysed by the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP) who later produced a report on the sighting.
WARNING: THIS CLIP CONTAINS LANGUAGE THAT VIEWERS MAY FIND OFFENSIVE
In the video, one of the pilots is heard saying: “That is an unidentified flying object, bro. I can finally say I saw one now, that is cool. And it’s pulsating too man, that is nuts.”
The pilots are also heard talking about how the object fell out of the sky and “just stopped” and “hovered”.
Although the pilots are unnamed, the NARCAP report details that they are both “competent airmen” who are “highly experienced with observing and identifying aircraft” and are capable of “determining normal observations and incidents from unusual ones.”
The captain is a career pilot with 19 years of experience flying aircraft for a major cargo company with an additional 10 years flying KC-135 aircraft refuelling tankers for the US Air Force. The first officer previously flew F-15s before working in the private sector.
At first thinking it was a meteor, the first officer noticed a “yellowish white light” to the left side of the cockpit. The object then illuminated a beam of white light on their aircraft. Fearing it may have been another plane with its landing lights on that seemed to “turn onto a collision heading”, they prepared to avoid the aircraft.
However, the light suddenly stopped and “paced” their aircraft from a distance of 1,000 to 2,000 feet for 30 minutes.
With the unidentified aircraft so close, the airmen were able to get a better look.
“It was a brilliant yellow white plasma object teardrop shaped,” the captain said, adding “platillo” (meaning “saucer” in Spanish). The pilot reported that the flying object had “no navigation lights or other features associated with airplanes and that the light seemed to have a tail”.
The report said the teardrop shape may be due to plasma around the UFO being met with atmospheric resistance and airflow around the dense core of the orb.
As they approached the border of the US, the mysterious aircraft changed colours from yellow-white to pinkish/purple, and turned perpendicular away from the puzzled pilots.
The rest of the flight to Tennessee was uneventful.
The report concludes that the case is consistent with many cases reported over the last 90 years. The key difference between historic sightings and today’s sightings is that we now have video, “validating what pilots have been describing anecdotally for over 80 years and the work of NARCAP over the last 20 years,” the report reads.
NARCAP is concerned that such aircraft are a threat to safe aviation. The lack of preparation for aircrews, the inability to collect and analyse data for safety factors, UFOs’ unpredictability and “extreme mobility”, and the way in which a plane’s radars can’t pick up on them has an ability to create unsafe in-flight situations.
Mick West of debunking website Metabunk managed to match the reported sightings to flight FDX82 and said it sounds like the pilots saw Venus, and said the pulsating effect could be given off by the camera’s autofocus. However the pilots saw the object with their own eyes, too — not just through the lens of the camera.
NARCAP executive director Ted Roe said that although it could have been an “astronomical effect” due to Venus’ brightness on the night in question, the way the pilots described the unidentified object dropping vertically, stopping at their altitude, and pacing their aircraft is a “very consistent story”.
This isn’t the first time in recent months we’ve reported on mysterious flying objects. During the summer, a student caught a picture of what could be a UFO over the Devon seafront.
Another person who believes they captured a picture of a UFO — a former US Air Force photographer — has made claims that he was involved in a “cover-up” in the early 1960s.
But will we ever play host to aliens on earth? According to senior astronomer Seth Shostak, probably not.
