A commercial pilot reported mystery objects "moving at extreme speed" in Oregon airspace last weekend, the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed to Newsweek.
Leaked cabin audio from a United Airlines flight near Eugene, Oregon, last Saturday revealed recordings from two pilots with air traffic control, with a controller telling one pilot to "maneuver as necessary left and right to avoid the UFO out there."
The United Airlines pilot and the second, who was flying a medical evacuation plane over Siuslaw National Forest, both reported unidentified circular red lights moving erratically toward the Pacific Ocean and darting back at varying altitudes, according to Newsweek. One pilot said the object was moving in corkscrew patterns at extreme speeds.
"Looking straight west to Eugene. We're seeing three or four targets ... they're at all altitudes, up and down, it's pretty crazy," the United Airlines pilot told the controller, Newsweek reported, citing a 44-minute recording that was posted on social media by LiveATC.net.
The FAA confirmed the encounter was reported.
"A pilot reported seeing unidentified lights while flying in Seattle Air Route Traffic Control Center airspace on Saturday, Dec. 7," an FAA spokesperson told Newsweek.
Further, if supporting information — radar data, for example — corroborates the report, the FAA said it would get shared with the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, established in 2020.
The second pilot flying the medical evacuation plane reported similar activity to air traffic control.
"Just had another one show up, at my 1 o'clock, about 1,000 feet high, zipping toward us and then back out toward the ocean," he said, according to the report. "Red in color. Moving at extreme speed, I just don't know how to describe it."
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