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 Monday, Feb 22nd 2021| 1.3k An American Airlines flight travelling from Cincinnati to Phoenix on Sunday shared a bizarre close encounter with what its pilot described as a fast-moving, ‘long cylindrical object’.The encounter, which occurred at 36,000 feet above the remote northeast corner of New , west of Des Moines yesterday, involved AA Flight 2292, an Airbus A320, according to.In a radio transmission allegedly intercepted by Steve Douglass, who runs the blog, the pilot can be heard telling Albuquerque Air Traffic Control: ‘Do you have any targets up here? We just had something go right over the top of us.‘I hate to say this but it looked like a long cylindrical object that almost looked like a cruise missile type of thing - moving really fast right over the top of us.’The plane was said to be travelling at around 460 miles per hour at the time. DailyMail.com has reached out to the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) to authenticate Douglass' audio clip. American Airlines have also been contact for further comment.  According to Douglas, no significant military aircraft presence was noted in the area at the time, reported to be just at 1pm local time.Flight AA2292 went on to land in Phoenix without any further incidents.The apparent encounter shares various similarities with another incident that occurred in the same area just under three years ago.In that incident, two pilots on different air craft – a Learjet and an Airbus – reported having close encounters with a mysterious object flying above them.The sightings occurred within minutes of each other on February 24, in 2018, 37,000 feet above southern Arizona, close to New Mexico.The pilot of a Learjet 36 belonging to Phoenix Air, with the tail number N71PG, reported the initial sighting, telling Air Traffic Control: ‘Was anybody above us that passed us like 30 seconds ago?’When the dispatcher replied ‘no’, the pilot laughed insisting it must be a ‘UFO’.‘I don't know what it was, it wasn't an airplane but it was - the path was going in the opposite direction,' the pilot went on.Moments later, the pilot of American Airlines Flight 1095, reported a similar encounter, announcing: ‘Yeah, something just passed over us, like a - I don't know what it was. But it was at least two, three thousand feet above us. Yeah, it passed right over the top of us.’ When asked if the object was in motion or hovering, the pilot said: ‘Couldn't make it out whether it was a balloon or whatnot. But it was just really beaming light or could have had a big reflection and was several thousand feet above us going opposite direction.’That pilot, Blenus Green, later told local media: ‘It was very bright but it wasn’t so bright that you couldn’t look at it … It didn’t look anything like an airplane. You know, most airplanes, you’re going to see some kind of wing surface, some type of a tail, really no matter what type of airplane it is.‘What was weird about it, normally, if you have an object and the sun is shining this way, the reflection would be on this side, but this was bright all the way around. It was so bright that you really couldn’t make out what shape it was.’In Sunday’s incident, the pilot’s description of a missile-like object matches a number of encounters US Navy Fighter pilots have reported having with anomalous objects off the eastern seaboard over the last 15 years.Many of such encounters were revealed in a , in which Navy pilots spoke out for the first time about how strange craft would appear in their training airspace, sometimes for days on end – defying known propulsion and aerodynamic capabilities. What the pilots aboard AA Flight 2292 may have seen on February 21 remains unclear.According to , the incident happened not too far from the sprawling White Sands Missile Range, and New Mexico itself is home to a number of military facilities and restricted areas.The likelihood that a missile may have ‘gone off the reservation’ during a test, or any other kind of military exercise, is slim, as procedural practice would mean the pilots would’ve been pre-notified to any such safety hazard.The incident also occurred near the Mount Dora Military Operating Area (MOA), but again pilots would’ve been alerted that the airspace was ‘hot’ – or that military activities were being conducted in the area at that time.America Airlines has not yet returned a DailyMail.com request seeking further information.The state of New Mexico is no stranger to strange encounters, with the city of Roswell reporting one of the nation’s most infamous UFO sightings in 1947.Share what you thinkThe comments below have not been moderated.The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline.Post comment to your Facebook TimelineBy posting your comment you agree to our .Submit CommentClearDo you want to automatically post your MailOnline comments to your Facebook Timeline?Your comment will be posted to MailOnline as usual. NoYesDo you want to automatically post your MailOnline comments to your Facebook Timeline?Your comment will be posted to MailOnline as usualWe will automatically post your comment and a link to the news story to your Facebook timeline at the same time it is posted on MailOnline. 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 Monday, Feb 22nd 2021| 1.3k An American Airlines flight travelling from Cincinnati to Phoenix on Sunday shared a bizarre close encounter with what its pilot described as a fast-moving, ‘long cylindrical object’.The encounter, which occurred at 36,000 feet above the remote northeast corner of New , west of Des Moines yesterday, involved AA Flight 2292, an Airbus A320, according to.In a radio transmission allegedly intercepted by Steve Douglass, who runs the blog, the pilot can be heard telling Albuquerque Air Traffic Control: ‘Do you have any targets up here? We just had something go right...

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