Pilot Report Unclassified Complete

733667-001-011-0075

National Archives and Records Administration

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National Archives and Records Administration
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2.7 MB
External ID
6c70eb2e52ac766a1fae3b89890a2cadb6a8d7e8408a48a09ad99793ca0212c8
Confidence
85%
Credibility
80%

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Intelligence summary

A pilot reported observing two unidentified objects with distinct lighting characteristics during a flight. The first object was visible for about 10 minutes, while the second was seen for a total of 30 minutes. The objects exhibited light patterns resembling those of passenger aircraft.

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Aviation SafetyPilot ObservationsUAP AviationPilot ReportUAPUFO

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Tsukubas Beckners: Tsukubas Beckner : Tsukuba: Beckner: Tsukuba: ‘Beckner : Tsukubas. Beckner: Tsukuba: Beckner : Tsukuba: Beckners: It was just at sunset at right front of us. There was a stripe of red line and almost dark, it was almost Pitch dark behind us. How was the lighting conditions inside the cockpit? We had night illumination at above sideways. I was using a spot light while calculating the data. I do not remember whether the Captain had the lights turned off or not. There is a switch that can turn the light to regular fluorescent or to dark. It was set to dark. How long did you see the object? The one in front of us, as [ mentioned earlier, I saw it for about 10 minutes, then, the one on our left side at 9 o’clock, together, a total of 30 minutes. The lights in front of us and the other one were of two absolutely different nature of lights. Would you show us what they looked like on this paper? The lights in front of us were clusters of lights like this. I think they were made of two parts. How should I say this, but the lights were shaped like windows of a passenger aircraft. What was the shape of the object like”? I do not know. It was just lights. The one in front of us was like an aircraft viewed from another aircraft which was ours. Did-the object move with your aircraft when you changed direction or altitude? When we saw the first one in front of us, we did not change the heading, but the second one, it was really hard to see, I had to try real hard to see it, sO we changed heading. I think the object was with us when we changed altitude. When we changed altitude, I could not see. The Captain said it was still there, so I felt like it was there. Did you see another aircraft? I saw United Air Line. Any other lighted, or unlighted objects?