Pilots report UFO ‘moving at extreme speeds’ while flying over Oregon

At least four pilots witnessed UFOs last weekend, some moving “at extreme speeds” over Oregon.

A spokesperson for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told DailyMail.com that at least one of the pilots during an alarming December 7 episode “saw unidentified lights while flying in Seattle Air Route Traffic Control (ATC) airspace.”

Although the government would not confirm the presence of FAA radar data that could confirm the sighting, FAA ATC audio shows the pilots are in shock.

An ambulance pilot said he saw a bright light, ‘red in colour’, shoot at his plane at ‘extreme’ speeds before suddenly veering off course towards the Pacific Ocean.

“I don’t even know how to describe how fast it was moving,” the air ambulance pilot from Life Flight’s Air Medical Transport service can be heard on the tape.

Later on Sunday evening, December 8, a United Airlines pilot reported an unexpected squadron of strange lights over the Eugene, Oregon area, according to local news, which along with the surrounding Pacific Northwest has long been a UFO hotspot.

‘We see three or four targets. It’s all heights. Up and down,” the United pilot told Seattle ARTCC (ZSE). “It’s pretty crazy.”

Two more Horizon Airlines pilots also told ZSE controllers that they also saw unexplained and brightly lit UFOs in the night sky that Sunday, according to at least one air traffic controller who spoke to a local NBC affiliate. KGW 8 News.

But it was the Life Flight ambulance pilot who reported the most bizarre of these UFO or UAP encounters, telling ZSE air traffic controllers that one of these lights was circling in a “corkscrew pattern.”

The Life Flight pilot also said the lights popped up on his plane’s collision avoidance system, likely discounting theories about misidentified glints or flares from SpaceX Starlink satellites or more distant celestial phenomena.

“You are cleared to maneuver if necessary – left or right – to avoid the UFO there,” an air traffic controller told the ambulance pilot.

According to the pilot, this red-hot UFO came within “approximately 20 miles or closer” of the medical plane at its closest point.

“It just keeps flying to the ocean and then comes back,” he told air traffic control, “and then it zooms back to the ocean.”

‘It’s weird. It is a red, round shape.’

In its statement to DailyMail.com, the FAA said it only shares well-documented UFO/UAP cases reported to air traffic controllers with the Pentagon.

“If supporting information such as radar data corroborates the report, the FAA will share it with the UAP Task Force,” an FAA spokesperson said via email.

But the federal aviation safety agency did not respond to requests for clarification, creating confusion that the Pentagon was official disbanded the UAP Task Force on November 23, 2021.

However, the FAA did mention the Pentagon’s current UAP investigation agency: “The Department of Defense’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office serves as the centralized clearinghouse for UAP reporting that has national security implications.”

“Multiple U.S. government agencies have individual programs or processes to study and document UAP. However, the agencies also work together,” the FAA said.

Some dedicated UFO researchers, including mechanical engineer Dr. Douglas Buettner of the University of Utah, leans toward the idea that the lights (or some of them) were most likely misidentified Starlink Internet satellites launched into orbit by SpaceX.

“I’ve had two other people look at it and they say it’s consistent with Starlink,” Dr. Buettner to KGW 8 News. “It’s literally everything: the sun hits the satellite just right and gets reflected back into your eye.”

Dr. Buettner told DailyMail.com that he currently has only “60 to 80 percent confidence” in this hypothesis.

“I’d like to get the radar off the airfield,” he noted via email. ‘And we can try to bring back the flights’ (…) ADS-B info.’

ADS-B hardware, short for Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast, collects and records an aircraft’s positioning source, the craft’s electronic data (communications, navigation and other flight computer information) and more for later use.

Since May of this year, Dr. Buettner has also been a board member of the nonprofit organization Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies (SCU)which is dedicated to investigating mysteries in the sky, just like this one.

Oregon has enjoyed the interest and attention of UFO hunters as the home of UFO Fest, held in the small town of McMinnville in Yamhill County. Every May, the McMenamins Hotel in Oregon celebrates the otherworldly.

The infamous McMinnville UFO photos remain two of the most famous and thoroughly studied “flying saucer” images in modern history since they premiered in LIFE magazine in June 1950.

The photographs of McMinnville were taken by Paul Trent, an Oregon farmer, and scrutinized by a ‘Carl Sagan Medal’-winning planetary scientist, William Hartmann; US Navy optical physicist Bruce Maccabee; and former satellite image analyst for the European Space Agency, François Louange, but the classic “flying saucer” photos have never been conclusively explained.

‘This is one of the few UFO reports in which all factors examined, geometric, psychological and physical, appear to be consistent with the claim that an extraordinary flying object, silvery, metallic, disc-shaped, tens of meters in diameter and apparently artificial, flew in the view of two witnesses,” Hartmann wrote in his review for the US Air Force-funded Condon Report.

In 1975, U.S. Navy optical physicist Bruce Maccabee managed to track down Trent’s original photographic negatives in an attempt to determine whether the unidentified object could be a scale model hanging from a string.

“Nobody found the thread,” Maccabee told DailyMail.com, “but if the Trents had been lucky and happened to pick a thread that wasn’t solid black, but colored white or grayish, you wouldn’t have been able to see it anyway.”