Its terrible that brave pilots such as Boni are fearful of ridicule just because they report seeing something that they were not able to identify at the time. Although modern airliners have many systems on-board such as T-CAS and weather radar, they do not track or identify every visible object in the night sky. ATC doesn't even track every visible object in the sky. Until pilots are given the right tools & training they will continue to see things they cant identify - and even if these objects are eventually identified as not being a collision threat to the aircraft, having confused and distracted pilots certainly is a safety of flight issue. Thanks for sharing your experiences Boni!
Spoke to a pilot from Oceana about this once while eating in a subway and watching the news discuss a Pentagon press release on the subject. Talked about numerous peers seeing them frequently. My only sighting of them was above a military installation in TX where they very clearly displayed themselves and moved about, I still have the photos I took. Safe to say they’re very interested in our aerial capabilities, from a military intelligence POV this bothers me a lot, makes me sweat.
Its terrible that brave pilots such as Boni are fearful of ridicule just because they report seeing something that they were not able to identify at the time. Although modern airliners have many systems on-board such as T-CAS and weather radar, they do not track or identify every visible object in the night sky. ATC doesn't even track every visible object in the sky. Until pilots are given the right tools & training they will continue to see things they cant identify - and even if these objects are eventually identified as not being a collision threat to the aircraft, having confused and distracted pilots certainly is a safety of flight issue. Thanks for sharing your experiences Boni!
Spoke to a pilot from Oceana about this once while eating in a subway and watching the news discuss a Pentagon press release on the subject. Talked about numerous peers seeing them frequently. My only sighting of them was above a military installation in TX where they very clearly displayed themselves and moved about, I still have the photos I took. Safe to say they’re very interested in our aerial capabilities, from a military intelligence POV this bothers me a lot, makes me sweat.