A UFO was sighted in the Arizona sky by two different pilots, and the Federal Aviation Administration remains puzzled by the February occurrence.
The sightings have come light at about the same time as several military pilots reporting what they believed to be UFOs, ABC News reported.
The pilot of a Phoenix Air Learjet 36 first spotted the reported UFO some 40,000 feet above southern Arizona near the New Mexico border about 3:30 p.m. on Feb. 24, per ABC News.
"Was anybody above us that passed us like 30 seconds ago?" the Phoenix Air pilot asked the Albuquerque Air Route Traffic Control Center, per a recording released by the FAA.
The control center reported it had no reading of another aircraft in the area above the jet, ABC News said, the pilot responded, "Okay, something did."
When the control center prompted nearby American Airlines Flight 1095 flying from Dallas to San Diego to be on the lookout for such an occurrence, pilots on that flight confirmed it, ABC News said.
"Yeah, something just passed over us, like a – I don't know what it was," the American Airlines pilot said. "But it was at least two, three thousand feet above us. Yeah, it passed right over the top of us."
Lynn Lunsford, FAA mid-states public affairs manager, told the Phoenix New Times the sighting remains a mystery to it.
"Other than the brief conversation between two aircraft, the controller was unable to verify that any other aircraft was in the area," Lunsford told the New Times. "We have a close working relationship with a number of other agencies and safely handle military aircraft and civilian aircraft of all types in that area every day, including high-altitude weather balloons."
The region is home to dozens of UFO theories, including the 1947 crash of a U.S. Army Air Force balloon in Roswell, New Mexico that many conspiracy theorists believe was an alien spacecraft, Newsweek reported.
The Drive.com's site The War Zone said the February the incident came after a series of encounters with a mystery aircraft flying at a similar altitude over Oregon and Northern California last October. The Air Force scrambled F-15s to investigate in response to both the FAA and the military, the website said.
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