America West Flight 564

On May 25th, 1995, America West Flight 564 was cruising at 39,000 feet near Bovina, Texas, en route from Tampa, Florida, to Las Vegas, Nevada. First Officer John J. Waller and a flight attendant saw a cigar-shaped object with a row of brightly flashing lights along its length, off to right and somewhat below their plane. Waller contacted the Albuquerque FAA Air Route Traffic Control Center while the sighting was in progress and checks were made with military installations in the area, but known aircraft were reported to be in that area.

As the airliner proceeded westward, the lights began dropping behind their plane. During the sighting, they could make out the shape of the craft as lighting flashed behind it, showing a dark, wingless, elongated cigar-like object. The pilot and co-pilot estimated its length to be 300-400 feet.

Air traffic controllers said the object was not visible on FAA radar. One of them contacted the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) who had confirmed an unidentified radar track in the vicinity. This later proved to be a small aircraft whose transponder was not initially operative.

The next morning, the controller said he had checked with NORAD again and was told that they had tracked another, very unusual target in the same general area a short time after the first radar return was noted, then accelerated rapidly and stopped abruptly, repeating this sequence several times. The bursts of speed were computed to be between 1,000 and 1,400 m.p.h.

The following is a transcript of the communication between the crew of the America West flight and the Albuquerque Air Route Traffic Control center. It also includes several conversations between the Albuquerque ARTC and other locations, including NORAD, that were contacted in an effort try to identify the object. These recordings included conversations with other aircraft and locations that do not pertain to the object reported by the America West flight, so they have been omitted.

9:21pm...

AW-564: "Cactus 564 going direct crow, crow 6 arrival Las Vegas."
ABQ: "Cactus 564...Albuquerque Center...good evening"
AW-564: "564 at 39,000'"

9:29pm...

AW-564: "Cactus 564...off to our 3:00, got some strobes out there.
Could you tell us what it is?"
ABQ: "Uh, Uh..I'll tell you what, that's some, uh..right now...I don't know what it is right now. That is a restricted area that is used by the military out there during the day time."
AW-564: "Yeah...it's pretty odd."
ABQ: "Hold on ...let me see if anybody else knows around here."

9:30pm...

AW-564: "Cactus 564..can you paint that object at all on your radar
ABQ: "Cactus 564...No I don't, and in talkin' to 3 or 4 guys around here no one knows what that is, never heard about that."
AW-564: "Cactus 564...nobody's painting it at all?"
ABQ: "Cactus 564 say again?"
AW-564: "I said there's nothing on their radars on the other centers at all on that (garbled) clear area, ...that object that's up in the air?
ABQ: "Uh?..it's up in the air?"
AW-564: "A-FFIRMATIVE!!"
ABQ: "No...no one knows anything about it." What's the altitude about?"
AW-564: "I don't know, probably right around 30,000 or so. And it's uh...there's a strobe that starts..um, going on counter- clockwise, and uh...the length is unbelievable."
(???): "Where's this?"

9:31pm...

ABQ: "Cannon 121?"
CANNON: "Cannon..go ahead"
ABQ: "Do you guys know if there was anything like a tethered balloon released that should be above 'tieband'?"
CANNON: "Uh, no, we haven't heard nothin' about it."
(BOTH)" "Uh, ok..(some chuckling), uh, ha.."
ABQ: "A guy at 39,000 says he sees something at 30,000 that's as,..the length is unbelievable and it has a strobe on it."
CANNON: "Uh huh...?"
ABQ: "This is NOT good..(laughing)..okay..."
CANNON: "Uh, wha..what does that mean?:
ABQ: "(laughing)..I don't know, it's a ufo or something, it's that
Roswell crap again!"
CANNON: "Where's it at now?"
ABQ: "He says it's right in 'tieband'."
CANNON: "It's right in 'tieband'?"
ABQ: "Yeah!"
CANNON: "No, we haven't seen nothin' like that."
ABQ: "Okay, keep your eyes open."
CANNON: "I'll talk to you (mumbled)."

9:34pm...

ABQ: "Cactus 564...we checked with Cannon and they don't have any, uh, weather balloons or anything up tonight. Nobody up front knows any idea about that. Do you still see it?"
AW-564: "Negative..back where we initially spotted it it was between the weather and us and when there's lightning you could see a dark object...and, uh, it was pretty eerie looking. This 'air coptr..(mumbled)' right here going eastbound...maybe he'll see it."
ABQ: "Okay.."
AW-564: "First time in 15 years I've ever seen anything like this. It's probably military in that restricted area."
ABQ: "Cactus 564..you contact Albuquerque Center 132.8, goodnight."
AW-564: "132.8 contact 564."

9:35pm...

ABQ: "Aircraft calling..try again!"
(?): "Center...uh..got time for a quick question?"
ABQ: "Okay..would the question stand-by one please?......okay..go ahead."
(?): "(mumbled) 781, what was that cactus guy talking about he saw?"
ABQ: "I, I don't know, off your right wing about 15-20 miles. He's saying he saw a large object with a strobe that looked like it was at 30,000 feet."
(?): "Ah...it's that secret stuff!"

9:36pm...

AW-564: "Albuquerque...Cactus 564."
ABQ: "Cactus 564..go ahead."
AW-564: "(garbled)..that passed us earlier on the right. He'll be in the area in a few minutes, is that correct?"
ABQ: "Yeah, he'll be in there in about 3-4 minutes, at 27,000. I'll ask him what he sees."
AW-564: "..be at his left-hand side between him and the thunder storm. Thanks alot, we'll just monitor and listen."
ABQ: "Okay."
AW-564: "Three of us up here saw it!!"
ABQ: "Okay."

9:31pm...

ABQ: "I can't find...in the next 2-3 minutes. Be looking off your right side, if you see anything about 30000 feet, we had one aircraft reporting simething that wasn't a weather balloon or anything. It was a long white looking thing with a strobe on. Let me know if you see anything out there.
(?): "I'll be careful..(garbled)"
ABQ: "He said it was about 30,000'."
(?): "(mumbled) I'm searching for ET."

9:40pm...

ABQ: "Cactus 564...you still up?"
AW-564: "Affirmative! 564"
ABQ: "That was south of your position?"
AW-564: "It was north.."
ABQ: "Hawk 85, let's make it out the left window then."
AW-564: "Albuquerque, can we get a chance..Cactus 564."
ABQ: "You know we're all up here huddled up talking about it. When it lightning'd you could see the dark object. It was like a cigar shape from the altitude that we could see it..and the length is what go us, a...sort of confused, because it looked like it was about 300-400 feet long. So I don't know if it's a wire with a strobe on it, but the strobe would start from the left and go right, counter-clockwise...and it was a pretty eerie looking site, but a, had the strobe..

9:41pm...

(?): "ALBQUERQUE RADIO?...ALBUQUERQUE RADIO?"
AW-564?: "..and it was just in the lightning..."
(?): (solid strong tone heard again)
(?) "ALBUQUERQUE RADIO?"
ABQ: "Yeah...is this one any better?"
(?): "Yeah."
ABQ: "Oh good! Ha..hey you guys don't know anything about some kind of weather balloon or a ufo that's out in the vicinity of Fort Sumner tonight do you?"
(?) "I don't think so...standby."
ABQ: "Okay.."
(?): "At this point the answer to that question is 'no'."
ABQ: "Okay..yeah, this guy sees it up at Tucumcari, says it looks like it's 300-400 foot long, cylindrical, some kind of strobe on it, and everything else."
(?) "Well...I would call it...I don't know what it is..yea."
ABQ: "Yeah, okay...I didn't know if you were a science fiction buff or anything."
(?) "Yea..no, we don't have, we don't have any published "high balls" today."
ABQ: "Okay..appreciate it."
(?): "Mmm hmm...bye."

9:42pm...

AW-564: "Albuquerque, 564...last time...just for our notes we're going to take a message. was that in a restricted area..and that was just basically south of Tucumcari when we reported it?"
ABQ: "Okay...the way you went through, the only restricted area was on your south side, nothing to the north side...and those restricted areas are inactive. There shouldn't be anything going on."

9:44pm...

AW-564: "Albuquerque Center..Cactus 564. Thanks for your help and, uh, could we get your call sign?"
ABQ: "Cactus 564...say again?"
AW-564: "Albuquerque Center..Cactus564..We'll talk to you later. Before we go could we get your call-sign?"
ABQ: "Cactus 564...mine is 'PP'."
AW-564: "Was that 'tango golf'?"
ABQ: "Pappa Pappa."
AW-564: "Pappa Pappa...thanks alot."

9:48pm...

ABQ: "Bigfoot...Albuquerque Sector 87."
BIGFOOT: "Bigfoot's on!"
ABQ: "Yea..I've got a, uh, something unusual and I was wanting to know if you'all happen to know of anything going on out here around Tucumcari, New Mexico,...north of Cannon? I had a couple of aircraft reported something 300-400 foot long..cylindrical in shape, with a strobe flashing off to the end of it."
BIGFOOT: "Oh..?"
ABQ: "At 30,000 feet."
BIGFOOT: "Okay...hang on a second."
ABQ: "Yeah, I didn't know if you happen to know of anything going on out there...no balloons in the area, no nothing reported?"
BIGFOOT: "Okay, where's this at again?"
ABQ: "It's at, uh, well ya'know where...it's in Tucumcar, New Mexico, it's about 150 miles to the east of Albuquerque."
BIGFOOT: "Okay, eh...how far from Holloman?"
ABQ: "Eh, Holloman, it looks like it's off the zero-three-zero of Holloman about 220 miles."
BIGFOOT: "Okay...I think, okay...it's kind'a hard for us to see here. Okay, they'll be zero for about 200. Um...we don't have anything going on over there that I know of."
ABQ: "Yeah...I didn't know, we've tried everybody else and nobody else is...this guy definitely saw it run all the way down the side of the airplane. Said it was a pretty interesting thing out there."
BIGFOOT: "Okay, it was at 30,000 feet.."
ABQ: "...30,000 feet."
BIGFOOT: "It was like..long...um.."
ABQ: "Yeah, it's right out of, right out of the X-files. I mean definite UFO or something like that, I mean."
BIGFOOT: "..and..it..ooohh..ya'll are serious about this (laughing)."
ABQ: "Yeah, he's real serious about that to, and..uh..he looked at, saw it, no balloons are reported tonight, nothing in the area..."
BIGFOOT: "It was strobing off the front he said?"
ABQ: "Uh...I think the strobe was off the tail end of it."
BIGFOOT: "Okay...strobe tail end."
ABQ: "He said it was kinda, well it was dark but..(aside to someone else)..did he say there was lights in it?"
BIGFOOT: "How long did he say it was?"
ABQ: "He said it was 300-400 foot long."
BIGFOOT: "Holy smoke!!"
ABQ: "..and we don't have any air carriers out here so...that strobing along."
BIGFOOT: "um..the only thing that I can do is , I wonder if any of our aerostats cut loose or something 'cause we don't have any aerostats there."
ABQ: "Yeah...not that far to the north."
BIGFOOT: "I mean...to me it would sound like an aerostat, but..I don't think ours are that big though."

Armada of Saucers over Farmington New Mexico

Two Belgian police officers were on patrol on the Eupen - Kittenis road when they saw what appeared to be a dark, triangular platform with three powerful searchlights on its underside, shining on the ground below. They also spotted a central red light that changed from red to orange. the object was approximately 220 yards off to one side of the road, and approximately 325 yards above a field.

The object changed direction and flew directly over their heads, it traveled silently except for a low humming sound. It then proceeded towards Eupen, stopping to hover motionlessly over the dam at Gileppe for about 45 minutes. Finally, it headed toward Baelen and Spa and disappeared.

The two policemen contacted the Belgian Air Force at Bierset, which had detected the object on radar. An AWACS aircraft was dispatched from Gelsenkirchen. The event lasted a total of two and a half hours and was witnessed by nineteen police officers at a party in the area as well. Consistent reports were given by other witnesses from Eupen, Liege, Plombieres, Kittenis, Baelin, Verviers, Jalhan, St. Vith, Andrimont, Lontzen, Voeren, Herbesthal, and eastern Belgium, as well as areas of Holland, Luxembourg, and Germany.

Almost an hour later, the same two police officers saw another, but much larger, triangular object appear from behind some trees. It ascended with a climbing turn, rotating horizontally as it did so only to slowly fly away, following the course of a main road at about 65 kilometers per hour.

1990

Around 11:00 p.m. the local police began receiving numbers of telephone calls reporting lights in a triangular formation over Wavre, twelve miles south of Brussels. The police in turn reported the sightings to the radar station at Glons. Glons radar confirmed the sightings of a UFO on radar at an altitude of 3,000 meters. The radar station at Semmerzake verified the Glons tracking and reported it to the Air Force. The radar trackings were compared to the 11/89 trackings at Eupen and were found to be identical. Police witnesses reported that, instead of the unidentified being three objects flying in formation, it was one triangular-shaped object with three lights, as had been the Eupen object.

Because of the large number of reports, Colonel Wilfried De Brouwer of the Belgian Air Force decided to scramble two F-16 interceptors from Bevokom. The F-16s were vectored in by Glons radar, and they soon detected a positive oval-shaped object on their on-board radar at 3,000 meters. They reported nothing visually, however.

When the F-16 pilots attempted to lock on to the object with their on-board radar, it reacted immediately. It changed shape on their radar to a diamond shape, increased its speed to 1,000 km/hour, and took swift evasive action. Tapes of the on-board radar of the F-16s show that the object descended from 3,000 meters to 1200 meters in 2 seconds. That's a speed of 1800 km/hour. The tapes also showed that the object accelerated from 280 km/hour to 1800 km/hour in a few seconds. This represents an acceleration of 46 G, which is more than a human body can withstand. During its travel, a sonic boom was never heard.

The object moved erratically in a zigzag path, over the city of Brussels, taking evasive action whenever the pursuing F-16 tried to lock-on. Eventually, it left the F-16s behind, disappearing at an impossible rate of speed.

Belgium Triangular UFO 1989-1990

Two Belgian police officers were on patrol on the Eupen - Kittenis road when they saw what appeared to be a dark, triangular platform with three powerful searchlights on its underside, shining on the ground below. They also spotted a central red light that changed from red to orange. the object was approximately 220 yards off to one side of the road, and approximately 325 yards above a field.

The object changed direction and flew directly over their heads, it traveled silently except for a low humming sound. It then proceeded towards Eupen, stopping to hover motionlessly over the dam at Gileppe for about 45 minutes. Finally, it headed toward Baelen and Spa and disappeared.

The two policemen contacted the Belgian Air Force at Bierset, which had detected the object on radar. An AWACS aircraft was dispatched from Gelsenkirchen. The event lasted a total of two and a half hours and was witnessed by nineteen police officers at a party in the area as well. Consistent reports were given by other witnesses from Eupen, Liege, Plombieres, Kittenis, Baelin, Verviers, Jalhan, St. Vith, Andrimont, Lontzen, Voeren, Herbesthal, and eastern Belgium, as well as areas of Holland, Luxembourg, and Germany.

Almost an hour later, the same two police officers saw another, but much larger, triangular object appear from behind some trees. It ascended with a climbing turn, rotating horizontally as it did so only to slowly fly away, following the course of a main road at about 65 kilometers per hour.

1990

Around 11:00 p.m. the local police began receiving numbers of telephone calls reporting lights in a triangular formation over Wavre, twelve miles south of Brussels. The police in turn reported the sightings to the radar station at Glons. Glons radar confirmed the sightings of a UFO on radar at an altitude of 3,000 meters. The radar station at Semmerzake verified the Glons tracking and reported it to the Air Force. The radar trackings were compared to the 11/89 trackings at Eupen and were found to be identical. Police witnesses reported that, instead of the unidentified being three objects flying in formation, it was one triangular-shaped object with three lights, as had been the Eupen object.

Because of the large number of reports, Colonel Wilfried De Brouwer of the Belgian Air Force decided to scramble two F-16 interceptors from Bevokom. The F-16s were vectored in by Glons radar, and they soon detected a positive oval-shaped object on their on-board radar at 3,000 meters. They reported nothing visually, however.

When the F-16 pilots attempted to lock on to the object with their on-board radar, it reacted immediately. It changed shape on their radar to a diamond shape, increased its speed to 1,000 km/hour, and took swift evasive action. Tapes of the on-board radar of the F-16s show that the object descended from 3,000 meters to 1200 meters in 2 seconds. That's a speed of 1800 km/hour. The tapes also showed that the object accelerated from 280 km/hour to 1800 km/hour in a few seconds. This represents an acceleration of 46 G, which is more than a human body can withstand. During its travel, a sonic boom was never heard.

The object moved erratically in a zigzag path, over the city of Brussels, taking evasive action whenever the pursuing F-16 tried to lock-on. Eventually, it left the F-16s behind, disappearing at an impossible rate of speed.