American Airlines flight AA5795 was supposed to be typical in every way. The Piedmont Embraer ERJ-145 left Boston (BOS) on January 1 at 6:33pm and arrived at Harrisburg (MDT) a little less than 2 hours later. Typical enough.
But what happened in between take off and landing is the weird stuff. It all started with a call to air traffic control.
Calling ATC
The pilot of AA5795 radios into air traffic control and asks if there’s anything in front of them, maybe 50-60 miles out.
ATC then asks what are they looking for. The pilot replies, “Well, you’re gonna think I’m crazy but something just went from right to left to right in a blink and then flashed its lights 3 or 4 times and vanished.”
ATC described the other planes that were relatively nearby the Embraer and suggested it might be one of those two aircraft.
The pilot replied, “This thing went 180 degrees in like a second.”
ATC’s response was a simple, “Oh, goodness! Ahhhh….alright.” They continue by telling the pilot to let them know if they see it again and they’ll make a report.
Later on, ATC asked the pilot if they had anything else to add. They did.
“The thing just literally went from one coast to the other in front of us and then it went up like 30 degrees,” the pilot said. “Turned off its lights or whatever it had. It looked like a bright orange-y thing and since we spoke to you last, it’s flashed us three or four times and it’s still – we are still looking at it now.”
ATC then asked where the “thing” was.
“I would say probably 80… 60-80 miles in front of us and it looks like it’s coming – I don’t know, it’s flashing flashing towards us. But it is definitely not an airplane. It doesn’t have the strobe lights or anything like that on it, just that bright orange flashing on and off.”
ATC again went over the planes that were nearby but the pilot reiterated, “This definitely wasn’t an airplane.”
ATC’s final shot was to ask a nearby plane if they had seen the orange strobe, but flight American 2689 had not.
Someone made a YouTube video of the audiotaped conversation:
What was it?
This alleged sighting happened back in January and only a handful of small websites mentioned it. One of them was metabunk.org, which appears to be a privately-owned message site. Established in 2010 by Mick West, they describe themselves as, “primarily a forum that debunks pseudoscientific claims such as chemtrails, UFOs, and conspiracy theories.”
Fast forward a month or so, and in mid-February, a short-lived (3-day) conversation about flight AA5795 started on Metabunk. Their thoughts settled, as did the thoughts of the commenters on the above video, on Starlink flares.
Now a handful of sketchy social media sites (Daily Express, Daily Star, etc.), have jumped on the bandwagon and are reporting about the “UFO.”
Of course, there’s been no actual news about this “UFO” sighting ever since. So either it means it was deemed to be nothing, or there’s a mass of paperwork about it at Area 51, never to be seen by us mere mortals. 😉
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