One of the unidentified flying objects hit the clear bubble “canopy” over the head of a pilot in a $63 million F-16 Viper jet in January 2023, damaging it and temporarily grounding the plane, according to Federal Aviation Administration documents first reported by the War Zone. The government filed 757 such reports between May 2023 and June 2024 — 708 of which took place in the air — with only 49 marked “Case closed” in the latest report issued by the Anomaly Resolution Office. The small unidentified objects spotted in Arizona are known to fly in groups of up to eight and are sometimes characterized as drones, according to the War Zone, which noted the incidents took place at high altitudes in or near military air combat training sites since January 2020.
Author: Nicole Rosenthal
Published at: 2025-05-18 22:08:47
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