{"id":1705126,"date":"2022-10-21T06:30:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T10:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1705126"},"modified":"2022-10-21T07:35:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T11:35:17","slug":"several-pilots-encounter-ufos-over-the-pacific-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/several-pilots-encounter-ufos-over-the-pacific-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"Several Pilots Encounter UFOs Over the Pacific Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fseveral-pilots-encounter-ufos-over-the-pacific-ocean%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1705126&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Numerous sightings of unidentified flying objects have been reported by dozens of pilots flying across the Pacific Ocean over the last two months, according to a UFO researcher.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Hansen, a former FBI agent and the host of Discovery+ show \u201cUFO Witness,\u201d obtained new footage and air traffic control recordings that reveal baffled pilots struggling to describe their bizarre midair sightings.<\/p>\n<p>He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lfB7LSaOMdc&#038;t=1s&#038;ab_channel=Hypocenter101\">compiled accounts<\/a> of pilots from Southwest Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and others between Aug. 6 and Sept. 23. In one captivating account, a former military pilot reported seeing multiple aircraft flying above him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got a few aircraft to our north here and he\u2019s going around in circles, much higher altitude than us. Any idea what they are?\u201d pilot Mark Hulsey radioed in on Aug. 18 while flying a charter jet off the Los Angeles coast.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The confused controller responds, telling the pilot that he was not sure.<\/p>\n<p>Hulsey called back 23 minutes later to say that the three aircraft he had originally reported had increased to seven, flying between 5,000 and 10,000 feet above him.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/ufo-sightings-472.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/ufo-sightings-472.jpg\" alt=\"UFOs sighted\" class=\"wp-image-24328827\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/ufo-sightings-472.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/ufo-sightings-472.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/ufo-sightings-472.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>UFO sightings were reported by multiple pilots and captured on video in August and September, according to Hansen.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Hypocenter 101\/YouTube<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/ufo-sightings-474.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/ufo-sightings-474.jpg\" alt=\"video screenshot of alleged UFO sighting\" class=\"wp-image-24328859\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/ufo-sightings-474.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/ufo-sightings-474.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/ufo-sightings-474.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Pilots struggled to describe their encounters with strange objects to air traffic officials.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">DoD\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThey just keep going in circles. I was an F-18 pilot in the Marine Corps, and I\u2019m telling you, I\u2019ve done many intercepts, I\u2019ve never seen anything like this,\u201d Hulsey says in the recording.<\/p>\n<p>According to Hansen, the strange lights that some pilots reported as possible aircraft were \u201cseen by upwards of 15 different commercial flights. And at least six pilots are willing to go on record with their names and everything if asked to do so by any investigative agencies,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this case, we have a global phenomenon from as far west as Japan, to as far east as possibly Miami. Whatever it is, pilots are seeing it from halfway across the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Hansen said, there is no official protocol for reporting strange sightings for civilian pilots \u201cbecause they don\u2019t think the FAA will follow up, or worse, they will be ridiculed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An FAA spokesperson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11332899\/Dramatic-videos-UFOs-Pacific-revealed.html\">told the Daily Mail<\/a> that it documents strange sightings \u201cwhenever a pilot reports one to an air traffic control facility.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/ufo-sightings-471.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/ufo-sightings-471.jpg\" alt=\"Ben Hansen\" class=\"wp-image-24328873\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/ufo-sightings-471.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1023 1023w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/ufo-sightings-471.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=682 682w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/ufo-sightings-471.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=341 341w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/ufo-sightings-471.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Ben Hansen, host of Discovery+ show \u201cUFO Witness,\u201d compiled accounts and footage of UFO sightings reported in August and September.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIf the pilot report can be corroborated with supporting information such as radar data, it is shared with the UAP Task Force.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Veteran pilot Chris Van Voorhis told the Daily Mail he also saw three to five bright objects flying in a circular motion like a \u201crace track\u201d for hours while flying over the Pacific Ocean from Honolulu to Los Angeles in August.<\/p>\n<p>The 63-year-old, who\u2019s racked up over 32,000 hours of flight experience, said the objects he saw appeared to be within Earth\u2019s orbit but could have been out in space.<\/p>\n<p>Other airlines radioed in to Van Voorhis to ask him if he was seeing the same objects he was.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt had to be in a very, very high orbit, or actually even out in space quite a ways away from anything that a satellite would be, because every time we were seeing it, it was in the lower right-hand corner of the Big Dipper, no matter where we were in the world,\u201d he told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt lasted for such a long time that it actually became boring, almost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said it could not have been a satellite, such as Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink system, because they were moving in different directions instead of the same direction.<\/p>\n<p>Van Voorhis\u2019 employer, whose name was withheld, forbade him from speaking about the incident.<\/p>\n<p>He told the Daily Mail about half of his pilot friends \u201chave seen some type of an anomaly\u201d in the sky.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/ufo-sightings-473.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/ufo-sightings-473.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Hulsey\" class=\"wp-image-24328881\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/ufo-sightings-473.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/ufo-sightings-473.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/ufo-sightings-473.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Former F-18 pilot Mark Hulsey reported a UFO sighting in August.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Hypocenter 101\/YouTube<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Van Voorhis also claims to have seen three flying discs from his cockpit in 2004 while flying from Japan to Honolulu for Japan Airways. The discs appeared to form a triangle formation before disappearing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t like they accelerated. They were just at speed and gone over the horizon. The whole thing took about 15 seconds,\u201d he told the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe aircraft in front of us saw it too. They said, \u2018Are you going to tell anybody?\u2019 and we said, \u2018No.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year,\u00a0 the Department of Defense launched a new outfit tasked with finding and identifying UFOs in restricted airspace after Washington officials admitted they could not explain the phenomena of UFO sightings.<\/p>\n<p>The Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group was announced after the intelligence community verified a series of <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/12\/19\/ex-navy-pilot-describes-eerie-encounter-with-ufo\/\">unexplained aerial phenomena<\/a> sightings by the military earlier this year, but said <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/06\/25\/report-finds-ufos-may-be-security-risk-have-no-single-explanation\/\">it could not identify the mysterious vehicles<\/a>, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/06\/25\/report-finds-ufos-may-be-security-risk-have-no-single-explanation\/\">report to Congress<\/a> detailing the government\u2019s knowledge of UFOs.<\/p>\n<p>It succeeded the Navy\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/06\/24\/ufo-hunters-marco-rubio-reveals-unidentified-aerial-phenomenon-task-force\/\">Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force<\/a>, an arm of the military started in 2020 to \u201cimprove its understanding of, and gain insight into\u201d UFOs.<\/p>\n<p>In July, the House of Representatives <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/14\/house-votes-to-make-reporting-ufo-sightings-easier\/\">unanimously approved<\/a> an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act making it easier to report unidentified flying objects or UFOs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Numerous sightings of unidentified flying objects have been reported by dozens of pilots flying across the Pacific Ocean over the last two months, according to a UFO researcher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1705130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1705126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1705126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1705130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}