According to the records of the talks, the observation of the object in the sky occurred around 3:30 pm local time on February 24, according to Live Science. A glowing object that soared at an altitude of about 12,000 meters, both pilots saw almost simultaneously. The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) published recordings of talks between stunned pilots and air traffic controllers only a month after the incident. The first mysterious object was the pilot Phoenix Air Group on the plane Learjet. The pilot asked the air traffic controller to find other aircraft on the flight route, but the Center for Air Traffic Albuquerque in New Mexico responded that the sky was clear and no aircraft or other objects near Learjet. "I could not understand if it was a balloon or that. but it was a big reflection from him, and it was several thousand feet above us and was moving in the opposite direction, "said one of the pilots. A few minutes later, the FAA asked another next flight - American Airlines - to follow the sky over the desert. And in a few minutes the crew of Airbus also saw a UFO. According to representatives of the FAA, this was neither a balloon, nor a warship. "We have a close working relationship with a number of other agencies and we are processing data on military and civil aircraft of all types in the area every day, including balloons with a high flight altitude," said the FAA spokesman.. At the end of 2017, NV reported that 10 years ago, the Pentagon, at the direction of the Congress, allegedly created an unofficial program for studying unidentified flying objects (UFOs), during which the US military department spent more than $ 20 million. Initially, the military explained the need to study unidentified flying objects by the fact that some of the UFOs were "much more advanced" than the aircraft in American and foreign arsenals ". Source: HB.