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Ted Roe
June 1, 2020
Copyright 2020
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On April 27, 2020 NARCAP was contacted by MUFON CAG member Mr. Bob Spearing and California State MUFON Director Mr. Ruben Uriarte regarding a report they had received involving an encounter between an American aircrew flying a Boeing 767 registered in the United States and a suspected UAP/Light over Mexico during the night of March 19, 2020. Afterwards, NARCAP received an email from Mr Spearing consisting of 8 photographs of the alleged UAP, a 4:47 video of the encounter taken from the cockpit by the Captain, a still capture from the video of the activated Surveillance Scanning Radar system animation on the TCAS monitor, and a synopsis of the case. After reviewing the case and evidence it was agreed that NARCAP would prepare this second, independent, analysis of the incident.
A NARCAP investigator re-acquired the photographs and videos directly from the crew Captain/witness. NARCAP has deidentified the witnesses, flight number, carrier, etc. to protect the confidentiality of the witnesses.
Definition of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon
“An Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon, UAP, is the visual stimulus that provokes a sighting report of an object or light seen in the sky, the appearance and/or flight dynamics of which do not suggest a logical, conventional flying object and which remains unidentified after close scrutiny of all available evidence by persons who are technically capable of making both a technical identification as well as a common sense identification, if one is possible.” (NARCAP/Haines, PP 13-22, 1980)
General Overview of the Incident
Crew
The Crew Captain is a career pilot with 19 years of experience flying wide-body aircraft for a major cargo company with an additional 10yrs flying KC-135 refueling tankers for the US Air Force. The First Officer is a career fighter pilot that flew f-15s before working in the private sector. It is reasonable to conclude that both are competent airmen, highly experienced with observing and identifying aircraft, and are capable of determining normal observations and incidents from unusual ones.
Aircraft/Flight/Route/Conditions
The incident occurred late on the evening of March 19, 2020. The Boeing 767 was flying a route from Queretaro International Airport, just north of Mexico City to Memphis, Tennessee.
Fig. 1 Boeing 767
The flight, having left Queretaro Airport at 8:05pm was 50 minutes behind schedule. The aircraft was at cruise altitude, 37,000ft, traveling North-bound at 490kts/ 575mph, 150 miles South of Monterrey, Mexico. The visibility was good, the nearest storms and clouds were 40 miles to the West. This route passes over the sparsely populated state of Tamaulipas and crosses the US border near the towns of Reynosa, Mexico and Brownsville, Texas.
Fig. 2 Air Route
Incident
1. The incident began when the First Officer, looking across to the left side of the cockpit, saw a yellowish white light descend into view from above. He first believed that it was a meteor and began to say so when it suddenly stopped near the same altitude as their aircraft. The UAP/Light then projected an illuminating beam of bright, white, light on their aircraft, and appeared to take a collision heading.
At this moment the Captain also saw the beam of light projected onto their aircraft from the UAP/Light. Both crewmen, in the belief that an aircraft with its landing lights on had turned onto a collision heading with their aircraft, took a defensive attitude and prepared for evasive control inputs.
As they prepared to avoid the apparently approaching UAP/Light, the beam of light illuminating their aircraft ceased, and the UAP/Light suddenly accelerated to the same speed and heading of the aircraft, maintained separation, and paced the aircraft. While estimating distances is difficult the Captain, a former tanker pilot experienced with night-time flight operations, suggested that the UAP/Light maintained a distance of approximately 1-2K ft from the aircraft. Near the minimum allowable separation of 1,000ft.
2. With the immediate threat resolved the Captain and First Officer had the opportunity to look more closely and they realized that they were not looking at another airplane. The Copilot described the UAP/Light: “It was a brilliant yellow white plasma object teardrop shaped!” The Captain exclaimed, “Platillo…., Platillo…” (“saucer”, implying “Flying Saucer” or “Platillo Volador” in Spanish). The pilot mentioned that there were no navigation lights or other features associated with airplanes and that the light seemed to have a tail. At this time both crewmen had decided that they were witnessing something unusual and outside of their direct experience.
3. During the following 30minutes the crew observed and took 8 photographs and four video segments of the UAP including a 4:47 video of the UAP/light embedded in this report.
4. During the video segment the Captain engaged the Combined TCAS and cockpit display, activated the Airborne Collision Avoidance System SSR (Secondary Surveillance radar) system, and turned his video camera phone on the screen. The video documents that the ACAS SSR radar did not detect anything while the crew were actively observing the UAP/Light near their aircraft.
5. As the aircraft and its attendant UAP/Light approached the Mexico/US border the UAP/Light began to flicker, it changed colors from yellow-white to pinkish/purple, and turned on a perpendicular heading away from the aircraft and parallel to the border without crossing into the United States. The rest of the flight to Memphis, Tennessee, USA, was uneventful.