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"Troy 21" near miss

September 17, 2024, about 2:30 p.m. (one later NewsNation piece says February 2024)
Over California, at 20,000 ft

Unresolved
Representative drawing from the Tic Tacs page, not this specific sighting.
"football-sized"; "dark gray, cylindrical" in some accounts. Later NewsNation coverage calls it "Tic Tac"-shaped, a word not in the published audio"The witness's own shape words

What happened

Cockpit audio obtained by Ben Hansen, host of UFO Witness, has the pilot telling a controller that a football-sized object passed about 10 ft under the right wing. Hansen says the pilot banked away because he took it for a surface-to-air missile, and that the aircraft's radar then showed an object at the same altitude skipping back and forth. No video was taken.

Witnesses

Unnamed pilot, call sign "Troy 21", Homeland Security Beechcraft King Air 350C

Explanation

Unresolved

None published. Hansen argues its speed rules out a drone

Sources

  1. NewsNationnewsnationnow.com
  2. NewsNationnewsnationnow.com

NewsNation, original report NewsNation, crew interview