Dozens of commercial and military pilots have reported unidentified flying objects in recent years.

A radio transmission from an American Airlines from Cincinnati to Phoenix last weekend, “Do you have any targets up here? We just had something go right over the top of us,” said the pilot at 1:19 p.m. CST on Sunday. “I hate to say this but it looked like a long cylindrical object that almost looked like a cruise missile type of thing moving really fast right over the top of us,” according to audio published on aviation blog Deep Black Horizon.

The FAA released a short statement: “A pilot reported seeing an object over New Mexico shortly after noon local time on Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021. As they are told to say, FAA air traffic controllers did not see any object in the area on their radarscopes.”

The blogger, Steve Douglass, intercepted the transmission “It was a pure coincidence,” he told The Arizona Republic.

Douglass used two flight tracking websites, Flightradar24 and Flight Aware, to determine the planes were at an altitude of 37,000 feet near Clayton, New Mexico”.

Following a debrief with the flight crew, American Airlines confirmed that the radio transmission came from flight 2292.

A similar incident occurred over the Sonoran Desert on February 24, 2018, two pilots flying different aircraft — a Phoenix Air Group Learjet and an American Airlines commercial flight — both reported passing a mysterious object, according to audio recordings released by the FAA “Was anybody above us that passed us like 30 seconds ago?” the Learjet pilot asked an air traffic controller. “Negative,”

In November 9, 2018, a British Airways pilot flying over Ireland reported seeing “a very bright light that disappeared at very high speed,” reported The Guardian.

U.S. government has had a famously long history of being tight-lipped on the subject. In recent years, however, there’s been some notable movement on that front.