Pilots are always aware of their surroundings, whether it is storm clouds, mountainous terrain or nearby planes, but the captain at the helm of American Airlines flight 2292 on Sunday saw something he's never seen before, and the audio of him radioing it in to air traffic control has people wondering about it too.

It happened as the Airbus A320 he was piloting made its way from Cincinnati to Phoenix. At 36,000 feet over the remote northeast corner of New Mexico, while traveling at around 460 miles-per-hour, the captain calls in to Albuquerque Air Traffic Control and asks, "Do you have any targets up here? We just had something go right over the top of us." In the radio transmission, which was acquired by the Deep Black Horizon blog, the pilot adds, "I hate to say this but it looked like a long cylindrical object that almost looked like a cruise missile type thing, moving really fast right over the top of us."

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