An Invisible Atlantic Boundary Where UFO Reporting Changes

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An Invisible Atlantic Boundary Where UFO Reporting Changes — Liberation Times | Reimagining Old News


https://www.liberationtimes.com/home...orting-changes


A passenger jet crossing the North Atlantic can move from one system for handling reports of unidentified objects to another without anything on board changing at all.

The aircraft does not change. The crew does not change. The passengers do not change. But once a flight crosses the oceanic handover point near 30 degrees west longitude, the way Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) and possible near misses are recorded and escalated can become far less clear.

UAP are not just a subject of public fascination. In some cases, pilots report objects they cannot identify in circumstances that raise genuine flight-safety concerns, including the risk of a near miss.

Around 2,000 aircraft cross the North Atlantic each day, making it one of the busiest aviation corridors in the world.

Roughly 75 to 80 per cent of those flights operate within the Shanwick Oceanic Control Area managed by the Irish Aviation Authority and the UK’s air traffic control service. In practical terms, that means roughly 1,400 to 1,600 aircraft per day operate within Irish-managed oceanic airspace.

Much of this route lies beyond conventional radar coverage. Instead, controllers rely on position reports, digital tracking and direct text-based communications with pilots to keep aircraft safely separated.

Yet within this vast and heavily used corridor, there is a little-known gap in how reports of UAP and possible near misses are handled.

As aircraft cross the Atlantic, they pass an operational handover point near 30 degrees west longitude, where responsibility shifts between North American and European-controlled airspace.

On the western side of that boundary, in United States-managed airspace, controllers are required to record and pass on reports of unusual aerial observations through formal channels.

Once those same aircraft cross into European-managed airspace, the position becomes far less clear.

But the differing reporting expectations can pose a big problem.

This is not a theoretical issue. Aviation safety bodies already record near misses involving objects that crews cannot immediately identify.



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