Recently released audio features a U.S. military pilot’s reported close encounter with a dark, cylindrical object on September 17, 2024.

While flying a Homeland Security Beechcraft 350 C at 20,000 feet, a football-sized object passed under the wing and was detected by the plane’s radar.

Now, Ben Hansen, host of the Discovery+ show UFO Witness, has shared the pilot’s audio recording, noting that the area in which the incident occurred had no reported air traffic.

When this happened, an air traffic controller alerted the National UFO Reporting Center. According to Hansen, the object’s speed, which he says exceeded Mach 2, ruled out the possibility that it was a drone.

Pretty freaky, eh?