Ryan Bodenheimer

You could basically like see through it.

And so I looked for immediately I looked for some sort of a tether because I'm thinking like balloon.

And then he says the same thing after the fact.

He was like, I was looking for a tether as well.

But there was no tether.

So there was nothing that would make this thing a weather balloon that was attached to the ground.

And it was basically so if you think of it like this, it's moving like this.

So there's nothing aerodynamic about this thing.

Right.

If it was an aerodynamic thing.

rectangle you would want to orient it like this so that it could slip through the air a lot more efficiently this just stayed like this and as it got close i could really make out like that glowing sensation in the middle and i told jeremy this it almost it was in my mind of you know i've played some video games in my day it reminded me of like mario brothers like hey go through here to go to the next level like that's what it seemed like to me was like

a pulsating sensation like look look at us look at me like look at this thing it wasn't trying to be a camouflage at all and so then it starts coming down the wing line and prior to that there's this thing in as a pilot where you're always very weary about anything that stays static on your canopy because that means you're on a collision course

So for a while it did, it looked to me like we were on a collision course with this thing.

I click off the autopilot and I just waited.

And then all of a sudden I started to get line of sight on the canopy.

So that tells me, okay, we're not going to hit this thing, but it's going to come really close.

And when you're in a big aircraft and you're up at altitude, you don't want to maneuver aggressively.

The air is thin, your airspeed margins for stall are a lot tighter.

So you're very cautious, but also at the same time in my mind, I'm like, I,

The last thing I want to do is hit whatever this thing is.