Bright flashing light near coors boulevard distracts pilots, Albuquerque NM
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Suspicious ActivityAccording to the dispatch call, pilots reported a very bright flashing light near Coors Boulevard NW and Montaño Road NW in Albuquerque. The light, coming from a church, was intense enough to distract or affect flight crews, though not a laser. The light has been present for several days during an event at the church.
Audio|Heard on: Albuquerque Air Traffic Control
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03:43
Transcript:
00:00
35, you have time for a question?
00:02
All right, this is 142.
00:05
It's curious, past number Albuquerque you last couple nights, there's a really bright white light that's just always flashing, just curious if you know what it is.
00:11
It's sort of on the north end of town.
00:14
735, from what I understand, it's the lights on church.
00:20
Wow, okay, interesting.
00:22
That's amazed we can see it.
00:24
Appreciate it. And somebody was calling on 132.2.
00:30
Albuquerque, it is 993.30, level 360.
00:35
0 through directs for all the others, please.
00:39
That's what's that light from Albuquerqueathsler from a church.
00:45
That's what I would say.
00:48
It's a very impressive church.
00:49
Yeah.
00:53
Albuquerion Center, United 1153, checking in by level 380.
00:58
United 11.503, Alpha City Center, Roger, Pugs tonight.
01:03
924707, third-degree liquor.
01:13
20449,000.
01:18
1355 5-12 1-1-5-3-2-0 miles westbound Airbus 321 5-3-5-3-0 from above with 360 All right, right-day 13-155-1 looker American 13-23-5-12 mile east side, heavy 7667-5-370 power of 370
01:35
U.S. 13, 237.12121212.
01:39
Govarez. United States, America, 13, 2027.
01:45
Counter-Govern to Govick Center.
01:46
One-two-0.255.
01:48
One-2055, Govon-757-57.
01:50
Good night.
01:51
Thank you.
01:56
Marcher, uh, EF504.
01:58
We've got a quick report for you.
02:02
We got a light, I don't think it's a laser,
02:06
but it could be some kind of strobe light.
02:08
I'd say it's somewhere around the Coors Road area, somewhere around Coors Blvd NW and Montaño Rd NW.
02:13
Pretty bright light.
02:15
It was flashing up.
02:17
Again, not a laser, but it's bright enough to have an effect on it.
02:21
I know exactly what that is.
02:23
It's kind of right down the road from where we did.
02:25
It's a church.
02:28
I must have you heard of it.
02:29
It's a Sagebrush Church.
02:31
I don't know, I guess I have some event out there.
02:33
It's been going up for a while now.
02:35
So yeah, they've had that going for,
02:37
maybe over a weekend.
02:39
Yeah, yeah, I know all about pagebrush, I've been there a few times.
02:43
There's great folks, but that's definitely when departing, it's almost the intensity of a laser, so they got two times about that.
02:51
Interesting, yeah, you want the first one to say, I wonder if anybody else is, I guess,
02:58
awesome, we're going to get some tough ones.
02:59
But yeah,
03:01
we've got a few reports, mainly coming from the summit, so,
03:05
yeah, you're not the only one, but then see, yeah, you're not the only one, but I think, yeah, it's safe one.
03:07
Copy that, yeah.
03:09
If someone wants to look into it, I'm sure they mean no harm or anything by it.
03:12
But like I'd say, it's not like getting lazy or anything like that, but it's definitely enough to kind of distract and affect life.
03:19
Okay, yeah, I appreciate it.
03:20
I'll just talk to every word and see if I've said it's something.
03:24
Sounds good sir, we appreciate it.
03:27
And from 504, I was just gonna let you know it was on my side of the airplane, but it seemed to not be so bad once we got above 9,000 feet, but just below that it was almost right my eyes.
03:38
You're okay.
03:39
Staying, I guess?
03:41
Yeah, blinding.
03:42
Okay, thank you.
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Location mentioned:
Coors Blvd NW, Albuquerque, NM 87120
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