The FBI is investigating a new report of Los Angeles’ elusive “jetpack guy“– who may have been spotted soaring over California again this week.
A commercial pilot radioed in the possible sighting Wednesday at 6:12 p.m., about 15 miles east of Los Angeles International Airport at an elevation of 5,000 feet.
“Use caution, the jetpack guy is back,” said one air traffic alert.
“Did you see a UFO?” an air traffic controller asked a pilot.
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“We were looking, but we did not see Iron Man,” the pilot responded.
Reports of the mysterious aeronaut have cropped up on at least three occasions over the past year – but an LA pilot finally captured video evidence on Christmas Day.
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That video appeared to show an unidentified flying man soaring 3,000 feet above Palos Verdes near Catalina Island. It was captured by a flight instructor from the Sling Pilot Academy, a local aviation school.
Although the figure does look like a person in some kind of suit, the school said it wasn’t 100% certain that the flyer was indeed the mystery sky intruder.
“The video appears to show a jet pack, but it could also be a drone or some other object,” the school wrote at the time. “If it is a ‘guy in a jet pack’ then it remains to be seen whether it is a legal test flight (jet packs are real – there is a manufacturer near Los Angeles) or related to the jet pack sightings near LAX recently…
