Black Box UFO Recordings

Released in 2006 as part of the History Channel's UFO Files series and directed by Jon Alon Walz, this documentary presents cockpit voice recorder and air traffic control audio captures of unidentified flying object encounters reported by commercial pilots and astronauts since the 1940s. It begins with the 1947 Kenneth Arnold sighting near Mount Rainier, which coined the term "flying saucers," and includes declassified recordings from incidents over New England, Texas, and NASA missions in 2005, featuring pilots chasing anomalous lights and radar-confirmed objects maneuvering beyond known aircraft capabilities. Interviews with aviation experts, witnesses, and researchers such as Don Berliner and Joseph Nagy analyze the tapes, emphasizing the credibility of trained observers and patterns of near-misses, while narrated by Ed Asner to underscore implications for aviation safety and unexplained aerial phenomena.