Open Post: Hosted By Jetpack Man Hovering Over L.A.

Last Wednesday, a curious phenomenon cavorting in the moody and ribbony, caramel haze otherwise known as the sky over Los Angeles, appeared for the fourth time since it was first spotted in 2020. Not a bird, not a plane, and perhaps not even the same human decked out in fancy flying gear each time, but according to Mashable, there’s some definite UFO shit going on in the shape of a dude with a jet pack, and LAX is on alert.

via Mashable:

The mysterious figure known as the “jetpack man” was spotted again over Los Angeles.

A pilot spotted a flying object that resembled a person wearing a jetpack on Wednesday evening near Los Angeles International Airport, where at least four “jetpack” sightings have been reported in the last year, CBS News reports. Upon the pilot’s sighting, air traffic control warned other flights to watch out for what’s since been dubbed “the jetpack man.”

“A Boeing 747 pilot reported seeing an object that might have resembled a jetpack 15 miles east of LAX at 5,000 feet altitude,” the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement. “Out of an abundance of caution, air traffic controllers alerted other pilots in the vicinity.”

Pilots and air traffic controllers, while concerned about collisions, are also having some fun by calling the flyer(s) Iron Man, given the obvious resemblance to a geared-up Robert Downey, Jr. whooshing through space (in retrospect, it was probably to make a quick exit from Pepper Potts breaking character and waving a GOOP “This Smells Like My Vagina” candle in his face). That would launch any of us into orbit!

Here are some of the air traffic/pilot exchanges:

Richard Branson, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos wish their incel billionaire space peens were half as brave, sleek, bold, and impressive as Jetpack Man’s suit, helmet, and fuel pack. And unlike any of those stunted playground twatwaffles, people actually want to see Jetpack Man come back to Earth.

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