A pilot’s video seems to have lastly captured the elusive ‘jetpack man’ of Los Angeles on camera. The video comes just after many reported sightings of a man flying a jetpack about the Los Angeles airport in California.
According to Popular Mechanics, the mysterious jetpack man was 1st spotted in August, flying at a height of 3,000 feet, and then once again in October – this time gliding 6,000 feet higher.
On December 21, a pilot on an instructional flight with Sling Pilot Academy – a flight college primarily based close to Torrance – captured footage of an unidentified flying object which seems to resemble a man in a jetpack.
“Video taken by Sling Pilot Academy Flight Instructor while flying at approx. 3,000′ near Palos Verdes south of Los Angeles,” the academy wrote although sharing the footage on Instagram. “The video appears to show a jet pack, but it could also be a drone or some other object.”
The flight college mentioned that it “remains to be seen” no matter if the sighting was connected to a legal test flight or to the ‘jetpack man’ whose appearances have triggered disruptions to air targeted traffic in one particular of the most congested airspaces on earth.
The video has been viewed more than 3 lakh instances on the photo and video sharing platform.
One of the pilots involved in the incident told The War Zone that they have been flying in the practice region in between Palos Verdes and Catalina Island when they saw what appeared to be a man in a jetpack flying towards them.
They managed to get it on camera ahead of the object disappeared from view.
The FBI, nearby police and the Federal Aviation Administration had announced an investigation into the sighting of ‘jetpack man’ back in September. This, on the other hand, is the 1st time that the elusive aeronaut has been caught on camera.