A radio interceptor claims to have tapped into a recording of an American Airlines pilot talking about his close encounter with a UFO.

Per ABC7, the incident took place 36 thousand feet above New Mexico during an otherwise normal four-hour flight to Phoenix, Arizona.

"Do you have any targets up here?" reportedly said the pilot from the cockpit of American Airlines flight 2292.

This was the beginning of the 15-second communication overheard by radio interceptor Steve Douglass, in his airwave capture cave, and what happened next was truly chilling.

Listen to a full report on the chilling transmission below:

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"I heard this aircraft, basically, above all other aircraft because the tone in his voice was so excited," Douglass later said.

At this point in the flight, the plant was making its way over the northwest corner of New Mexico.

"We just had something go right over the top of us," the pilot told air traffic control. "I hate to say this but it looked like a long cylindrical object that almost looked like a cruise missile type of thing - moving really fast right over the top of us."

"Talking to an ex-military pilot I know, he says that for them to see this object had to be coming at them practically head-on," Douglass said. "So whatever it was, came fast and right at them and right over them which gave them a big enough scare they had to report it."

Once the report is registered with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), a full investigation into what the UFO could have been is then launched.

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"They meet you at the plane and then they have to discuss the whole thing and do paperwork figure out what it was," Douglass said.

Audio from the cockpit revealed that the object resembled military firepower and "almost looked like a cruise missile type of thing."

However, according to Douglass, at the time of the incident, the military was not in this airspace.

"It was a Sunday basically it's a military's day off."

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There was no military test notification either.

"When tests occur, the military notifies the FAA and aircraft are kept out of the area," explained Douglass. "Their schedules and strict flight lanes need to not interfere with these tests. But that's not what happened yesterday."

The FAA must then rule out a number of possibilities about what the UFO might be, but "if the military can't explain what it is, then what's flying out there that we don't know about?"

Radio interceptor taps into chilling recording of 'American Airlines' pilot's close encounter with UFO