I was flying with real world aircraft on and there were several other aircraft shown in the VFR map.
Suddenly one ‘aircraft’ came down from the top of the map at warp speed, then instantly went back up at warp speed and disappeared only to do it again three more times.
My question is, am I the first person on this forum claiming to have seen a UFO in the flightsim?
Isn’t life fun! 
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Maybe you saw another player using “slew”?
Regards
Steve
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Nope, I had real world trafic on, not multiplayer.
[I am now worried that I will be ‘virtually’ abducted by aliens]
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I’ve seen this many times.
You don’t see other players on your map, just AI or live traffic.
There’s glitches with live traffic indeed. 
My usual problem is a “multiverse traveler” where a plane pops in and out of existence every second or so, changing to a new random livery each time. 
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“Suddenly one ‘aircraft’ came down from the top of the map at warp speed, then instantly went back up at warp speed”
Let me get this straight. Are you saying that an aircraft icon on your VFR map moved quickly from a particular north position to a particular south position, then back and forth like that?
I’ve never seen this glitch. UFO indeed.
I’ve seen this one as well - both on my map and mfd / LNM. The plane will pop in and out of existence. I never noticed if it changed liveries between though, as I’ve never had eyes on said plane. Only saw it on my map screens.
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I am sure, it is an UFO. Aliens watch us how we fly this Flightsim and will recrute the best pilots among us for a space mission to save the universe.
CTD‘s are used like a morse code to communicate with us, which explains, why some don‘t have CTD‘s, as the Aliens ignore the ones without CTD‘s.
Your thoughts?
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Do they know how to fix windows update?
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You could be right about the CTDs. When/if I get abducted I will try to find out about that.
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Great idea for a 40 dollar “UFO” expension pack….
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I think it’s more about maintaining the current G rating of the sim vs being “woke”. It’s about money, not political correctness.
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Ah OK, point taken!
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I’ve seen all kinds of crazy stuff with real world traffic on… It’s gotten a little better recently.
Hmmm…I had no idea UFOs would be using ADS-B. If they are, perhaps they aren’t UFOs! 
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The Last Starfighter is a game I would still play now if Atari had bothered to complete it! One of my favourite 80’s films.
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I have seen this before, it’s actually 2 different things. First, a user used active pause and after unpausing, the sim “resetted” the location of the plane by moving it to the place it would be at.
Slew mode will also cause this affect.
Good guess, but nope. Those actions may cause it, but it does happen without that. Just had it happen to me twice in a span of a few minutes en route from YSCB to YSSY. I haven’t paused at all. And I’ve never used slew mode or accelerated time ever.
Saw one over Queensland Australia a few days ago. Flying at my 12 o’clock for several minutes, then made a left turn and doubled back at warp speed. Vanished into thin air.
Yes, the good old times. I loved that movie too. But if the Aliens would watch my piloting skills, they would have to postpone the space battles….
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