Mate they absolutely did and the timing is well suspicious given all the sightings reports coming out of the midwest lately. I noticed the wording around "unidentified aerial phenomena" got quietly swapped for much vaguer language that basically gives pilots less of a clear framework for what to actually log. Less data = less accountability, simple as that.
Been trying to get a proper comparison of the old vs new wording but the archived version keeps 404ing which is a whole other red flag tbh.
Anyone else had a poke around the FAA site recently? Would love to know if somone with better research skills than me has screenshotted the original guidelines before they vanished.
