--- title: "Video Claims to Show Person Flying Jetpack Near Airport" description: "After reports of a guy in a jetpack flying above LAX, a new video has appeared. Watch this mysterious jet pack man travel at 3,000 feet." date: "2020-12-29" modified: "2021-01-06" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/jetpack-video-airport" categories: - "Advanced Transport" tags: - "jetpack" - "jetpacks" - "los angeles" - "the digest" --- # Video Claims to Show Person Flying Jetpack Near Airport ![Following reports of a jetpack flying near LAX, a new video appeared of a mysterious jetpack traveling at 3,000 feet in Southern California.]() *\Image: Sling Pilot Academy\* ## LAXative A pair of mysterious jetpack sightings near Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) made headlines this summer. [Multiple]() [pilots]() claimed to have spotted somebody wearing a jetpack and cruising around 3,000 feet near LAX. We still have no idea who was behind the dangerous stunt — or if it was even a jetpack being piloted by a human to begin with. All we had were some [hilarious transcripts]() of the conversations between the pilots and air traffic control. Until now. Now, a video uploaded to YouTube shows what appears to be a person flying a jetpack at approximately the same altitude, about 10 mile south of LAX. https://youtu.be/jKOFriZfJgw ## Who Is He The video was taken by an instructor from Sling Pilot Academy, an airline piloting school, during an instructional flight. The pilots who took the video promptly reported the incident to the Federal Aviation Administration, [*Interesting Engineering* reports](). "The video appears to show a jet pack, but it could also be a drone or some other object," reads the video's description. "If it is a ‘guy in a jet pack’ then it remains to be seen whether it is a legal test flight (jet packs are real - there is a manufacturer near Los Angeles) or related to the jet pack sightings near LAX recently that caused disruptions to air traffic." While jetpacks have been around since at least the 1960s, as [*Gizmodo* points out](), they require immense amounts of energy and can only fly for very short periods of time. **READ MORE:** [L.A.'s Mystery 'Jetpack' Allegedly Captured on Video, But We Still Have Questions]() \[*Gizmodo*\] **More on the sightings:** *[Pilots: Man With Jetpack Was Flying Near Planes at LAX]()* ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()