September 17, 2024: An air traffic controller at the Los Angeles Air Route Traffic Control Center in Palmdale, CA called the NUFORC hotline to report a communication just received from TROY21 — a Beechcraft King Air 350iER conducting a Department of Homeland Security mission surveilling narcotics activity near Reef Station in eastern California. TROY21 crew reported: a football-sized dark grey cylindrical object passed approximately 10 feet under their right wing at 20,000 feet altitude. The object had no visible propulsion — no smoke, no streak, no exhaust. One minute later, the same crew reported the object had been picked up on radar approximately 60 miles away. NUFORC’s speed calculation: the object covered 60 miles in 60 seconds — a minimum speed of Mach 4. Ben Hansen (Discovery+ “UFO Witness”) investigated the case: the radar signature showed the object apparently “playing hopscotch back and forth” — not ballistic, not drone-like, not any known aircraft behavior. The pilot initially thought it was a surface-to-air missile. Critical detail from the ATC audio: a second controller was heard saying: “There was some UFO reported. That’s all taken care of now.” The phrase “all taken care of” — without explanation — suggests routine suppression procedures. NUFORC followed up by contacting Ben Hansen and conducting full witness interviews. This is one of the first documented cases of a Tic-Tac-type object appearing in CLOSE PROXIMITY to a government surveillance aircraft on an active homeland security mission, with both visual confirmation and independent radar tracking, filed through NUFORC.