They say it’s because it interferes with the navigation systems. But it’s really a government conspiracy to cover up the fact that there is a special frequency of communication which can ONLY be tapped into when ascending or decending (though NASA and the CIA have developed a machine that can simulate take off and landing for this purpose). This channel, known as the “X Channel” is reserved for communicating with extra-terrestrial beings from Rigel 7.

It all began on July 11, 1947, 3 days after the discovery of a crashed UFO at Roswell, New Mexico. The US Air Force was conducting a test flight from the Groom Lake Air Force base in SW Nevada (currently known as “Area 51”). They had just moved the alien bodies from Roswell to Groom Lake, and had recovered some rather advanced communications equipment from the crashed spacecraft which seemed to have a much larger range than conventional radio equipment. The military had discovered a number of these radio devices and had managed to get two of them communicating with each other.

One was flown to a small town outside Paris, and the other was brought to Groom Lake, both were placed on US Air Force planes, one stationed in Groom Lake and the other stationed in a top secret French facility created in the aftermath of WWII. Both aircraft were sent into flight at exactly 5:17pm GMT with the hopes that they would be able to communicate with each other.

Seconds after take off, both pilots reported a strange signal coming from the radio and then they heard what was clearly a response to a distress call. Within a few seconds, they realized that it was the mothership attempting to contact the crashed UFO. Shortly after their realization, they lost the signal as both craft moved to cruising altitude.

Within 2 months, the military realized they could only communicate on this radio during ascent or descent in an aircraft, and they also realized that their standard electronic equipment was capable of picking up these signals as well. The military contacted the major airlines and sent personell into the cockpits of many commercial airliners and determined that the radio equipment pilots used could also pick up these signals.

In the meantime, the US government opened channels of communications with these alien beings, and began work on a prototype of a machine which would continuously simulate take off and landing so that the channels of communiation could remain open. Unfortunately, these aliens have proven to be unfriendly, and have refused to share any of their advanced technology with us, and there is currently a massive diplomatic effort underway to keep Rigel 7 from sending a fleet of war drones to end all life on the planet and rape it for its natural resources. Since we don’t have anything really to offer them that they hadn’t already figured out on their own, we have very few bargaining chips, and the government doesn’t want someone’s cell phone or iPod to pick up on a transmission where they Rigelians are threatening to kill us, it would cause a great panic, and that panic might be what caused our extinction.

This is because the only reason the Rigelians have allowed us to live for these past 62 years is that they are amused by human suffering…they are responsible for every major epidemic and pandemic we’ve had in at least the past 50 years…everything from AIDS to Swine Flu has been manufactured and sent here by a drone (they’re smart enough to land in the Ozarks and places that have been hugely discredited…they could pretty much park the mother ship in any number of cities in the deep south for a week and a half and the rest of the world would say the reports were the ramblings of drunken rednecks after all). So, if mankind were to panic and start to come together to fight the alien menace, it would simply put be “less entertaining” for our unseen overlords and they’d just be done with us.

So please, please heed your flight attendants’ warnings, if you know what’s good for you.