Cmdr. David Fravor and Lt. Cmdr. Jim Slaight were on a routine training mission 100 miles out into the Pacific when the radio in each of their F/A-18F Super Hornets crackled: An operations officer aboard the U.S.S. Princeton, a Navy cruiser, wanted to know if they were carrying weapons.
“Two CATM-9s,” Commander Fravor replied, referring to dummy missiles that could not be fired. He had not been expecting any hostile exchanges off the coast of San Diego that November afternoon in 2004.
Commander Fravor, in a recent interview with The New York Times, recalled what happened next. Some of it is captured in a video made public by officials with a Pentagon program that investigated U.F.O.s.
“Well, we’ve got a real-world vector for you,” the radio operator said, according to Commander Fravor. For two weeks, the operator said, the Princeton had been tracking mysterious aircraft. The objects appeared suddenly at 80,000 feet, and then hurtled toward the sea, eventually stopping at 20,000 feet and hovering. Then they either dropped out of radar range or shot straight back up.
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The radio operator instructed Commander Fravor and Commander Slaight, who has given a similar account, to investigate.
The two fighter planes headed toward the objects. The Princeton alerted them as they closed in, but when they arrived at “merge plot” with the object — naval aviation parlance for being so close that the Princeton could not tell which were the objects and which were the fighter jets — neither Commander Fravor nor Commander Slaight could see anything at first. There was nothing on their radars, either.
Then, Commander Fravor looked down to the sea. It was calm that day, but the waves were breaking over something that was just below the surface. Whatever it was, it was big enough to cause the sea to churn.
Hovering 50 feet above the churn was an aircraft of some kind — whitish — that was around 40 feet long and oval in shape. The craft was jumping around erratically, staying over the wave disturbance but not moving in any specific direction, Commander Fravor said. The disturbance looked like frothy waves and foam, as if the water were boiling.
Commander Fravor began a circular descent to get a closer look, but as he got nearer the object began ascending toward him. It was almost as if it were coming to meet him halfway, he said.
Commander Fravor abandoned his slow circular descent and headed straight for the object.
But then the object peeled away. “It accelerated like nothing I’ve ever seen,” he said in the interview. He was, he said, “pretty weirded out.”
They were en route and closing in when the Princeton radioed again. Radar had again picked up the strange aircraft.
“Sir, you won’t believe it,” the radio operator said, “but that thing is at your cap point.”
“We were at least 40 miles away, and in less than a minute this thing was already at our cap point,” Commander Fravor, who has since retired from the Navy, said in the interview.
By the time the two fighter jets arrived at the rendezvous point, the object had disappeared.
The fighter jets returned to the Nimitz, where everyone on the ship had learned of Commander Fravor’s encounter and was making fun of him.
Commander Fravor’s superiors did not investigate further and he went on with his career, deploying to the Persian Gulf to provide air support to ground troops during the Iraq war. But he does remember what he said that evening to a fellow pilot who asked him what he thought he had seen.
“I have no idea what I saw,” Commander Fravor replied to the pilot. “It had no plumes, wings or rotors and outran our F-18s.”
The video is from department of defense, nobody knows what that black spot is, pilots included, it's a UFO until you can prove it otherwise, case closed
Personally I don't think UFO's exist, nor aliens. This video doesn't prove anything and is not a smoking gun and youtubers with bootleg editing software could easily make a video like this.
Well you just proved you don't know what you're talking about
You don't think UFO exist ?
..
You basically ignore what UFO stands for then, because it's not a matter of belief, it's a factual statement, if you can't identify a flying object then it's ? An unidentified flying object, duh
And again the video is from the department of defense, now go away
All "UFO's" are terrestrial so somewhere they are identified, just not publicly.
You basically ignore what UFO stands for then, because it's not a matter of belief, it's a factual statement, if you can't identify a flying object then it's ? An unidentified flying object, duh
That doesn't mean it's a fuckin alien, just some govt project.
And again the video is from the department of defense, now go away
I'd like to see the original release. The one the govt put out.
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dbvapor ago
What video?
submitted ago
https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=BxuSA9o1_vQ
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000005607812/look-at-that-thing-us-navy-jet-encounters-unknown-object.html
RageAgainstTheAmish ago
Man that shit is fake as fuck why the fuck would the government release that if it were real
submitted ago
how is it fake ?
freshmeat ago
How is it legit?
submitted ago
Simple
Until some1 is capable to identify the object seen in this video then it remains a UFO
Hence, this video is legit, because it shows just that, a UFO
...
Now I'll wait for your debunking of the said video, or any debunking related to it
freshmeat ago
Where is the video from, when did it come out. And where is the UFO, and is there any govt statements about it?
submitted ago
omg "where is the ufo"
Are you serious ? Right in the middle of the fucking HUD, the black spot
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/unidentified-flying-object-navy.html
Cmdr. David Fravor and Lt. Cmdr. Jim Slaight were on a routine training mission 100 miles out into the Pacific when the radio in each of their F/A-18F Super Hornets crackled: An operations officer aboard the U.S.S. Princeton, a Navy cruiser, wanted to know if they were carrying weapons.
“Two CATM-9s,” Commander Fravor replied, referring to dummy missiles that could not be fired. He had not been expecting any hostile exchanges off the coast of San Diego that November afternoon in 2004.
Commander Fravor, in a recent interview with The New York Times, recalled what happened next. Some of it is captured in a video made public by officials with a Pentagon program that investigated U.F.O.s.
“Well, we’ve got a real-world vector for you,” the radio operator said, according to Commander Fravor. For two weeks, the operator said, the Princeton had been tracking mysterious aircraft. The objects appeared suddenly at 80,000 feet, and then hurtled toward the sea, eventually stopping at 20,000 feet and hovering. Then they either dropped out of radar range or shot straight back up.
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Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program DEC. 16, 2017 The radio operator instructed Commander Fravor and Commander Slaight, who has given a similar account, to investigate.
The two fighter planes headed toward the objects. The Princeton alerted them as they closed in, but when they arrived at “merge plot” with the object — naval aviation parlance for being so close that the Princeton could not tell which were the objects and which were the fighter jets — neither Commander Fravor nor Commander Slaight could see anything at first. There was nothing on their radars, either.
Then, Commander Fravor looked down to the sea. It was calm that day, but the waves were breaking over something that was just below the surface. Whatever it was, it was big enough to cause the sea to churn.
Hovering 50 feet above the churn was an aircraft of some kind — whitish — that was around 40 feet long and oval in shape. The craft was jumping around erratically, staying over the wave disturbance but not moving in any specific direction, Commander Fravor said. The disturbance looked like frothy waves and foam, as if the water were boiling.
Commander Fravor began a circular descent to get a closer look, but as he got nearer the object began ascending toward him. It was almost as if it were coming to meet him halfway, he said.
Commander Fravor abandoned his slow circular descent and headed straight for the object.
But then the object peeled away. “It accelerated like nothing I’ve ever seen,” he said in the interview. He was, he said, “pretty weirded out.”
They were en route and closing in when the Princeton radioed again. Radar had again picked up the strange aircraft.
“Sir, you won’t believe it,” the radio operator said, “but that thing is at your cap point.”
“We were at least 40 miles away, and in less than a minute this thing was already at our cap point,” Commander Fravor, who has since retired from the Navy, said in the interview.
By the time the two fighter jets arrived at the rendezvous point, the object had disappeared.
The fighter jets returned to the Nimitz, where everyone on the ship had learned of Commander Fravor’s encounter and was making fun of him.
Commander Fravor’s superiors did not investigate further and he went on with his career, deploying to the Persian Gulf to provide air support to ground troops during the Iraq war. But he does remember what he said that evening to a fellow pilot who asked him what he thought he had seen.
“I have no idea what I saw,” Commander Fravor replied to the pilot. “It had no plumes, wings or rotors and outran our F-18s.”
But, he added, “I want to fly one.”
freshmeat ago
Yeah it;s a shitty video and the thing they are supposedly tracking doesn't move in the frame at all, it stays static. It looks fake.
Yeah I'll go ahead and file this under the category of "bulshit"
submitted ago
The video is from department of defense, nobody knows what that black spot is, pilots included, it's a UFO until you can prove it otherwise, case closed
freshmeat ago
Personally I don't think UFO's exist, nor aliens. This video doesn't prove anything and is not a smoking gun and youtubers with bootleg editing software could easily make a video like this.
submitted ago
Well you just proved you don't know what you're talking about
You don't think UFO exist ?
..
You basically ignore what UFO stands for then, because it's not a matter of belief, it's a factual statement, if you can't identify a flying object then it's ? An unidentified flying object, duh
And again the video is from the department of defense, now go away
freshmeat ago
All "UFO's" are terrestrial so somewhere they are identified, just not publicly.
That doesn't mean it's a fuckin alien, just some govt project.
I'd like to see the original release. The one the govt put out.
heuristic ago
are you from reddit? shill much?? 😏😂
freshmeat ago
Yeah I'm a shill because i don't believe this grainy ass video of what people want to believe are aliens. Go fuck yourself, nigger.