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On a clear, sunny day in April 2014, two F/A-18s took off for an air combat training mission off the coast of Virginia. The jets, part of my Navy fighter squadron, climbed to an altitude of 12,000 and steered towards Warning Area W-72, an exclusive block of airspace ten miles east of Virginia Beach. All traffic into the training area goes through a single GPS point at a set altitude — almost like a doorway into a massive room where military jets can operate without running into other aircraft. Just at the moment the two jets crossed the threshold, one of the pilots saw a dark gray cube inside of a clear sphere — motionless against the wind, fixed directly at the entry point. The jets, only 100 feet apart, zipped past the object on either side. The pilots had come so dangerously close to something they couldn’t identify that they terminated the training mission immediately and returned to base.“I almost hit one of those damn things!” the flight leader, still shaken by the incident, told us shortly after in the pilots’ ready room. We all knew exactly what he meant. “Those damn things” had been plaguing us for the previous eight months.
in 2014, after upgrades were made to our radar system, our squadron made a startling discovery: There were unknown objects in our airspace.Initially, the objects were showing up on our newly upgraded radars and we assumed they were “ghosts in the machine,” or software glitches. But then we began to correlate the radar tracks with multiple surveillance systems, including infrared sensors that detected heat signatures. Then came the hair-raising near misses that required us to take evasive action.
They could hold their position, appearing motionless, despite Category 4 hurricane-force winds of 120 knots. They did not have any visible means of lift, control surfaces or propulsion — in other words nothing that resembled normal aircraft with wings, flaps or engines. And they outlasted our fighter jets, operating continuously throughout the day. I am a formally trained engineer, but the technology they demonstrated defied my understanding.
Anyway, of course, there's no way to know if the guy is telling the truth or not; he may have simply decided to pursue a career on the UFO Conference Lecture circuit. If true, then there's obviously a problem.
originally posted by: network dude
little green men from mars? To believe in flying saucers is nuts. Just look at all the pilots that lost their carreers (sic) over speaking of such nonsense.
Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Integration & Outreach Committee
To improve aerospace safety by enhancing scientific knowledge of, and mitigating barriers to the study of, Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP)....
Ryan Graves - Chair
www.aiaauap.org...
originally posted by: Encia22
a reply to: TonyS
The red flag for me is the description of the fighters being just 100ft apart. I thought the minimum safety envelope was 500ft.
Heat signature also is a bit odd. I always thought these unknown objects ran cold.
originally posted by: schuyler
originally posted by: network dude
little green men from mars? To believe in flying saucers is nuts. Just look at all the pilots that lost their carreers (sic) over speaking of such nonsense.
Your ignorance is showing loud and clear. WHO SAID flying saucers contain little green men from Mars? Nobody but people like you. Pilots have lost careers precisely because of people like you who wouldn't take them seriously. Your attitude is PRECISELY what government bureaucrats suggested to belittle reports and cause them to be discounted. Not that you are on the government debunking payroll, but you might as well be. But thank you for portraying yourself so clearly. We now know not to pay attention to anything you say. Your thoughts on the matter are useless.