2 Navy Airmen and an Object That ‘Accelerated Like Nothing I’ve Ever Seen’--UFO

New York Times ^ | 12-16-2017 | HELENE COOPER, LESLIE KEAN and RALPH BLUMENTHAL

[HogsBreath]

The following recounts an incident in 2004 that advocates of research into U.F.O.s have said is the kind of event worthy of more investigation, and that was studied by a Pentagon program that investigated U.F.O.s. Experts caution that earthly explanations often exist for such incidents, and that not knowing the explanation does not mean that the event has interstellar origins.

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.

[HogsBreath]

Okay..got opinions on UFO's? I have always been firmly 'no'....but when the NYTs starts running interview articles with identified-by-name Navy pilots saying: '“It accelerated like nothing I’ve ever seen,”....He was, he said, “pretty weirded out.”......and “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.”

AND they have video released by the Department of Defense?! I don't know what to say....

[piasa]

They just happen to put out this story a day after it’s revealed how much Harry Reid’s UFO project cost us? How convenient...

[Seruzawa]

The question remains why the USAF ordered that UFOs be shot down in the 50s if they were mirages. They showed up on radar in conjunction with visual sightings. Where they were from is debatable. That they exist is certain.

[BenLurkin]

Meteor

[laplata]

Meteor

>><<

I doubt it was a Meteor.

[fso301]

[21twelve]

Except meteors don't accelerate. It IS getting close to Christmas - maybe they are rehashing the sighting of Santa's Sleigh and reindeer?

[Ouchthatonehurt]

Sorry....it just had to be done.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Obviously swamp gas. The Wash DC swamp has a long reach. Even 13 years ago.

[davidb56]

And billions went to dirty harry’s buddy to run the project.

[rdl6989]

This thread cries out for a Georgio post.

[Balding_Eagle]

I think it has more to do with our new President Trump than Harry Reid.

A new atmosphere in the military in my opinion.

[laplata]

Lol - Good one.

[BipolarBob]

Who is Georgio?

[Kickass Conservative]

We will never know as much as we don't know.

As for me, I will welcome our Extraterrestrial Overlords. LOL

[Nuc 1.1]

I have seen a number of legit UFOs during my lifetime. Remember they are Unidentified Flying Objects and not space aliens,until PROVEN otherwise. All but two were in my youth in Va. I have seen two in Az and those two were beyond belief.

[umgud]

I have seen flying saucers.

[fso301]

The article has two huge red flags.

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."

For two weeks this had been going on just offshore San Diego and no major DOD assets were brought in to investigate???

The two fighter jets then conferred with the operations officer on the Princeton and were told to head to a rendezvous point 60 miles away, called the cap point, in aviation parlance. 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.”

How did this "thing" happen to know ahead of time where they had been vectored to??

[Nuc 1.1]

His hair is ... special.

[jughandle]

https://youtu.be/NzGuVV1DWSI