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‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects
NY Times ^ | May 26 2019 | Helene Cooper

Posted on 05/27/2019 5:42:04 PM PDT by rintintin

The strange objects, one of them like a spinning top moving against the wind, appeared almost daily from the summer of 2014 to March 2015, high in the skies over the East Coast. Navy pilots reported to their superiors that the objects had no visible engine or infrared exhaust plumes, but that they could reach 30,000 feet and hypersonic speeds.

“These things would be out there all day,” said Lt. Ryan Graves, an F/A-18 Super Hornet pilot who has been with the Navy for 10 years, and who reported his sightings to the Pentagon and Congress. “Keeping an aircraft in the air requires a significant amount of energy. With the speeds we observed, 12 hours in the air is 11 hours longer than we’d expect.”

In late 2014, a Super Hornet pilot had a near collision with one of the objects, and an official mishap report was filed. Some of the incidents were videotaped, including one taken by a plane’s camera in early 2015 that shows an object zooming over the ocean waves as pilots question what they are watching.

“Wow, what is that, man?” one exclaims. “Look at it fly!”

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science; UFO's
KEYWORDS: aatip; astronomy; chat; flyboys; fringe; navy; ohsomysteriouso; science; ufo; ufos; usn; usnavy
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1 posted on 05/27/2019 5:42:04 PM PDT by rintintin
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Hillary in a huge Motel6 shower curtain dress.


2 posted on 05/27/2019 5:44:05 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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Weather balloons. /S


3 posted on 05/27/2019 5:45:42 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: rintintin

Angels do exist.


4 posted on 05/27/2019 5:46:31 PM PDT by stonehouse01
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LOL


5 posted on 05/27/2019 5:49:56 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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To: rintintin

The tiny bit we are told hints of a universe of science kept secret by the govt.


6 posted on 05/27/2019 5:50:06 PM PDT by coaster123 (Men: Standard American handshake. Women: Curtsy.)
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To: rintintin

Michael Rennie and GORT returning for another visit...


7 posted on 05/27/2019 5:50:18 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy Mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: rintintin

It is the future visit us ... their past


8 posted on 05/27/2019 5:50:45 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Liberals, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die)
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drug smugglers


9 posted on 05/27/2019 5:52:47 PM PDT by bunkerhill7
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Obvious answer is obvious.

That is swamp gas from Venus trapped in a weather balloon.


10 posted on 05/27/2019 5:55:10 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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The three moments of time ..... past, present, future collide for one moment every past, present, and future


11 posted on 05/27/2019 5:57:12 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Liberals, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die)
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To: rintintin

When I was at the Five-Sided Rathole twenty-odd years ago, a fellow or two told me that whatever we currently had deployed was obsolete by the time it even saw daylight. They had the Next Gen ready to be rolled out when applicable, and the 2nd Gen at least in the R&D phase. By their thumbnail, the space shuttle was an Edsel, while the new Mustangs were sitting in the garage. This could be some sort of bleeding edge tech that’s being beta tested against our current pilots and hardware, without anyone but the uppermost echelons ever knowing it.


12 posted on 05/27/2019 5:58:06 PM PDT by Viking2002 (Free James Woods!!!)
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Basic rule of thumb says that if it’s in the NYT it’s fake. Too bad. Actual UFOs would have been interesting.


13 posted on 05/27/2019 5:58:42 PM PDT by irv (Live Tea or die!)
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To: stonehouse01

So do ETs.


14 posted on 05/27/2019 6:01:20 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: Viking2002

Talked of same twenty years ago at 7 levels down


15 posted on 05/27/2019 6:01:59 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Liberals, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die)
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Basic rule of thumb says that if it’s in the NYT it’s fake.”

So the Navy pilots who are named and quoted are fake?


16 posted on 05/27/2019 6:02:56 PM PDT by rintintin (q)
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To: rintintin
Thermal inversion layer.


17 posted on 05/27/2019 6:03:23 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Viking2002

I wonder only one condition these days and it is chicoms


18 posted on 05/27/2019 6:04:08 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Liberals, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die)
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“It looks like a giant....”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYSOmYyNHpU


19 posted on 05/27/2019 6:06:41 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Considering the news source, I tend to call "Fake News" on this one...

The tip-off for me was their saying the things were shaped like tops, when anyone with the slightest technical training knows they would have to be shaped like pencils...

20 posted on 05/27/2019 6:10:27 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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