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Navy Pilot Says ‘Dark Mass’ Made Torpedo Disappear
Popular Mechanics ^ | October 8, 2019 | Andrew Daniels

Posted on 10/08/2019 11:29:47 AM PDT by C19fan

You might not know the name David Fravor, but you probably know what he saw … even if he’s still not sure what that was. Fravor is the retired U.S. Navy Commander who in 2017 told the New York Times that he spotted a Tic Tac-shaped UFO from the cockpit of his F/A-18F Super Hornet—“around 40 feet long and oval in shape”—100 miles off the coast of San Diego in 2004.

There’s video, of course, of Fravor’s now-legendary encounter, originally released for public viewing by The New York Times and To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science, a UFO research group from former Blink-182 member Tom DeLonge:

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


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science; UFO's; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: aatip; astronomy; callingartbell; davidfravor; hearsay; joerogan; navy; science; ufo; ufos; usnavy
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I could go with the obvious I am not saying...but this time I am going with Leviathan. Cthulhu will work too....
1 posted on 10/08/2019 11:29:47 AM PDT by C19fan
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It could be the creature that produced The Bloop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBN56wL35IQ


2 posted on 10/08/2019 11:31:01 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan
Obviously Cthulhu



3 posted on 10/08/2019 11:35:54 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (TRUMP TRAIN !!! Get the hell out of the way if you are not on yet because we don't stop for idiots)
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To: C19fan

The ocean eats torpedo = dog bites man


4 posted on 10/08/2019 11:38:19 AM PDT by Theophilus (Ich bin ein Hong Konger)
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To: C19fan

What kind of view of a torpedo would a jet pilot have


5 posted on 10/08/2019 11:39:10 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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Well, I hope the torpedo finds my homework in there somewhere.


6 posted on 10/08/2019 11:41:07 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We're living in Dr. Zhivago but without the love triangle)
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Dark Mass? ...........................must not go there.........must not........aaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!....................


7 posted on 10/08/2019 11:41:26 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain...................)
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To: C19fan
It's a sea nothing.


8 posted on 10/08/2019 11:42:18 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: BenLurkin
An aerial torpedo?
9 posted on 10/08/2019 11:47:08 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: C19fan

Lemme guess. Grainy photo or video with a dark flash of some shape.


10 posted on 10/08/2019 11:48:04 AM PDT by lurk
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Oh I missed the “view of” in your comment, I thought you were just asking what kind of torpedo he might have...


11 posted on 10/08/2019 11:48:28 AM PDT by Boogieman
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Joe Rogan had the pilot on his latest youtube. I watched it last night and he mentioned the disappearing torpedo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eco2s3-0zsQ


12 posted on 10/08/2019 11:57:34 AM PDT by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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I believe we are not alone and never have been.


13 posted on 10/08/2019 12:09:58 PM PDT by dainbramaged (If you want a friend, rescue a pit bull.)
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It was an account a chopper pilot told Fravor about...
One of the guys was a Navy helicopter pilot. He was flying a CH-53, a big heavy-lifter the Marine Corps uses for certain things. Off the East Coast they do a lot of shooting, at the time it was off Puerto Rico.”

Cdr Fravor said the helicopter pilot’s job at the time of the incident in the “mid to late ‘90s” included retrieving BQM aerial target drones, which deploy a parachute and fall into the ocean, as well as submarine telemetry torpedoes that collect data before blowing ballast and floating to the surface.


14 posted on 10/08/2019 12:12:34 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: BenLurkin

Mebbe one of those old S-2 sub hunters was around dropping torpedos?

An F-18 certainly would not have any.

Typical Popular mechanix level writing.


15 posted on 10/08/2019 12:21:33 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: BenLurkin

Read the story, a helicopter pilot relayed his experience.


16 posted on 10/08/2019 12:23:45 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer)
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Hi.

I didn’t know that F/18 had the ability to deliver torpedoes.

5.56mm


17 posted on 10/08/2019 12:24:18 PM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! BUILD THE WALL!)
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On Rogan’s show the pilot told a story of how he would sneak up on campers at night and light afterburners knowing that campers would call in a UFO sighting. Now the pilot has his own sightings.


18 posted on 10/08/2019 12:42:32 PM PDT by cicero2k
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To: BenLurkin

It was a helicopter pilot, lowering a diver to retrieve a dummy torpedo. He saw some massive thing suck the test torp under the water.


19 posted on 10/08/2019 12:51:49 PM PDT by Churchjack (Color me curmudgeon.)
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To: Churchjack

Nellie?


20 posted on 10/08/2019 12:55:23 PM PDT by rolling_stone (no justice no peace and leakers)
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