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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

Posted on 12/16/2017 8:13:02 PM PST by 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.

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


TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Miscellaneous; UFO's
KEYWORDS: aatip; alaska; bigelowaerospace; danielinouye; davidfravor; fringe; harryreid; hawai; hawaii; jimslaight; navy; nevada; ohsomysteriouso; robertbigelow; tedstevens; tictac; ufo; ufos; usn; usnavy
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To: dsc

Some are. Some aren’t.


61 posted on 12/16/2017 9:23:31 PM PST by JockoManning (to cpy/paste if want: http://preview.tinyurl.com/Haiku-For-The-End-Times)
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To: fidelis

Here’s part of a long and interesting tribute to him:

http://www.richardgrigonis.com/Ch13%20Downfall.html


62 posted on 12/16/2017 9:30:15 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: HogsBreath

I’ve never seen anything in the sky that wasn’t explainable in terrestrial terms.


63 posted on 12/16/2017 9:30:18 PM PST by onedoug
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To: fso301
How did this "thing" happen to know ahead of time where they had been vectored to??

They spicka de englis and intercept data links?

64 posted on 12/16/2017 9:30:48 PM PST by doorgunner69 (No video seems to happen a lot when they shoot somebody..........)
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To: Husker24
My dad told me about one that shut of the car and all the electronics in the car, after it left the car started right back up again.

Did he get an irresistible urge to make model mountains afterwards?

J/K............

65 posted on 12/16/2017 9:34:15 PM PST by doorgunner69 (No video seems to happen a lot when they shoot somebody..........)
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To: dsc

Hynek deeply regretted the whole ‘swamp gas’ business.


66 posted on 12/16/2017 9:34:29 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: laplata

If you look at the sky in Az late at night or very early in the morning you will see all kinds of interesting stuff from meteors to jet airliners. Even saw the contrail from a rocket launch in New Mexico one morning on the way to work. Luke AFB is in my area and we get to see the standard fighters take off and return from exercises. When I first got here I used to see F-15s and F-16s outward bound and returning from training. Now it is F16s and F-35s. I wish you could have seen the last UFO I saw.


67 posted on 12/16/2017 9:35:27 PM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: texas_mrs

Many of us have seen UFOs and don’t talk about them for fear of ridicule and derision. Not to mention retaliation. I just tell the truth and let the chips fall where they may. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!


68 posted on 12/16/2017 9:42:27 PM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: Nuc 1.1

I wish I could have seen it, too.

You’ve seen a lot of neat things. I lived in northern NM and I saw some weird lights but nothing I’d consider to be a UFO.

I’d like to see a UFO.


69 posted on 12/16/2017 9:43:50 PM PST by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: HogsBreath

What’s with Arizona and New Mexico getting all the UFO traffic? Retired space aliens?


70 posted on 12/16/2017 9:44:44 PM PST by lurk
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To: HogsBreath

A friend of mine was a supervisor at the Longmont Regional Air Traffic Control Center before he retired, and he said that they saw UFOs all the time, but that there were certain ones that created massive consternation amongst the controllers and staff, and that they were always a big headache for him because they always involved large numbers of lengthy, high level meetings about how to deal with them, which I understood to pretty much mean keeping them quiet.


71 posted on 12/16/2017 9:46:20 PM PST by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Jamestown1630

I saw swamp gas reflecting headlights and tail lights into the sky. From a distance of a mile, it appeared to be “mysterious” lights in the sky, darting hither and yon.


72 posted on 12/16/2017 9:52:07 PM PST by dsc (Any pattempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: StolarStorm

“When I worked for NASA, I saw interesting things on the Space Shuttle downlink. I’ll just leave it at that.”
I’ll never forget when my Dad, who worked for NACA/NASA, gave me a piecrcing stare, said nothing, and got up and left the room when I asked him about UFOs.


73 posted on 12/16/2017 9:54:16 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (NOT TITO)
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To: HogsBreath

Twenty years ago y Wife’s Sister was driving with her young Daughter and they saw a “Flying Saucer”. She said there were a row of windows or lights along the edge.

My S-I-L said it hovered about 500 feet off the ground for about 30 seconds, made no noise and it just took off vertically and it was gone.

This wasn’t in the middle of nowhere, it was near Thousand Oaks, CA.

Weird stuff...


74 posted on 12/16/2017 9:55:00 PM PST by Kickass Conservative ( THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: HogsBreath
The Flying Saucers are Real by Major Donald Keyhoe, is one of the best books ever written on the subject of UFOs.

It's chock full of eyewitness accounts and reports from military personnel.

75 posted on 12/16/2017 9:55:11 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: umgud

I have seen flying mushrooms, especially those with sphaerocysts—they crack up very nicely.


76 posted on 12/16/2017 9:55:23 PM PST by Fungi (Eat a fungus or two today.)
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To: Nuc 1.1

“All but two were in my youth in Va”

when I attended Va Tech in Blacksburg in the early 70’s, one of my favorite recreations was to explore the countryside via automobile. One night, myself and a few friends were out driving around in the middle of nowhere late at night and a blinding light shown down on us. The next thing i remember was waking up in my dorm room. We weren’t drunk or stoned either. I’m not making this up, either. It really happened.


77 posted on 12/16/2017 9:56:19 PM PST by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: lurk

Possibably or maybe snow-bird aliens.


78 posted on 12/16/2017 9:56:34 PM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: HogsBreath
...seems like a dream

got me Bob Welch all hypnotized-like

79 posted on 12/16/2017 9:57:31 PM PST by BlueDragon (..it's not a meaningless question to ask, if they've been and gone...)
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To: Nuc 1.1
No kidding. In the early days of FreeRepublic I detailed out live Shuttle video streams and tapes that I (and others) witnessed first hand. I was hounded relentlessly by a number of new IDs. They followed me to every thread (none that had anything to do with the topic here).

I was stalked, harassed and threatened. They didn't do it to the many others who have commented on this topic. But yes, I did work for NASA. My father did as well, in a high profile role. Figure they had confirmed my ID when two people from an agency had a chat with my father about me. But oddly enough they never talked to me directly. Regardless, it was enough. I'll never give details again. and that's how coverups work folks. It's not that hard to shut people up.
80 posted on 12/16/2017 10:03:11 PM PST by StolarStorm
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