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Navy pilot recalls encounter with UFO: 'I think it was not from this world'
ABC ^ | December 18, 2017 | Kelly McCarthy

Posted on 12/18/2017 8:10:14 PM PST by lowbridge

Retired Cmdr. David Fravor spent 18 years as a Navy pilot, but nothing prepared him for what he witnessed during a routine training mission on Nov. 14, 2004.

"I can tell you, I think it was not from this world," Fravor told ABC News. "I'm not crazy, haven't been drinking. It was — after 18 years of flying, I've seen pretty much about everything that I can see in that realm, and this was nothing close."

Fravor's stunning retelling of his encounter off the California coast with what appeared to be a 40-foot-long wingless object that flew at incredible speeds in an erratic pattern comes as the Pentagon revealed the existence of a secret program to investigate sightings of UFOs.

The program was shut down in 2012 because of other budget priorities, according to the Pentagon.

"I have never seen anything in my life, in my history of flying that has the performance, the acceleration — keep in mind this thing had no wings," Fravor said.

He recalled flying his F/A-18 fighter on a training mission on a beautiful Southern California day 13 years ago when things started to get strange.

Controllers on one of the Navy ships on the water below reported objects that were dropping out of the sky from 80,000 feet and going "straight back up," Fravor said.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; 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: Terry Mross
maller objects with blinking lights came out of the larger object that also had blinking lights

I am glad the space aliens follow FAA regulations and have clearance and warning lights. imagine the pandemonium of aliens zipping about without lights!

21 posted on 12/18/2017 9:15:29 PM PST by doorgunner69 (No video seems to happen a lot when they shoot somebody..........)
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To: allendale

[[Its because given the laws of physics and the unfathomable enormous distances to even the nearest star, no alien biological or mechanical entity could ever reach earth.]]

Not to mention the incredibly high cost of fuel- imagine how much it would cost to skip across the galaxy?


22 posted on 12/18/2017 9:23:05 PM PST by Bob434
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To: lowbridge
"When it started to near us, as we started to descend towards it coming up, it was flying in the elongated way, so it's [like] a Tic Tac, with the roundish end going in the forward direction ... I don't know what it is. I don't know what I saw. I just know it was really impressive, really fast, and I would like to fly it," he said.

The disturbance in the water also vanished with object, he remembered.

"So we turned around — we couldn't have been more than about a couple miles away — and there's no white water at all in the ocean," Fravor said. "It's just blue."

What?

23 posted on 12/18/2017 9:25:14 PM PST by GOPJ (EVERY hellhole in the world is run by self appointed 'elites'...think about THAT FBI traitors.)
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To: allendale

“Its because given the laws of physics”

As we know them. That doesn’t mean they are absolutely accurate. They are “laws” only because we haven’t witnessed phenomena that are not explained by them. Also, whose to say that matter and energy act the same everywhere in the universe?


24 posted on 12/18/2017 9:25:29 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: lowbridge

>>>Controllers on one of the Navy ships on the water below reported objects that were dropping out of the sky from 80,000 feet and going “straight back up,” Fravor said<<<

It was just God playing with his Yoyo.


25 posted on 12/18/2017 9:27:57 PM PST by Kickass Conservative ( THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: Bob434
“Not to mention the incredibly high cost of fuel- imagine how much it would cost to skip across the galaxy?”

What if a way to control gravitational forces were discovered, such that one could alternatively make objects of mass attract each other, then repel each other. We don't understand gravitational force - but what if another intelligent life figured out how to manipulate gravity?

26 posted on 12/18/2017 9:29:59 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: neverevergiveup

We’ve witnessed lots of things that are not explained by them.

When that happens, the “laws” get extended, or modified, or come to be seen as a special case of a more general continuum of behavior, not normally seen in everyday life.

That’s how we got relativity, and quantum mechanics, and quarks, and radioactivity, among other things.


27 posted on 12/18/2017 9:35:39 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: neverevergiveup

OK. Show me one sane Chairman of the Department of Physics at any credible university to come forward and postulate in a peer reviewed journal or at a conference of physicists that he or she believes that UFOs are real material entities from another star, that aliens from another star have visited earth and postulate a theoretical equation to back his theory. Science fiction is amusing and even inspiring, but it simply is not real.


28 posted on 12/18/2017 9:35:47 PM PST by allendale (.)
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To: ransomnote

What you describe could be described as “the great deception.”


29 posted on 12/18/2017 9:36:48 PM PST by Disambiguator (Keepin' it analog.)
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To: neverevergiveup
What if a way to control gravitational forces were discovered, such that one could alternatively make objects of mass attract each other, then repel each other. We don't understand gravitational force - but what if another intelligent life figured out how to manipulate gravity?

What if gravity isn't really the issue, but electromagnetism is?

30 posted on 12/18/2017 9:38:12 PM PST by Disambiguator (Keepin' it analog.)
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To: neverevergiveup

That’s unpossible- magnets are very expensive- and everyone knows aliens are dirt poor-


31 posted on 12/18/2017 9:41:07 PM PST by Bob434
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To: allendale

Does the name Hal Putoff ring a bell? Have you seen the term ‘ zero point energy’?


32 posted on 12/18/2017 9:47:50 PM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: MHGinTN

No credible scientist takes this man Putoff seriously. Sorry.


33 posted on 12/18/2017 9:53:45 PM PST by allendale (.)
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To: Disambiguator

Yes. That is what I believe it is.


34 posted on 12/18/2017 10:02:08 PM PST by ransomnote
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To: lowbridge
Many people think the saucers might be someone's foolish dream,
Or maybe they were sent down here from Mars.
If you just stop and think, you'll realize just what it means,
They're more than atom bombs or falling stars.
And though the war may be through, there's unrest and trouble brewing,
And those flying saucers may be just a sign
That if peace doesn't come, it will be the end of some,
So repent today, you're running out of time.

When you see a saucer fly like a comet through the sky,
You should realize the price you'll have to pay.
You'd better pray to the Lord when you see those flying saucers.
It may mean the coming of the Judgment Day.

Those Flying Saucers--The Buchanan Brothers (1947)

35 posted on 12/18/2017 10:18:09 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: allendale

Credible is a subjective term, not a scientific one.


36 posted on 12/18/2017 11:08:12 PM PST by servantoftheservant
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To: Steely Tom
That’s how we got relativity, and quantum mechanics, and quarks, and radioactivity, among other things.

Not it! The Quantum World, The Relativistic World, is our Everyday World, seen from a new light. Seen for what it is.

The Quantum explains metals, for example. Before that, they were just taken for granted.

37 posted on 12/18/2017 11:24:57 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: lowbridge

https://ixquick-proxy.com/do/spg/show_picture.pl?l=english&rais=1&oiu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.trackingbibleprophecy.org%2Fimages%2FElijah_and_Ezekiel_vision.jpg&sp=0e05961d3f7ed7ad3fc2afa03eed634f

Check out Ezekiel’s vision on the right. Remember God IS on His Throne and created and owns the Universe and our next breath!


38 posted on 12/19/2017 12:11:39 AM PST by Maudeen (http://www.thereishopeinJesus.com/)
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To: allendale

Based on what we know now. After only a few hundred years of inventing machines that are still very basic.

Time and space are likely easily manipulated with the right technology. Technology that overcomes classical physics unlike we’ve invented so far.

Just over 100 years ago most people said a flying machine was impossible. Then they said space flight was impossible. Then a few decades later man walked on the moon.

Imagine an Alien race with millions of years of exponential innovation. We simply cannot comprehend such a thing


39 posted on 12/19/2017 12:31:12 AM PST by varyouga
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To: lowbridge

“Cow gas” (replaces the old swamp gas theories)...


40 posted on 12/19/2017 2:58:04 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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