The article I posted indicates that the pilots in the story NEVER got visual(s) on the UFO. Do you have conformation that there was visual contact?
Here's what Fravor said in the WaPo interview:
The news of its existence marks one of the most significant disclosures about government research into flying objects and the so-far-unproven possibility of extraterrestrial aircraft since Project Blue Book, a lengthy Air Force study of thousands of UFOs that was shut down in 1969. Project Blue Book failed to find any technological developments or principles beyond the range of present-day scientific knowledge, and no evidence of any extraterrestrial vehicles, according to the Air Force, though a small portion of the events it studied remain unexplained.The encounter Fravor described was analyzed by the recent Defense Department program, he said, but its most significant questions the nature of the object and what it was doing have also remained unanswered.
Fravor says he is certain about one thing: It was a real object, it exists and I saw it, he said in a phone interview on Monday, as he described the sighting, on Nov. 14, 2004.
Asked what he believes it was, 13 years later, he was unequivocal.
Something not from the Earth, he said.
Fravor was the commanding officer of the VFA-41 Black Aces, a U.S. Navy strike fighter squadron of F/A-18 Hornet fighter planes doing an exercise some 60 to 100 miles off the coast between San Diego and Ensenada, Mexico, in advance of a deployment to the Persian Gulf for the Iraq War, he said.
An order came in for him to suspend the exercise and do some real-world tasking, about 60 miles west of their location, Fravor said. He said he was told by the command that there were some unidentified flying objects descending from 80,000 feet to 20,000 feet and disappearing; he said officials told him they had been tracking a couple dozen of these objects for a few weeks.
When they arrived closer to the point, they saw the object, flying around a patch of white water in the ocean below.
A white Tic Tac, about the same size as a Hornet, 40 feet long with no wings, Fravor described. Just hanging close to the water.
The object created no rotor wash the visible air turbulence left by the blades of a helicopter he said, and began to mirror the pilots as they pursued it, before it vanished.
Yes, there were visual contacts by the guy nicknamed “Sex”. Separetly a second pilot also confirmed seeing the tic tack. She did her interview on the history channel. I believe the crew of the radar plane also picked it up visually, as mentioned in the interviews in the history channel.