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From what I understand there were no actual visual sightings, just electronic signals(e.g. radar)?
Artifacts of the camera system. I guess the Navy doesn’t want to admit it, so are sticking with the UFO story.
Mick West... extensively documents his efforts to provide alternative explanations...
IOW, he's a skepticultist. To adapt something from GB Shaw, skepticism might be a wonderful thing if anyone would ever try it.
This website has a link to the official report, as well as video of an interview with the CO of VFA-41 Hornet that was in the air that day: Detailed Official Report On Harrowing Encounter Between F/A-18s and UFO Surfaces
The official account (which can be read here: Official government report derived from official operational reports)
And if my memory serves, there were the three sailors who went on camera. One of them was a Senior Chief Fire Control Technician who had 17 years of experience who described the flight behavior of the objects as having "Ballistic Missile characteristics". They weren't in a plane looking through a camera lens changing zoom or anything like that. They were on an the USS Princeton, an Aegis cruiser, specialists who were seeing this odd behavior through the cruiser's sensors AN/SPY-1 system).
The pilots were flying, independently seeing this same odd behavior with their own eyes and their own sensors.
One was the Commanding Officer of VMFA-232, a LT Colonel flying a maintenance check flight (he is the one who saw the disturbance in the water) and the other planes two were vectored over by an E-2, which handed them off to direct control by the USS Princeton.
One of the other planes was a Hornet piloted by the Commanding Officer of VFA-41 who was flying a training mission with a junior officer in the accompanying plane.
Military pilots are not known for engaging in shenanigans like this. This wasn't just one F-18, there were three F-18's up there indpendently corroborating the odd behavior seen by the operators on the USS Princeton.
I wasn't completely skeptical when I first heard of this a few years back, and am definitely less skeptical today.
Skeptics.....yeah, well, tell it to the Navy pilot who witnessed such:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eco2s3-0zsQ
These “skeptic” explanations are complete bullshit and have been debunked by the military itself. They state quite clearly these are UFO, in the “unidentified” sense. You think the military’s experts didn’t consider all these theories to begin with? Second, the air force pilots report seeing these objects with their EYES.