“... defies the KNOWN laws of physics.
Does anyone believe we know everything?”
I was on a classified project that regularly generated UFO sightings. When these sightings take place on test ranges, that’s because that’s where we test new planes. Everything about these ranges is known. Generally, civilian aircraft are not allowed or are in restricted corridors. And, best part, the government does not confirm or deny any sightings even when they are sighted by other military pilots. When pilots see something so oddly shaped, they immediately report that it defies the laws of physics. Take the F-117 as an example. It doesn’t look as though it should fly. I guarantee all of these sightings are US aircraft flying to, actually in, or returning from test ranges.
Silly statement.
Not a guarantee you can make. You are not omniscient.
While I am certain that someone, somewhere has seen one of our classified aircraft and reported it as an UAP, there are FAR too many sightings to write them ALL off as classified aircraft.
All of them?
" I guarantee all of these sightings are US aircraft flying to, actually in, or returning from test ranges."Do we have 'test ranges' in the Indian Ocean, Arabian Gulf and Gulf of Oman? Do we have test ranges 100-miles off the coast of the Mexican coastal town of Ensenada?
These are just a few of the locations US navy pilots and surface ships have tracked these objects, sometimes for weeks at a time.
"When pilots see something so oddly shaped, they immediately report that it defies the laws of physics."
Lolz.
In the 2004 Nimitz encounter, the COOL from the USS Princeton interrupted the train-ex of F/A-18s that had just come aboard the Nimiz for the first time in the training cruise. They wanted the first available sortie - coincidentally commanded by the Squadron Commander, a Top Gun graduate with almost 20-years experience - to investigate objects that the Princeton was tacking for almost two-weeks prior to the air wing joining the Nimitz. These object would hover at FL800 (80K feet, space essentially) and drop to the surface just over the ocean in seconds and then hover again, sometimes for an hour or more. It wasn't the pilot who saw the object first and couldn't explain it. Instead, it was one of the most advanced missile cruisers this country ever built that couldn't believe the radar tracks it was getting.
The US doesn't test highly secretive, experimental aircraft in international waters, during carrier training ops or in - wait for it - combat zones during a hot war. Instead, they test them at Groom Lake and Edwards.