" 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.
“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.”
I suppose we should assume that the US government makes sure that you are personally aware of every “highly secretive” thing it does.