Posted on 12/23/2017 1:24:37 PM PST by RoosterRedux
The story that followed has circulated in the military aviation world and fighter community for several years, including this write-up by former Navy F-14A Tomcat pilot Paco Chierici at Fighter Sweep. With orders to intercept the object, Fravor in his jet callsign FASTEAGLE 01 headed toward with aid from an E-2 Hawkeye early warning and control plane.
The Hawkeyes sensors, however, couldnt detect the object and vector him toward it, so Princeton directed FASTEAGLE 01 and Fravors wingman, FASETEAGLE 02 to the location, and even asked Fravor whether he was carrying weapons he wasnt. He just had two training missiles. Below the jets, Fravor saw whitewater sloshing in the blue ocean.
All four aircrew were eyes out from this point forward. The first unusual indication Dave picked up was the area of whitewater on the surface that Cheeks was looking at over his shoulder as he flew away. He remembers thinking it was about the size of a 737 and maybe the contact they had been vectored on had been an airliner that had just crashed. He maneuvered his F-18 lower to get a better look. As he was descending through about 20K he was startled by the sight of a white object that was moving about just over the frothing water. It was all white, featureless, oblong and making minor lateral movements while staying at a consistent low altitude over the disk of turbulent water.
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Its also worth reading the comments section at Fighter Sweep:
I was on board the USS Princeton (2001-2005) when this all went down. We actually went to GQ (General Quarters) for about 4 hours as all...this was going down.
(Excerpt) Read more at warisboring.com ...
I am not saying it aliens. I am saying that USS Princeton saw it on radar displaying an attack profile.
If the Captain didn’t order general quarters he should be canned.
Do you want to argue about this still?
Just having an exotic craft in the area would have been enough to call General Quarters.
Here's the latest version of Q's avatar at gopbriefing room courtesy of JoeProBono:
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,295959.0.html
I don’t think it’s a paywall but a membership boundary. They require folks to be members to view that forum. Sorry.
Okay
I figured You may have already.
The description of the object was written as this:
“It was all white, featureless, oblong”
This doesn’t describe a black, three point object, either, unfortunately. There are a lot of possibilities to this but none of them, in my opinion, are based upon what it was but more like what they saw. I wasn’t there, so I didn’t see it. I have seen other things from the area I’m from that have had a number of “sightings.” But none shaped like this. Why, I don’t know because the only military site close by is Naval Air Station Lemoore and many times it was across the valley from the sightings.
We just don’t have enough to really define this with the information we have. But in my personal observation, ever since the first committees of Project Sign up through Blue Book they have made the effort to disprove anything with tools like swamp gas and ball lightening.
rwood
That's not how any ASM behaves, or any known earthly thing. They called it an AAV (Anomalous Aerial Vehicle).
When the pilots got there, it had moved to hover just above the surface.
Take a look, there are many attack profiles:
https://www.google.com/search?q=anti-ship+cruise+missile+attack+profile&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiWxNXZkKPYAhVC42MKHSPZDpoQsAQIPg&biw=1438&bih=811
You are also assuming that the USS Princeton assumed perfect tactical awareness and perfect information on the target.
It is always best to get eyes on something rather than assume. It isn’t a video game.
Remember when the US Shot down that airliner in the Gulf?
It moved with blinding speed - particularly a DESCENT from above 80,000 feet. Not a blimp.
It was not ever picked up by F-18 or E2C radar, even at visual ranges. Not a blimp.
Much more of a 'WTF?' GQ than a 'we're under attack' GQ.
Well in CIC if I saw the the thing hovering I would assume my Radar wasn’t reading the target and I have a computer problem.
I would have assumed it had dropped down on the deck and was coming right at me.
These systems have limitations and are buggy. When they work they work extremely well but you never know when you have a ghost in the machine.
There is no doubt in my mind that these believable "UFO's" are actually top secret experimental aircraft being produced by the US........
Solar warden
Never heard of it before so I had to look it up.
And ?
Had some credibility until they brought in collusion with extraterrestrials...........
Well ... DoD has just recently admitted such contact. In the many years I designed space born electronics for the DoD ... we ( the other aerospace engineers that I worked with and I) all knew that we had technological “help”. Also we knew that when the government starts talking about things that might be ... they are already there and the gubermint is breaking it gently. They did that quite a bit with stuff we had been working on. So believe what you will. One more thing to look at ... Aries Prime
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