Posted on 06/21/2019 3:47:24 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
One of the biggest questions surrounding the most recent known spate of UFO encounters with U.S. Navy pilots—those that occurred off the southeastern seaboard of the United States between 2014 and early 2015—pertains to how persistent they actually were. We know Super Hornet aircrews from Strike Fighter Squadron 11 (VFA-11), the Red Rippers, detected unknown objects multiple times on radar and one aircrew even had a close encounter visually with one of them, but what about the rest of the many Hornet squadrons based at Naval Air Station Oceana, not to mention the E-2 Hawkeye squadrons from nearby NAS Norfolk? We have the answer to this question and it is remarkable.
A source with knowledge of the events has made it clear to The War Zone that presence of the mysterious objects in the restricted training airspace off America's east coast was so pervasive that it was largely common knowledge among local flying units. They noted that the majority of the Super Hornet squadrons equipped with AN/APG-79 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radars—you can read all about this technology and how it was key in detecting these objects in our exclusive piece on the subject—at the time were having the same experiences, as well as the crews flying the new E-2D Hawkeye with its incredibly powerful AN/APY-9 radar suite. It literally became such a common and near everyday occurrence that Naval Aviators and Naval Flight Officers from the base would talk about it informally with regularity.
But that doesn't mean formal action wasn't taken. Beyond filing an official safety report after one of the jets almost hit one of the unidentified objects—described eerily as a translucent sphere with a cube structure suspended inside of it—Notices To Airman (NOTAMs) were posted regarding the dangers potentially posed by unknown aerial vehicles flying in the same military operating areas that aircraft from NAS Oceana frequented for training. This action was taken by the base's command leadership as they couldn't figure out how else to address the bizarre issue and its perceived threat to their aircrews' safety.
We have since filed Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) requests for copies of these NOTAMs, as well as documents regarding how the decision to file the NOTAMs was made at the command level.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedrive.com/the-war-zone ...
Swamp gas? A belly full of bad beef? Equipment malfunction? Or was it really moon men???
"Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) requests have been filed for copies of these NOTAMs, as well as documents regarding how the decision to file the NOTAMs was made at the command level."
Notice how these articles from this “defense blog” are all timed/published to provide a reminder that the History Channel show “Unidentified” is aired on Friday nights (tonight).
Hat tip to Freeper PIF for bringing my attention to this article.
It’s often media promoting media.
Thanks for the reminder.
I think that is also the case here except that here the media is linked to the DOD and the Navy in that this blog is a unofficial mouthpiece for the military.
They fight foo. I know B-17 crews fought foo. Foo.
I wonder about that visual description. I mean what were they doing? Flying formation with it? Matching it’s speed and rate of turn. If this thing is as described, it would be damned hard to get a visual on unless they flew formation with it — which, BTW, seems to contradict the “we almost had a mid-air with it”. That seems to suggest a high closure rate.
Maybe there’s an answer to all this, I don’t know. Without the visuals I’d say that this is a radar glitch with the new ASEA sets on the Super Hornets. Or possibly this is an artifact of the new combat systems piecing together a piece of airspace from multiple airborne radar perspectives? What are the F-35’s seeing?
Okay, CLUE, it’s happening in restricted training space. Aliens didn’t fly all this way to use US Navy restricted training space.
When I was on a project in the eighties that created numerous UFO sightings nobody, and I mean, nobody responded. No instructions were given to sighting pilots. When they reported they were met with deafening silence. No, Uncle Sam does not share information, even with his own pilots.
Nothing to see here. Move on.
I’m surprised at how we are now casually accepting these encounters after years — decades — of ridicule and denial.
What changed? Not long ago, nobody would dare mention a UFO encounter for fear of being tagged as crazy. Now the squids are discussing these encounters over cocktails at the O-Club.
I’ve got a theory that aliens really HAVE visited us, and in fact they have bases and settlements here on Earth. Once the novelty of UFO Acceptance has worn off, I expect to see some big news about some rather short people.
At this point if they had ill intent, something would have happened.
Methinks they are some kind of aircraft that the US has been developing for decades. The anal probe stuff was just a feint.
When they get into a dog fight and exchange fire I will believe it.
Flew the F-15E with APG-70.
Routinely would scroll the radar to max elevation and lock on to something, 180 miles “up” and moving over 3,500 knots.
If a LANTIRN pod was on the jet, we would slave the pod to the radar lock.
Most times it was a ghost lock, but sometimes would see visually through the pod that the lock was onto something, couldn’t make it out but it was there.
Perhaps a low orbit satellite, perhaps a classic UFO. Who knows but was interesting.
This might explain Democrats?
Flying formation not necessary. Post 17.
“Not long ago, nobody would dare mention a UFO encounter for fear of being tagged as crazy.”
Not in my experience. Became a USAF fighter pilot in 1980 and over my 20-plus years flying fighters, pilots would talk openly about their sightings. No one mocked or thought they were crazy, no way, since over a career most would see something they couldn’t explain and were not crazy.
The “Did-you-see-that-I’m-not-telling-anyone” approach never happened and is more of a hollywood invention than anything else.
(If we saw something that we couldn’t understand or match in flight performance, we would report because there might be technology we need to know about so we could defend against it).
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