some more details of the encounter which i took from the gizmodo.com website
One of the accounts, extensively detailed in the New York Times, involved two F/A-18F Super Hornets dispatched to investigate “mysterious aircraft” detected by the U.S.S. Princeton off the coast of in 2004. The UFOs were detected appearing out of nowhere at an elevation of 80,000 feet, plummeting towards the sea, and then hovering above the water at 20,000 feet. They then shot back into the air or descended below radar range. Per aviation enthusiast site FighterSweep.com, at the time the Princeton’s SPY-1 system was “the most sophisticated and powerful tactical radar on the planet.”
The two pilots, Cmdr. David Fravor and Lt. Cmdr. Jim Slaight, flew so close to the location of the aircraft that their radar signatures couldn’t be separated from the unknown object’s. They then noticed that the sea appeared to be churning before the scene descended into utter fucking madness, per the Times:
What’s more, there’s some pretty freaky video of the encounter showing an unidentified object pirouetting in the sky as the pilots marvel:
This isn’t necessarily evidence of aliens and there’s probably a rational explanation for this! But if the descriptions of the object’s behavior are accurate and not describing some kind of illusion, it seemingly defies humanity’s current engineering ability or understanding of physics—suggesting either a foreign power has made amazing advances in aeronautics or, well, an extraterrestrial tourist. So it’s maybe not so surprising that someone took an interest in verifying the phenomena and figuring out what to do about it.
One of the accounts, extensively detailed in the New York Times, involved two F/A-18F Super Hornets dispatched to investigate “mysterious aircraft” detected by the U.S.S. Princeton off the coast of in 2004. The UFOs were detected appearing out of nowhere at an elevation of 80,000 feet, plummeting towards the sea, and then hovering above the water at 20,000 feet. They then shot back into the air or descended below radar range. Per aviation enthusiast site FighterSweep.com, at the time the Princeton’s SPY-1 system was “the most sophisticated and powerful tactical radar on the planet.”
The two pilots, Cmdr. David Fravor and Lt. Cmdr. Jim Slaight, flew so close to the location of the aircraft that their radar signatures couldn’t be separated from the unknown object’s. They then noticed that the sea appeared to be churning before the scene descended into utter fucking madness, per the Times:
Hovering 50 feet above the churn was an aircraft of some kind—whitish—that was around 40 feet long and oval in shape. The craft was jumping around erratically, staying over the wave disturbance but not moving in any specific direction, Commander Fravor said. The disturbance looked like frothy waves and foam, as if the water were boiling.
When the aircraft approached, Fravor told the paper, “It accelerated like nothing I’ve ever seen” and disappeared, causing him to be “pretty weirded out.” But then something happened that weirded him out even more. When the jets began to retreat to another position 60 miles away, radar showed the object reappeared there in less than a minute.
What’s more, there’s some pretty freaky video of the encounter showing an unidentified object pirouetting in the sky as the pilots marvel:
This isn’t necessarily evidence of aliens and there’s probably a rational explanation for this! But if the descriptions of the object’s behavior are accurate and not describing some kind of illusion, it seemingly defies humanity’s current engineering ability or understanding of physics—suggesting either a foreign power has made amazing advances in aeronautics or, well, an extraterrestrial tourist. So it’s maybe not so surprising that someone took an interest in verifying the phenomena and figuring out what to do about it.