The New York Times has an interview with two former US navy pilots who reported seeing a UFO in 2004. It appears that there was a secret multimillion dollar Pentagon program to investigate such sightings and keep a record of them. The program ended in 2012 but monitoring still goes on. The interview article describes in some detail how the two navy pilots pursued the object and its strange behavior, and there is a brief video of the object.
For two weeks, the operator said, the Princeton had been tracking mysterious aircraft. The objects appeared suddenly at 80,000 feet, and then hurtled toward the sea, eventually stopping at 20,000 feet and hovering. Then they either dropped out of radar range or shot straight back up.
The radio operator instructed Commander Fravor and Commander Slaight, who has given a similar account, to investigate.
…Commander Fravor began a circular descent to get a closer look, but as he got nearer the object began ascending toward him. It was almost as if it were coming to meet him halfway, he said.
Commander Fravor abandoned his slow circular descent and headed straight for the object.
But then the object peeled away. “It accelerated like nothing I’ve ever seen,” he said in the interview. He was, he said, “pretty weirded out.”
…“I have no idea what I saw,” Commander Fravor replied to the pilot. “It had no plumes, wings or rotors and outran our F-18s.”
Things have been quiet on the UFO front for some time. This is bound to energize those who believe that extra-terrestrials have visited us and that the government is hiding its knowledge of their presence.
There’s also news of an extrasolar object making the rounds lately.
A multimillion dollar program to record times when people saw things and didn’t know what they were.
I saw the New York Times and the Washington Post articles yesterday and did some digging.
The videos, story, and interview largely come from a corporation started by Tom Delonge called “To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science” and is currently attempting to crowdfund $50 million dollars through sale of common stock. Their front-page has a big “As seen in the New York Times” linking to their UFO material, if you scroll past the banner/crowdfunding stuff.
The whole thing royally stinks of a scam and publicity stunt. I skimmed through the offering circular, Delonge gets a $100,000 a year royalty regardless of whether they make money, the supposed principals of the Science/Aerospace section are contractors, and the first thing the corporation claims they need to do is pay back a loan from another one of Delonge’s companies.
Well,at least that Dept of Defense video in the NYT seemed to use a Roman alphabet.
There was one shot, a couple of years ago, of a heads-oup “American” planes attacking as ISIS oil convoy where the symbols were all Cyrillic—I did not look closely, probably because I was laughing too hard, but it appeared to be Russian.
BTW, I don’t it was in the NYT just that the US Dept of Defense seemed to have released it.
@ 1 Holms
The extrasolar object seems pretty well authenticated. And it seems to be bugging astronomers and/ or astrophysicists.
Oops that should have been /BTW, I don’t mean to imply that it was in the NYT just that the US Dept of Defense seemed to have released it.
I highly doubt that. That ship has sailed.
Callinectes:
Riiiight… how do you think black budgets are hidden in plain sight?
Here is a great debunking of this ufo claim:
https://skepticalinquirer.org/2018/05/navy_pilots_2004_ufo_a_comedy_of_errors/