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One ten-year veteran, Lieutenant Ryan Graves, claimed that he saw UFOs almost daily, and that the objects could reach hypersonic speeds and heights of up to 30,000 feet without any visible engine or plumes of infrared exhaust.I am very doubtful about the 'hundreds' figure.
The strange objects, one of them like a spinning top moving against the wind, appeared almost daily from the summer of 2014 to March 2015, high in the skies over the East Coast. Navy pilots reported to their superiors that the objects had no visible engine or infrared exhaust plumes, but that they could reach 30,000 feet and hypersonic speeds. “
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/26/us/politics/ufo-sightings-navy-pilots.html
However...
We only have filmed evidence for the GOFAST and GIMBAL clips, which apparently both happened on the same sortie. If both GOFAST and GIMBAL can be explained by mundane objects (and they can) then maybe the FLIR system is prone to this sort of error, and it is possible that the aircrews using this system do report these phenomena on a regular basis simply because of the possibility of false positives.[/QUOTE] you are forgetting the radar on the Princeton:
When the jet fighters arrived on site, the crew of four saw nothing in the air nor on their radar. On Princeton's radar however, it was noticed that the object had now dropped from 28,000 feet to near sea level in less than a second.[14] As the pilots looked down at the sea, they noticed a turbulent oval area of churning water with foam and frothy waves "the size of a Boeing 737airplane"[16] with a smoother area of lighter color at the center, as if the waves were breaking over something just under the surface.[16] A few seconds later, they noticed an unusual object hovering with erratic movements about 50 feet (15 m) above the churning water. Both Fravor[17] and Slaight later described the object as a large bright white Tic Tac, 30 to 46 feet (9.1 to 14.0 m) long, with no windshield nor porthole, no wing nor empennage, and no visible engine nor exhaust plume.[18][19][20][21]
And:
Subsequently, the two fighter jets began a new course to the combat air patrol (CAP) rendezvous point. "Within seconds" Princeton radioed the jets that the radar target had reappeared 60 miles (97 km) away at this predetermined rendezvous point. According to Popular Mechanics, a physical object would have had to move greater than 2,400 miles per hour (3,900 km/h) to cover that distance in the reported time. Two other jets went to investigate the new radar location, but "By the time the Super Hornets arrived [...] the object had already disappeared." Both F-18s then returned to Nimitz.[13] Commander Fravor reflected on his sighting: "I have no idea what I saw. It had no plumes, wings or rotors and outran our F-18s. But I want to fly one".[12]
, Fravor's statement that the Tic-Tac video he saw was clear and projections were visible on the bottom of the craft, and the visuals on the objects pilots have had. Them regardless of videos released, Fravor said the object took off and was gone in an instant, and he wanted to fly one! Do you really think that the Russians or Chinese or even "we" have objects like this? I don't think so, and we Russia or China wouldn't be deploying and using them this way. I do think the videos are too ambiguous for many skeptics, and the gimbal video looks too much like a jet engine to convince many. A garbage can lid looks like a flying saucer, but that's where the similarity ends. I agree that nothing can be completely concluded based on these videos. But even the Navy, which would do better to claim they ARE jet engines, weather balloons, etc. has stated they are unknowns. And the hundreds of sightings:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Nimitz_UFO_incident
"Numerous Freedom of Information Act requests were submitted regarding the incident. There was an FOIA obtained that indicated four Marine Lieutenant Colonels and a Marine Major were aware of the event and had witnessed the IR video of the unknown object. A number of documents were leaked to the Internet, with varying levels of credibility. Acceleration values for the performance characteristics of the object were based upon statements from the USS Princeton radar operators, the F/A-18 pilots that saw the object disappear within a second, and the IR video.[8] The Navy has since reportedly updated their protocols for pilots to report UFO sightings in an effort to reduce the stigma associated with such reports.[9]
Skeptics have called into question the veracity of the pilots' accounts, pointing out that the sighting can be explained by equipment malfunction or human error. One of the witnesses, retired navy commander David Fravor, lamented the amount "of misinformation that [was] starting to come out through third and fourth parties" during a June 2018 interview.[10] On 17 September 2019, the U.S. Navy acknowledged that the three UFO videos are of real unidentified objects.[11]"
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019...ing-ufos-on-an-almost-daily-basis-report.html
One ten-year veteran, Lieutenant Ryan Graves, claimed that he saw UFOs almost daily, and that the objects could reach hypersonic speeds and heights of up to 30,000 feet without any visible engine or plumes of infrared exhaust. Graves, who reported his experience to the Pentagon and Congress, said, “These things would be out there all day,” and that, “with the speeds we observed, 12 hours in the air is 11 hours longer than we’d expect.”
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