I have a lot of respect for Gordon Cooper. His Mercury mission was a remarkable feat, of piloting (he had to steer the spaceship back to Earth himself, when all his systems failed) and he made remarkable observations from orbit, demonstrating a visual acuity of 20/12, which is better than the average by a very large margin. If anyone should be able to see a UFO clearly, Cooper would be one of the best observers.
But, he was also a veteran teller of tall tales. He exaggerated some of the details of his Mercury mission, and expanded his role in the White Sands sighting beyond all credibility (
as we have discussed on this forum in the past). The only really unexplained sighting he made was one in Germany as a pilot, and there are unfortunately no corroborating records to back up his story. So we have to rely on Cooper's excellent eyesight and nothing else.
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David 'Sex' Fravor is another character like Cooper, it seems, A great teller of tales. The only reason his story is so well known is the film taken some time later by Chas Underwood in a separate aircraft, and this film seems to be explainable by non-extraterrestrial events.
Here's Mick West on the subject of the Navy videos.
I think the FLIR1 clip taken by Underwood is pretty much explained, and the clip known as GOFAST is a good demonstration of the sort of mistake that Fravor was making when he saw his 'tic-tac'. As West has pointed out, the fact that the 'tic-tac' was not detectable on the plane's radar is not necessarily an indication of jamming, it is just an indication that the phenomenon was not where he thought it was.
