During training exercises off the US coast, a retired US Navy fighter pilot described how his crew had nearly daily encounters with UFOs for months.
Two close encounters with fleets of objects traveling at 120 knots into the wind and an object that resembled a cube inside a spherical were among the sightings.
UFOs Sightings were Reported
F/A-18 Super Hornet pilot Lieutenant Ryan Graves is now spearheading an initiative to promote sighting reporting and promoting scientific research into what the military refers to as Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs).
The Pentagon received 350 new reports in the last two years, 171 of which are still unsolved, and Congress conducted its first hearing on UAPs in 50 years last year.
Lt. Graves described how his squadron, the VFA-11 “Red Rippers,” was headquartered on the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt in 2014 as they prepared for a deployment to the Persian Gulf.
Off the coast of Virginia, in a section of airspace known as W-72 that was completely closed off, the pilots trained.
As the radar on the aircraft was improved, the pilots started detecting objects in the practice area.
They were first written off as radar errors, but as they got closer, their FLIR systems, which are infrared cameras that detect heat, began catching sight of them.
Then, an item went directly between two jets, within 50 feet of the leading aircraft, resulting in a close call. After returning to the carrier, the involved pilot, according to Lt. Graves, was rattled up.
To avoid colliding with unknown objects, the pilots started flying in various locations inside their training area.
The USS Theodore Roosevelt moved from Virginia to Jacksonville, Florida as planned at the beginning of 2015.
Although the ship had moved 600 miles south, there were still UAP sightings close to it.
That is when an F/A-18 pilot captured one of the most well-known UFO recordings, depicting a craft that resembled a spinning top or gimbal.
After leaving the Military, Lt. Graves founded Americans for Secure Aeronautics, a group that encourages the reporting of UAPs and works to improve cooperation between the public and private sectors.
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Chinese Balloon Flew Across the United States
Meanwhile, despite the Biden administration’s efforts to stop it, the Chinese balloon that crossed the US this year was able to gather information from many US military locations and broadcast it to Beijing in real-time.
Before being shot down on February 4, the high-altitude balloon was able to make many passes over some of the locations, at times flying in a figure-eight formation, according to NBC, which cited two senior US officials who are currently in office and one former senior administration official.
According to Sabrina Singh, a Pentagon official, the FBI is still evaluating pieces of the Chinese surveillance balloon that were found when it was shot down in February.
Singh said the Pentagon contends that the steps it took to stop China from gathering information from secret military facilities lessened the usefulness of the balloon.
