Post by hi224 on Apr 27, 2019 3:50:16 GMT
In the past few days, both Politico and the Washington Post have published stories on the U.S. Navy drafting procedures for Navy pilots to document encounters with "unexplained aerial phenomena."
A Navy spokesperson told reporters that recently, unidentified aircraft have entered military-designated airspace as often as multiple times per month and such intrusions have been ongoing since 2014. The Washington Post reported that "in n some cases, pilots — many of whom are engineers and academy graduates — claimed to observe small spherical objects flying in formation. Others say they’ve seen white, Tic Tac-shaped vehicles. Aside from drones, all engines rely on burning fuel to generate power, but these vehicles all had no air intake, no wind and no exhaust."
Less than a year and a half ago, the Pentagon confirmed the existence of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), a program launched in 2007 to collect and analyze anomalous aerospace threats. According to Politico, AATIP evaluated "numerous unexplained incursions, including one that lasted several days involving the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group in 2004. In that case, Navy fighter jets were outmaneuvered by unidentified aircraft that flew in ways that appeared to defy the laws of known physics."
Both articles report that, following a number of media reports about the accounts of various seamen and pilots, Congressional interest in the Navy's study of unexplained aerial phenomena has increased.
Also noteworthy: one of the figures quoted in the articles is Luis Elizondo, a 22-year veteran of the Department of Defense and the former head of AATIP who quit because he "couldn't carry out that mission, because the department [of defense] — which was understandably overstretched — couldn't give it the resources that the mounting evidence deserved."
Here is some of the New York Times' reporting on AATIP and the U.S.S. Nimitz' encounter with an unidentified flying object. The New York Times also has the firsthand account of one of the F/A-F18 pilots who encountered a strange aerial object back in 2004. From that article:
"For two weeks, the operator said, the [U.S.S.] 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. "
When one of the pilots got close to the mysterious object, he spotted it by the water, which was disturbed even though it was a calm day. "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."
So, what are everyone's thoughts on this?
A Navy spokesperson told reporters that recently, unidentified aircraft have entered military-designated airspace as often as multiple times per month and such intrusions have been ongoing since 2014. The Washington Post reported that "in n some cases, pilots — many of whom are engineers and academy graduates — claimed to observe small spherical objects flying in formation. Others say they’ve seen white, Tic Tac-shaped vehicles. Aside from drones, all engines rely on burning fuel to generate power, but these vehicles all had no air intake, no wind and no exhaust."
Less than a year and a half ago, the Pentagon confirmed the existence of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), a program launched in 2007 to collect and analyze anomalous aerospace threats. According to Politico, AATIP evaluated "numerous unexplained incursions, including one that lasted several days involving the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group in 2004. In that case, Navy fighter jets were outmaneuvered by unidentified aircraft that flew in ways that appeared to defy the laws of known physics."
Both articles report that, following a number of media reports about the accounts of various seamen and pilots, Congressional interest in the Navy's study of unexplained aerial phenomena has increased.
Also noteworthy: one of the figures quoted in the articles is Luis Elizondo, a 22-year veteran of the Department of Defense and the former head of AATIP who quit because he "couldn't carry out that mission, because the department [of defense] — which was understandably overstretched — couldn't give it the resources that the mounting evidence deserved."
Here is some of the New York Times' reporting on AATIP and the U.S.S. Nimitz' encounter with an unidentified flying object. The New York Times also has the firsthand account of one of the F/A-F18 pilots who encountered a strange aerial object back in 2004. From that article:
"For two weeks, the operator said, the [U.S.S.] 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. "
When one of the pilots got close to the mysterious object, he spotted it by the water, which was disturbed even though it was a calm day. "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."
So, what are everyone's thoughts on this?
