I am a formally trained engineer, but the technology they demonstrated defied my understanding.Īfter that near-miss, we had no choice but to submit a safety report, hoping that something could be done before it was too late. And they outlasted our fighter jets, operating continuously throughout the day. They did not have any visible means of lift, control surfaces or propulsion - in other words nothing that resembled normal aircraft with wings, flaps or engines. They could hold their position, appearing motionless, despite Category 4 hurricane-force winds of 120 knots. The unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) accelerated at speeds up to Mach 1, the speed of sound. Then came the hair-raising near misses that required us to take evasive action. But then we began to correlate the radar tracks with multiple surveillance systems, including infrared sensors that detected heat signatures.
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Initially, the objects were showing up on our newly upgraded radars and we assumed they were “ghosts in the machine,” or software glitches. “Those damn things” had been plaguing us for the previous eight months. “I almost hit one of those damn things!” the flight leader, still shaken by the incident, told us shortly after in the pilots’ ready room. The pilots had come so dangerously close to something they couldn’t identify that they terminated the training mission immediately and returned to base.
The jets, only 100 feet apart, zipped past the object on either side.
Just at the moment the two jets crossed the threshold, one of the pilots saw a dark gray cube inside of a clear sphere - motionless against the wind, fixed directly at the entry point. All traffic into the training area goes through a single GPS point at a set altitude - almost like a doorway into a massive room where military jets can operate without running into other aircraft. The jets, part of my Navy fighter squadron, climbed to an altitude of 12,000 and steered towards Warning Area W-72, an exclusive block of airspace ten miles east of Virginia Beach. On a clear, sunny day in April 2014, two F/A-18s took off for an air combat training mission off the coast of Virginia.
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