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Navy Pilots Report Seeing Unidentified Flying Objects Over East Coast: NYT
Audrey McNamara
For nearly a year, U.S. Navy pilots flying high over the East Coast reported that they repeatedly saw aircraft with no visible engine reaching hypersonic speedsa type of flying object they could not readily identify, the New York Times reports. The pilots began noticing the objectswhich appeared like white ovalsafter their 1980s-era radar was upgraded to a more advanced system. Some of the sightings were videotaped. What stands out most to the pilots is that the video shows objects accelerating to hypersonic speed, making sudden stops and instantaneous turnsa jolting flight path that would be impossible for a human crew to achieve. Speed doesnt kill you. Stopping does. Or acceleration, said Lt. Ryan Graves, a pilot who reported his sightings to the Pentagon and Congress.
There are earthly explanations for the footage, including bugs in the code for the imaging and display systems, atmospheric effects and reflections, neurological overload from multiple inputs during high-speed flight according to Leon Golub, a senior astrophysicist at Harvard. But the aircraft did get the attention of the Navy, which earlier this year sent out new classified guidance for how to report what the military calls unexplained aerial phenomena, or, the objects formerly known as UFOs. The sightings were also reported to the Pentagons shadowy Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. Luis Elizondo, a military intelligence official who ran the program until he resigned in 2017, called the sightings a striking series of incidents.
There are earthly explanations for the footage, including bugs in the code for the imaging and display systems, atmospheric effects and reflections, neurological overload from multiple inputs during high-speed flight according to Leon Golub, a senior astrophysicist at Harvard. But the aircraft did get the attention of the Navy, which earlier this year sent out new classified guidance for how to report what the military calls unexplained aerial phenomena, or, the objects formerly known as UFOs. The sightings were also reported to the Pentagons shadowy Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. Luis Elizondo, a military intelligence official who ran the program until he resigned in 2017, called the sightings a striking series of incidents.
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Navy Pilots Report Seeing Unidentified Flying Objects Over East Coast: NYT [View all]
babylonsister
May 2019
OP
When Gort shows up, "Klaatu barada nikto" a couple of times should do the trick.
yonder
May 2019
#33
The prevalence of drones makes it almost impossible to ferret out real UFO sightings
yaesu
May 2019
#5
Why would a starfaring civilization want resources trapped all the way down a gravity well...
Salviati
May 2019
#10