UFO enthusiasts, buckle up.

You’re going to like this one.

Back in 2014, US Navy pilots started spotting unidentified flying objects, almost daily, over the East Coast in America. This went on until March 2015.

Navy pilots reported that the objects had no visible engine or infrared exhaust plumes, but could reach 30 000 feet and hypersonic speeds.

They were also able to manoeuvre in a way that would be physically impossible if humans were behind the controls.

The New York Times with more:

“These things would be out there all day,” said Lt. Ryan Graves, an F/A-18 Super Hornet pilot who has been with the Navy for 10 years, and who reported his sightings to the Pentagon and Congress.

“Keeping an aircraft in the air requires a significant amount of energy. With the speeds we observed, 12 hours in the air is 11 hours longer than we’d expect.”

Some of the incidents were taped, including one taken by a plane’s camera in early 2015 that shows an object zooming over the ocean.

The video below gives you some insight into what the different symbols and so forth mean on the screen, followed by the footage.

Nobody in the Defense Department is saying that the objects are extraterrestrial, emphasising that earthly explanations can be found to explain them.

Lieutenant Graves and four other Navy pilots, who said in interviews with The New York Times that they saw the objects in 2014 and 2015 in training maneuvers from Virginia to Florida off the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, make no assertions of their provenance

But the objects have gotten 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 unidentified flying objects.

You can watch another UFO (as in unidentified flying object, not alien spacecraft) here. This footage was taken in 2015 over Jacksonville:

Many of the ‘unexplained aerial phenomena’, as they’re now called, have turned out to be drones.

“There were a number of different reports,” he said. Some cases could have been commercial drones, he said, but in other cases “we don’t know who’s doing this, we don’t have enough data to track this. So the intent of the message to the fleet is to provide updated guidance on reporting procedures for suspected intrusions into our airspace.”

The sightings were reported to the Pentagon’s shadowy, little-known Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, which analyzed the radar data, video footage and accounts provided by senior officers from the Roosevelt. Luis Elizondo, a military intelligence official who ran the program until he resigned in 2017, called the sightings “a striking series of incidents.”

Meanwhile, Lieutenant Graves still cannot explain what he saw in the summer of 2014.

“People have seen strange stuff in military aircraft for decades,” Lieutenant Graves said. “We’re doing this very complex mission, to go from 30,000 feet, diving down. It would be a pretty big deal to have something up there.”

But he said the objects persisted, showing up at 30,000 feet, 20,000 feet, even sea level. They could accelerate, slow down and then hit hypersonic speeds.

The same pilots who were interacting with the strange flying objects off the East Coast were soon doing bombing missions over Iraq and Syria.

The incidents became less frequent after they left the United States, the pilots said.

[source:newyorktimes]