According to a former US Navy fighter pilot, a US Navy squadron saw unidentified flying objects (UFOs) virtually every day for several months. The ex-pilot continued that these observations also resulted in at least one close call.
Lt. Ryan Graves claims that in 2014, his VFA-11 “Red Rippers” squadron started detecting the presence of inexplicable objects in the training area off the coast of Virginia.
“It was almost as if the sun was shining a flashlight (on the UAPs),” Lt Graves was quoted as saying by The Telegraph.Â
“We were trying to figure out what the heck these things were. We were seeing them pretty much daily. We would go out there and they would be out there in the morning, they would be out there in the evening,” he told the media outlet.
“These things were pretty much always out there. That would range from two to three of them to six or seven.”
The Pentagon received 350 new UFO reports in the last two years, 171 of which are still unsolved
F/A-18 Super Hornet pilot Lt. Ryan Graves is now spearheading efforts to promote sighting reporting and promoting scientific research into what the military refers to as UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena).
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.
Top Pentagon intelligence official Ronald Moultrie stated during a hearing at the House Intelligence Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation Subcommittee that most UAPs can be identified by “rigorous” research.
“Any object we encounter can likely be isolated, characterized, identified, and, if necessary, mitigated,” Moultrie said.
In one such unsolved event from 2004, fighter pilots were flying out of a Pacific aircraft carrier. According to reports, they came upon a thing that seemed to have dropped tens of thousands of feet before stopping and hovering.
In a different event, which was made public for the first time on Tuesday, a camera captures an item passing a US Navy fighter plane. The object’s origin is still unknown.
“There are a small handful [of events] in which there are flight characteristics or signature management that we can’t explain with the data we have available,” said Scott Bray, the deputy director of naval intelligence at the hearing. “Those are obviously the ones that are of most interest to us.”
