It accelerated like nothing I’ve ever seen”
‘It accelerated like nothing I’ve ever seen’: Two Navy airmen describe encounter with what they believe was a UFO after the Pentagon reveals its multi-million dollar search program for mysterious objects
Two Navy airman flying over the Pacific Ocean on a routine training mission claim they encountered mysterious objects that ‘accelerated like nothing’ they had ‘ever seen’ before.
Back in 2004, Navy Cmdr. David Fravor and Navy Lt. Cmdr. Jim Slaight were flying about 100 miles off the coast of San Diego in each of their F/A-18F Super Hornets carrying two CATM-9s, which are dummy missiles that could not be fired, the New York Times reported.
According to Fravor, the operations officer aboard Navy cruiser U.S.S. Princeton had been communicating with the pair during their mission and said, ‘Well, we’ve got a real-world vector for you.’
The operator said for the past two weeks the Navy cruiser had been tracking mysterious aircraft.
The objects would first appear at 80,000 feet, and then speed toward the sea before stopping at 20,000 feet and hovering.
They then either shot back up into the sky or dropped off of radar.
Fravor and Slaight were instructed to investigate the objects by the radio operator on the Navy cruiser.
The two pilots followed their instructions and as they closed in, they were alerted by the operator that they could not tell which were the objects and which were the fighter jets.
At first, Fravor nor Slaight could see anything and nothing was on their radars.
But then Fravor looked down to the sea and noticed that the waves were breaking over something below the surface, causing the sea to churn.
Hovering about 50 feet above the churn was an aircraft of some sort that was whitish, 40 feet long and oval in shape, Fravor recounted.
He described to the Times that it was jumping erratically but not moving in any specific direction.
Fravor began a circular descent in an effort to get a closer look, but the object began ascending toward him as if it were trying to meet him halfway, he explained.
He then abandoned his slow circular descent and decided to fly straight towards the object.
But then he said it quickly flew away.
‘It accelerated like nothing I’ve ever seen,’ he told the Times before adding that he was ‘pretty weirded out.’
Fravor and Slaight then spoke with operations officer on their Navy cruiser and were told to fly to a rendezvous point about 60 miles away, which is called the cap point in aviation parlance.
As they were flying, the Princeton radioed again saying that radar had picked up the strange aircraft.
‘Sir, you won’t believe it,’ the radio operator said, ‘but that thing is at your cap point.’
‘We were at least 40 miles away, and in less than a minute this thing was already at our cap point,’ Fravor said.
Once they arrived, the object had disappeared and the two fighter jets returned to the Nimitz.
Fravor said that he was made fun of after people aboard the ship had learned of his encounter.
When asked by another pilot of the situation, Fravor said: ‘I have no idea what I saw. It had no plumes, wings or rotors and outran our F-18s.’
He added, ‘I want to fly one.’
His superiors did not investigate further.
Fravor has since retired from the Navy after deploying to the Persian Gulf providing air support to ground troops during the Iraq war.
Fravor’s account of what he claims happened in November 2004 has emerged after it was revealed the Pentagon set up a secret multi-million dollar program to investigate UFO sightings.
The Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program ran from 2007 to 2012, with a $22 million annual budget, with the mission of looking into reports of military encounters with unidentified flying objects.
The Defense Department finally acknowledged the existence of its long-secret UFO investigation program on Saturday, when officials shifted attention and funding to other priorities.
Their fears were that the unexplained phenomena could be advanced weaponry or technology from foreign states such as Russia or China which could threaten the US.
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