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As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena

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Re: As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena

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This pilot and another, commander David Fravor, have both given separate accounts that there are very technologically advanced craft well beyond US capabilities in US airspace (detected by multiple radars/instruments) on Joe Rogan's podcast. It's very interesting and would love to hear honest reports from the government on how much the level of activity is increasing.

Re: As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena

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I saw a UFO maybe 12-13 years ago. It did not look like anything a human would design, even with advanced technology. It looked something like the oblong silver blob in The Flight of the Navigator, just hanging there, "much in the way that a brick doesn't." It must have been 5 km away so it would have been pretty large. It was a breezy overcast day with low clouds, and the moving clouds obscured but never completely revealed it. Its stillness contrasted with the movement of the air, or any aircraft I have ever seen. I stared at it for a few minutes to make sure that my eyes were not deceiving me. I had not been taking drugs. When I came back outside from fetching my camera, it was gone, and I thought, well, this is how it goes, nobody will believe me, so I won't even bother talking about it. I never had more than a passing, pop-culture interest in UFOs.

Re: As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena

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Why don't commercial pilots report the same things? I believe they have far more time in the air.

It seems very, very unlikely aliens would have any interest in our military capability. Even ignoring the technological implications of interstellar flight or the ability to enter our atmosphere without being detected, these objects are apparently massively more capable than any kind of vehicle we have. To them a fighter jet might as well be a Cessna.

It seems very likely that fighter pilots and finely-tuned military equipment would be very eager to pick up false signals from background noise and interpret it as vehicles that stretch out understanding of physics.

Re: As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena

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Glad to see this topic finally discussed here.

With the shift in government posture and establishment of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/310005...) it will only be a matter of time until more service members come forward with their experiences and enough data is gathered to ascertain the inevitable: these craft are real and we've been visited by nonhuman entities since maybe even the beginning of human existence.

Re: As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena

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I worked on stealth aircraft that would occasionally cause civilian UFO reports.

It was common for the reports to mention that these UFOs maneuvered unlike any man-made aircraft, which was always a good chuckle because they were usually just flying straight or banking normally.

However when seasoned military pilots like Fravor speak on the matter, I listen. When a bunch of them speak about the same incident, I take them at their word.

Re: As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena

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Why don't commercial pilots report the same things? I believe they have far more time in the air. It seems very, very unlikely aliens would have any interest in our military capability. Even ignoring the technological implications of interstellar flight or the ability to enter our atmosphere without being detected, these objects are apparently massively more capable than any kind of vehicle we have. To them a fighter…

"To them a fighter jet might as well be a Cessna."

To play devil's advocate for a moment: they'd have to know the capabilities of these jets to make that determination, and observation of some sort would be required to do so.

"Artifacts" (anomalous errors) appear on flight systems' sensors all the time, and atmospheric distortions can easily appear to the naked eye as flying/moving objects. I don't buy either that other countries have such advanced technology or that extraterrestrial intelligences are visiting us: the simpler explanations I noted cover more or less every published UAP we have seen.

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