 Category 11 Case Directory SIGHTINGS FROM AIRCRAFT Preliminary Rating: 5 |
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Object
Outmaneuvers 2 Jets Over Pacific
Nov. 14, 2004
100 mi off the coast into Pacific
Nov. 14, 2004
100 mi off the coast into Pacific
| Daytime, Afternoon Duration ??? F-18's (2) Pacific |
Navy pilots and USS
Nimitz, USS Princeton 2 observers + No EMI Radar contact |
| Fran Ridge: Nov. 14, 2014; 100 mi from San Diego, into Pacific
Daytime. Two F-18 Hornets alerted to UFO in Pacific
that had been dogging the USS Princeton for two weeks.
F-18's tried to intercept and object dove from 80,000
feet to 20,000' and hovered over ocean and either
dropped out of radar range or shot straight back up.
The radio operator on the USS Princeton instructed
Commander Fravor and Commander Slaight to investigate.
The two fighter planes headed toward the objects. The
Princeton alerted them as they closed in, but when
they arrived at “merge plot” with the object, so close
that the Princeton could not tell which were the
objects and which were the fighter jets, neither
Commander Fravor nor Commander Slaight could see
anything at first. There was nothing on their radars.
Then, Commander Fravor looked down to the sea. It was
calm that day, but the waves were breaking over
something that was just below the surface. Whatever it
was, it was big enough to cause the sea to churn.
Hovering 50 feet above the churn was an aircraft of
some kind, whitish, that was around 40 feet long and
oval in shape. The craft was jumping around
erratically, staying over the wave disturbance but not
moving in any specific direction, Commander Fravor
said. The disturbance looked like frothy waves and
foam, as if the water were boiling. Commander Fravor
began a circular descent to get a closer look, but as
he got nearer the object began ascending toward him.
It was almost as if it were coming to meet him
halfway, he said. Commander Fravor abandoned his slow
circular descent and headed straight for the object.
But then the object peeled away. “It accelerated like
nothing I’ve ever seen,” he said in the interview. He
was, he said, “pretty weirded out.” The two fighter
jets then conferred with the operations officer on the
Princeton and were told to head to a rendezvous point
60 miles away, called the cap point, in aviation
parlance. They were en route and closing in when the
Princeton radioed again. Radar had again 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,” Commander Fravor, who has since retired from
the Navy, said in the interview. By the time the two
fighter jets arrived at the rendezvous point, the
object had disappeared. The fighter jets returned to
the Nimitz. (CBS News, New York Times,
Washington Post)
Robert Powell: I have been sending FOIAs on the Fravor/Navy incident since Dec 2016. I am still appealing FOIAs. I consider this a very strong case. I've attached some preliminary data that you may have. Detailed reports and documents http://omnitalkradio.weebly. 2004_‘Look at That Thing!’ U.S. Navy Jet Encounters Unknown Object.mp4
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