Navy pilots spot UFO on Pentagon-led secret mission: Mission head says 'we may not be alone'

Two Navy pilots of a secret program unveiled this Monday that they were 'pretty weirded out' by this UFO encounter.

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Navy pilots claim UFO sighting
Navy pilots claim UFO sighting

As if we hadn't debated enough about UFO sightings and their legitimacy, a space program by US Department of Defence -- Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program -- out to investigate UFOs, reports a sighting. Better late than never!

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The UFO encounter

  • Former US Navy pilot, Commander David Fravor described his creepy encounter with an unidentified flying object this Monday, telling the Washington Post that it was a real object resembling a white Tic-Tac and was clearly "not from the Earth"
  • The sighting was a part of a US Department of Defence secret program to investigate reports of unidentified flying objects -- not a secret anymore!
  • Along with Fravor was another Navy pilot, Lt Cmdr Jim Slaight
  • Reportedly, the two Navy pilots on the mission spot the UFO on November 14, 2004, after a break in a routine training mission about 60-100 miles off the coast between California and Mexico
  • This sighting occurred while Fravor was searching for some flying objects that officials had been tracking, when he spotted one hovering above the ocean's surface
  • Fravor also describes the object as "the same size as a Hornet, 40 feet long with no wings"
  • About 40 feet (12 meters) long, it was hovering 50 feet (15 m) above the ocean, the NY Times report says. Fraser added that the object appeared to be causing a sort of boiling or bubbles in the ocean, as the rest of the water looked calm
David Fravor/ NY Times
  • As reported by him, the object didn't create rotor wash (the air turbulence caused by helicopter blades) and eerily mirrored the pilots' movements as they got closer, then disappeared altogether!
  • "Faster than I'd ever seen anything in my life. We turn around, say let's go see what's in the water and there's nothing. Just blue water," added Fravor

Why has nobody spoken about this for 13 years?!

  • Fravor said he and others who saw the object were teased about the sighting by their colleagues, and no one followed up on the incident until 2009, when he was contacted by a government official doing "an unofficial investigation"
  • "I don't think I was a nut job as an officer in the Navy. I got a good night's rest, it was a clear day," Fravor said in his defence
  • "I think someone should have looked into it. Having talked to some of the other folks, it's a big frustration that it's coming out now and wasn't discussed back in 2004"

Video of the UFO

  • Fravor's account includes a video -- one of several recorded as a part of the program (only shared with the NY Times)
  • The video shows a small object skirting from side to side and circling in view of the camera
  • NY Times added that observers also underwent tests after their "encounters," to see how the experience had affected them

California has the maximum claims of UFO sightings. While the scientific evidence for UFOs is inconclusive, many people still want to believe they exist. A 2012 survey said an estimated 80 million people in the US believe in UFOs. Further, 1 in 10 respondents said they had seen UFOs for themselves.

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