The US Navy, explaining new policies for reporting encounters with unidentified aircraft, told Politico in 2019 that "there have been a number of reports of unauthorized and/or unidentified aircraft entering various military-controlled ranges and designated air space in recent years. Ryan Graves, told "60 Minutes" recently that there was a time when they saw them "every day for at least a couple of years."
There have been a number of unexplained UFO sightings by US service members.
The Pentagon created the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program in 2007, but the program ended in 2012 as the military directed its attention to "higher priority issues," a Pentagon spokesperson told CNN in 2017 after The New York Times dragged the program out of the shadows.īut last year, just a few months after the Pentagon declassified several videos of unexplained incidents, the Department of Defense publicly established the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force "to detect, analyze and catalog UAPs that could potentially pose a threat to US national security."ĭietrich's story is unusual but not necessarily unique. Once they arrived in the area, the pilots got a visual on a mysterious object, which was reported to be "an elongated egg or a 'Tic Tac' shape" that was "solid white, smooth, with no edges," and "uniformly colored with no nacelles, pylons, or wings," according to a military report on the event obtained a few years ago by a CBS News affiliate. The fighters were flown by Dave Fravor, then a squadron commander, and Alex Dietrich, then a lieutenant junior grade. 14, 2004, after again detecting one of the anomalies, the destroyer tasked two F/A-18 Super Hornets to take a look around the area where it had been detected. (CNN) A US Air Force F-15 fighter jet pilot died Monday after the aircraft crashed in the North Sea off England, according to a statement from the 48th Fighter Wing.
In mid-November 2004, as the Navy's Nimitz Carrier Strike Group trained off the West Coast in preparation for an upcoming deployment, the destroyer USS Princeton detected several UFOs, also called anomalous aerial vehicles or unidentified aerial phenomena, moving in inexplicable ways around the carrier group. Fighter Aircraft Pilot is a super realistic flight simulator game in which you get the opportunity to pilot one of the most famous aircraft to ever grace the skies. A former US Navy fighter pilot recently shared details and some of her thoughts on an unusual experience almost two decades ago, an encounter with an unidentified flying object nicknamed the "Tic Tac."