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US Navy pilot who chased USS Nimitz UFO says there’s MISSING footage of the mystery close encounter
A FIGHTER pilot whose plane filmed a close encounter with an unidentified object claims there is more footage of the incident.
US Navy Commander David Fravor was one of two pilots from the USS Nimitz on a routine training mission over the Pacific when he spotted an object "shaped like a 40ft Tic Tac sweet".
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They were about 100 miles out to sea when their F/A – 18 fighters were diverted to check out an aircraft spotted on radar from another ship, the cruiser USS Princeton.
The object first appeared at 80,000ft, then hurtled towards the sea, stopping at 20,000 feet and hovering before dropping out of radar.
When Commander Fravor arrived he saw a white aircraft hovering 50 feet above a disturbance in the ocean.
Video of the 2004 encounter was revealed to public in 2017 and earlier this month the Navy finally admitted the videos were real.
But speaking on The Fighter Pilot Podcast he said: “All the radar tapes from the Princeton are missing and they can’t find them.
“I was chatting to someone at the archives and they’ve said someone has taken that page from the logbook.”
The now the retired pilot said he made copies of the tapes which were put in a safe on the USS Princeton but these have also disappeared.
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The number of UFO sightings is currently flying at an all-time high
According to data cruncher and there are around 45,000 annual reported sightings in the US.
He also says there have been more than 100,000 recorded UFO sightings in the past 100-plus years.
The first recorded flyby occurred in Portland in 1905, where viewers reported seeing a “buzzing” sphere-shaped UFO that descended from the heavens.
Sightings have spiked dramatically over the past 30-plus years with mysterious lights taking over from saucers as the most popular description of objects spotted.
The National UFO Reporting Centre is an organisation that investigates sightings.
Since it was set up in 1974, reports have been sent to it via its 24 hour hotline and it says that between May and June this year there have been more than 500 new sightings.
The United States collectively reports 2,500 sightings per 10 million people, which is 300 times more than the global median.
“But then, somehow, they disappeared – no one knows where they went,” he said.
“There have been several COs (Commanding Officers) since then, no one knows where they went.”
A leaked report from the Pentagon revealed that a supersonic UFO had stalked a USS Nimitz for days before vanishing into thin air.
The craft was described by one of the pilots mentioned in the report as "solid white, smooth, with no edges... uniformly coloured with no nacelles, pylons or wings", and looked like "an elongated egg or Tic Tac".
As well as footage of the San Diego encounter, two videos taken in 2015 by veteran pilot of an F/A - 18 fighter aircraft during a training exercise off the coast of Jacksonville also showed strange alien objects.
Confirmation that the videos are real came in statements to unexplained phenomenon website
“The Navy designates the objects contained in these videos as unidentified aerial phenomena,” said Joseph Gradisher, spokesperson for the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare.
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In June it emerged that top US politicians have been given a secret briefing about the encounters.
A spokeswoman for Senator Mark Warner, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, confirmed the briefing took place.
“If naval pilots are running into unexplained interference in the air, that’s a safety concern Senator Warner believes we need to get to the bottom of,”
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Navy pilots show two encounters with UFOs off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida in 2015