UFOs seen in restricted US airspace ‘every day for YEARS’, ex-Navy pilot says
UFOs have been spotted in restricted US airspace “every day for years,” a former Navy pilot has claimed.
Lieutenant Ryan Graves said his then F/A-18F squadron began seeing UAPs - unidentified aerial phenomena, or UFOs - hovering over restricted airspace southeast of Virginia Beach in 2014.
Photographs were taken in 2019 in the same area showing mysterious objects in the sky.
The Pentagon has confirmed these are images of objects it can't identify.
The pilots can be heard saying: “Look at that thing, it's rotating! My gosh! They're all going against the wind, the wind's 120 knots to the west. Look at that thing dude.”
Graves admitted he wasn’t sure just what it was he saw.
He said: “This is a difficult one to explain. You have rotation, you have high altitudes.
David Fravor, commander of the F/A-18F squadron on the USS Nimitz and flying at his wing, Lieutenant Alex Dietrich, were two of the four people who saw the object.
Fravor said: “We saw this little white Tic Tac-looking object. And it's just kind of moving above the whitewater area.
“The Tic Tac's still pointing north-south, it goes, click, and just turns abruptly. And starts mirroring me. So as I'm coming down, it starts coming up… It was aware we were there.”
He said the object was about the size of his F/A-18F, with no markings, no wings and no exhaust plumes.
Then as he moved in for a closer look it just disappeared.
Fravor added: “I don't know who's building it, who's got the technology, who's got the brains. But there's, there's something out there that was better than our airplane.”
The warnings come after the director of national intelligence and secretary of defense released an unclassified report on UFOs.
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It acknowledged 144 mysterious sightings documented by the US military after years of denials.
The Pentagon has admitted it just doesn’t know what these objects are or if they pose a threat to national security.
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