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This page is very underdeveloped as of now and is even more a work in progress than the main page
This page is very underdeveloped as of now and is even more a work in progress than the main page
This button would take you to my main UFO/UAP page. to get back here you would have to use the drop down menu at the top of the page, or look for the button for Intro Page to the Phenomenon in that page.
Section 1: The Tic Tac
Perhaps the best modern sighting of a UFO is the "tic-tac" incident off the California Coast in 2004. Commander David Fravor, an F-18 pilot of the Nimitz Carrier group, the commander officer of the Black Aces Squadron, and Top Gun graduate was sent to chase a radar contact from the USS Princeton Cruiser that it picked up using their top of the line SPY-1 radar. The Princeton had been tracking object(s) for a few days going from 80,000 feet to near sea level in under a second. They thought it might be an error and ran a diagnostic check. Later, when a fighter exercise was scheduled they sent Fravor and his wing person Lt. Alex Dietrich to investigate. They saw an object hovering over the surface of the water he described looking like a giant "tic-tac" with no control surfaces, inlets or any other surface features. He went down to investigate and the object mirrored his movements, climbing up seemingly to meet him, but then shot off reappearing 60 miles away in seconds. Fravor testified under oath to all of this in congress. Dietrich came out later and finally did some interviews, and since then both Princeton radar operators (now retired) have come out and testified to their tracking. An E-2 Hawkeye radar plane tracked the object as well, but the pilots remain silent (I think they're still active duty). More, both Fravor and Dietrich had backseat operators in their planes who saw what they saw and later, another F-18, piloted by Chad Underwood, came and took FLIR infra red video of the (or similar) object speeding along. The video to the right is the 60 Minutes segment with both Fravor and Dietrich speaking on the event. (suggest watching)
To Fravor's believability, he has never openly profited off his story, and his story is consistent over the years. However, Alex Dietrich also seems very believable and her initial reluctance and the way she comes across, along with the fact she is a formal naval aviator makes her a very believable witness and her story has also remained consistent over the years. This is a viddo of just Dietrich speaking on the event.
Just for documentation, here are both the radar operators of the USS Princeton which again uses one of the most advanced radars in the world talking about multiple contacts of objects moving in ways (acceleration and deceleration) that would tear apart any person or even materials we currently know of. Not uninteresting to me: but I just put it as documentation of them testifiying to what they saw.
Here is the famous "tic-tac" video taking by Chad Underwood from his FLIR pod.
Here is an interview of him speaking of what he encountered: https://news.sky.com/story/it-was-behaving-erratically-us-navy-pilot-speaks-out-about-ufo-sighting-15-years-on-11891191
It states: The pilot captured what Mr Fravor had described as a 40-foot long white, oblong shape on his FLIR (forward-looking infrared camera). Mr Underwood added the object was hovering somewhere between 15,000 and 24,000 feet in the air, while exhibiting no notable exhaust fumes from conventional propulsion sources...."Because, aircraft, whether they're manned or unmanned, still have to obey the laws of physics. They have to have some source of lift, some source of propulsion. The Tic Tac was not doing that. It was going from like 50,000ft to, you know, 100ft in like seconds, which is not possible."
Section 2: Foo Fighters
During WWII both Allied and Axis pilots saw "balls of light" and other shiny objects fly around their planes in formation. There were no drones then. The military took the sightings seriously, suspecting that the mysterious sightings might be secret German weapons, but further investigation revealed that German and Japanese pilots had reported similar sightings.[15] (if you click on this it will take you to the Wikipedia entry on Foo Fighters and from there you can easily check primary sources used if so inclined)
Here are two other wiki articles of UFO incidents in which radar contact was made, jets scrambled, visual contact was made and then the object significantly accelerated away as speed impossible for any man-made vehicle that's ever been built. Of course you can find articles and interviews with people from these incidents: but Wikipedia is a good overall telling and a lot of the best primary sources are linked and cited from Wikipedia's article. Of note they are both well before modern drone technology was possible and we still can't make anything the can do what these radars and pilots seemingly saw, just like Cmdr Fravor years later.
Here is a video from the History Channel about the Foo Fighters (the phenomenon, not the band), and the Wikipedia article on them.
Section 3: The Ariel School Phenomenon: Documentary (suggest watching)
This documentary on on The Ariel School Phenomenon. It was a mass sighting by a bunch of kids in Ruwa Zimbabwe in 1994 who claimed to have seen a UFO and ETs around the craft. I would suggest you watch the documentary (it's neat to see what the kids drew). It features John Mack, the head of Harvard's Psychiatry Department at the time a who went into the subject of UFOs thinking the people were suffering from a mental condition and concluded they really were having experiences so some type... Most importantly, none of the kids, now grown, have ever recanted their story. (suggest watching but only if you're down to watch a documentary: click the black box)
Section 4: Betty and Barney Hill
Betty and Barney Hill claimed in 1961 to have been "abducted" and communicated with by apparent aliens with big eyes and black uniforms . It's a very famous case. What's interesting is that beings they claimed to have seen are similar to the ones at the rural Ariel school in Zimbabwe and by girls and others in a small town in Brazil. It's highly almost impossible to think all these people had the same pop culture influences.
Video for information purposes.
Drawing by Barney hill under hypnosis.
Drawing by a kid in Zimbabwe who has almost for sure never heard of Betty and Barney Hill and probably hasn't much knowledge of the popular cultural idea of aliens. Notice their drawing of an alien with pupils and a black suite (just like Betty and Barney Hill described them). These beings have been described by people all over the world as of today. Harvard psychiatrist, John Mack went to see what's wrong with these people but after interviewing hundered of experiencers came to the conclusion that they are not ill and are having some type of real expereince.
This is a drawing created by a sketch artist of what 3 rural girls in Brazil said they saw. Now adults they haven't recanted. Some people who have come forward saw these beings too and all described them the same including the neurosurgeon who just came out recently after having a heart-attack and saying he didn't want to take the secret to his grave.
. This if the IMDB page for the Netflix show to be put out by the Obama's production company about the Betty and Barney Hill case. It's been seemingly lagging and maybe will come out in 2026? You can click to enlarge (I think)
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