The text describes a series of alleged UFO sightings and encounters involving the U.S. Navy in the mid-2000s and early 2010s. The first incident occurred in late 2004, when a naval strike group led by the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz was conducting pre-deployment exercises off the northwestern coast of Mexico. Radar technicians aboard the USS Princeton detected a series of unidentified radar tracks near San Clemente Island. The objects were initially dismissed as false positives, but their behavior was unlike anything they had seen before, exhibiting gravity-defying maneuvers and hypersonic velocities.
The second incident occurred in early 2015, when a naval strike group led by the USS Theodore Roosevelt was conducting pre-deployment exercises off the coast of Virginia. Similar to the first incident, pilots began to pick up unidentified targets while conducting routine training missions. The tracks were initially dismissed as false positives, but their behavior was unlike anything they had seen before. Lieutenant Dany Coin claims he tried but failed to make visual contact with the UFOs on two separate occasions.
The third incident, which involved two videos of a "fleet of UFOs," was recorded off the southeastern coast of the United States in early 2015. The videos were said to be short clips taken from much longer and higher resolution footage. The pilots involved in the incident have chosen to remain silent, leaving much of the story untold.
The videos were made public by a man named Lou Elizondo, who was the head of a secret government-funded effort to investigate UFO sightings known as the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. Elizondo resigned from his position in 2017 due to the government's lack of interest in the program's efforts. He portrayed the government as virtually unconcerned about an issue which he believed could pose a threat to national security.
The text ends with a discussion of the reactions of senior officers on board the Nimitz and Princeton to the videos, which were described as "very bizarre." Some of the officers reportedly had an "equally muted" response, and one commander of the Roosevelt strike group was said to have walked away from a video of the UFOs without saying a word after looking at it for five seconds.
1. A silent black and white video was uploaded to a UFO-centric forum in early 2007. The video was claimed to depict a disc-shaped UFO maneuvering a fighter jet off the coast of Mexico in the mid-2000s.
2. The video was initially dismissed as a hoax, with some members of the forum questioning its authenticity.
3. Over a decade later, the video resurfaced as part of an article by the New York Times, linked to a secret government-funded program.
4. The video was corroborated by a credible eyewitness, and the Department of Defense later confirmed that the videos depicted real events involving unidentified aerial phenomena.
5. The first video was recorded off the northwestern coast of Mexico in late 2004. The story behind it has been recounted by more than a dozen naval