Paul/Seahawk - Your friends are in the news

[flipper35]

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28231/multiple-f-a-18-pilots-disclose-recent-ufos-encounters-new-radar-tech-key-in-detection

Lieutenant Accoin said he interacted twice with the objects. The first time, after picking up the object on his radar, he set his plane to merge with it, flying 1,000 feet below it. He said he should have been able to see it with his helmet camera, but could not, even though his radar told him it was there.

A few days later, Lieutenant Accoin said a training missile on his jet locked on the object and his infrared camera picked it up as well. “I knew I had it, I knew it was not a false hit,” he said. But still, “I could not pick it up visually.”

But then pilots began seeing the objects. In late 2014, Lieutenant Graves said he was back at base in Virginia Beach when he encountered a squadron mate just back from a mission “with a look of shock on his face.”

He said he was stunned to hear the pilot’s words. “I almost hit one of those things,” the pilot told Lieutenant Graves.

The pilot and his wingman were flying in tandem about 100 feet apart over the Atlantic east of Virginia Beach when something flew between them, right past the cockpit. It looked to the pilot, Lieutenant Graves said, like a sphere encasing a cube.

[Seahawk]

Uh-oh.

Interesting that the Navy has changed procedures for reporting: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/27666/what-the-hell-is-going-on-with-ufos-and-department-of-defense

You see what you see - in the 1980's we didn't say a freaking word.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

Uh-oh.

Interesting that the Navy has changed procedures for reporting: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/27666/what-the-hell-is-going-on-with-ufos-and-department-of-defense

You see what you see - in the 1980's we didn't say a freaking word.

Well, this ain't the '80's. What did you see?

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

Uh-oh.

Interesting that the Navy has changed procedures for reporting: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/27666/what-the-hell-is-going-on-with-ufos-and-department-of-defense

You see what you see - in the 1980's we didn't say a freaking word.

Funny how times change.

At least yours were visible.

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by flipper35

Funny how times change.

At least yours were visible.

The invisibility aspect is interesting. There have been significant upgrades to the radar.

Thanks for posting. Good times!

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by Zeke

Well, this ain't the '80's. What did you see?

No green men, that is for sure!

Quick version: Night flight off a frigate. We had visited Perth and were headed to Subic Bay.

We were transiting the Celebes Sea, just about to enter the Sulu Sea. The main battle group is to our West and not flying this particular night.

We are intercepted by a brightly lit aircraft that had performance characteristics not available to any known aircraft. I get the Area 51 bravo sierra but we are in the middle of nowhere and the performance of the UFO was mind boggling. The UFO did a number of running rendezvous' with us so I got a sense of the crafts capabilities.

It also made no noise.

We made a choice to slow and land on a small island beach...as we approached the island, the UFO went vertical and disappeared.

The three of us onboard never breathed a word of encounter while we were in the Navy.

Again, no close encounters, no anal probes (that I remember), nothing extraordinary other than it being there.

[ramonesfreak]

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[brainz01]

X2. Fantastic story.

Was it Code Brown or just "WTF was that?"

[Captain Ahab Jr]

I too read this today and the first person I thought of was also Seahawk !

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by brainz01

Was it Code Brown or just "WTF was that?"

Frankly a bit of both. The "episode" lasted long enough we had time to process the fear and figure out that if the end was near it was behind us...meaning whatever was flying right next to me had decide not to mort my then skinny LT ass.

The SH-60B had a very good radar and we decided to get very low and very slow as we approached the small Island (no idea the name) we thought was a safe harbor. Best defense is a good hover, right? The UFO stayed right on my right side, glued, until it wasn't: Straight up and hasta la vista, baby.

Listen, I get all the skepticism, the doubts. You see what you see...what I am most proud of is that we, the aircrew (I was Pilot in Command), were stupid enough to try and devise a Plan B...in the Celebes Sea, hard by the Sulu Sea.

A special kind of stupid.

[rcooled]

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

Frankly a bit of both. The "episode" lasted long enough we had time to process the fear and figure out that if the end was near it was behind us...meaning whatever was flying right next to me had decide not to mort my then skinny LT ass.

The SH-60B had a very good radar and we decided to get very low and very slow as we approached the small Island (no idea the name) we thought was a safe harbor. Best defense is a good hover, right? The UFO stayed right on my right side, glued, until it wasn't: Straight up and hasta la vista, baby.

Listen, I get all the skepticism, the doubts. You see what you see...what I am most proud of is that we, the aircrew (I was Pilot in Command), were stupid enough to try and devise a Plan B...in the Celebes Sea, hard by the Sulu Sea.

A special kind of stupid.

Hey, at least you didn't have to implement plan B.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

Frankly a bit of both. The "episode" lasted long enough we had time to process the fear and figure out that if the end was near it was behind us...meaning whatever was flying right next to me had decide not to mort my then skinny LT ass.

The SH-60B had a very good radar and we decided to get very low and very slow as we approached the small Island (no idea the name) we thought was a safe harbor. Best defense is a good hover, right? The UFO stayed right on my right side, glued, until it wasn't: Straight up and hasta la vista, baby.

Listen, I get all the skepticism, the doubts. You see what you see...what I am most proud of is that we, the aircrew (I was Pilot in Command), were stupid enough to try and devise a Plan B...in the Celebes Sea, hard by the Sulu Sea.

A special kind of stupid.

Hah!! I just found John Paul Sr., the racing driver and fugitive. UFO= Unidentified Fleeing Object.

"The last report that detectives have about John Paul's whereabouts was from 2009, when he and the boat were in Thailand. He intended to open a dive shop off the coast of Thailand."
https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/John_Paul

[brainz01]

That's a very cool story. I'm guessing it was outside any normal thrrat you'd have trained for - - had to be. You do the best you can under such circumstances. Did the UFO have any radar sig?

Also, I had to lookup the area - - seems it's on some lists as a budding sailing/tourism spot and (the Sulu Sea) on other lists as a potential hotbed of Muslim terrorism/piracy/ransom. Too bad about the latter, as many photos of the region are pretty magical.

[Crowbob]

You expect us to believe no close encounters or anal probes while you were in the navy?

Not buying it.

[SeanPizzle]

I saw a UFO in April of 95. I was driving across country from CO to CA. An hour west of SLC at night, I saw a triangle of lights that i would estimate about 2000 to 3000 feet above I80. I stared at them hovering and then I saw them move vertically at what must have been Mach 1+ instantaneous. Nothing I knew could move that fast.

[flipper35]

The closest I have seen is a satellite doing s turns in the sky. I know it wasn't a sat, but we were using the heavens above app looking at sats traversing the sky and this looked just like one until the three of us saw it maneuvering.

[manbridge 74]

I’m thinking these sightings aren’t ships containing alien “life forms” from other planets. They could be from the supernatural realm. What “they” are is the question...

[flipper35]

Could be anything from a DEW creating a ball of plasma to supernatural to man made but unmanned. Could be aliens as well. Maybe.

There is a lot of stuff we know nothing about. Some people trying to catch an experiment at UTTR got sunburned on their insides for their trouble. I thought it was bunk because some of the info was on a UFO site, but later talked with others with personal info on what happened there and that confirmed it to me.

That said, I try to keep an open mind. To paraphrase Sherlock, whatever remains, however improbable, must be true.

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by Crowbob

You expect us to believe no close encounters or anal probes while you were in the navy?

Not buying it.

Wise observation, Crow...we were, after all, headed to the Philippines...my fifth port visit.

BTW, and all joshing aside, there are no finer people than Filipinos on this or any other planet.

Na-nu-na-nu Rust Pickers.