[onewhippedpuppy]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

Dude, I understand your fears. It must be a lot for you to process given your emotional age.

There is an understanding among aviators that critiquing...never mind: you have your position, I have mine. Mine are based on being there, 45 minutes of trying to figure out what we were witnessing, in real time, then how to survive it. We decide on low and slow.

Your opinions rely on the opinions of others.

Pity, that.

BTW, this was in 1987. My next tour was at the flight test center here in Patuxent River, Maryland. There was and is nothing on this Earth that could match the flight regime of what we witnessed that night. Nothing.

I then managed all UAS for the Navy for five years. Tell me what I don't know.

I would also suggest that people should listen to the Rogan interview of Commander Fravor, one of the Super Hornet pilots who witnessed an event and captured it on his EO/IR video. Much like Paul he is as credible as they come, his description of the encounter defies all of our known laws of physics and technology. I heard a first hand encounter from another former F/A-18 pilot that was similar. Something outside the bounds of our understanding can look an awful lot like magic, just because we can’t comprehend it that doesn’t mean it isn’t real. But I’m just an aerospace engineer who has spent most of a career leading defense projects, so I’m obviously a moron too.