2004 “Tic Tac” UFO witnessed by Navy pilot and co-pilot, video released to public in 2017

[Multicolored Lemur]

Navy Pilot Says UFO He Saw Off California Was ‘Not of This World’

"I'm not crazy, haven't been drinking."

time.com

article from Dec. 19, 2017:

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Cmdr. David Fravor, a former squadron leader who worked as a Navy pilot for 18 years, said on Monday he was on a routine training mission off the coast of California in 2004 when his unit was directed to go and examine strange unidentified objects that were descending from 80,000 to 20,000 feet, and then disappearing.

Upon flying 60 miles to the location, Fravor says he saw a tic-tac shaped object, “40 feet long with no wings, just hanging close to the water,” in an interview with the Washington Post on Monday. He said it created a disturbance on the water uncharacteristic of a helicopter or a plane, and moved rapidly.

“As I get closer, as my nose is starting to pull back up, it accelerates and it’s gone,” he told the Post. “Faster than I’d ever seen anything in my life. We turn around, say let’s go see what’s in the water and there’s nothing. Just blue water.”

“I can tell you, I think it was not from this world,” Fravor told ABC News, also on Monday. “I’m not crazy, haven’t been drinking. It was — after 18 years of flying, I’ve seen pretty much about everything that I can see in that realm, and this was nothing close.”

Interest in Fravor’s story has surged now that the Pentagon’s information is in the public realm. A video of the encounter Fravor describes is included in a cache of three videos cleared on Saturday for public viewing, which appear to show encounters between military pilots and what the Pentagon calls “anomalous aerial vehicles.”

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It could be a weather phenomenon. Or, maybe something else.

 

[AgnosticBoy]

Fravor says he saw a tic-tac shaped object,

Thanks for posting on this encounter, Lemur. It is one of my favorite UFO reports because there were multiple trained military pilots who witnessed this. There is video footage from different types of cameras (mostly infrared) that record some of this encounter. An ex-Pentagon official named Luis Elizondo helped to get this footage declassified. Luis Elizondo used to be in charge of a task force that was set up by the Pentagon to investigate encounters involving military pilots and UFOs. Elizondo's team included various scientists and they still couldn't figure it out. You can read about there here:

Elizondo tells us AATIP was a loose-knit mix of scientists, electro-optical engineers, avionics and intelligence experts, often working part time. They combed through data and records, and analyzed videos like this.

Here's a documentary where the pilots talk about the tic tac UFO encounter:

Here's some video footage of the encounter (it's also posted in the article mentioned in post #1):

Very interesting stuff! Just wish it was regular video footage and not infrared.