Nothing accelerates that fast... I doubt that we have developed that technology.— David Fravor
Commander, US Navy
F/A-18 Pilot and Black Aces Squadron Commander
10/6/2020 | The Phenomenon
There is something there measurable by multiple instruments, yet it seems to move in directions that are inconsistent with what we know of physics or science more broadly. That to me poses questions of tremendous interest...— Adam Schiff
US Congress (D)
Chair House Intelligence Committee
5/17/2021 | Congressional hearings
[Reading the classified UAP report as a Senator], the hair stood up on the back of my neck... [The pilots] know they saw something.— Bill Nelson
NASA Administrator
6/25/2021 | The Washington Post
In 18 incidents, described in 21 reports, observers reported unusual UAP movement patterns or flight characteristics. Some UAP appeared to remain stationary in winds aloft, move against the wind, maneuver abruptly, or move at considerable speed, without discernible means of propulsion. In a small number of cases, military aircraft systems processed radio frequency (RF) energy associated with UAP sightings. The [UAP Task Force] holds a small amount of data that appear to show UAP demonstrating acceleration or a degree of signature management.— Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena 2021
6/25/2021 | Report to Congress
Hypersonic vehicles that we work on today want to be above 50,000 feet [not down to sea level]... You don't see any exhaust plumes [in the FLIR video], and they would show up in this type of [infrared] image. The shape is wrong. The flight regime, the point in the sky it flies to is wrong. How it flies is wrong.— Steve Justice
Director, Advanced Systems Development at Skunkworks, Lockheed Martin
[Commenting on 2015 Go Fast video]If this were some type of aircraft with a conventional propulsion system, we would definitely see some type of heat signature [on the FLIR video]. Everything we know about propulsion systems is that they create an intense amount of heat.— Christopher Cooke
Lt Colonel, US Marines
Pilot
The fact that [the 2015 GIMBAL UAP] was just getting himself on his wingtip [at 90 degrees], with no turn, while staying in the exact same point, isn't how aircraft work.— Ryan Graves
Lieutenant, US Navy
F/A-18 Pilot
[Commenting on the 2015 GIMBAL video] It is definitely rotating, or changing angle of bank. It appears to have stopped moving quickly across the horizon. I have no idea. I have always been skeptical... but I have never seen anything remotely like what I saw today. I am a lot more convinced now that these vehicles do exist.— Christopher Cooke
Lt Colonel, US Marines
Pilot
On a clear, sunny day in April 2014, two F/A-18s took off for an air combat training mission off the coast of Virginia. The jets, part of my Navy fighter squadron, climbed to an altitude of 12,000 and steered towards Warning Area W-72, an exclusive block of airspace ten miles east of Virginia Beach. All traffic into the training area goes through a single GPS point at a set altitude — almost like a doorway into a massive room where military jets can operate without running into other aircraft. Just at the moment the two jets crossed the threshold, one of the pilots saw a dark gray cube inside of a clear sphere — motionless against the wind, fixed directly at the entry point. The jets, only 100 feet apart, zipped past the object on either side. The pilots had come so dangerously close to something they couldn’t identify that they terminated the training mission immediately and returned to base.— Ryan Graves
Lieutenant, US Navy
F/A-18 Pilot
2/28/23 | Politico