Posted on 07/29/2023 5:08:41 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Retired Navy Cmdr. David Fravor was commander of an F/A-18F Super Hornet squadron aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz on Nov. 14, 2004, when he piloted one of two Super Hornets that came across a Tic Tac-shaped aircraft. At the time, the Nimitz was about 100 miles southwest of San Diego.
The crew of the two Super Hornets was told that unidentified objects had been observed for over two weeks, during which they had rapidly descended from 80,000 feet to 20,000 feet, loitered for several hours, and then returned to extremely high altitudes, Fravor told a House Oversight subcommittee on Wednesday.
“For those who don’t realize, above 80,000 feet is space,” Fravor said during Wednesday’s hearing on “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena,” or UAP, a recently coined term for unidentified objects in the air and underwater.
The Super Hornets’ pilots and weapon systems officers all saw a Tic Tac object moving abruptly above the ocean without any visible wings or propulsion system, Fravor said. As his plane got closer to the object, it quickly accelerated and disappeared. An air controller quickly told Fravor that the object had been detected 60 miles away less than a minute after the Super Hornets had lost contact with it.
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Assuming the Tic Tac was a physical object and not some sort of projection, no human pilot could survive the G-forces caused by how quickly it moved and maneuvered, retired Lt. Cmdr. Alex Dietrich, who piloted the other Super Hornet involved in the incident, told Task & Purpose on Thursday.
With the known technology that the United States and its adversaries possess, an aircraft can either be as fast as a jet or as maneuverable as a helicopter – Dietrich said after the hearing.
“You can’t go supersonic and turn on a dime,” said Dietrich, who currently teaches engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder. “The flight control surfaces, the propulsion required, they’re incompatible in our current configurations, in our current technology, with the fuel we have, with the materials that we have. And so, what we saw that day was something that was hovering like a helicopter and then intravenously accelerating, turning on a dime, not requiring the full turning radius that we require in our strike fighters or advanced jets. That’s why it was so confusing to us in the moment and seemed to defy what we know and expect to be laws of physics and limitations of capabilities.”
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Why should we make this assumption?
My first inclination woukd be something like a chinese super drone.
To me extraterrestrials are like Bigfoot.....I’m gonna have to see it up close and personal to believe it.
However, if they are real, informing the public at large would undoubtedly cause world wide mass hysteria.
All it took was health officials, Covid, and the media to create worldwide mass hysteria. No bigfoot or UFOs needed.
Good question.
Because this object returned a radar signature on a variety of state-of-the-art sensor systems on the F/A-18's, the E-2 Hawkeye flying overhead, and the USS Nimitz and Aegis-equipped USS Princeton.
Ping
If real and we can communicate, suggest they demonstrate their vaporize rays on an area like DC. We will not negotiate without that demo.
If you could get a tic tac to fly my Jimmy could land it.
I'm constantly admonished by the normalcy bias folks that the chicoms are hopelessly behind us in military tech, and if they are unable to steal it, they can't even engineer a balsa wood and rubber band airplane.
The covid hysteria showed that people are far more impressionable than anyone ever thought. And if you remember, people that weren’t got hammered......this ufo thing just may be the next attempt to push people in a particular direction to advance the very real control and compliance agenda.
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Regarding mass hysteria, I think what we're witnessing (possibly) is a slow disclosure so that people won't freak out. The old "frog in a steadily warming pot" method.
If people are told (as they are being told) that something is here, but we aren't quite sure what it is...that whatever it is doesn't seem to be trying to make contact and in fact might have been here for a very long time...people don't react with mass hysteria. They just yawn and go about their business.
BTW, the concern isn't just mass hysteria but a stock market collapse that destroys our financial system and causes a collapse of the economy.
As someone who is glued to the market "ticker" all day long, I can honestly say that, so far, the market doesn't seem to give a damn. In fact, most investors think Elon Musk is an alien.
“the chicoms are hopelessly behind us in military tech”
Trust but verify
_Ronald Reagan
“intravenously“ ???
If someone has figured out a way to control gravity/inertia with electromagnetic forces, this is what would be expected. Basically an "inertialess" drive. It also opens up space travel, even if only at sub light speeds.
Good plan... Let's get on this.. :)
I’ve heard that about Musk. To be honest, it wouldn’t surprise me in the least......and it sure would explain a hell of a lot. 😏
I bet, unlike the 38 year development path of the F35, it can fly during lightning storms too.
1947's flying saucers have become today's flying tic-tacs.
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