![]() ![]() Some of the incidents were recorded on video, including one taken by a plane’s camera in early 2015 that shows an object zooming over the ocean waves as pilots question what they are watching. In late 2014, a Super Hornet pilot had a near collision with one of the objects, and an official mishap report was filed. Ryan Graves, an F/A-18 Super Hornet pilot who was with the Navy for 10 years, told The New York Times in an interview, “These things would be out there all day.” With the speeds he and other pilots observed, he said, “12 hours in the air is 11 hours longer than we’d expect.” ![]() Navy pilots reported to their superiors that the objects had no visible engine or infrared exhaust plumes, but that they could reach 30,000 feet and hypersonic speeds. In one encounter, strange objects - one of them like a spinning top moving against the wind - appeared almost daily from the summer of 2014 to March 2015, high in the skies over the East Coast. Navy pilots were often unsettled by the sightings. If the phenomena were Chinese or Russian aircraft, officials said, that would suggest the two powers’ hypersonic research had far outpaced American military development. China has also developed hypersonic weaponry, and included it in military parades. ![]() Russia has been investing heavily in hypersonics, believing the technology offers it the ability to evade American missile-defense technology. He said there was worry among intelligence and military officials that China or Russia could be experimenting with hypersonic technology. officials knew it was not American technology. One senior official briefed on the intelligence said without hesitation that U.S. Intelligence officials believe at least some of the aerial phenomena could have been experimental technology from a rival power, most likely Russia or China. The report also examined incidents involving foreign militaries over the last two decades. Many of the more than 120 incidents examined in the report are from Navy personnel, officials said. Parental Leave: The Pentagon announced a new policy that would double the amount of leave that is available to military service members.Korean War Wall of Remembrance: Many names of American service members who died in the conflict are misspelled or missing from the new memorial wall in Washington, relatives and researchers say.Programs: After The Times reported that some high schools were automatically placing freshmen into the military-sponsored programs at public high schools, congressional leaders are expanding their scrutiny of the military’s Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program. Lobbying Saves Flawed Ships : The Navy pushed to retire nine of its newest warships, after years of crippling problems and a changing mission. ![]() Former President Barack Obama further stoked the interest when he was asked last month about the incidents on “The Late Late Show with James Corden” on CBS. And while a forthcoming unclassified version, expected to be released to Congress by June 25, will present few other firm conclusions, senior officials briefed on the intelligence conceded that the very ambiguity of the findings meant the government could not definitively rule out theories that the phenomena observed by military pilots might be alien spacecraft.Īmericans’ long-running fascination with U.F.O.s has intensified in recent weeks in anticipation of the release of the government report. That determination would appear to eliminate the possibility that Navy pilots who reported seeing unexplained aircraft might have encountered programs the government meant to keep secret.īut that is about the only conclusive finding in the classified intelligence report, the officials said. government technology, the officials said. The report determines that a vast majority of more than 120 incidents over the past two decades did not originate from any American military or other advanced U.S. WASHINGTON - American intelligence officials have found no evidence that aerial phenomena witnessed by Navy pilots in recent years are alien spacecraft, but they still cannot explain the unusual movements that have mystified scientists and the military, according to senior administration officials briefed on the findings of a highly anticipated government report. ![]()
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