US releases video of F-18 chasing UFO over Pacific Ocean

Two US Navy pilots were overtaken and lost over the Pacific Ocean by an oval-shaped object without wings or propellers.

The Pentagon between 2007 and 2012 launched a secret program with a budget of up to 22 million USD to research unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and the potential threats they pose, the New York Times reported on December 16.

According to program data, during a training flight off the coast of San Diego, Pacific Ocean in November 2004, two pilots David Fravor and Jim Slaight of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz suddenly received a phone call from the command center of the cruiser USS Princeton.

“Are you carrying any weapons?” the USS Princeton asked over the radio.

"Two CATM-9 missiles, but they are training missiles that cannot hit the target," Fravor replied, looking worried about the imminent danger of facing enemies at sea.

However, the USS Princeton then asked two pilots to approach and investigate a white, oval-shaped object, about 12 meters long, hovering over the sea. Fravor looked down at the sea, the weather was fine that day, but the waves seemed to be affected by a large object flying close to the sea surface.

On the radar screen, the strange object was hovering at an altitude of about 15 meters above the surface of the violently surging sea, with no sign of moving in any direction.

Fravor began flying the F/A-18 in a circle toward the object and felt that it seemed to be moving toward him. However, when the pilot decided to approach the object, it suddenly accelerated and fled.

"It accelerated in a way I've never seen before, it was strange. It had no wings or propellers and still outpaced the F/A-18 fighter jet," Fravor recalled.

The two pilots were ordered to intercept the object at a point about 60 miles away, but when they were 40 miles from the point, the object appeared there in less than a minute. By the time the two F/A-18s reached the point, the object had disappeared.

According to Fravor, the USS Princeton had been tracking the object for the past two weeks. The object would often suddenly appear at an altitude of about 24 kilometers, fly out to sea before hovering at an altitude of 6 kilometers. It would then disappear from the radar screen and reappear.

The two fighters then returned to the Nimitz and never again received a mission similar to that memorable encounter in the Pacific. Fravor was later deployed to the Gulf region to support troops in the Iraq war.

According to VNE