He estimated that the object was about 40 feet (12 m) long. Fravor reported that he saw an object, white and oval, hovering above an ocean disturbance. The aircraft would appear at 80,000 feet (24,000 m) before descending rapidly toward the sea, and stopping at 20,000 feet (6,100 m) and hovering. Fravor said the operator had told him that the USS Princeton (CG-59), part of the strike group, had been tracking unusual aircraft for two weeks prior to the incident. By the time Project Blue Book ended in 1969, the Air Force had investigated more than 12,000 UFO sightings, 701 of which remained unexplained.On November 14, 2004, fighter pilot Commander David Fravor of the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group claims to have investigated radar indications of a possible target off the coast of southern California. Even so, in 1952 the Air Force established another program called Project Blue Book, the longest-running official government inquiry into UFOs. The people who worked on Project Grudge concluded that UFO sightings were the result of hysteria, hoaxes, mental illness or the misidentification of known objects. Project Sign was succeeded by another Air Force program called Project Grudge, which started and ended in 1949. READ MORE: Why Have There Been So Many UFO Sightings Near Nuclear Facilities?
In the Cold War context, the military was eager to know whether the growing numbers of reports about supposed “flying saucers” might actually be some kind of advanced Soviet spy crafts. The year before, a businessman named Kenneth Arnold had claimed that, while flying a plane near Mount Rainier in Washington state, he’d spied nine crescent-shaped objects speeding along “like saucers skipping on water.” Newspaper accounts that mixed up his words helped popularize the term “flying saucer.” Reports of this sighting led more people to claim they’d seen UFOs, and the Air Force decided to study these claims. military has actually been interested in UFOs for a long time, going back to 1948 with the U.S. Navy pilot Lieutenant Ryan Graves going on the record with his firsthand account of a UFO sighting while flying training missions over the Atlantic ocean, in this clip from Season 1 of 'Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation.' The history of U.S. “We want to get beyond that stigma, and encourage our aviators to report anything that they’re seeing out there.”ĭouble-click the image to view a video of active-duty U.S. Gradisher told HISTORY the Navy is trying to reduce the stigma of reporting UAPs, which in the past pilots may have been disparaged-or ignored-for reporting.
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airspace. After a series of classified briefings featuring Navy pilots and lawmakers this summer, the Navy announced it had formalized its process for pilots and other personnel to report UAPs so that records of these sightings are more consistent, and therefore easier to investigate. The Navy considers UAPs like these a national security and safety problem because they are not authorized to be in U.S. Rather, the Navy is saying it can’t identify the phenomena in the videos. To be clear, the Navy is not saying that these videos show evidence of alien life. Official Thinks They Warrant Investigation READ MORE: Are UFOs a Threat to National Security? This Ex-U.S.
So when they’re out there training, if there’s an incursion by any kind of aerial vehicle phenomena, whatever, it puts the safety of our aviators at risk as well as the security of our training operations.”
Navy to try and investigate a series of incursions into our training ranges by phenomena that we’re calling unidentified aerial phenomena,” says Gradisher, who declined to say how many sightings there have been.
“Those three videos are just part of a larger effort by the U.S.
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