Last year, 'declassified'
videos of numerous ufo encounters and reports of a top secret pentagon program
to investigate them made headlines around the world. Now, fresh details about
the bizarre backstory to one of these unexplained incidents have emerged,
courtesy of a recently leaked confidential military report that describes
"several occasions" where the us navy detected anomalous aerial
vehicles (aavs) in late 2004.
Sourced by a CBS affiliate
investigative team based in Las Vegas, the report exposes numerous mysterious
sightings of AAVs between 10–16 November 2004, which is referred to as the USS
Nimitz UFO incident.
But as the document makes
clear, the incident wasn't just a one-off, but a week-long series of strange
run-ins with Anomalous Aerial Vehicles or AAVs, which "would descend 'very
rapidly' from approximately 60,000 feet down to approximately 50 feet in a
matter of seconds". Once these Anomalous Aerial Vehicles or AAVs dove,
"[t]hey would then hover or stay stationary on the radar for a short time
and depart at high velocities and turn rates".
In most circumstances,
advanced sensors on board the USS Princeton would track the AAVs during these
manoeuvres, until they went out of range.
But in one incident – now
immortalised in creepy video footage you can freely watch online – two F/A–18s
were vectored to intercept one of the AAVs, with visual contact confirming
"an elongated egg or a 'Tic Tac' shape with a discernible midline
horizontal axis".
According to the pilots, the
craft – if that's what it was – was "solid white, smooth, with no edges…
uniformly coloured with no nacelles, pylons, or wings" and estimated to be
approximately 46 feet in length.
Per the military assessments
made in the document – which at least one observer claims may be a document
prepared for the Pentagon, not by it – the AAV was not a known aircraft or
vehicle in the inventory "of the United States or any foreign nation …
with no visible control surfaces and no visible means to generate lift".
But perhaps the most
astonishing new details from the report concern is an account of water
disturbance on the calm ocean surface, observed in relation to an AAV incident,
estimated to be between 50 to 100 metres in diameter and in a round shape.
"It was the only area
and type of whitewater activity that could be seen and reminded [the pilot] of
images of something rapidly submerging from the surface like a submarine or
ship sinking," the report reads. "It is possible that the disturbance
was being caused by an AAV but that the AAV was 'cloaked' or invisible to the
human eye."
Freaky stuff. For now, it's
hard to definitively ascertain the report's authenticity, but commentators
online are saying the new details demonstrate that "something totally
strange did indeed occur."
As for an official
explanation of what the report alleges, there is none, with one Pentagon source
telling government secrets blog The Black Vault: "We are not able to
confirm the authenticity of the document".
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