[ExI] USS Princeton Airmens' Account of UFO Intercept

[Stuart LaForge]

This NYT article has the detailed account of the day the USS Princeton
sent an F/A-18 Super Hornet to intercept a UFO it had been tracking on
radar for *two weeks*.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/unidentified-flying-object-navy.html?_r=0

Excerpt:

“Well, we’ve got a real-world vector for you,” the radio operator said,
according to Commander Fravor. For two weeks, the operator said, the
Princeton had been tracking mysterious aircraft. The objects appeared
suddenly at 80,000 feet, and then hurtled toward the sea, eventually
stopping at 20,000 feet and hovering. Then they either dropped out of
radar range or shot straight back up.


The radio operator instructed Commander Fravor and Commander Slaight, who
has given a similar account, to investigate.

The two fighter planes headed toward the objects. The Princeton alerted
them as they closed in, but when they arrived at “merge plot” with the
object — naval aviation parlance for being so close that the Princeton
could not tell which were the objects and which were the fighter jets —
neither Commander Fravor nor Commander Slaight could see anything at
first. There was nothing on their radars, either.

Then, Commander Fravor looked down to the sea. It was calm that day, but
the waves were breaking over something that was just below the surface.
Whatever it was, it was big enough to cause the sea to churn.

Hovering 50 feet above the churn was an aircraft of some kind — whitish —
that was around 40 feet long and oval in shape. The craft was jumping
around erratically, staying over the wave disturbance but not moving in
any specific direction, Commander Fravor said. The disturbance looked like
frothy waves and foam, as if the water were boiling.

Stuart LaForge