This UFO outran a Navy jet, vanished from radar, and still has no explanation

As retired US Navy Commander David Fravor attempted to intercept a mysterious object during a 2004 training exercise near San Diego, the object accelerated rapidly and disappeared from view. Radar later detected it about 60 miles away in less than a minute.

The encounter began when radar operators aboard the USS Princeton tracked unidentified objects descending from about 80,000 feet in an extremely short time before disappearing. Fravor and fellow pilot Lt. Cmdr Alex Dietrich were sent to investigate, and found a small white object, resembling a Tic Tac mint, hovering above an unusual patch of disturbed water. It had no wings, no visible markings and no exhaust plume, and appeared roughly the size of Fravor’s F/A-18 fighter jet.

‘I have never seen anything in my life, in my history of flying that has the performance, the acceleration; this thing had no wings,’ Fravor told ABC News in 2017. He also said, ‘I think it was not from this world,’ while adding that he could not identify what the object was.

After Fravor’s encounter, another Navy aircraft flown by Commander Chad Underwood recorded infrared footage of the object, which later became one of the most widely shared UFO videos and was eventually acknowledged by the Pentagon. Underwood also said he received radar jamming indications during the encounter.

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