'Ryan Graves, a former Navy fighter pilot and engineer, chairs the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ UAP Integration & Outreach Committee. He is the founder of the new non-profit Americans for Safe Aerospace (www.safeaerospace.org).'

'On a clear, sunny day in April 2014, two F/A-18s took off for an air combat training mission off the coast of Virginia. The jets, part of my Navy fighter squadron, climbed to an altitude of 12,000 and steered towards Warning Area W-72, an exclusive
block of airspace ten miles east of Virginia Beach. All traffic into the training area goes through a single GPS point at a set altitude — almost like a doorway into a massive room where military jets can operate without running into other aircraft.
Just at the moment the two jets crossed the threshold, one of the pilots saw a dark gray cube inside of a clear sphere — motionless against the wind, fixed directly at the entry point. The jets, only 100 feet apart, zipped past the object on either
side. The pilots had come so dangerously close to something they couldn’t identify that they terminated the training mission immediately and returned to base.

“I almost hit one of those damn things!” the flight leader, still shaken by the incident, told us shortly after in the pilots’ ready room. We all knew exactly what he meant. “Those damn things” had been plaguing us for the previous eight months.
'

'These were no mere balloons. The unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) accelerated at speeds up to Mach 1, the speed of sound. They could hold their position, appearing motionless, despite Category 4 hurricane-force winds of 120 knots. They did not have
any visible means of lift, control surfaces or propulsion — in other words nothing that resembled normal aircraft with wings, flaps or engines. And they outlasted our fighter jets, operating continuously throughout the day. I am a formally trained
engineer, but the technology they demonstrated defied my understanding.' https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/02/28/ufo-uap-navy-intelligence-00084537


Advanced objects demonstrating advanced technology are routinely flying over our restricted or sensitive airspace posing a risk to both flight safety & national security.
— Marco Rubio US Senator (R) 2/28/2023 | Twitter

There is footage and records of objects in the skies. We don't know exactly what they are. We can't explain how they moved, their trajectory. They did not have an easily explainable pattern.
— Barack Obama US President (D) 5/19/2021 | Late Late Show with James Corden

It's clear that the majority, that many of the observations that we have are physical objects from the sensor data... We haven't had a collision. We have had at least 11 near misses.
— Scott Bray Deputy Director Navy Intelligence 5/17/2022 | Congressional hearings

Usually we have multiple sensors picking up these things... There are a lot more sightings than have been made public... Objects that have been seen by Navy or Air Force pilots, or in satellite imagery, that engage in actions that... we don't have
the technology for, or traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom... Technologies that we don’t have and, frankly, that we are not capable of defending against.
— John Ratcliffe Director National Intelligence 3/22/2021 | Fox News

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On 3/1/2023 9:57 AM, risky biz wrote:

'Ryan Graves, a former Navy fighter pilot and engineer, chairs the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ UAP Integration & Outreach Committee. He is the founder of the new non-profit Americans for Safe Aerospace (www.safeaerospace.org).'

'On a clear, sunny day in April 2014, two F/A-18s took off for an air combat training mission off the coast of Virginia. The jets, part of my Navy fighter squadron, climbed to an altitude of 12,000 and steered towards Warning Area W-72, an exclusive

block of airspace ten miles east of Virginia Beach. All traffic into the training area goes through a single GPS point at a set altitude — almost like a doorway into a massive room where military jets can operate without running into other aircraft.
Just at the moment the two jets crossed the threshold, one of the pilots saw a dark gray cube inside of a clear sphere — motionless against the wind, fixed directly at the entry point. The jets, only 100 feet apart, zipped past the object on either
side. The pilots had come so dangerously close to something they couldn’t identify that they terminated the training mission immediately and returned to base.

“I almost hit one of those damn things!” the flight leader, still shaken by the incident, told us shortly after in the pilots’ ready room. We all knew exactly what he meant. “Those damn things” had been plaguing us for the previous eight

months.'

'These were no mere balloons. The unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) accelerated at speeds up to Mach 1, the speed of sound. They could hold their position, appearing motionless, despite Category 4 hurricane-force winds of 120 knots. They did not have

any visible means of lift, control surfaces or propulsion — in other words nothing that resembled normal aircraft with wings, flaps or engines. And they outlasted our fighter jets, operating continuously throughout the day. I am a formally trained
engineer, but the technology they demonstrated defied my understanding.'

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/02/28/ufo-uap-navy-intelligence-00084537

Advanced objects demonstrating advanced technology are routinely flying over our restricted or sensitive airspace posing a risk to both flight safety & national security.
— Marco Rubio US Senator (R) 2/28/2023 | Twitter

There is footage and records of objects in the skies. We don't know exactly what they are. We can't explain how they moved, their trajectory. They did not have an easily explainable pattern.
— Barack Obama US President (D) 5/19/2021 | Late Late Show with James Corden

It's clear that the majority, that many of the observations that we have are physical objects from the sensor data... We haven't had a collision. We have had at least 11 near misses.
— Scott Bray Deputy Director Navy Intelligence 5/17/2022 | Congressional hearings

Usually we have multiple sensors picking up these things... There are a lot more sightings than have been made public... Objects that have been seen by Navy or Air Force pilots, or in satellite imagery, that engage in actions that... we don't have

the technology for, or traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom... Technologies that we don’t have and, frankly, that we are not capable of defending against.

— John Ratcliffe Director National Intelligence 3/22/2021 | Fox News

Ancient Aliens is a good show ... have you seen any of their episodes?

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On Wednesday, March 1, 2023 at 11:25:39 AM UTC-8, da pickle wrote:

On 3/1/2023 9:57 AM, risky biz wrote:

'Ryan Graves, a former Navy fighter pilot and engineer, chairs the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ UAP Integration & Outreach Committee. He is the founder of the new non-profit Americans for Safe Aerospace (www.safeaerospace.org)

.'

'On a clear, sunny day in April 2014, two F/A-18s took off for an air combat training mission off the coast of Virginia. The jets, part of my Navy fighter squadron, climbed to an altitude of 12,000 and steered towards Warning Area W-72, an exclusive

block of airspace ten miles east of Virginia Beach. All traffic into the training area goes through a single GPS point at a set altitude — almost like a doorway into a massive room where military jets can operate without running into other aircraft.
Just at the moment the two jets crossed the threshold, one of the pilots saw a dark gray cube inside of a clear sphere — motionless against the wind, fixed directly at the entry point. The jets, only 100 feet apart, zipped past the object on either
side. The pilots had come so dangerously close to something they couldn’t identify that they terminated the training mission immediately and returned to base.

“I almost hit one of those damn things!” the flight leader, still shaken by the incident, told us shortly after in the pilots’ ready room. We all knew exactly what he meant. “Those damn things” had been plaguing us for the previous eight

months.'

'These were no mere balloons. The unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) accelerated at speeds up to Mach 1, the speed of sound. They could hold their position, appearing motionless, despite Category 4 hurricane-force winds of 120 knots. They did not

have any visible means of lift, control surfaces or propulsion — in other words nothing that resembled normal aircraft with wings, flaps or engines. And they outlasted our fighter jets, operating continuously throughout the day. I am a formally trained
engineer, but the technology they demonstrated defied my understanding.'

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/02/28/ufo-uap-navy-intelligence-00084537

Advanced objects demonstrating advanced technology are routinely flying over our restricted or sensitive airspace posing a risk to both flight safety & national security.
— Marco Rubio US Senator (R) 2/28/2023 | Twitter

There is footage and records of objects in the skies. We don't know exactly what they are. We can't explain how they moved, their trajectory. They did not have an easily explainable pattern.
— Barack Obama US President (D) 5/19/2021 | Late Late Show with James Corden

It's clear that the majority, that many of the observations that we have are physical objects from the sensor data... We haven't had a collision. We have had at least 11 near misses.
— Scott Bray Deputy Director Navy Intelligence 5/17/2022 | Congressional hearings

Usually we have multiple sensors picking up these things... There are a lot more sightings than have been made public... Objects that have been seen by Navy or Air Force pilots, or in satellite imagery, that engage in actions that... we don't have

the technology for, or traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom... Technologies that we don’t have and, frankly, that we are not capable of defending against.

— John Ratcliffe Director National Intelligence 3/22/2021 | Fox News

~ Ancient Aliens is a good show ... have you seen any of their episodes?

No. I watch very little television. I do watch some of the series recognized as classic on DVD.

I spoke with two airline pilots who saw an object tracking with them at a distance from Seattle to San Francisco. They tried to figure out if it was an anomalous reflection on their windows or whatever else they could think of. They couldn't figure out
what else it could be. They decided to not report it to anyone.

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