Pilot Describes Mysterious Wingless Aircraft that Outran his Fighter Jet

Then, Fravor recalled, the object (or objects) disappeared.

"It accelerated like nothing I've ever seen," he told the Times, adding that he was "pretty weirded out," and that although he had no idea what he saw, all he could tell was that "it had no plumes, wings or rotors and outran our F-18s." 

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Fravor's incident comes right after The New York Times and Politico both published unique and detailed reports about the Pentagon's UFO exploration missions. Then-Nevada Senator Harry Reid requested the establishment of the secret government program called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. 

At a recent press conference, former Democratic staff director for the Senate Intelligence Committee Chris Mellon affirmed Fravor's story. He even further described the 

"It is white, oblong, some 40 feet long and perhaps 12 feet thick…The pilots are astonished to see the object suddenly reorient itself toward the approaching F/A-18," Mellon said. "In a series of discreet tumbling maneuvers that seem to defy the laws of physics. The object takes a position directly behind the approaching F/A-18. The pilots capture gun camera footage and infrared imagery of the object. They are outmatched by a technology they’ve never seen."

As the New York Times staff pointed out in the story's introduction, "not knowing the explanation does not mean that the event has interstellar origins."

Politico developed a report that released around the same time. One former Pentagon staff member told Politico on the condition of anonymity that a foreign power could've developed next-generation technologies. 

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"Was this China or Russia trying to do something or has some propulsion system we are not familiar with?”  said the unnamed staffer. 

Luis Elizondo served as the career intelligence officer who ran the initiative. He told Politico that in his resignation letter, the research being conducted by the institute was not being taken seriously. 

"We tried to work within the system," Elizondo told Politico. "We were trying to take the voodoo out of voodoo science."

Elizondo also spoke about Fravor's encounter in a recent interview. 

"They [the mysterious crafts] did not exhibit overt hostility,” Elizondo explained. "But something unexplained is always assumed to be a potential threat until we are certain it isn’t. On the bright side, I believe we are closer than ever before in our understanding of how it operates."