Post by purr on Oct 16, 2022 13:03:58 GMT
This Navy Pilots' FLIR observation of the 'Gimbal' UAP turns out to be a mere incident
in 8 years of continuing US Navy air crew encounters with anomalous objects
intruding on their working area.
REAL MOVES
Felt a pleasant tingling down my spine when learning in one of Chris Lehto's clear and concise video presentations, detailing Navy Pilot Ryan Graves eyewitness account, that the intensely debated 'Gimbal' object or UAP actually was a tiny fragment of extensive 'combined' in-flight Radar, FLIR, JHMCS and pilots' eyeballs, referring to encounters spanning a 2014 to present time frame in proximity to visually observe the anomalous objects close-up, including moments when their eye/helmet movements briefly locked on to a UAP target. Briefly, due to the objects seeming to sense being targeted and responding by moving in unpredictable ways, real fast too. As if 'surprised' and wishing to avoid any encounters close enough for human pilots to observe, record, actually see AND SHOOT THEM. All this would make perfect sense to me if Gimbal type objects were physical air/space (or sumtin)-craft possessing awareness of the real world, stuff like how air-to-air missiles could ruin your day.
The story behind the Gimbal craft seems to have started in the Spring of 2014, involving air operations out of Naval Air Station Oceana, East Coast Master Jet Base in Virginia Beach, VA and W-72A working areas. The latter are discrete locations of allotted air space for operations of Navy Fighter Attack Squadron ELEVEN (VFA-11) aka The Red Rippers, whose job at the time was to upgrade to the more advanced APG-79 AESA Radar system, regularly combined with utilizing the ATFLIR (Advanced-Targeting Forward Looking Infra Red) pod. Nothing to do with UFOs. Eyewitness Ryan Graves reports (check out the Youtubes below thread) how he and his fellow pilots began observing what he called "Non'participating Aircraft" including the Gimbal object (see declassified video above).
It is actually par for the road for these naval aviators to be targeted by foreign power intelligence gathering, so when using the new radar systems they saw objects sharing the sky that first came to mind. And for pilots we're talking Big Sky, that is things are usually too far away to see with the naked eye, and when some aircraft appeared unidentified and behaving weirdly the initial assessment was these most likely constituted radar glitches, not representing physical objects at all.
So what was the new radar system telling these pilots about the strange 'objects' in their working area? Well, stuff that didn't make sense. One observed behavior of such object indicated it was moving at 0.0 Mach (meaning it was supposedly maintaining a hover, perfectly stationary, unaffected by prevailing winds). Data on display including sumtin called Target Aspect, showing an aircraft's heading or front vs. back, here indicative of either uncertainty or rotation. Now for the die hard UFO Casebook reader like your good self and me, what kind of aircraft may hover at will, seems to rotate and has no front or backside? Mmmmm... let me think ....? But these Navy boys and girls were like totally weirded out. Furthermore altitudes observed for the hover ranged up to 35,000ft, which seems to rule out birds or helicopters. Ryan Graves relates how his fellow airmen typically detected the strange objects traveling at approx. 0.6-0.8 Mach, more consistent with normal/commercial flight. Also rarely observed moving at 1.1-1.2M which is supersonic speed. Graves personally observed objects following a "racetrack" pattern, flying "East towards open waters" as well as Contacts descending or climbing between 1000-4000ft.
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE 2ND KIND
This gets interesting. As time progressed Graves team of pilots on occasion observed the objects at ever closer proximity, into <20nmi soon placing them in range for observable IR energy: seeing them by means of the ATFLIR. And the mystery deepened since now objects showed up as if a flashlight shone at the IR cams, lacking signs of structure and hot exhaust signatures. They appeared to be "cold" and have no hull. The first visual encounter ('eyeballs' on target) took place at a so called entrance point of a working area. It is like the fixed door of the airspace to be used for an air operation. All aircraft involved must pass through it to participate in the op being carried out. Enter (into said door) a flight of two 18-F 2-seater fighter aircraft at altitude of ~10,000ft running into, maybe 'startling' one of the objects out of its 'non-participation' and into launching on a radically new trajectory INTO and passing spat in the middle of the two Navy A/C flight, momentarily closing to <50ft. These pilots now had eyes on the UAP or UFO or whatever the hell flew between them. Saw a clear sphere holding a dark cube inside. Dimensions estimated at 15-30ft diameter. Obviously this whole event fell well short of stealthy information gathering by foreign adversaries like the Chinese or Russians, taking place at the one location where no one with advanced detection capabilities (or normal vision) could miss an intruder's presence, or ANY stealth or DEEP BLACK OPS of any kind, notably including the US itself: entrance to the Navy flight's working area. You just couldn't miss them!
...Ahem... Or could you... MISS them? What this encounter brought home before all else to the four souls aboard the two fighter aircraft and their squadron, was that these encounters were exceedingly dangerous. The objects were no longer 'phantom tracks', somewhat interesting but instead "physical objects" seen involved in a Near Miss with Navy A/C.
This harrowing event (and eleven similar UFOs passing Navy aircraft in dangerously close proximity) generated a Safety Report:
"Although this report is primarily submitted for tracking purposes, it is only a matter of time before this results in a mid-air in W-72."
Commanding Officer VFA-11 2014 [filed to Navy Safety Center WESS Serial Number 1398374727732]
Which if translated from manly soldier-speak sounds something like Don't Panic Don't Panic & we'all urgently need'ya to send us a fresh set of underwear. (But that's just me.)
Seriously, the information on UAP flight properties coming out of Squadron VFA-11, Ryan Graves eyewitness testimony and the expert analysis by former fighter pilot Chris Lehto exposes a significant Safety of Flight concern for anyone potentially sharing air space with UAP or UFOs. Meaning: all pilots, air crew, passengers, everybody everywhere who needs to travel by air. You never know when your flight path will cross with a Non-Participating Aircraft.
It is not all bad. Some amazing disclosures include these Navy pilots' witness accounts of UAP tactics, describing how five of the spheres (with cubes inside) fly in wedge formation, are seen making a turn, with a Gimbal type craft following in the center of the formation's wake. But instead of turning synchronous with the 5-sphere UAP formation, the Gimbal 'stops', becomes stationary in mid air, before proceeding to once again head and follow in the wedge formation's new direction. There's also a mention of slightly erratic flight properties of the spheres, to me reminiscent of Kenneth Arnold's 1947 characterization of UFO formation flying similarities to a stone skimming across a pond. The mysterious balls (or flying saucers or tris or floating cities!!) don't appear to get their lift from passing air. They move on something very potent and very real, yet beyond mankind's currently available technological capabilities.
purr