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2 Navy Airmen and an Object That Accelerated Like Nothing I've Ever Seen
Last edited Sun Dec 17, 2017, 01:18 PM - Edit history (1)
From https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/unidentified-flying-object-navy.html
David Fravor, at his home in Windham, N.H., is a former Navy pilot who says he was “pretty weirded out” by an unexplained episode over the Pacific. His story has captured the attention of a Pentagon program investigating U.F.O.s.Credit M. Scott Brauer for The New York Times
(Note from OP - Was unable to embed link to video on NYT site. I believe this Youtube video is essentially the same, but feel free to visit the NYT link to view that version)
2 Navy Airmen and an Object That ‘Accelerated Like Nothing I’ve Ever Seen’
By HELENE COOPER, LESLIE KEAN and RALPH BLUMENTHAL
Dec. 16, 2017
The following recounts an incident in 2004 that advocates of research into U.F.O.s have said is the kind of event worthy of more investigation, and that was studied by a Pentagon program that investigated U.F.O.s. Experts caution that earthly explanations often exist for such incidents, and that not knowing the explanation does not mean that the event has interstellar origins.
Cmdr. David Fravor and Lt. Cmdr. Jim Slaight were on a routine training mission 100 miles out into the Pacific when the radio in each of their F/A-18F Super Hornets crackled: An operations officer aboard the U.S.S. Princeton, a Navy cruiser, wanted to know if they were carrying weapons.
“Two CATM-9s,” Commander Fravor replied, referring to dummy missiles that could not be fired. He had not been expecting any hostile exchanges off the coast of San Diego that November afternoon in 2004.
Commander Fravor, in a recent interview with The New York Times, recalled what happened next. Some of it is captured in a video made public by officials with a Pentagon program that investigated U.F.O.s.
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By HELENE COOPER, LESLIE KEAN and RALPH BLUMENTHAL
Dec. 16, 2017
The following recounts an incident in 2004 that advocates of research into U.F.O.s have said is the kind of event worthy of more investigation, and that was studied by a Pentagon program that investigated U.F.O.s. Experts caution that earthly explanations often exist for such incidents, and that not knowing the explanation does not mean that the event has interstellar origins.
Cmdr. David Fravor and Lt. Cmdr. Jim Slaight were on a routine training mission 100 miles out into the Pacific when the radio in each of their F/A-18F Super Hornets crackled: An operations officer aboard the U.S.S. Princeton, a Navy cruiser, wanted to know if they were carrying weapons.
“Two CATM-9s,” Commander Fravor replied, referring to dummy missiles that could not be fired. He had not been expecting any hostile exchanges off the coast of San Diego that November afternoon in 2004.
Commander Fravor, in a recent interview with The New York Times, recalled what happened next. Some of it is captured in a video made public by officials with a Pentagon program that investigated U.F.O.s.
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More at link.
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(thanks, I needed a good laugh!!)
Will get high ratings as it is airing during the holiday season. 
Obviously bringing Han back
