More details have leaked on the sighting described in post #3 of this thread:
Here's the leaked report:
https://media.lasvegasnow.com/nxsglobal/...ver1.0.pdf
News stories:
http://www.lasvegasnow.com/news/i-team-e...1187688105
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...c-UFO.html
This has to be one of the most interesting UFO sightings of all time.
Observed on advanced radar on an AEGIS missile cruiser. Sighting confirmed (in fragmentary fashion) by radar on fighter planes and by a separate Hawkeye AWACS aircraft nearby. (The thing seems to have exhibited stealth characteristics.) Observed from multiple angles by multiple F-18 pilots who were flying in the area for exercises. Recorded on camera both visually and on infrared.
And interestingly, possibly associated with a large unidentified undersea object of some sort. A submarine in the area detected nothing unusual on its sonar, and it's possible that the circular area of agitation of the sea surface beneath the white 'tic-tac' UFO was caused by the UFO's unknown propulsion system when it was at low altitude. (One of the pilots compared it to a Harrier hovering.)
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My speculation]I'm wondering if this thing was a US Navy
UCAV of some highly classified 'black project' sort, maybe flying out of San Clemente Island (off the coast of San Diego). San Clemente Island is owned by the Navy, supposedly there's next to nothing there and it's mostly used as a target range. Few lights show from the San Diego side, consistent with this.
But I'm told by civilian sailors who have sailed around the island, that the whole west side of the island is lit up at night where it can't be seen from the California mainland. Some kind of significant facility is there, and talk is that it's used for things like missile and sonar testing. So maybe it's used for testing stealth unmanned combat vehicles as well. (I just associate that island with secret activities.)
If that's what the white tic-tac was, it has a more advanced propulsion system than anything publicly revealed, capable of very fast vertical climbs and descents, with a range of speeds (based on what's been observed) ranging from hover to up to 4,000 mph (hypersonic). That's way more advanced than anything that's ever been publicly revealed. (Which makes me assign this speculation of mine a fairly low probability.)
But it makes sense that if the Navy has a secret super-high-performance stealth combat air vehicle like that that's never been publicly acknowledged, they might want to test it against the advanced detection capabilities of a carrier battle group with all of its jets and radars. (Certainly as good as anything that any potential foreign adversary has.) And it might explain why the Navy was so uninterested in the reports after they were subsequently submitted to Naval Intelligence. Too much followup might 'out' their own secret program.[
/My speculation]