Video footage released by Pentagon
US fighter pilots track UFO in video from Pentagon's secret vault.
Two Navy airmen flying over the Pacific Ocean on a routine training mission claim they encountered mysterious objects that accelerated like nothing they had ever seen before.
Just before intelligence officer Luis Elizondo left his job as the US Defence Department two months ago, he released three of the most unusual videos in the Pentagon's secret vault. The videos including raw footage from encounters between fighter jets and "anomalous aerial vehicles" - military jargon for UFOs.
Back in 2004, Navy Cmdr David Fravor and Navy Lt. Cmdr Jim Slaight were flying about 100 miles (160km) off the coast of San Diego in each of their F/A-18F Super Hornets carrying two CATM-9s, which are dummy missiles that could not be fired, the New York Times reported.
According to Fravor, the operations officer aboard Navy cruiser USS Princeton had been communicating with the pair during their mission and said, "Well, we've got a real-world vector for you."
The operator said for the past two weeks the Navy cruiser had been tracking mysterious aircraft, according to the Daily Mail.
The objects would first appear at 80,000 feet (24,000m) and then speed towards the sea before stopping at 20,000 feet (6000m) and hovering.
They then either shot back up into the sky or dropped off the radar.
Fravor and Slaight were instructed to investigate the objects by the radio operator on the Navy cruiser.
The two pilots followed their instructions... [
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