Cmdr. David Fravor, a 24-year Navy veteran and Top Gun-qualified Black Aces pilot, details the November 14, 2004 "Tic Tac" UFO encounter off San Diego, where a white, radar-jamming object moved instantaneously—60 miles in seconds—without propulsion. Corbell confirms the video’s public domain status and links it to decades of credible military reports, including Project Blue Book and OSAP’s $22M funding, while dismissing dismissive explanations like "pilot error." Their discussion suggests revolutionary propulsion tech, whether extraterrestrial or classified human-made, demands serious global investigation beyond skepticism. [Automatically generated summary]
Literally flew A6s, Hornets, and then Super Hornets.
Had every qualification you could get in the airplane, everything, even the stuff they're not doing anymore.
So I had NVG, high, low, went to Top Gun, and at the time of the incident that we're going to talk about, I was a commanding officer of VFA-41, the Black Aces.
I've gone through a journey with this whole UFO stuff, from being a full-on true believer, to being incredibly skeptical, to trying to be open-minded, to...
Being more of a believer now than I think I've ever been before.
And one of the things that I've always said is the people that I believe, there's a lot of loony people out there, but the people that I put my trust in are high-level military people like yourself.
So when I hear someone like you who has a story that defies logic or defies conventional understanding of how aircrafts work, that's when I sit back and I go, okay.
This is a different thing.
Because, you know, there's always people that are telling you they're psychic or they sense things or they're in communication with Bigfoot.
There's always loony people out there.
But when someone is in the military, someone is trained to fly, I mean, how expensive are those jets?
It just seems to me that this is, for rational people that want to look at this whole UFO phenomenon objectively, you're the type of person that I want to talk to.
So I was very excited to have you in here.
So, what year was your incident?
And you have a very, very famous incident that's corroborated by actual evidence, which is one of the rare ones.
It's really, if you draw San Diego to Ensenada, Mexico, we're about 60 miles off the coast in between the two.
We're doing workups, so when we get ready to deploy, this was for the 2005 deployment.
We were going at sea for November and December of 2004. So we had been out.
I had just taken over the squadron mid-October, so I had been the CO for a month.
So we go out and we're putting the battle group pieces together.
So it's not just the air wing, but we're on the carrier.
We've got the cruiser.
We've got all the support ships out there.
And we're going to integrate all the defenses and train as one unit.
So the exercise that we're going to do is an air defense exercise where there's good guys, bad guys.
They're all from internal, from the air wing.
So the bad guys today are going to be the Marines, VMFA-232, the Red Devils.
So they're going to launch, and they're going to go about 100 miles south of the ship, and we're the good guys, and we call it a 2v2, so it's two of us against two of them.
We're going to work with the USS Princeton, which is going to be the controller, and they're going to control the blue forces, and then the red guys are going to give us a presentation that, you know, they're going to try and intercept so we can stop them from getting up towards the carrier.
So that's kind of the training set that we're all good.
So the Marines take off first, and they start heading to the south.
Now, we have no idea that for two weeks, the two weeks we've been at sea, they've been tracking these things coming out of the sky.
And when I talk to the Princeton controller, he's like up to about a dozen of them.
They would come down from above 80,000 feet.
They'd drop down to about 20,000 feet.
They'd hang out and then they'd go straight back up after about three or four hours.
Talking to them, the previous, for the two weeks, they would show up, but it was when we weren't flying.
So the typical carrier schedule is, you know, for us, it was about noon to midnight.
It's a 12-hour day.
There's reasons for that.
It can go a lot longer.
But for training, we just do the 12-hour day thing.
And it's cyclic ops, so you got guys taking off and landing periodically.
So we were on one of the first goes.
You know, it's, you know, noon, one o'clock, somewhere around there.
And we take off.
The Marines take off first.
And my buddy Cheeks, who's the CO of the Marine Squadron, he was leading the Red Air.
When he launched off the carrier first, they called him up and said, hey, what do you got on board?
Well, the small, the original Legacy F-18s don't have as much gas as the Super Hornets.
The Super Hornet's about 30% bigger.
So they start talking to him about fuel and based on how long we're going to be airborne and everything else, they go, hey, why don't you just go ahead and proceed to your cap point because we had just taken off.
And that's when the controller had come up and said, hey – I forget our cost.
It's probably like dealer is usually what we went.
So it would be like dealer 1-1.
This is Princeton Control.
What do you got?
Say your loadout.
I kind of chuckled.
He said – I said, well, I got a CADM-9, which is – it's basically just a blue metal tube with a seeker head for an AIM-9 IR missile.
It's a training.
It doesn't come off the airplane.
You can beat it with a sledgehammer.
That's the only way you're going to get it off or you got to unlock the lugs with a key.
So I'm like kind of chuckling.
He goes, well, hey, we're going to cancel the training.
So we're like, okay.
He says, we got real world vector and they're going to send us out to the west.
So picture if it's, you know, if you've got a clock, the Nimitz is in the middle.
We're a little bit south of that, about 40 miles south.
And then the Marines are about 100 miles south of the ship, about 60 miles between the two of us.
So as this is all happening, my wingman is joining up, and these are F-18F, so there's two people in each jet.
So it's me and my WIZO, which is a weapon systems operator, and I've got the other pilot and the weapon systems operator in the other jet.
So they tell us all this, hey, we're going to real-world vector, and they send us out 270, about 60 miles away from where we're going.
So now we're going out even further out to sea.
We have no idea what we're intercepting.
And this is when the controller starts talking to us.
He says, hey, sir, we've seen these objects.
They've been, for two weeks, they've been coming down.
Yeah, we have no, and there's reasons for that, that we don't fly.
We typically don't fly with live ordinance unless we're actually going into like a combat zone or Or we're on a training range and we're going to shoot something.
And the reason is you can go through history of the Navy or Air Force.
If you put live missiles on airplanes and then you start doing training where you're squeezing the trigger, someone always messes the switchology up and someone gets shot down.
It's happened multiple times.
So we don't do it.
You know, there's times that we do, but it's rare.
So we start flying out to the west.
Now, I want you to think because the other pilot has a – when you talk to – it's out there.
It was a female.
When you talk to her, it's – here's the – kind of goes through the mindset of, hey, we're off the coast of Mexico, real-world vector.
We have no idea what we're going to look at.
Probably a drug runner because you get the drug runners coming up the coast.
So we're like, okay.
So we drive out and they're calling down ranges.
So they're telling us, hey, it's 270 at 30 miles at 20,000 feet.
And it's, you know, and then you just count down the ranges.
And we're talking back and forth the whole time.
So they got to a point where they say, hey, merge plot, which means radars have resolution cells, you know, range and azimuth of what the radar can actually see.
Once you're inside that box, you can't tell the difference between me and the object I'm going at.
So they call merge plot and so the other jet is on my left-hand side and I'm going to go to a clock code to make it simple.
So the object we're going to end up looking for is right in the middle of the clock and we are at the 6 o'clock position and my wingman is off to my left side.
So she's further down with her wizzo.
So as we're looking around, we look to the right and there's a – yesterday was a perfect example out here.
The water is perfectly calm, no white caps.
I mean it's literally a perfect San Diego, California day.
And we see whitewater, something like if you see a seamount rock underwater when you're standing on the shore and the waves are breaking over and you're like, what is that?
It's usually because there's a rock under the water.
So it looks like that, but it's about the size of a 737. It actually kind of has a shape of like a cross, and it's pointing to the east.
So you've got the long part going east-west, and you've got a couple of things going north and south.
So as we're looking at it, because that kind of draws our eyes, we're like, oh, that's kind of odd.
We look down and the wizzo in the other airplane comes up and says, hey, Skipper, do you?
And that's about what he gets out of his mouth.
And I'm kind of looking at the same thing.
I go, dude, do you see that?
What is that thing?
And what we see is this white tic-tac-looking object just above the surface of the water.
It's pointing north-south and it's going north-south, east-west.
It's just radically moving forward, back, left, right, at will.
And it's moving around the disturbance, the whitewater that we see.
The other pilot says, hey, I'm going to stay up here.
And I'm like, that's perfect.
So now we'll get some separation.
We'll get it from different views.
And the other airplane, I kind of have a God's eye view of everything that's going on as I go down and check this thing out.
So I start driving around and it's still doing its forward, back, left, right.
It's still pointing north-south.
We get to about the 12 o'clock position.
I'm just in a nice, easy descent.
A reason, you know, because I've been asked, could you go more aggressive?
You can, but when you're out over water, the water looks the same at 20,000 feet as it does at 2,000 feet.
You don't, you know, so you can easily put yourself in a non-recoverable position if you're not paying attention and you go into the water.
So I got this nice, easy descent.
I get to about 12 o'clock and as I'm coming down, you know, I could guess probably about, you know, 18,000 feet now, a couple thousand feet below the other airplane.
The tic-tac just kind of rapidly goes boop and turns.
So now it's kind of pointing east-west and now it mirrors us.
So it's above the surface.
We're up high.
We're coming down.
It starts coming up.
I'm like, well, this is getting interesting.
So we kind of drive all the way around a circle.
I'm descending.
It's coming up.
And I get over to about the 8 o'clock position on the clock.
And it's over at about the 2 o'clock position.
Well, the quickest way, as we know as kids, to get someone, you know, you can keep going around the circle.
Nothing's going to happen.
You cut across the circle.
So I'm about, I don't know, probably 2,000 to 3,000 feet above it, and I just kind of drop my nose aggressively, and I cut across the circle, and it's coming this way.
Because I'm trying to fly to where it's going to be because I want to join on it.
I want to see how close I can get to it.
And as I'm pulling up, it's kind of starting to cross my nose and it starts to accelerate.
And within about less than a second, as I start to pull nose onto it and it crosses right in front of me, it just goes poof and it's gone.
So I call the other airplane and I said, hey, do you guys see that thing?
And they're like, sir, it's gone.
We don't see it at all.
So I'm like, okay, that's kind of weird.
So we don't see it.
We're looking.
At the same time, I say, hey, let's turn around and let's go back to see what was in the water.
You know, was there something there?
So we turn around.
We're right there.
We haven't gone anywhere.
It's gone.
Water's perfectly...
There's no white water, nothing.
It's just blue.
We're like, okay.
So we turn back around.
Now we're heading back out towards the east.
And I tell the controller, I said, well...
I said – I first said I'm kind of weirded out and I told my backseater that.
We start heading back and the controller on the Princeton comes at me and says, sir, you're not going to believe this but that thing is back at your cap point.
That was our original point where we were going to hold 40 miles south of the ship.
So this thing has went from wherever we were at to about 60 miles in maybe 30, 40 seconds.
It's already over there.
And it just – and they didn't track it.
It just appeared.
He just shows back up on the radar and they go, it's here.
So we're like, okay.
So we fly back.
We don't see it.
We don't see it on our radar.
We don't see it on any of our sensors.
We do like two runs and we come back to the ship and land.
So as we're in our – we call it the PR shop.
We're taking off our flight gear.
One of my crews is getting ready to go out and I think they were going to be on a tanker mission but they had a targeting pod on board.
So they launch off and we're telling them about this before and the backseater, Chad, says he's really – he's going to find this thing.
So he tells the pilot, hey, we're going to find this thing.
So they're just out driving around and in the backseat of a Super Hornet, there's no stick but there's side stick controllers and they're to control the sensors because that's what the weapon systems guys do.
And they can change displays really fast by just hitting a button and it will flip from the radar to the targeting pod.
And the way the system actually works is when you see something on the radar and you designate it as your primary target, all the other sensors will look at that point.
So everything is kind of synced together.
So he picks up a hit on his radar and he goes to lock it up because I've watched all the tapes.
He goes to lock it up and immediately the radar can tell.
It gets signals back that it's being jammed.
And technically jamming is an act of war.
It starts jamming the radar.
It goes into a jam extrapolate.
A bunch of stuff happens on the scope.
Well, he's smart enough to castle to his targeting pod.
And he takes a passive track.
And that's the video that you see of the Tic Tac where it's just sitting in the middle of the screen real quiet.
So he does that and he goes through it.
If you watched the video, if we had it, I'd go through it with you.
But they go through all the different modes.
So he goes, it's an IR and an EO. EO is TV. It's a black and white TV camera.
We can't show it on YouTube, but you can see it, and people will be able to go to it.
You know what we'll do?
Go to the video, and we'll tell people when we're starting, and we'll tell people what the title of the video that you get to is, and they can sync it up themselves if they're watching it.
No, there's a lot of rumors out there that, oh, it was classified and the ship got locked down.
No, it wasn't.
It was – we were never – men in suits did not show up.
No one told us not to talk about it.
And this is because there's a lot of other people saying other things.
And I said, let's look at it.
Here's the context.
So in the battle group, you've got the admiral, you've got the captain of the ship, the captain of the Princeton, and then you've got the other COs.
So position-wise, I'm probably, as a CEO of a squadron, in the top 20 out of 6,000.
And no one came to talk to me.
No one came to take my tapes.
No one showed up in a suit.
No one told me not to talk.
No one talked to any of my air crew that were involved in this.
There were six people total involved, the two that shot the video and the four of us that looked at it for five minutes with our eyes.
No one – nothing.
It just – and I can get into how – there's a report that George Knapp got released.
It's a – I call it the unofficial official report.
And I had met someone and I'm like, hey – Can you find anything out?
I had this incident.
Normally you tell people this.
They look at you like, dude, what are you smoking?
I'm like, no, no, I'm good.
I'm tested.
And they go – and they said, well, let me see what I can do.
And I had got a call.
I was working – I was doing some aerospace work and I had gotten a call on my cell phone from a guy.
And he said, hey, I want to investigate your incident.
And I go, okay.
Okay.
So he did.
He investigated the incident, and it was very, very thorough.
I mean, if you've read that, it's about 10 pages long.
And he, I mean, he tracked down everybody.
He tracked down all the people that were, the air crew that were involved.
He talked to, he tracked down the admiral.
He talked, I mean, it was a pretty thorough report.
And I didn't think anything of it, you know, because, you know, the people worded it's out there, so they want to do FOIA, but it was never released in a FOIA request.
I actually had the Navy call me I'd been out of the Navy for like six years.
Obviously DOD has the ability – because I'm not a conspiracy theory person at all.
I mean I'll just tell you that.
I think there's reasons that the government doesn't tell the public everything and I don't speak for the government.
But I think there's a good reason for that, that not everything needs to go out to the public.
But most of it does and they just – what they do is they put a clause on, hey, for this program or whatever we're doing, which would have been an ATEP program, the work that they do and what they find is not – it's not releasable through Freedom Information Act.
There's probably other avenues to get that.
And then you go, well, what really is freedom of information?
Because I got into this on a – I was talking to someone who's a conspiracy theorist and they said, well, so-and-so wrote and they're not getting any information on your event.
I said, so what are they going to do?
They're going to call up.
You're going to put in your request for freedom of information.
You go, here's what I want.
It goes to some poor guy at the Pentagon who's like, I have no idea what this is.
And he searches around.
He doesn't find anything.
He looks at his bud and I get it all for you.
I go, hey, Joe, you got anything on the Nimitz incident?
And you go, nope.
I go, okay, well, I didn't find anything.
I looked.
I did my due diligence, but I'm not going to spend the next six months of my life doing your research project for you.
So you get nothing and then you assume the government is covering up when the government really isn't.
They just – the guys doing the research doesn't know where it's at or doesn't have access to it.
So if you look at the OPRs operate on the top left corner.
NAR is narrow field of view, which is zoomed in.
IR at the top middle, it means it's in infrared mode.
So instead of seeing color, you're seeing temperature variations.
And these things are extremely sensitive to when, like, tenths of degrees, they will tell you the difference.
So it'll go from black to white.
So in this case, white is hot.
So if you look down on the bottom left corner, it says WHT. That's white.
It means white is hot.
So the object that you're looking at is hotter than the sky around it.
But what you also notice is there's no plumes.
Now, if you're looking at an airplane, when you get closer, you'll actually see the exhaust coming out and there will be a really glowing plume.
That's important as we look at the video.
And then most of the stuff on here you really don't need to know.
What you can look at is the bottom right corner that says 19,990 and a B. That's the altitude.
And if you look up in the little words where it says HDG and then BALT, it's autopilot.
So it's on altitude hold.
It's just flying for that.
So you can go ahead and play the video.
And so those two bars next to the white object, that's a passive track.
So what he's done is he's commanded the FLIR to track that.
So what the system does is it uses – it's actually tracking.
It can track pixels and it's just basically blocked those hot pixels, those white pixels from the black ones.
And you're going to see now – pause it real quick.
So over the top, see it went to white screen with the black object.
This is a black and white TV mode.
And if you look at the top, it says TV. So narrow in TV mode is actually – you can get closer than narrow in IR. It's literally – narrow in IR is about medium in TV mode.
So you can get closer with the TV mode.
So as you look at it now, in this case, you would actually start to see stuff going on.
And even in TV mode because you get exhaust, you know, the black exhaust that comes out, you'll usually be able to see kind of some of that coming out of the back and you don't see anything.
This thing is just sitting there.
And if you look at the top where it says three right, that's the pod is looking three degrees right at the nose of the airplane, right?
So he's just flying along the bottom numbers.
Don't worry, those are time.
So it's 4156. So go ahead and hit play.
And what he's doing is he's going – Chad's going through all the different modes because he's like, oh, I got it.
And he's going to try and see the best video that he can get.
Now, there's rumors that this video is like 10 minutes long.
Now, what you're looking at is the entire video.
Now, notice where it says 99.9.
So hit pause real quick.
What that means is while he's got the pod, the targeting pod, because that's his primary sensor right now, the radar is still trying to look at this object and trying to range it.
And the radar can't get ranging on it.
So the object is doing something to say, I'm not giving you back, because it's just a Doppler radar, just like a police radar is a Doppler.
It's trying to get a ranging on you, and it can't do it.
So when it says 99.9, the radar cannot see this object right now.
Yeah, it would stay with it until it got to the limits of the pod, you know, as far as looking to the left.
And, you know, the radar would see it.
I mean, when you get close enough, you're going to, you know, everything becomes visible because you get burned through with radar and how radars actually work.
This one is, you know, you tell me, but this was...
I mean, it's like when we saw it disappear when it flew in front of my nose.
I'm talking something, I'm within a half mile of it, looking at it.
And it gets in front of me and just disappears.
So take, we'll just go to something that everyone knows is fast.
Let's just say SR-71 that's doing Mach 3. You know, the visibility is 50 miles.
So even at 35 miles a minute, I'm going to be able to see this thing turn into a little dot as it goes off into the horizon for probably a minute.
The thing that we saw disappeared in a second.
Just gone.
And that's from two different angles.
Remember, the other airplane's 8,000 feet above me because we get close to it at about 12,000 feet.
So the other airplane's above me looking down, and when it disappeared, I said, do you guys see it?
So the typical process, anytime we fly, everything gets debriefed.
So because it was a two-seat airplane, usually the junior person in the jet goes down.
So I was the boss, so I wasn't going down there.
So we have a thing called Civic CVIC, which is the carrier intel center.
So they go down.
We always take our tapes because we record stuff when we're fighting.
They take it down, and it's really to exercise the system when we're in training so that when we actually get over to, in this case, we are going over to the Persian Gulf, anything that we do comes in and gets debriefed, and then it all gets sent off.
That's how you get the CNN video and all that.
So they go down and they debrief and have to tell, hey, we chased this object.
We don't know what it is.
And of course, everyone now is going to make jokes because we know we're going to catch shit because that's how the Navy works.
And I told him, I said, I remember telling the guy in my backseat, I said, dude, we're going to catch maximum shit for this.
And he goes, yes, sir.
I'll show you the comics.
I have them on my phone.
We do – the airplane comes out.
So we know it's going to come down.
So he goes in.
They debrief this.
Both crews go in and, of course, everyone at Intel thinks this is hilarious.
So the flight – Chad comes in with his tapes when he lands and here's the thing.
Oh, VFA-41.
Guys see any UFOs out there?
And he pulls out that tape and drops it on the counter.
He goes, yeah, it's on here.
So they're like, oh, shit.
So they copy it.
They play it and there's a big – it looks like a rack system.
They put the 8-mil in.
It gets copied to a hard drive.
And then they archive it.
So you go, okay.
So they got this video.
And then the ship – this spreads – if you have a rumor on the ship, 5,000 people are going to know about it within probably 30 minutes.
I mean it spreads that.
It's like a virus.
So the whole ship now knows that we chased this.
I guarantee the whole Princeton knew this stuff was going on.
And it goes all the way up.
The admiral knows about it.
The captain of the ship knew about it.
And then all the movies, because they play movies for us on the ship, and they run like a 12-hour loop.
So, of course, the movie selection is menu.
Men in Black, Men in Black 2, Signs, Independence Day.
And we know we're going to be on the airplane comic because there's always a comic.
So you do something stupid or like this, then you're going to be on the comic.
I'll show you the comics here in a little bit.
They're pretty funny.
But, you know, so that went on for two days.
But, you know, we're in the middle of workups.
I got a squadron to run.
So it's like, you know, there was – after about the first day and a half, it really died down.
And then it was the – there's always that closet people that you don't think that are really like UFO buffs.
And, you know, like we had one of the Marines would always come and he'd sit down.
Hey, Skipper, can I sit with you?
I go, you want to talk about the UFO? He goes, yeah, I just – I can't get it out of my mind.
And then we would just sit there and talk about it.
To me, it was like, you know, we're just saying, you know, my entire now flying career is defined by five minutes of chasing this white Tic Tac, vice almost 4,000 hours, you know, flying.
I've talked to the guys, a couple of guys from the East Coast event, the gimbal video.
One of them I talk to daily.
He's a pretty good friend of mine.
Totally different now.
Keep in mind, ours is 2004. The gimbal video is 2015. The funny part about the gimbal video and the East Coast stuff that was going on, because that's off the vacate, so off the coast of the United States, they're called warning areas, and all they are is if you look on an aviation map, they're these big Areas that are blocked off by blue and they say like whiskey 291 or whiskey 243. Is the gimbal video available in the same way that that video is available?
So – and I was talking to him about it because I – and I asked a buddy of mine.
He had just retired.
He was the – he led the fighter wing on the East Coast and I had called him up because we start finding out that these things were so prevalent out off the East Coast of the United States and there's a couple of them.
So there's the – we're going to talk.
What they started seeing originally was these things and one of them almost hit – the airplane almost hit one of these things.
But it looks like a cube inside of a clear beach ball.
So they don't know if it's actually like a surrounding or it's – you don't know if it's a force field.
And you see kind of in the gimbal video, it's got like an aura around it where ours didn't.
I always laugh.
I go, ours was a Tic Tac.
These are not.
That means there's different stuff out there that we don't know.
But they had two airplanes flying and we fly when we go out to train.
We usually – we have a distance.
We'll just say we're a mile apart.
As we're flying out, so they're flying out and the airplanes are deployed, we call it combat spread, and one of the airplanes almost hits one of these, goes close down like 50 feet down the side.
And almost hits one of these floating cubes inside of the beach ball.
And someone goes, wow, it's a balloon.
It's not a balloon.
I mean, these things are literally sitting still.
They're no effect from the wind.
So if you've got 90 knots of wind and they talk about it, these things are just sitting there.
So 60 or 70 people have seen it because the radars, the newer radar in the Super Hornets is extremely, extremely capable.
Okay.
And at first when they started seeing stuff, they were like, ah, it's just like, maybe it's the radar, just give me a false target.
Eh, that radar really doesn't give false targets.
And then someone did exactly what Chad did, is they threw their targeting flare out there, and all of a sudden when you see a heat signature, there's a return, there's obviously something out where that blip is at.
It's going – it's screaming across the ocean at a very high rate of speed.
And there's been some debunkers that say, well, it's really not going that fast.
It's just the way the airplane is and how the mechanics of the pod are working.
When you talk to the crew – because it's actually – I could ask my bud.
I'm pretty sure it's the same backseater took both of these videos.
Took the GoFast video and took the gimbal video.
And my buddy was on the flight with the gimbal video.
But they – these things – so I call my bud because I'm like, hey, how many people are seeing these things?
They're like 60 or 70. 60 or 70. 60 or 70 people had seen these things on radar.
And I said, well, what do you do?
And they said, well, we put out a NOTAM, which is a notice to airmen that just says, hey, these things are out there, so just be careful because we don't want you to hit one.
You go – because you would ask, you know, who do you tell?
Well, everyone knows.
Well, what do you do?
And I said, well, because it was all white and it didn't have any markings on it and it didn't have any wings and it didn't have any rotors and it was just – it outperformed anything that we have.
I think if I would have painted China or Russia on the side...
Eerily similar to the propulsion system that Lazar talked about.
And that's why this video, we're seeing it very differently now, especially with what we know about Lazar.
But the idea is that it would fly belly first in high speed mode.
So if they have, these are gravity propelled.
This is something that's known within the government.
They're trying to back engineer it.
They're trying to understand it.
We know there's a program currently that they said is gone.
However, it is currently active to study this.
These things will turn belly first, the saucer type looking ones, and then that's the high speed mode because they focus allegedly, you know, these gravity wave amplifiers.
Look, this thing turns mechanically.
Again, no typical form of propulsion, as an expert is telling you.
This is not a glitch.
This is seen by multiple radars, multiple people.
Commander Fravor was so close to it.
This is something that is not aerodynamic, and it could move in ways and fashions.
When he's underplaying it, when we first talked, the idea of this thing going...
It's instantaneous acceleration back and forth.
There's no slowing down, no turning like a ping pong ball.
He said to me our first talk, ping pong ball in a glass.
Nothing moves like that with traditional reactionary propulsion.
Somebody has technology that we don't have in our inventory.
It's – well, it's not – if you talk – because I was just talking to the guy the other day and he said the irony with it is these things would be out there for hours.
We don't have, you know, a high-performance airplane does not have hours worth of gas.
I mean, you know, Hornets, if we don't have aerial refueling, you know, and we're actually out doing a mission and fighting and going fast, you know, you're talking hour and a half and you're coming back to land.
Some airplanes are even less, you know, based on their size.
You know, so like an F-16 doesn't have external fuel tanks.
So, you know, even our intercontinental bombers like B-2, they still take off in the air or fuel.
They keep topped off so they can get to range.
That's how we extend things.
You got something like this that's coming down.
You know, just think of the physics.
So just, I'll use my instinct because that's the one I really know the best is you've got an object coming from above 80,000 feet.
So...
I'll just tell you that 80,000, it's somewhere around 70-80,000 feet is where you can actually start to see the curvature of the Earth.
You know, so that's considered space.
So they're coming from above that.
They're coming straight down, they stop at around 20,000 feet, they hang out for three hours, and then they go straight back up.
So, and I know you had Elon on the show.
So, SpaceX is really excited because they can launch a rocket and then they can have the booster come back to Earth and actually land on a pad.
Very impressive engineering feat.
Next to this technology, that's like a Model T next to a Porsche.
I mean, it's like, wow, really?
That's it?
You know, and you got something that can just at will move around.
Now take it to the next level, and I know there's a lot of talk about this, so Dave's going to go into speculation mode.
But when you take a shape like that, so just take the tic-tac shape, which is shaped like a submarine.
If you're using a propulsion that's non-reactive where you're just manipulating the median that you're in, air, whatever, you can go into the water.
So when you hear all the reports of, hey, we've seen these things since World War II that would come out of the water and fly, if you have a technology like this, as long as the object is sealed where you're not going to get water inside of it, there's nothing that says you can't do that.
Because all you're doing is you're not, you know, where a jet engine sucks in air and blows it out the back or a propeller actually pushes the water.
It's a force.
Now you've got something that's actually manipulating the gravity field and it's just moving through a void.
Then it doesn't, then air, you could literally in theory fly, go into the ocean, cruise around, pop back up, fly around, go to space.
Nothing, you remove the barriers of the normal propulsion that we have today.
There's been many instances of sightings off the coast of California of things that plunge into the water or escape from the water and take off into space.
So Commander Fravor's encounter, it's not the most documented.
It's not the most dramatic.
However, it has had the most impact out of any sighting because of his credibility and the mere fact that the New York Times picked it up with video footage, radar evidence, and somebody who We're good to go.
About UFOs because of this encounter.
It's so much evidence, it has so much power to it compared to other ones.
So I was sitting at home and usually when people try and find me, they get my wife's cell phone because it's the first one on the cell phone bill and it's all in my name.
So I see this call from California and I'm like, and normally I don't answer them.
And it's her phone.
I'm like, who's calling my wife?
Because that is me.
So I answer it, and this lady says, hey, is Commander Fravor there?
And I go, who's calling?
And she goes, well, I'd like to talk to Commander Fravor.
I go, who's calling?
And she says, hi, I'm a 79-year-old woman, and I would just like to tell him my story.
I go, well, you're talking to him.
And she goes, I've never in my life told anyone this.
She goes, I grew up, my dad was in the Navy.
She goes, he was stationed in Rhode Island at first when she was a child.
She said we were walking, her and her mom were walking on the beach and they saw these weird lights.
So that kind of got her into that, ooh, UFOs.
She goes, a few years later they had moved to San Francisco.
So I imagine Treasure Island, because at her age it would have been, you know, probably in the 50s.
Her dad was, she said her dad was working as a Navy liaison to the agency.
He came home one day and he had a telegram in his hand.
And she goes, for some reason he let me read it.
She's telling me this story.
And I said, well, what did it say?
She says it was, it basically said, hey, unidentified objects going in and out of the water and it had a latitude and longitude in it.
And he looked at her.
She goes, and I'm a child and I always remember this.
She says, he looked at me and said, we get these all the time.
And it's always in the same area.
And I go, of course, I go, well, you got the telegram?
She goes, of course not.
He had to take it back to work.
I said, you don't have to remember that latitude and longitude.
She said, no.
She goes, but you seem to be so credible and believable.
She goes, I wanted to tell someone the story that I've never told anyone in my life.
So that's what you're starting to see is people that, you know, very credible.
They're not crazy.
They're not making stuff up, but they're coming out and going, hey, I've had these experiences.
And I've got a lot of that from...
Over the last two years where people just find my email and send me stuff saying, hey, this happened to me or I saw this.
And there's – some things are explainable because I got asked to tell this.
So because we're kind of – I have a sick sense of humor at times.
So like I said, I had all these quals.
So we used to fly – they don't do it right now because it's a little bit dangerous.
But we used to fly night vision goggles low altitude in Hornets.
So we would go out at night flying around on goggles and you'd see a campfire.
And you go, oh, UFO time.
And then you get the airplane going about 600 knots and then you pull the power back to idle so you can't hear it.
And you get zinging towards the fire.
Well, you turn the lights are all down because we're in a restricted area so we can do that.
And there's lights on it that you can only see if you're on night vision goggles.
So the other airplanes can see us, but no one else can see us.
Then you go zinging at it, and then right when you get to the campfire, you pull the airplane into the vertical, you stroke the afterburners, you let them light off, you count to three, you pull them off, and then you just go away.
Instant UFO reporting.
I'm sitting out in the desert, it's all quiet, and then all of a sudden there's a lure, there's lights in the sky, and they go away and it's gone.
Yeah, I'm not that creative, but it's just, you know, you think about it and you go, because people go, I saw this or I saw that because I've got stuff like that.
And I go, yeah, I used to create stuff like that, just not tell.
Well, again, it's IR footage, which is really interesting.
They actually got the cameras for drug runners, right?
Yeah.
So you can see in the infrared, so it's beyond the observable, you know, eye.
I myself have not detailed looked at the footage.
However, FLIR experts and people that work with NSA have looked at it for me.
And these are not lights in the distance.
These are craft, very similar to what Commander Fravor talks about, without plumes, without heat signatures, you know, non-traditional field propulsion systems.
There's now admitted an increased frequency that a Pentagon spokeswoman finally went off script.
I was tracking the scripts for the last two years of what Pentagon spokespeople say about Commander Fravor's experience.
Someone went off script last week in the New York Times, and she admitted there's an increased frequency of near misses because of these AAVs, anomalous aerospace vehicles.
So, it's pretty astounding.
We're getting all these kind of revelatory moments in these little seeds that these are not ours.
We don't have this.
Even Elon doesn't have this.
I mean, this is a propulsion system unlike anything we have.
Well, the pod is, you know, when you get pretty narrow, it'd be like, you know, if I put three people around you, I can look at you and not see the other people.
So that's what the pod is doing.
But the radar is seeing everything because it has an AESA radar in it, which is an active electronically scanned array.
So instead of like the radars we had, which did the mechanical, you know, doing this...
Like old school, this thing is just a panel that sits in the front of the airplane and through beam shaping it can move and it can look all over.
So we used to have what was called track while scanned so we would be able to track a target while we're still scanning.
This thing has scan while – it scans while tracked.
So it literally – if it sees you, if the radar sees you, it has basically a weapons quality solution and it can do that on multiple targets.
That's the same way the spy radar, the Aegis system, works on the cruisers.
It can track multiple targets and have weapons quality on all these different targets while it's still scanning a volume.
The radar is seeing the object that the pod is looking at where they're talking.
And when you hear the video, you hear the pilot say, Dude, look at the SA page.
There's a whole fleet of them.
So what they're seeing is...
The pod is looking at the main – that's the bigger object at the gimbal, the thing that's rotating on the screen.
And there's five smaller things in front.
So this thing is just sitting there and then they kind of – he said they turn around on the radar and start going the other way while the pod is looking at this guy just kind of rotating.
People come out of the woodwork when they figure out you've had this because now they don't feel alone.
So I was working – I still do it, but I was doing oil and gas at the time on a contract and one of the guys, the story came out and he was a Navy helicopter pilot.
And he comes in and he goes, can I talk to you, man?
I go, what about you?
He goes, dude, I got to talk to you.
I said, what do you want to talk to me about?
He says – Dude, do you know your UFO? He said, yeah.
He goes, I had a similar experience.
I said, what's that?
He said he was flying CH-53s, which is a big lift, heavy lift that the Marine Corps uses and the Navy uses it for certain things.
And when they go off of – for the East Coast, they do a lot of shooting off of – at the time, it was off of Puerto Rico.
We had Roosevelt Roads that they ended up closing.
But he was flying out of there.
And you got super clear Caribbean water.
And they have these things.
They're called BQMs.
They fly around.
And then when they're all done because they'll fly towards the ships and the ship can – sorry about that.
They can track with the radar.
And then they also do – like the ships or submarines shoot torpedoes.
They're called telemetry rounds.
So they have – they gather all the data on what the torpedo is doing underwater.
And then they blow ballast and this thing will come to the surface and float.
And then they go pick them up and then they can extract all the data out of them.
So they do it for both.
So he said the first time they're out and they're going to pick up this BQM. And those things, when they're flying, they're done.
A parachute comes out and they got to go.
They hook it up.
The helo drops the swimmer in the water.
He goes and hooks this whole thing up and then they hoist the whole thing up and fly back and then they extract the data.
So he says he's sitting in the front, you know, in helicopters, there's, you know, CH-53, you can actually see down by your feet, you know, just like typical, like you go to Hawaii and ride the suit because you can see when you're touching down.
So you got really good visibility out of those things and you can stick your head out the window too because you're just kind of hanging out.
He says he's going on there and they're getting this thing hooked up and as he's looking down, you know, because they're, I don't know what, 50 feet above the water, he sees kind of this dark mass coming up from the depths.
And they're starting to hoist the diver up and they've got the BQM and as they hoist it up, he says, and he's looking at this thing going, what the hell is that?
And then it just goes back down underwater.
It's just like, once they pull the kid and the BQM out of the water, this object descends back into the depths.
So he thinks, well, that was pretty weird.
So he goes out.
He says not too long later, you know, a few months later, he's out and he's picking up a torpedo.
So he says they got the – they hooked the diver up on the winch and they're lowering him in.
And as he's looking down, he sees this big, massive – he goes, it's not a submarine.
He's seen submarines before.
Once you see a submarine, you can't confuse it with something else.
This big object, you know, kind of circular, he says, is coming up from the depths.
And he starts screaming through the intercom system to tell him to pull the diver up.
And the diver is like a few feet from the water.
So they reverse the winch and the diver's thinking, what the hell's going on?
And he's getting pulled up and all of a sudden he said the torpedo just got sucked down underwater.
And the object just descended back down into the depths.
And then you get to people that attribute it as, ah, something happened when it blew ballast and it just took on water and sank.
And he's like, it didn't sink.
He goes, it literally looked like it got sucked down.
The only reason they didn't, they talked to him when they did the New York Times stuff, they talked to him, but because the incident was from the 90s, they wanted something newer, so they did not include it, but I know they talked to him about it.
It actually looks more like a Tic Tac, but they saw it going across the water, and they're just grabbing a lock.
So they're seeing this with their eyes, and he gets the FLIR to lock on it, and that's when you hear the kid go, oh, I got it, because he gets the auto track, and it's just something screaming across the surface of the water.
So the idea that these are birds, or the idea that this is a radar glitch, or somebody said pilot error, like on a clear blue day, Commander Fravor has nerves.
I mean, that kind of thing that people have said on your show to you, these are explanations that make sense.
Yeah, so the probability that all the radars went off at the wrong time, Commander Fravor had nerves, all the other pilots up there with him, that this thing shot off like a gun instantly, that that was somehow perfectly coordinated.
That's a conspiracy.
That's a fabrication.
Probably, Occam's Razors, the events happened exactly like we're being told.
Yeah, for us it was – and I'll go back to the beginning of the story of the other pilot who was brand new.
She had been in the squadron for four months, five months.
So she's pretty junior.
She was still working on her initial qual on the airplane.
And so she gets the – we get the real-world vector and it's like, OK, real-world vector, cool.
I'm going to get to do something real, exciting.
Then you see the water and you think, oh, something is sinking because it's kind of that shape of an airplane, that cross type.
So now it's – oh, crap.
Now it's search and rescue.
We got to go down and see because there's people and we are sympathetic.
And to the tic-tac and as soon as the tic-tac, it's like – Holy shit, what is that?
And when you get – some people get very emotional when you talk about it because for me it was like – for her, when you talk to her, she has a disdain for some of the leadership that didn't tell us that these things were out there.
Here now we're getting vectored because we were the first time the manned airplanes had been airborne when one of these things showed up.
That no one even gave us a brief that, hey, we're seeing these objects out here for the last two weeks.
You might want to know they're out there.
And they never told us.
No one knew these things existed besides the radar operators.
And the radar operators didn't know what they were.
They just knew they were seeing blips.
So there's a lot of stuff that it flew around and it came around me and it didn't do any of that stuff.
The story that I gave you is just relatively benign, but it's an interesting experience.
We went out at the beginning of the month for this two-week at-save period.
We pulled in for Thanksgiving, but other than that, we were out until, I think, December 21st is when we pulled the ship back in, besides pulling in for the three days of Thanksgiving.
So yeah, for the two weeks prior, so this was on the 14th, and we went out at the beginning of the month.
So about two weeks, they'd been watching these things come down, go up, come down, go up.
But it was always when we were not flying, which is really probably like the midnight timeframe until early in the morning, you know, until noon the next day.
And then we just happened to go.
And if you think about it, you know, I laugh.
You know, if there was some little green man flying around in that Tic Tac, he probably got back to the mothership and got yelled at for being seen.
So have you communicated with anybody that has any thoughts on what these things are doing or whether or not there's any consistency to the size of them or whether or not they think they're coming out of a larger object or anything along these lines?
I describe it as – it's about the size of a 737. So just think if you submerge the 737, pointing it to the east underwater by like 10, 15 feet.
So as these waves are coming across, when they hit that object, they're going to break on top just like you would with a submerged like a seamount.
So, and it's, they're breaking, and that's where the Tic Tac was at.
That's the only reason we saw the Tic Tac.
That's what drew our eyes down there, is we see this whitewater when it's a perfectly clear day with no whitecaps, and you go, whoa, what's that?
And then you see the Tic Tac, and then we, you know, we do all the chasing of the Tic Tac, and we turn, we're right there.
And we turn around, and there's no whitewater.
It's just blue as far as you can see.
So, at that point, you go, okay, what was it doing?
Because there was obviously something there that's not there now.
So that's where I say, well, it was observing us.
It could have been communicating with whatever was there.
And then someone else looked at me and said, I was talking to Lou, and he goes, what about prepping the battlefield?
I go, okay.
So if you go, where are these things from?
We don't know.
Are they from China, Russia, someplace else?
I don't know.
But it's a capability that we do not possess to my knowledge.
And if you ask me in 2004, because there's a lot of guys go, well, maybe it's some secret government program.
I go, All right.
Well, let's be honest.
One, if you have a propulsion system that made – it gave the capabilities that we observed visually, that's a huge leap for mankind period.
So you would say, yeah, it was – you know, think about it.
It's going to be 15 years next month that we saw this.
I would like to think that – OK, maybe – let's just say in 2004 it was something.
Somebody had this.
Some government had this.
I don't – ours, whatever.
If you come to now, you go 15 years later, you don't think that technology would have emerged because it literally would change everything we do.
I mean we're happy about hybrid and electric cars and all this other stuff, but if you've got something that works like that, It would change air travel forever.
Think of a 40-foot-long Tic Tac that can move at will through the air at speeds well beyond what we've ever witnessed.
I mean, even when you watch a rocket go off, you know, one of Elon's or one of the NASA, whatever, you know, you sit there and while I grew up during the Apollo ages where you just look at the thing and go up, up, up, up, up.
I've seen them shot out of Vandenberg where you go, you know, I'd sit in my house in Central California and you'd watch it go up and go, oh, I can watch that thing for a while.
This is something that just like, poof, in a matter of seconds is gone.
There's all kinds of stuff on there about people talking about stuff.
But here's the question is, what do you believe?
What do you not believe?
And my biggest frustration is...
You know, our incident and even the folks on the East Coast, it is what it is to us.
There's no reason to embellish.
There's no reason to make stuff up.
But yet there's still groups of people that are making stuff up like someone came out on ours, was talking about, and he's like, oh, I saw the whole video is 10 minutes long and it was doing all this.
It's bullshit.
What you see is that's literally the entire video.
It's a minute and a half long.
I think it's about a minute and a half long.
What people haven't seen that I saw, I mean, I've seen the radar tapes because I had them as my squadron.
You know, I've heard, you know, the men in black, you know, I just, you know, maybe the, okay, I'll give you the credit if they did, but why wouldn't they show up and talk to the guys who actually witnessed it, chased it, and is one of the senior guys in the battle group?
Right, and it's also possible that that men in black stuff was something that they used to do back in the day and that that program is no longer continued.
Jeremy, you would know this, the older sightings, when they go back into the day, to historical sightings, not Columbus, but in the 50s and 60s, did they have similar things that they talked about, or something moved in this manner?
Yeah, it's absolutely incredible, and I want to dumb this down, because that's how I had to understand it.
When I was talking with Commander Fravor years before I kept his secret, years before the New York Times blew it up, I told them it was probably going to happen, it wasn't by me.
We're talking about it.
This system that we have seen for over 70 years, just documented by our military, this is so important.
This is a non-reactionary field propulsion system.
Everything we know is a reactionary propulsion system.
You push something out the back, it goes forward.
This is not like a mag system.
This is a gravitational fuel propulsion system.
And throughout history, our military has documented them.
And there has been ridicule.
And I'll tell you exactly why.
In 1952, there was a huge flyover of Washington, D.C. Jets were scrambled.
All the papers covered it.
It's a very famous case everybody can look up.
It's an important case.
Because at that time, a policy was started.
And that policy started because it crashed our communications, the teletypes went down, the panic of the UFOs that were being seen by people with fighter pilots trying to capture and trying to engage them.
And it crashed the teletypes.
So our government was like, oh, that's not happening again because Russia could use that as a scare tactic.
So this policy of denial, don't look here, nothing to see, move on, UFOs are fake.
That's what Project Blue Book was tasked to do specifically.
The guy who ran it admitted that, that it was tasked to debunk this and demystify the UFO thing.
Do you know of, there's a very famous painting that shows what appears to be men in crafts flying through the sky in the background of an ancient painting?
That's the argument of Miracle of Fatima, let's say.
And again, this is so speculative.
We have a witness here, you know, a pilot.
But when you see something like the Miracle of Fatima, if you look at that… What is the Miracle of Fatima?
God, that's that one that was, you know, considered a real miracle by the church and the three kids were getting messages, I'll get this all wrong, but for like months that they're going to be visited and to bring people in bigger and bigger groups gathered to where there was over 100,000 people.
It is fascinating, but it's way more fascinating when someone like you talks about it versus some fucking random kook.
That's what makes me incredibly interested, is your credibility and the fact that you don't have a history of seeing wacky shit that other people don't see.
But it's on video, and there's other ones as well.
It's really strange.
I've seen people try to explain it away, and what I don't like about when they explain it away or attempt to explain it away is that they're trying really hard.
They're not going, who knows what this fucking thing is.
They're not looking at it, like, cleanly.
They're looking at it like...
A quote-unquote skeptic.
I don't like the idea of being a skeptic.
Not that I don't think you should be skeptical of certain things.
I certainly think you should be.
But there's a lot of people that brand themselves as skeptics.
And I think it's a lazy way to look at things.
I really do.
Because I think you're just looking for the holes in things without looking at it objectively.
If you wanted to be a scientist, if you wanted to be someone who is a fan of science, then you have to look at it as a thing.
Look at this information and let's study this without any bias, any preconceived notions.
I don't think they're doing that.
They're looking at it and they're trying to find a way where they can justify that it's fake.
And they're just doing all sorts of mental gymnastics to try to make it fake.
That video that you show where that thing slips off to the left and takes off at incredible rates of speed, that alone should freak people the fuck out.
Like when you're talking about how they were informing you that they were seeing these things previous to your mission, when you're doing this exercise and they let you know that they're seeing these things, did you say, hey, how frequent is this?
There's other situations that have happened out there, but I would say, you know, for this, I don't even know...
One, you've got to take it serious.
We have a tendency, if we don't know what it is, if we just ignore it, it'll go away.
You know, and I joke, you know, there was an incident years, it's probably not too far off the same time frame, but I think it was like the Constellation was doing her workups before she got decommissioned, and an Oscar class, a Soviet Oscar class submarine surfaced behind her, right?
And then it's, now it's like, you know, go to battle stations, World War III, how did this foreign submarine get in our area and has been monitoring our workups?
I said, but now we go out and we have these things that are coming at will, and there's nothing we can do about it.
We don't know what they are.
We have confirmed sighting by two aircrew, four of us, two planes, that said, look, this is not an airplane.
This is not a weather balloon.
This is not a blip.
It has performance well beyond, you know, and the airplanes that we were flying at the time were literally brand new Super Hornets right out of the Boeing factory.
I mean, these were brand new first Block II series that came out.
And you go, why wasn't something done?
You know, it's like, ah, we don't know what it is.
I think it's good now, you know, the moves that have happened over the last, you know, two years since the original article came out that, you know, now there's a new reporting for the pilots.
The Navy's acknowledged, hey, these things, we don't know what they were.
You know, they're starting to take it serious because, you know, I know there are other events that are not out, recent events where people have been called in to go, hey, I've seen this thing.
So the investigation process is still going on.
We don't – the military doesn't stop.
Even if you take funding away, we don't stop.
We don't stop until we're told to stop.
So what's going on?
You go, well, AATIP ended.
They spent $4.5 million a year on it.
I think it was $4 million.
It was $22 million over the five years.
So you go – What are they doing since then?
Well, I mean I'm pretty sure there are still people looking at this and there are still people that are taking this serious.
I will tell you that – I won't get into specifics but there are people inside the United States government that are taking this serious and I've been down to D.C. twice to talk to folks.
You know, behind closed doors to go because they want to hear the story.
Well, that was always the speculation about, like, what would someone do if they became president?
Well, the first thing I would do is I would tell everybody about the UFOs.
I would ask immediately, what's going on?
And I always thought about it, I said, how many people actually know what's going on?
And how much of the information, I mean, it's not like, if they're dealing with something like this, like your experience, it seems like what you described is what is known.
So it's this anomalous event where this thing defies our current understanding of technology, and then it's gone.
And I think when people start talking about anything that's not proven or anything that's connected to a bunch of loony people that are making up stories, which UFOs certainly are.
Yeah, he's proven to have done tons of hoaxes with this, but here's the deal.
Sometimes I think people have a real experience, and they're always like chasing that dragon, and they get UFO disease, and the brain goes fucking berserk, right?
I know that there are people that have had profound experiences, and then they can't ever replicate them, so then they just start going crazy.
And I don't blame them for it, but you got someone like Commander Fravor, when he saw that AAV, anomalous aerospace vehicle, his reaction was, I want to fly it.
This idea that maybe we're not alone, that some of these other stars have planets that are maybe technologically advanced.
So the next thing people say, and new eras are going to say, well, they're not coming here because the distance is so vast.
Hold the fuck up.
From the very beginning, when Bob Lazar came forward and talked about field propulsion, gravity propulsion, Distance becomes completely irrelevant.
So if we believe, and the radars are right, and Commander Fravor saw this thing move in like a ping pong ball in a glass of water, it's gravity propelled, that's why you can make those maneuvers without exploding, then distance becomes completely irrelevant for travel.
Like before photography was invented, which is shockingly recent, right?
You ought to draw pictures of things you saw, just like those people that drew or painted those images of those men and whatever those things were with Christ in the background.
The idea that we could understand what some insanely impressive technology from a planet that is nowhere near us could manifest.
Bob's account in that they saw him get on and off the red and whites, the Janet flights that come on, somebody that went to Papoose Lake and was stopped by non-military guards at that time, people that were aware of Site 4 and ET exploitation projects.
One is an SR-71 pilot that I've been talking with for a couple years.
These people are coming forward now, and it's like I'm sick and tired of doing it, these little nitpicky things about Bob.
There was a program.
There was a back engineering program.
They've admitted there are materials.
So this is like the meta-materials you heard about in the New York Times, all that.
We have materials associated with UFOs that are interesting.
So this is something that was launched in the first New York Times article, I believe, in December of 2017, that there is studies being done right now on materials associated with UFOs, right?
So actual metals that have come off of, you could say, crashes or just- Not that it explained that there was something – they were with Eric Weinstein that was explaining that there was someone who reportedly has something along those lines.
And what they will find, because the ones they're talking about, I actually took to New Mexico and had five scientists study it in About five years ago, I got my hands on it, got to study it, the famous parts they're talking about now.
It's layered, and the way it's layered is what they're trying to see if it's anomalous elementally or the way that the elements are bound together and also the atomic level of layering is what's interesting.
That's how you get a superconductor or something like that.
If you take a piece of graphene and it's highly machined so it doesn't deviate from that atomic layering, you can push it right through ice like a hot knife through butter.
It's the weirdest feeling in the world because you just take this piece of what feels like graphene and it just goes right through butter because it's a superconductor and the heat from your hand Melts the ice.
So that is a metamaterial.
It doesn't occur naturally.
Humans created it.
And it has special properties because of the way it's atomically layered.
So if these materials are from somewhere else, then we suspect that they're going to be highly machined, that they're going to be created for special use.
So my whole point is our material science has not caught up with the physics that we understand for these field propulsion systems.
I'm just telling you, believe me or not, but you'll hear more about it, that That our material science in 1989 and today is our limiting factor.
And as our material science gets better as humans, we know how these things work.
Now the fuel source, that's a whole other conversation.
But as far as creating these machines, that's what we're trying to do.
That's why there is secrecy.
We're trying to exploit the technology because whoever exploits it first wins.
It's a game changer.
We don't want Russia to do it.
We don't want China to do it.
If we had a non-reactionary propulsion system, the world would look different instantaneously.
And if I could get word out to anyone, it's like, you know, especially the debunkers of, one, quit trying to debunk it, because it is what it is.
It wasn't a There wasn't a system glitch.
I mean this was a real incident that happened.
Number two is let's open our aperture a little bit and start thinking outside of the box.
If you go – you look at it and go, hey, it's this non-reactive propulsion.
Well, it's because when we came up with propulsion, we – the people long before us came up with a reactionary propulsion system and that became our standard.
Had we done something different or we developed non-reaction, we might look at something like a gasoline engine and go, holy cow, how does that thing work?
We wouldn't have that idea.
So I think there's – if you look at it and go – people thought Einstein was kind of nuts and we're still proving his theories today and what we're learning is that he was right.
And he was right.
There was a time when the earth was flat, except for some people in California.
So when you look at that and you go, you know, a lot of the stuff that we thought was true… Isn't true.
It's totally been changed.
So for me, I just say I think let's get outside of the box and go – if we can develop a technology that would – and I don't look at it from a military standpoint because it would be a game changer from a military standpoint.
Technology like that would be a game changer for mankind completely.
I mean it would literally – everything that we do – and we don't know exactly.
Do you want that system in a car?
You know, people have trouble driving in two dimensions, let alone three.
Yeah, if you get out on the road, you see how people drive.
And I always laugh because people think, well, we're three-dimensional.
Like we know that this table is not the floor, but really humans are two-dimensional people.
And you learn that, especially when we would fight.
If you can really work in the third dimension, which is up, and you go, well, we are three-dimensional.
I go, no, if you look at like a tall building is, you know, 1,700 feet high, the big ones.
And you go, no.
You know, for an F-18 to do a split S, which is go from up here and just do a vertical 180-degree turn, so you're going this way and you go down here.
It's like 2,500 feet.
And that's tight.
That's a tight turn for a jet.
You know, unless you're running like vector thrust stuff, but there's – everything has a cost.
So if you do some big high-acca, you bleed off energy.
There's a cost associated with that.
That, to a pilot, that's three dimensions.
To most people on Earth, you go – I look at a hill and I don't want to walk up that thing in an airplane.
It's a totally different thing.
So if we just open up that expanse for what we're trying to do for technology and go, is there another way?
Because we still build suckers and blowers, which is a jet engine.
We just refine the internals, the turbines to get them to be more efficient.
Where I go, why don't you just put your efforts someplace else?
Like I was talking to – there's a whole realm of physics that really doesn't get explained and it's – I was talking to Steve Justice about it.
It's more into the magnetics type side that we don't spend a lot of time on.
And I know what he said when he was working at Skunk Works, he did – it's called IRED, Internal Research and Development Money.
That he would fund to try and look at some of these other technologies for propulsion.
And he's now since retired.
But really impressive to talk to him at the level that you can, which is for us would be an unclassified level.
But the stuff that goes on behind closed doors, there's reasons for it.
If a technology like that got out where someone could rapidly reproduce it after all you've done or they got it first, you think of the atomic bomb.
Germans almost had it.
We got it.
Russians were working on it.
We got it first.
Changed the world.
Literally changed the world when we detonated the first one and you go – I'm not going to get into the politics behind it.
Now we had it and now it was the race everyone else because they had to get on equal par because it's a destabilizing thing.
And now all of a sudden if you develop a technology like this and you keep it to yourself, you've got something that no one else has and it's a huge leap.
Well, it's fascinating that some other method of propulsion could have been established in some other place, and that we're experiencing it, or that you've experienced it, and some other folks have experienced it, in action.
I just think for us as people, as human beings in 2019, it's really easy to think that what we have now is so amazing and that what we have now is the pinnacle of discovery and that what we have now is, you know, with our electricity and with our LED screens and that we are experiencing like the height of technology when if you're some creature from some other planet that is...
Got easy access to element 115 and some gravity propulsion system.
You're looking at us like we're digging holes in the side of a mountain to protect ourselves from the rain.
I mean, even though you knew that or you had this feeling that we were not alone just from looking at the stars, but when you actually see the thing, I would imagine that that has got to really shift your perspective.
To go – you go, yeah, I've always like, yeah, there's a lot of stars.
And then you see something like this and go, well, maybe we're not because that pushes you to the next point to go – one lands in my front yard, then I'll be 100 percent sure that we are not alone because it's sitting in my front yard.
Yeah.
I mean, I got within a half mile of this thing, which is, people go, well, a half mile is pretty far away.
Well, if you look at money though, I mean I know when the article came out and they talked about the ATIP program that Harry Reid got funded $22 million over five years.
So it's $4.4 million a year.
And you go – everyone is freaking out.
Oh, it's $22 million.
No, it wasn't $22 million a year.
It was $4.4 million.
That's not even in the rounding error for the United States.
We just got approved what?
It was $750 billion for a defense budget.
$750 billion.
If you took $100 million out of that, it's not even going to put a dent.
And I go, why can't you – if you're only spending $4.4 million a year and you can actually get some good work done because you don't need a huge team.
Because you figure if you look at I think – what's the number like?
10, 15 percent of all these UFOs like if you look at Project Blue Book really remained unexplained.
And you go, okay, so you can weed out, you know, you can weed out me flying over someone in a campfire and lighting my afterburners.
So you can go, no, that was Dave being Dave.
So you can weed that stuff out.
Now you go, now I'm really kind of concentrating the funds.
The most important thing, and I talked to the folks when we were talking, because we talked about funding.
And I said, let me leave you with this.
And I had got some pretty good stuff.
I was talking to Chris Mellon, who's a former undersecretary and understands how the government works.
It was where he gave me some really good feedback.
And I said...
I talked to him.
I said, look, I'm all for you guys funding a program, but what you need to do is fund a program that there's going to be oversight over.
When I say oversight, I mean because what happens is you go, here's money, but we're going to distribute it in the government, so we're going to distribute it to these three different agencies across the United States government.
Just call them agency A, B, and C. So you give it to them, and I'll go back to the 9-11 stuff where we really had the answer, but all the agencies weren't talking to each other to put all the pieces together, and that's my fear that You go, hey, we're going to take $100 million of taxpayer money.
We're going to fund a program to actually seriously investigate this stuff and look at the technology.
But there are three different entities working on their own and not talking to each other.
So there's got to be a joint collaboration until we go, we're going to do it.
But Joe is going to be in charge and you guys are all going to play nice in the sandbox together because we want to get our money's worth because people will raise the fraud, waste and abuse flag that we're wasting money on something stupid.
The video of our – the Tic Tac video, that thing first came out.
It's kind of funny.
The guy that was in my backseat had sent me an email, and this is about probably – So I was retired.
And he sent me this video.
He said, Skippers, does this look familiar?
And it was on strangeland.com, not suitable for work.
I'll just say that.
But I look and then next thing you know, it's on YouTube.
So when I would tell this story to my friends, I would go – I'd send them a link to the YouTube video.
And this is years before the New York Times article.
And then when they did the unofficial official report, the video was taken down off of YouTube.
And, you know, it kind of puzzled me, like, why'd you take the video down?
And I told the guys when they did the unofficial fish report, I said, what you really need to look at is how did this thing come off of a classified drive system on an aircraft carrier and end up on strangeland.com and YouTube?
Because at the time, the videos were classified secret.
And that's not because it was a UFO. It's the AT FLIR video.
They did not want that released.
So you'd see it on CNN. They blocked out all the performance stuff, what the airplane was actually doing.
In this case, you know, the one you see, it's 250 knots of the autopilot on, so it's not that big of a deal.
It's, you know, whenever someone tells you an awesome story, it's great to hear, but God, I wish I saw it myself.
You know?
It's like this thing.
You're telling me, and I'm like, wow, I'm listening, I'm trying to imagine, I'm putting it in my head, I'm visualizing it, but damn, I wish I could see it.