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Might be worth something to watch part of the Lex Fridman interview with one of the pilots, David Fravor. The entire podcast is four hours long and goes over his career and experiences, I'd argue establishes him as a competent naval officer and pilot. The timecode is when he describes the actual event- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB8zcAttP1E&t=4264s

In the interview he also describes the record keeping process and basically some of the head scratchers you're bringing about.

One other thing the pilot confirms in that interview is the validity (authenticity) of the leaked "Executive Summary" report, which, was leaked to media and (as far as I know) not really pursued for authenticity verification by others (PDF):

https://media.lasvegasnow.com/nxsglobal/lasvegasnow/document...

I think it was Richard Feynman who said the easiest person in the world to fool is yourself. I have no doubt this pilot is a good officer and pilot, but that doesn't mean he saw what he thinks he saw.

He is not the only highly qualified navy pilot who saw these crafts. [1]

And the 2004 event is not the only time the US Navy has seen these crafts. There was another event in 2014. [2]

[1] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/tic-tac-ufo-video-q-...

[2} https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/26/us/politics/ufo-sightings...

Oh, no, sorry - I deliberately didn't interpret the validity of the claim or try to address it. I don't live in the dream land, and I try to double check reality best I can.

To this day all I have from all this is head scratching and we have no proof of anything aside from that the Pentagon -for whatever reason- has confirmed that the cockpit videos were genuinely released by them. You can request them yourself from the Pentagon, directly.

I am convinced that the man is a good officer and a competent pilot. That is all. Occam's razor: things outlined in that report are true -or - the man is a true patriot, participating in a disinformation campaign design to bankrupt the Chinese or Russians in attempting to recreate some of the very expensive things outlined in the larger picture described here.

But I keep peeled to anything related to this story because the implication behind the claims are potentially world-changing.

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