A Pentagon office told Congress on Tuesday that the department has solved the case of the famous UFO spotted over the Atlantic Ocean by a Navy plane in 2015.
The unknown object was captured in the grainy, black-and-white “Go Fast” video captured by a fighter pilot’s head-up display, saying, “Ohhh, go ahead!”
Dr. Jon Kosloski, director of the Defense Department’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), testifying under oath at a hearing held by the Armed Service Committee, said the infrared UFO video showed nothing more than “a trick of the eye’.
He attributed the UFO’s apparent high speed across the ocean to an optical illusion called “parallax,” but the agency did not otherwise identify the object.
Kosloski discussed only the UFO’s apparent speed, citing unspecified information that contradicted public meteorological data.
“The Go Fast,” Dr. Kosloski testified under oath, “looks like an object flying very quickly over the water, very close to the water.”
However, climate scientists, meteorological data, experienced Navy witnesses and even a computer simulation continue to cast doubt on the validity of the government’s “parallax” theory.
“I don’t think everything is being taken into account,” former U.S. Navy lieutenant and F/A-18F fighter pilot Ryan Graves said of AARO’s new statement.
“If the AARO office actually spoke to the pilots involved in that incident, they would know that the objects were part of a larger formation of objects, and thus very abnormal to be 300 miles offshore and within 50 miles of a operate on the American border. aircraft carrier.’
Public interest in UFOs increased in 2017 with the leak of three infrared videos of Navy pilots capturing “unidentified anomalous phenomena” (UAP). Above is a still from one of these videos, “Go Fast,” which the Pentagon tried to explain this week as a prosaic object blowing in the wind
Dr. Jon Kosloski (above) – the new director of the Defense Department’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) – told lawmakers that the US Navy’s famous ‘Go Fast’ infrared UFO video shows nothing more than “a trick of the eye called ‘parallax’
The ‘Go Fast’ footage was made public two years after pilots captured it from the USS Theodore Roosevelt off the east coast of Florida.
Lieutenant Graves told it NBC News after the AARO hearing that the ‘Go Fast’ UFO was just one of many swarms of UFOs cited by the crew of the USS Roosevelt as a flight safety risk, including the equally famous ‘Gimbal’ UFO video.
But Kosloski assured the court that there was a reasonable explanation for what the pilots saw that day.
The Pentagon official said a geospatial intelligence analysis, using trigonometry, which is ‘done very carefully’.
“We assess with high confidence that the object is not actually close to the water, but rather at a depth of 4,000 meters,” he continued.
The speed of the F/A-18 Navy fighter jet that shot the “Go Fast” video created the illusion that the object was traveling at an inexplicably high speed, according to Kosloski.
Dr. Kosloski – a former scientist at the National Security Agency (NSA) – is the second person to serve as director of the Pentagon’s UFO-hunting All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). Above, the new AARO boss shows the Senate a ‘trigonometry’ analysis slide
Above is the main slide about the ‘Go Fast’ UFO from AARO’s presentation to the US Senate
Data from ERA5’s reanalyzed climate dataset, for both January 21 (left) and January 24 (right), shows that only on the later date were wind speeds approaching 120 knots near the region or a cruising altitude of 25,000 feet reported by the pilots of the Navy.
“As the platform flies and captures the object, if it is closer to the platform at a higher altitude,” said Dr. Kosloski told the Senate, ‘a trick of the eye called ‘parallax’ makes it appear as if the object is moving much faster. .’
“Analysis of contemporary weather patterns in the area at the time of the event,” according to one of the AARO director’s slides, presented under oath, “indicates that winds were approximately 60 knots at 13,000 feet.”
Crucially, however, Navy pilot witnesses in the GIMBAL video, filmed in the same area about 15 minutes after the ‘Go Fast’ video, stated that at their altitude of about 25,000 feet the wind was then blowing ‘120 knots to the west. ‘
A computer simulationcreated by noted UFO skeptic Mick West, found that the ‘Go Fast’ object would have been significantly faster than 40 miles per hour when this wind speed is taken into account.
In the most conservative simulation the skeptic would perform, the UFO would be traveling at 100 knots or 185 km/h.
Public wind speed data from the time and location of the ‘Go Fast’ observation confirms this analysis, collected from multiple systems by the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.
The data is publicly available through the organization ERA5 has reanalyzed the climate datasetused by researchers to obtain reliable, hour-by-hour global weather information.
The ERA5 maps are marked with a red dot at the bottom of the east coast near Naval Station Mayport in Jacksonville, Florida – in an attempt to approximate where the Navy fighter pilots reported witnessing the GIMBAL and GOFAST UAP in January 2015
ERA5 data near the date, region and altitude of the ‘Go fast’ UFO episode was obtained by DailyMail.com in September 2023 by a PhD student in climate research who wished to remain anonymous.
When this ERA5 data pointed to a 100-knot ‘Go Fast’ UFO, it showed Josh Semeter of NASA’s UAP Advisory Panel, a professor at Boston University, told DailyMail.com via email, “Yes, an object speed of 100 knots is within the range of plausible solutions.”
“But based on uncertainties in the wind vectors and the trajectory model,” Semeter added, “a speed below 40 knots cannot be ruled out.”
Regardless of the object’s speed, Lieutenant Graves noted that not only was the object still a UFO, but its presence along with “a whole fleet” of other UFOs in restricted U.S. airspace remains not only a mystery, but a serious problem for flight safety.
“I would say that … in particular, the ‘Go Fast’ video itself was never really interesting because it ‘went fast,'” Lt. Graves said.
“The pilot certainly didn’t say that, and they didn’t name the video,” the veteran Navy fighter pilot added. “If anything, the Pentagon simply debunked their own nomenclature for that video.”