F/A-18 FLIR footage from the USS Theodore Roosevelt strike group (2015). Showed a craft orientating itself at a 90-degree angle while moving against 120-knot wind, a maneuver that violates conventional lift principles.
Pilot audio (via Elizondo)
“Dude, they’re not drones, bro. There’s a whole fleet of them. … They’re all going against the wind. The wind’s 120 knots west.”
Witnesses
Ryan Graves and other VFA-11 Red Rippers pilots
East Coast wave
The Gimbal footage is part of the sustained wave of US Navy training-range encounters off the East Coast of the United States that Ryan Graves’s VFA-11 pilots reported as near-daily. PURSUE Release 02 adds further East Coast sensor footage from 2019, the same operational pattern that drove the modern disclosure era.
Connections
Readings of the clip
Sceptical analysis argues that the object reads as hot rather than cold in the mode shown, and that the faint aura around it is a known camera artefact. Imminent records the same oddity from inside the programme, noting that “the object itself was indicated as being very hot; however, the air surrounding it was very cold” and that this “didn’t make any sense” (p. 149). The two accounts describe the same anomalous reading and part company on what causes it. The site’s Gimbal bench rebuilds the geometry from the targeting pod’s own figures.
Ryan Graves · Luis Elizondo · Five Observables · Tic Tac Incident · AATIP · PURSUE · USS Theodore Roosevelt · GoFast Incident · Imminent