Ryan Bodenheimer

So almost like an unfinished paint job on this thing.

But yeah, triangle and it came past me, dusted me off.

And that's a move that we actually use in dogfights is a dust off where you do a merge and you get really close.

You know, if you're in combat, you want to rattle the other pilot.

That's the goal before you get into a merge with them to make them make a mistake.

And so that's what I felt like.

I was like,

that son of a bitch just dusted me off.

You know, it was like right next to my jet.

Probably, you know, if I had to guess 700 or so knots of closure, maybe, maybe more.

And no sign of a cockpit.

If I had to guess the size of it, I would say maybe the size of a lawnmower, maybe a little bit bigger than a lawnmower, you know, like a smaller type object.

But it definitely had the, what looked to me to be some sort of maneuverability there.

That woke me up.

So that's the conversation that then I then had with the flight leader.

And I said, hey, did you see anything out there?

Because and I kind of and to be honest, we didn't really have a relationship that was very open with communication at the time.

And so I didn't really push it too hard.

And then I brought it up to some other members that weren't in the formation that were coming in behind us.

So they were coming in behind us, but higher.