Ryan Bodenheimer

I mean, you can just see.

You can see amazing things.

I can't give the exact numbers on what you can see with it.

Let's just... For the sake of this, it's amazing what you can actually see with this thing.

But on the way out of the airspace, for almost every sortie, we would see these little orbs.

And to me, they looked like...

um a sphere but not you know maybe half the size of a car is what i would estimate you know based on some of the um ranging that you can see in that targeting pod and then a lot of times they'd be you know going with the wind or going opposite direction of the wind it seems like the wind didn't really matter uh for the flight path of these things and the weapon systems operate in the back you know we just cue these up and try to track it and sometimes it was hard to track because we were far away or the object was a little too small so when i started to see

And I think it was there were some other sightings off the coast, off the East Coast.

I started to see some pilots come forward and I thought, well, yeah, we've seen these a lot.

So that's just something that I think was a normal thing for us where we were just like, yep, it's more of these orbs.

And then we would think that, hey, maybe these are launching from ships like they were small drones because there's tons of big container ships or oil tanker type ships below us.

So we kind of just wrote it off as that.

But that was kind of my first experience.

Yeah.

Like I would say not a balloon, uh, just based on going against the wind.

And then I didn't see any like quad copter type things, you know, on it that you could, you probably would be able to see at least on some of them, you'd be close enough on some of them to see that.

And then some of them would just disappear, you know, while they're being tracked, they would just disappear.

Um,

So, you know, that's something that we saw as well.

So, again, we don't really know what it was, but it was kind of it became like a bit of a game for the weapons systems operator because it's hard sometimes to track those things, to keep the cursors on him.