Ryan Graves
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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Yeah. And just to be clear, the 170 doesn't represent its raw speed. This is the gimbal video, which is different.
This one's black hot. So this is showing us that it's hotter than the surrounding areas right now.
No. I mean, we've seen thousands of aircraft like that.
Yeah, you would see the exhaust coming out of the back. You'd be able to see the skin of the aircraft itself. So the sensor is not great, but it's good enough where you can break out some pretty good detail on a jet. I mean, it looks like a jet.
On the bottom left, you see 242 knots. That's how fast the aircraft that is recording is going. The pilots do talk about how it's going 120 knots against the wind. And in my recollection, it was going at a relatively slow speed for a fighter aircraft, around 100 knots or so at those speeds from looking at the radar data itself.
You would assume that the sensors on the ships themselves, if they were looking there, would be able to detect these objects. But we're not really linked into those people that are doing that on the boat. The pilots essentially took this upon themselves to go investigate this. And they reported to Intel when they came back. And that's where I saw the tapes.
And whether like the air traffic management guys on the boat themselves then took it upon themselves to go try to detect these objects, I don't have that information. I was never in that information stream. But presumably they would.
No, not within the jet itself. We can share the data amongst jets. So if you were flying out there and the aircraft that recorded that video was getting that on the radar, that information would be getting sent to other jets in the area.
There was a large training mission going on, and I'm not aware of anyone that was paying attention to those contacts that were, say, 50 miles away from where they were doing this fight. But it shouldn't have been just self-contained into the aircraft itself. And additionally, that information should have also been received by the ship itself, right?
They should have access to that same information that's being shared.
We don't, as pilots, we don't really get into the satellite game, if you will. You know, it's kind of like a different level than how we operate. So it's feasible that a ship might call in other national assets to investigate. But we operate as like a self-contained expeditionary group. So I don't know if that's part of their protocol.
Yeah.
Honestly, most people just kind of looked off into space.
Yeah, like, huh, that's interesting.
Yeah.
Only once. So when we had the gimbal captured, and just real quick, you know, the gimbal and the go fast happened within minutes of each other.
Yeah. The go fast, there was multiple objects in a line formation called line of breast. Right. How many? Flying side by side. Four. They were about a mile apart flying in formation, doing what they're doing. The pilots were looking at that, had a hard time locking it, and then...
they kind of brought their attention up to this other object that's basically co-altitude with them, and that's the gimbal video. And behind the gimbal, there was what they referred to as a fleet of objects, about four to six objects that were flying in a formation, like a tight formation, all within about a mile and a half of each other, like a V formation.
And so they come, they turn, they get all discombobulated, and then they flow back out into a clean formation, making a 180-degree turn, And then the gimbal object, which we see start to rotate, that's the moment it actually changes direction. So it's proceeding behind this formation. It turns. The gimbal does its kind of maneuver, and then it starts trailing in the opposite direction.
So you've got, you know, maybe 10, 12 objects that are out there operating in this area east of the ship. We're already 300 miles out there. And so where do they come from? You know, what are they doing? Are they assessing our fight? Are they enemy combatants?
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