Mystery UFO’s Off of Virginia Remain Unidentified

Article by George Knapp                                              April 6, 2021                                              (kxnet.com)

• Military and intelligence officials remain baffled by unidentified aircraft that have been encountered in recent years off both coasts of the United States. Investigators with the Pentagon’s UAP Task Force have requested that military airmen try to document their encounters. On March 4th, 2019, one of them did. (see image above)

• Since at least 2014, Navy F-18 jet pilots out of Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach have reported encounters with a bizarre array of UFOs positioned directly in their daily flight paths over the Atlantic Ocean off of Virginia. On March 4th, 2019, an F-18 weapons systems officer (WSO) seated behind the pilot used his iPhone to capture images of three different objects they encountered in flight. One object was dubbed the ‘sphere’, another the ‘acorn’. A third object encountered on the same day was described as a ‘metallic blimp’.

• A previous photo of the ‘acorn’ UFO was published online in December 2020, and was said to resemble a toy Batman balloon. But after two years careful study by the UAP Task Force, the objects remain unidentified. The Task Force reports noted that the objects were able to remain stationary in high winds, with no movement, beyond the capability of known balloons or drones. Now, more photos of these strange UFOs have been released to the public.

• Mystery Wire learned of the still unreleased photos two years ago during a private briefing hosted by Robert Bigelow in Las Vegas on April 6, 2019. Speculation at the time was that the objects might be foreign spy drones, possibly Chinese. Mystery Wire’s George Knapp learned the Navy wanted to capture one for study, but that never happened.

• Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Michael Gilday maintains that the swarms of pyramid-shaped drones that buzzed Navy warships in July 2019 off of Los Angeles still defies explanation. (see previous ExoArticle here)  Last month, former National Intelligence Director John Ratcliffe told Fox News that he was briefed on the mystery drones. “We are talking about objects that have been seen by Navy or Air Force pilots,” said Ratcliffe. “Movements that are hard to replicate that we don’t have the technology for, or traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom.”

• The pyramid drone swarms that buzzed Navy destroyers in 2019 appeared in the same general area as the 2004 Tic Tac UFO, which was pursued by former Navy Commander Dave Fravor. Unlike previous decades, when the UFO topic was ignored or covered-up by the government, Fravor thinks there are reasons for the Pentagon’s new interest. “I look at it for two reasons,” said Fravor. “One, if there’s a capability, we can’t explain it. Number two, if you can explain it, then you can literally change everything that we do.”

MYSTERY WIRE — Military and intelligence officials say they remain baffled by unusual,

unidentified aircraft that have been encountered in recent years off both coasts of the United States.

Many of the objects have been referred to as drones, but that is not what Pentagon investigators have been telling the chain of command behind the scenes.

Naval Air Station Oceana is the center of airpower on the east coast of the United States. It is a sprawling naval air station in Virginia, home to the best aviators in the world.

Since at least 2014, F-18 pilots flying into the zone designated W-72 have reported encounters with a bizarre array of unknown, unidentified objects and aircraft, positioned directly in their daily flight paths.

Investigators with the Pentagon’s UAP Task Force have requested that airmen try to

document their encounters.

On March 4th, 2019, one of them did.

An F-18 weapons systems officer (WSO) seated behind the pilot used his iPhone to capture images of three different objects he encountered in the same airspace.

At 3:02 p.m. he photographed an odd shaped object. Another photo, taken close to the same time, was first posted to twitter on May 11, 2020, then again on social media 6 months later.

Other photos taken on the same day; March 4th, 2019 have never been made public until now.

The object the Navy calls the “Sphere” was photographed at 2:44 p.m.

The second one to be photographed was dubbed the “Acorn.” A similar, but different photograph of this same object was published online in December 2020.

Then, 12 minutes later, the WSO spotted a third object, described as the “Metallic Blimp.” It appears to have various appendages.

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