A decade later, pilots stationed on the USS Theodore Roosevelt off the U.S. East Coast began seeing strange objects almost daily. Former Navy pilot Ryan Graves testified that these sightings followed a major radar system upgrade that allowed them to detect craft they previously couldn't see.
: The encounters weren't always distant. In one instance, an object passed between two aircraft at a close range of roughly 150 feet, nearly causing a mid-air collision. Common "Observables" of the Unidentified unidentified_naval_pilots_shocking_ufo_encounte...
The most famous of these encounters occurred on November 14, 2004, off the coast of Southern California. Commander David Fravor and Lieutenant Commander Alex Dietrich, flying F/A-18F Super Hornets from the USS Nimitz , were diverted to investigate a radar contact detected by the USS Princeton . A decade later, pilots stationed on the USS