Routine UAP incursions reported off the U.S. East Coast

F/A-18F crews assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron 11, operating from Naval Air Station Oceana, report routine encounters with UAP off the U.S. East Coast. Two of the three Pentagon-released videos — 'GIMBAL' and 'GO FAST' — are recorded during this period.

What we know

Record type: Sighting
Primary source: linked
Named witnesses: 1
Media: —

Between approximately 2014 and 2015, F/A-18F Super Hornet crews assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron 11 (the 'Red Rippers') and other East Coast units reported what Lt. Ryan Graves later characterized in congressional testimony as effectively daily UAP encounters during work-up cycles in the Atlantic Warning Areas off the coasts of Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida.

Two gun-camera recordings from this period — designated 'GIMBAL' (recorded 21 January 2015) and 'GO FAST' (also 2015) — were officially released by the Department of Defense on 27 April 2020 alongside the 2004 'FLIR1' video. The encounters formed the basis of the December 2017 New York Times investigation that brought the existence of the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) to public attention.

Primary source

Institutional

U.S. Navy / Department of Defense

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