Gimbal video

“The second film would become world-famous years later by the name GIMBAL. It was slightly more intriguing because of the object’s unusual flight behavior.”

“The Gimbal video shows a UAP appearing to swivel on its axis in flight, manoeuvring in ways that defied known conventional aircraft capabilities.”

“it would later emerge that the Gimbal was almost certainly videoed sometime in late 2014 or early 2015 off the east coast of the US”

“That FLIR1/Tic Tac film was posted on the TTSA site along with another undated 34-second video known as the 'Gimbal'.”

“TTSA initially revealed very little about the Gimbal object other than that it was seen and videoed by US Navy fighter pilots at an unspecified location”

“I anticipated that their low resolution would be an asset and hasten the approval process. I chose the FLIR video (aka Tic Tac from 2004), and the GoFast and GIMBAL videos from 2015.”

“I described all three videos on a single Form 1910, which the DoD uses to request declassification of everything from documents to multimedia content.”

“Shortly after, the approval showed up in my inbox. DoDOPSR had officially stamped my Form 1910 with the following words: UNLIMITED DISTRIBUTION.”

“US Dept of Defence, 'Gimbal: Authenticated UAP Video', 13 December 2017, TheVaulttothestarsacademy.com.”

“When the film was shot, the pilots had just encountered a fleet of five UAP in their airspace. They managed to lock the camera on just one of these objects and watched as it flew from right to left of the screen.”

“In the video, the object looks elongated and white. But that color is somewhat misleading. Since the camera is in infrared mode, white merely indicates that the object is 'cold'—no heat emanating from the aircraft at all.”

“Staring them in the face is what looks like a stereotypical flying saucer out of some 1950s-era movie. The object is lenticular, with a bulge on its top and bottom. The object is now black, which in this camera mode also indicates that the object is 'cold'—no heat signature.”

“"It’s a f—in’ drone, bro," someone says. "Look, there’s a whole fleet of them! Look on the [radar]." ... "It’s damn sure not a drone," someone else responds. "They’re all going against the wind! The wind is 120 knots out of the west."”

“At 120 knots, the wind speed the pilots clocked is equivalent to 138-mile-per-hour winds.”

“Then the UAP slows, parks itself in the air, and begins to shift. The bulge on top swings from left to right, and now the bulge on its bottom faces the wind. At one point the object flies perpendicular to the oncoming wind, yet it doesn’t bend or tilt from the resistance.”

“Yet this object—which is heatless, wingless, and propeller-less, and spews no exhaust—parks itself at 20,000 feet in the sky and calmly flips itself over in winds that would be classified as a Category 4 hurricane on earth. It doesn’t even flutter or rattle like a kite.”

“What made GIMBAL so perplexing was the fact the object never lost altitude as it turned 90 degrees.”

“At one point, the Gimbal was stationary and then it apparently rotated through a 90-degree angle in the hover, a manoeuvre that is impossible for any known conventionally powered craft.”

“The TTSA website said the Gimbal had 'low-observability' on both video and radar”

“it also had no distinguishable flight surfaces, no 'obvious propulsion system', 'never-before-seen flight capabilities'”

“no 'obvious propulsion system'”

“'never-before-seen flight capabilities'”

“because of a strange shimmer on its surface, they speculated that it had a 'possible energy or resonance field of unknown nature'”

“Just like the 2004 Tic Tac, the Gimbal had no visible flight surfaces, no visible propulsion, and no heat signature.”

“It stayed stationary in one spot, even though there were 120 knots of wind against it, then it suddenly accelerated well above supersonic speeds.”

“Even stranger, the cluster of objects it was part of stayed aloft for hours, far beyond the fuel duration of any known conventional craft.”

“What he saw on the onboard video was a cluster of smaller craft flying in an inverted V-shape in front of the larger Gimbal object.”

“The section of video publicly released by the Pentagon only showed the Gimbal by itself; the other objects were out of the picture.”

“‘It’s just basic airplane physics,’ Graves explained.”

“No, because what Mick West doesn't see is so when they take, because I've talked to the one of them actually I work with, so I know him, I know I talk to him all the time.”

“The go fast and the gimbal were shot by the same person, okay?”

“the airplanes they're flying, still Super Hornets, but they have the APG-79, which is the new phased array radar that's made by Raytheon”

“So at first they thought they were ghost tracks when they started seeing stuff, and then they actually threw one of the targeting pods out there.”

“This thing doesn't change aspect, it just rotates. It's just rotating.”

“There's five other, I think it's five, they're kind of in a V, you know, like a geese would fly that are out in front of it and they're actually coming, they're out in front of it and they actually turn on the radar and go the other way while they're filming the gimbal video.”

“there's at least 60 people that have seen these things on radar off the vacates”

“the gimbal video to comment on the amazing aspect of that video is the rotation, the apparent rotation of the object that is something that is not possible to do with systems that we know of”

“A few months later I was sitting in a room with high-level Navy officials, CIA reps, and someone from the NSA... we rolled the tapes.”

“One of our meeting attendees made an uncomfortable joke that this thing seemed to be showing us what it could do, mocking us, as if to say, "Hey guys, watch this!"”

“To be clear, no one in that room thought this UAP was made by humans.”

“This unnerved, mystified, and concerned our team of aviation and optical experts.”

“"The only way I see this being even remotely possible is if you had a... hybrid balloon with some sort of inducted fan at its center," he said, not quite believing his own words.”

“"Perhaps it is some sort of Mylar football that has its own navigation and propulsion."”

“"Um... perhaps they are using some sort of tether or beamed energy to give it power, you know? Like a floating platform nearby."”

“"What about fuel and loiter capability? This thing is way out in the middle of nowhere," I said.”

“hesitation we knew we would use both videos to reinforce OPLAN Interloper.”

“‘The Navy has not publicly released characterizations or descriptions, nor released any hypothesis or conclusions, in regard to the objects contained in the referenced videos.’”

“it might explain why the US Navy recently admitted that it cannot prosaically explain the Tic-Tac, Gimbal or Go-Fast videos taken by its carrier battlegroup fighter pilots.”

“The Pentagon says the video is real and, officially, unexplained.”

“It should be emphasised that there is not a shred of evidence on the public record to show that any of these capabilities have been proven, other than what has been revealed publicly and privately by the data from the Tic Tac, Gimbal and Go Fast encounters.”

“The GIMBAL maneuvered in a way that reminded me of the old Apollo 11 lunar module... If you compare that maneuver to the way in which the object in the GIMBAL video rotates, you will see an uncanny resemblance.”

“I remembered that a bubble around an aircraft was exactly what we’d seen in the GIMBAL video… and others.”

“On the observables scale, it was clearly an antigravity device.”

“This again reminded me of the previous investigation of "balloons" splitting the formation of fighter aircraft off the coast of Virginia. Balloons can’t do that.”

“Skeptics would later suggest that the object was a balloon, but this was certainly not the case.”

“Dr Davis leaves no room for doubt when he says whatever is propelling the Tic Tac, Go Fast and Gimbal UAPs is 'off-world vehicles not made on this earth'”