David Fravor

“My name is David Fravor and I am a retired Commander in the U.S Navy.”

“Navy, flew for 18 years.”

“first I was in, I was enlisted. I was a Marine.”

“the Marines actually sent me, recommended me to go to the Naval Academy.”

“I got to go to the Naval Academy and I finished”

“You're a graduate of the Navy Fighter Weapons School.”

“I went through in 97, Class 4, 97.”

“Got a Master's from University of Houston”

“In Nov 2004, I was the Commanding Officer of Strike Fighter Squadron Forty-One, the World Famous Black Aces!”

“We were attached to Carrier Airwing Eleven and stationed onboard the USS Nimitz (CVN-68).”

“Yeah, since 1969 when I watched Neil Armstrong walk on the moon.”

“I was just prior to being five.”

“she said, well, you know, they were all pilots. And at that point, it was like, I'm going to be a pilot.”

“we all grew up in the same neighborhood uh we kind of they had Italian side of the family that's how we grew up so it was my house right down the street was my cousin Chad and then right around the corner is my cousin Ray”

“I was a paper boy in the neighborhood, so they all knew me.”

“Mr. Race looks at me and he says, David Fravor. I go, Mr. Race, how you doing? He goes, you fly jets, top gun and all that. I go, yes, sir.”

“FASTEAGLE 01 Pilot: CDR David 'Sex' Fravor, USN/WSO: LT {{redacted: ~3 words}}, USN”

“we were doing an air to air defense to hone not only our skills but those of the USS Princeton when they had been tracking them for 2 weeks.”

“My flight of 2 F/A-18Fs was the Blue Air, the good guys, and we were being controlled by the USS Princeton, CG-59.”

“Strikefighter Squadron 41 ('The Black Aces') commanding officer David Fravor was in one FA-18F Super Hornet and his wingman, a serving female pilot who wishes to stay anonymous, was in another.”

“On November 14, Fravor and Dietrich, each with a weapons system officer in the backseat, were diverted to investigate.”

“In his back seat was Commander Jim Slaight, call sign “Clean.””

“The CAP point is where we would hold prior to commencing our training runs, roughly 40 miles South of the ship.”

“The air controller on the ship also had no idea but had been observing these objects on their Aegis combat system for the previous 2 weeks.”

“When we arrived at the location at 20,000 ft, the controller called Merge Plot, which means that our radar blip was now in the same radar resolution cell as the contact.”

“As we looked around, we noticed some white water off our right side.”

“The weather on the day of the incident was as close to a perfect day as you could ask, clear skies, light winds, calm seas (no whitecaps from the waves) so the white water stood out in the large blue ocean.”

“Because the disturbance was roughly the size of a 737, he was worried that a commercial airliner might have crashed into the sea.”

“Descending, Commander Fravor was then shocked to discern what he can only describe as a featureless giant white 'Tic Tac'-candy shaped object with what looked like two appendages below its belly; it was hovering just above the surface of the ocean over the disturbance in the water.”

“The Tic Tac, roughly the length of his FA-18 jet, had no windows, no visible engines, no wings, no exhaust or smoke, and no discernible markings.”

“He said it was about the size of his F-18, with no markings, no wings, no exhaust plumes.”

“CDR Fravor stated that the object was "holding like a Harrier." (Referring to the AV-8B jet aircraft, which is capable of hovering and Vertical/Short Takeoff and Landing (V/STOL) via thrust vectoring.)”

“At this point CDR Fravor detached FASTEAGLE02, which held at approximately 20,000 feet, and FASTEAGLE01 descended to between 12-16,000 feet.”

“As we pulled nose onto the object at approximately 1/2 of a mile with the object just left of our nose, it rapidly accelerated and disappeared right in front of our aircraft.”

“Our wingman, roughly 8,000ft above us, also lost visual.”

“We never saw it on our radars. Our fire control radars never picked it up.”

“The other airplane that took the video did get it on a radar. As soon as it tried to lock it, it jammed the radar, spit the lock and he rapidly switched over to the targeting pod, which you can do in the F–18.”

“As we turned back towards our CAP point, roughly 60 miles east, the air controller let us know that the object had reappeared on the Princeton's Aegis SPY 1 radar at our CAP point.”

“This Tic Tac Object had just traveled 60 miles in a very short period of time (less than a minute)”

“was far superior in performance to my brand-new F/A-18F and did not operate with any of the known aerodynamic principles that we expect for objects that fly in our atmosphere.”

“We returned to Nimitz and mentioned what we had witnessed to one of my crews who were getting ready to launch.”

“As Commander Fravor and his wingman returned to the USS Nimitz from their Tic Tac encounter that 14 November afternoon, a third pair of aircraft headed out. One of the pilots, Lieutenant Chad Underwood, had what is called an ATFLIR pod on his jet.”

“En route, Underwood's weapons systems officer checked the cap point where the previous pilots Dave Fravor and his female pilot wingman last saw the UAP and, sure enough, there it was waiting for them.”

“Disturbingly, as the US Navy jet tried to lock on to the object with its radar, there were clear indications of deliberate jamming, which Commander Fravor says could be perceived as a hostile act, as technically an act of war'.”

“It was that crew that took the now famous approximately 90 second video that was released by the USG in 2017.”

“What is shocking is that the incident was never investigated, none of my crew were ever questioned, tapes were never taken, and after a couple of days, it turned into a great story to tell friends.”

“Not until 2009 did Jay Stratton contact me to investigate what we observed.”

“members of Congress held another historic bipartisan UAP hearing. This time the hearing had highly credible military witnesses, Commander Fravor, Lieutenant Graves, and Dave Grusch, who were now testifying to the American people in Congress *under oath*”

“Commander FRAVOR. The performance. Absolute performance... No. I think it is far beyond, actually, our material science that we currently possess.”

“Did the Tic Tac UAP move in such a way that defied the laws of physics? Commander FRAVOR. The way we understand them, yes.”

“I'm not a UFO guy.”

“It is absolutely intelligent responding to his actions.”

“His story corroborated by several other pilots from my perspective as a curious scientist and an open-minded human being is the most credible sighting of a UFO in history, at least that I'm aware of.”