The Truth Behind the Super Hornet UFO Encounters

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Recently declassified forward looking infrared from U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets show what the Pentagon is calling "unidentified aerial phenomenon." These FLIR contacts lack wings, any sign of propulsion, and indications are that they can travel upwards of 13,000 miles per hour.
The aircrew (pilots and weapons systems officers) involved were all slow-rolled the first time they debriefed their footage to intelligence officials at their local military commands, but when a former undersecretary of defense leaked the FLIR footage to the New York Times, the Pentagon had to admit that the images were real and the Department of Defense had no reason to believe that UAPs didn't exist.
The only question was what they actually were.
Reasonable analysis basically puts the options into three categories: a domestic developmental program, a near-peer spy program, or aliens. In this episode, Ward builds the case for which of those three he believes is most likely.

[@peterpike]

Swamp gas sure has gotten complex since the 40s... :-D

[@navret1707]

To say nothing about the weather balloons. 🤔

[@danielmarshall4587]

Here in the UK we're got a lighthouse that's been getting up to some "crazy shit".

[@GoSlash27]

A police Sergeant in New Mexico claimed to have seen one of these up close and personal in New Mexico back in '64, and several others have corroborated it. They still have no idea what it was. Google "Lonnie Zamora".

[@BangBangBeefyMacNCheesy]

It’s “lens flair” 🤣

[@238839]

Bahahaaa....now that is funny! :-D

[@gnomologist]

Dismisses aliens because there's no life Mars... That's like someone saying he's alone on planet earth because next door's apartment is empty...

[@Mystery_G]

You obviously didn't listen to what he said. He never dismissed scenario 3. He merely suggested through his understanding of how the DoD operates that this is highly likely a US operation, which, if you had some basic understanding of, would not be shocked in the least to know the US is, as it so often has, lying its ass off to The People for the benefit of select banksters, oligarchs, plutocrats, and bureaucrats.

[@stevescontriano860]

Come on get real brother. They are future humans from the year 8002. They are able to come back through a worm holes or something like that. Through time and space and return. They are watching us. They are watching the development of us. They are watching our technology, making sure we do not destroy ourselves. .

[@CreekyGuy]

gnomologist - Perfect!

[@JamesBond-vx4st]

To deny the possible existence of extraterrestrial life on other planets or solar systems is akin to dipping a cup into the ocean and concluding that there are no fish in the ocean simply because none are present within the cup.

[@Mystery_G]

@James Bond 007 To be incapable of listening to and understanding someone with a respected enough background to argue that while it is possible that what is being claimed as aliens is in fact aliens, it is far more likely to be the US masquerading alien craft as aliens, only to conclude that what they said was 'there are no aliens', is akin to aliens showing up on earth and concluding all humans are simpletons because many can't understand when someone experienced and knowledgeable enough says 'while it may be aliens, it's likely the US government'.

[@dennisholzinger6636]

Ward, I gotta tell ya, I spent 21 years in the Navy, many nights on the flight deck and I have seen things that are unexplainable. Once, in the I.O., in 1985 I saw balls of light move down the stbd side of the USS Kitty Hawk that resembled white lighted balloons, then all of a sudden move away so rapidly that they went from around 50 knots to mach 3+ in 3 seconds. I reported this to Flight Deck Control and was told to get back to work. Others saw them too, we just went back to work and realized that no one would believe us. I am convinced what we saw is "not of this world"

[@spookyfizz]

I see flaws in Wards logic. 600-700g? So that’s a bit more of a leap than fly by wire and stealth tech. It’s just too far outside the box. The fact that you assume because mars does. Not harbor life that it is unlikely that these are from other worlds is narrow minded indeed. There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on all the beaches in the world. Each star averages 6 planets. Your brain can’t handle those numbers. It’s not ours. Very unlikely. You think DARPA has figured out gravity disruption? Maybe but only if they reverse engineered it. Not organically.

[@snipedduck743]

@@comodice905 you don’t know mate. Don’t play god

[@pauldominguez6870]

@@comodice905 Narrow minds have narrow views.

[@roadwarrior1459]

@@comodice905too great with OUR technology. Not theirs, which is 1000s of years ahead of us.

[@wattlebough]

@@comodice905 Must have the mind of God to know it all dawg.

[@Chuck-dv6rs]

The biggest problem with this argument is that these things are not only being encountered in these 2 spaces. This is and has been a world wide thing.

[@susannfrench6758]

Exactly!!!

[@kabudahtv331]

Yeah exactly. I think this guy is a part of the covering up. This guy must think we’re all stupid 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@Jsedjen]

And not just a world wide thing its been this way for way longer than the technology has advanced. There are stories of these ufos for hundreds if not thousands of years. Critically think about stuff and ots not that hard. Does anyone agree with what I am trying to say?

[@flagmichael]

@@Jsedjen UFOs / UAPs are probably not all the same things. Some may be real (i.e. solid objects) and some may be illusions or atmospheric phenomena. One aspect that makes me think a lot of the sightings are not of material (or, at least, solid) is the near universal lack of sonic booms associated with apparently supersonic movements.

[@Mdnightsoldier]

@@kabudahtv331 You are stupid though, to believe in UFOs lol Look up flight radar and see how many airliners are flying around the world at any given time, and NOBODY is spotting/filming UFOs.

[@brw3079]

I worked for 8 years as an aviation maintenance line mechanic. I have talked to hundreds of pilots, and I can confirm that many of them have seen airborne phenomenon that they can't explain. But very few of them will talk about it, and when they do it is only with people who they trust. If they say anything openly their airline will send them for psychological evaluation and that's not a good thing to have on your record.

[@datatwo7405]

Sounds like a great way to institutionally frighten the pilots into silence.

[@cuburac]

@@datatwo7405 Absolutely my thoughts.

[@filthycasual8187]

@@Hierarchangel Pilots still need both hands to control the plane, numbnuts.

[@michaelvoorhees5978]

It's pilot tradition to joke about seeing things and telling alien stories

[@your_average_joe5781]

They have been here for a long time obviously so... If they wanted to harm us in some way, they would have done so by now 👍

[@Icriedtoday]

The most amazing thing about all of this is how utterly clean your living room is.

[@sakabula1285]

Sterile

[@WW5RM]

He is an Aviator!

[@adamhonan7744]

The boat!

[@gwillis9797]

He better be clean!

[@shanepurcell8116]

Not that hard when you don't have lil demon rugrats running amok.

[@rudyhenckel]

Great video, earned a new subscriber! One point I would like to make though is that you mention that these things were seen in military no-fly zones, then ask why they aren't being seen elsewhere. I immediately thought to myself - well that's where the planes are. Lol. And in the case of the west coast tic-tac, it wasn't even the plane that made initial contact - it was the ship. No ship, no sighting by the F-18s (ship was tracking for days and no planes had spotted it). If there are no planes in an area, or just planes without advanced radar, of course they won't been seen. You have to consider that if something can be piloted while pulling 600 to 700 Gs and go 13,000 MPH in our atmosphere is way, WAY beyond what we know. To dismiss the idea because 'Mars has no evidence of a civilization capable of interplanetary travel' is a puzzling comment in an otherwise excellent commentary. Just my 2 cents.

[@Zubayer_Islam_Rezoan]

You spoke my mind. The mars isn't the whole universe. If something can travel at 13k in our atmosphere, flying through galaxies to visit the earth isn't supposed to be an issue for it. Besides, we don't have radars like the us navy at homes, so who else can tack them? Maybe the ufos fly over our heads every hour but we simply can't see them at those speeds.

[@EmperorNerox]

@@Zubayer_Islam_Rezoan says who?

[@bretthess6376]

Neither was his statement that these are the only places where UFOs have been seen. They've been seen throughout the entire world. I agree his bringing up Mars and then dismissing it was very odd.

[@archibaldmeatpants1722]

Lmao

[@ralphmarkasher]

Ward, I'm familiar with David Fravor's sighting. Based on another documentary he was in where he demonstrated his leadership and skills as an aviator, I have no doubt of what he saw.

[@maybelle0101]

I believe Fravor's sighting was what he reported. There have been many people who've seen UFO's/UAP's through the years. The Cash-Landrum and Rendlesham Forest incidents seem to demonstrate the UAP's are probably not our technology.

[@mollyfilms]

I always sit in my lounge wearing a flight suit.

[@GhostsAndGarbagePailKids]

It’s gangster that he’s wearing his flight suit. Hell I would were it all the time if I was retired pilot. It’s so hard to be one of those guys. Wear it proud man 👍🏼

[@michaelmaltese939]

and when you stroll down to the local barber shop for that fresh flat top every week everybody scatters . LOL

[@stephenking4794]

Me too. Got nothing else to wear 🤣 and it picks up the ladies😜😜

[@stephenking4794]

@@michaelmaltese939 Wouldn't get a flat top though....last thing you would want is the barber making that bald patch...I mean airfield bigger.😜😜😜😯😯😯😂😂😂

[@michaelmaltese939]

@@stephenking4794 how did you know? Spooky!

[@ZenZaBill]

*MOOCH -- 50K subs is something like +10K in less than 2 weeks -- a tribute to your practical, no-BS approach to Naval air and other topics! THANK YOU, you are "ON the Ball!"*

[@johnnyguinn7641]

Love your videos and your perspective on the aviation side of things. I grew up as a big fan of aviation so I find your videos very enlightening and informative. Thank you.

[@dandrechesterfield5411]

My grandfather was an airforce pilot and described in great detail seeing three UFO's in a triangle formation hovering 100 feet above a lake in Tennessee for 45 minutes before shooting straight up and disappearing in the sky in one second. All his neighbors and my grandma saw it too. Apparently a police helicopter even came out to investigate

[@thejackrabbithole-5311]

I live in Tennessee and have seen craft too.

[@jono6751]

😂😂😂

[@dandrechesterfield5411]

@@jono6751 why you laughin hoe?

[@j.w.8663]

Three things are always in a triangle formation.

[@dandrechesterfield5411]

@@j.w.8663 not if they’re in a line. Think for two more seconds and that would have entered your brain

[@wannabeangler]

I have a bud that is a retired Colonel with 28 years in USAF. He told me there were some "unexplainable sights" in the skies. He was stationed at 43rd and 1st fighter wings as an F-22 pilot.

[@jagitmax]

That BUD your talking about, would that be BUD LIGHT ? alternate life style aliens . . . . . only levity here

[@cornelisslingerland8793]

​@@jagitmax😂q😊

[@20chocsaday]

They were reported by pilots flying at 20K feet in WW2. Pilots reported them dancing on their wings but learned that they were harmless.

[@aikiguy]

Foo fighters!

[@scott-qk8sm]

Very interesting until he zeros out the fact UAP's are seen (70+ years now) globally not just in a couple US training ranges

[@indridcold8433]

These aircraft have been seen by both sides fighting in World War II. They were known as Foo Fighters. They often flanked bombers on runs on both sides of the war. But they never attacked nor interfered. The Axis powers thought it was a top secret device made by the Russians. The allied side believed them to be intelligence gathering aircraft from Nazi Germany. Today, it is likely they are top secret technolgy from nations that have not revealed they have it. However, what were the Foo Fighters in World War II? Maybe today what is being seen may be a combination of what was known as Foo Fighters and top secret technology from nations that have not revealed they have that technolgy.

[@VikingTeddy]

Here's an explanation. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqeQpJWqeKatb7s

[@free100x]

They are alien to our time zone and physical world. And the idea they are ours, or anyone from our normal reality is insane. No materials we have can come close to withstanding the speeds and G forces of these vehicles. No power plants put out the energy, and that small, they would need, to make them move like they do, and do it for days at a time. No where in his or anyone elses lifetimes have such giant leaps taken place. Not even close. They are all over the globe and have been for thousands of years, and not just for some show and tell in our military zones. Only now, with mass communications, advanced radars and optics and recording devices do we see them more often, and we can record and transmit such encounters. But there are still people who want to claim it is normal (swamp gas, Venus, weather balloons, birds) or we have it in a secret shed somewhere. Deniers are deniers.

[@VikingTeddy]

@@free100x Or, you know. Some people just don't understand how cameras work.

[@free100x]

@@VikingTeddy The problem with the camera angle arguments is, that these are seen in real time by extremely advanced radars and by the pilots experienced eyeballs. The speeds they are seeing are out of this world quiet literally. For example he mentions Fravor's encounter and the fact the UFO was 60 miles away at what he called several times the speed of sound. Oh that sounds normal, when in fact Fravor and his wingman said it was out of sight in less than 2 seconds, and it showed up almost instantly afterwards according to radar 60 miles away. Which was their original rondevu location for their fighters 60 miles away. And there many of them at the same time (a fleet of them), that was seen for days on their radars. Some reports on WWII bombers claimed their radars clocked some "foo fighters" at 10,000 mph, that their crews saw visually as well. But not for long at those speeds.

[@maxcorder2211]

Well, Ward. Where does this leave us? Glad to think it’s one on our programs. I just reflect back on the SR-71 and U-2 programs that were developed prior to computers. What we could be doing now is beyond the limits of conventional thought. Stay on it. Good stuff.

[@wayne8571]

Good points Michael. A moving LIPF image can be done in most any undergraduate physics lab. So it is no surprise that with sufficient budget that DARPA could scale it up in a reasonable timeframe.

[@soilmanted]

What is a LIPF image? Google would now point to anything.

[@wayne8571]

@@soilmanted Try searching for Laser Induced Plasma Filaments.

[@Thomas-vl9ex]

Thank you for your service but with all due respect your conclusion makes no sense. If this was a domestic aircraft why keep it secret all these years through multiple wars. These craft have been spotted for over 50 years now. If walks like a duck...

[@nickshires9537]

because they will not share the technology with the general public. The Military industrial complex protect the banking and oil industry.

[@argosz8046]

@@nickshires9537 you are correct. The US Military Industrial Complex does work for the banking and oil industries - by creating and running wars that require the ordinary people to fund said Complex by hundreds of billion dollars. So why keep such technology from the battlefield? With such technology they can pop up and start wars quickly, surely and often. How does it benefit the banking and oil industries if it is not used?

[@Grandpa82547]

@@argosz8046 Who says it hasn't been used?

[@kensolar69]

@@nickshires9537 The Foo Fighters were over 75 years ago. You don't think we had this then do you? Seriously.

[@stevenbingham859]

My dad was a conductor for the SP Railroad. I clearly remember him talking about UFOS and describing the "non- ballistic" type flight that he and his crews would see all the time as his train was headed to the west coast out over the desert. I have personally witnessed non-ballistic flight on three different occasions in my life.

[@jorgegonzalez-larramendi5491]

your dad is sharp *non-ballistic* these items travel on straight lines, w no sound, trail etc. in those brief seconds you realize they are departing - off to space in seconds. very exiting..

[@stevenbingham859]

@@jorgegonzalez-larramendi5491 In order to accomplish those types of maneuvers, you would have to employ some type of momentum dampening device. Otherwise you would end up as a thin paste on the interior of your craft.

[@blake9358]

They are fallen angels, my dad was in the RAF in Australia, Australia has more of these sightings than anywhere on earth, they also manifest as what's called mim mim lights

[@Evieo-mg9eu]

@@stevenbingham859 While I am not suggesting this was the case, there is a remote possibility that this may be some form of space distortion used as a means of propulsion. This would eliminate g force issues and permit instantaneous travel to targeted points. It also would permit space travel over great distances. In cases observed in France and Belgium, there was evidence of intense electromagnetic fields.

[@asluckdespairs]

Using terminology like "non ballistic flight" to act smart and confuse people into believing you? Lol. Youre either using the term wrong, or contradicting your own conspiracy theories. Everybody that has ever seen any man made flying machine functioning properly has seen non ballistic flight. WHATS THAT IN THE AIR? ITS A BIRD?! ITS A PLANE?! ITS.. NON BALLISTIC FLIGHT EITHER WAY!

[@rbeard7580]

I have 12 years in military radar, 10 as a military pilot, and 30 as a commercial pilot. I never saw anything even remotely like a UFO. However, I totally agree with Ward’s analysis. I flew around Area 51, operated a radar that could look deep into it, and once even walked for a couple days outdoors (& overnight) in an adjacent military operating area. Never saw anything! But it’s always been my impression that the military promoted the entire alien notion so that IF somebody did see something they are developing there, they could write it off as “little green men”. The LGM thing allows sightings to be explained as either: 1) there are no LGMs, so the observer is a nutjob. Or 2) If there are LGMs, that’s not our stuff you saw, it’s the alien’s 👽! And if Chinese naval pilots start seeing “aliens” during their exercises, that’s still not us. Pretty convenient, don’t you think?

[@troyevitt2437]

When Zeta Reticuli sends aliens, they're not sending their best; they're cow-mutilaters, they're eugenicists, and some, I'm sure, are good people. I am going to deport all illegal aliens! M.E.G.A.

[@Peakfreud]

This I believe, and sounds the most feasible.

[@troyevitt2437]

@@Peakfreud Pink Freud...Sometimes "Have a Cigar" is just a cigar.

[@maybelle0101]

I have lived in the area you described and there have been numerous sightings reported here through the years. Some were explained and some were not. Go to the National UFO Reporting Center if you want to see what's being reported.

[@JohnnyBlaze5680]

let me get this straight, it can’t be beings from outside this earth because we’ve been to mars and there isn’t life there? smh wow….. human thinking at it’s finest

[@slackthompson9231]

That’s where he lost me. Just a terrible take on the likelihood of alien life. He needs some Drake equation in his life, or at least some semblance of reasonable thinking.

[@lornestein7248]

Reminds me of another "expert" who was just quoted as saying, "They can't be ET from another galaxy. That's just not how the universe works". Like he's god and knows how the universe works!! smh

[@justanotherguy469]

And we have not even been to Mars. Our robots have. But because humans are the most superior beings in the Universe, there can not be any other form of life. The only thing bigger and more empty than the universe, is our ego.

[@DaysOfFunder]

Yea wow ok. So I heard that now and was like wowza I'm heading back to that comment.

[@Elfnetdesigns]

He may be under some NDA so he can't say certain things or he will lose his retirement benefits and so forth, Who knows.

[@edwardtyson4746]

Ward, you provided absolute brilliant commentary, I've seen multiple interviews with Fravor on this and was wondering if it would just be the same old story. You however made some great adds and took it to the next level. Thank you!

[@jondrew55]

Ward, great channel. Just found you the other day. Nice to hear you flew with LANTIRN. I was part of the team that put the target pods on the Tomcat when the wings started falling off the A6. Have you done an episode on your experience with the system? We all hope it made your life easier and more able to do the mission.

[@WardCarroll]

LANTIRN will be a future episode. Thanks for the work.

[@dennishayes65]

A-6 wings weren’t falling off when I was an A-6 plane captain in VA-42, NAS Oceana, from Jan. 1973 to Aug. 15, 1975 !

[@jondrew55]

@@dennishayes65 don’t recall the exact dates, but probably in the mid 90s is when I was working on the system. If I recall correctly the A6 airframes were overhauled at the depot in Jacksonville Fl. I got to see one under repair and saw the massive corrosion issues they were dealing with. “the wings falling off” was a bit of hyperbole on my part, but I definitely remember seeing A6s being shoved off a barge into the ocean as they were being taken out of service.

[@glennchabut6025]

My uncle Peter was a US congressman and a airforce vet who started the pow return program

[@werewolf5674]

The Skipper is a good man. 100% believe what he says. Love your idea of a test program. I remember during the F117 development there where many triagal UFOs.

[@MulaBatiswaHutagaol]

Couldn't agree more with you. The navy would not appoint some random guy to be a CO of a squadron which operated relatively new F/A-18 Super Hornets.

[@otm646]

The difference now is that we've never had craft debuted to the public which breaks our understanding of physics and flight performance like these unknown aircraft. Sure new platforms have been faster, stealthier, all of these things. But not 700 g crashing into the ocean.

[@werewolf5674]

The g limits are becuse of pilots limits. Watch a micro drone we are working with swarms that can do those things. I dont see why you couldn't up scale it.

[@laurogarza4953]

In any investigation, it is essential to survey not only what evidence is present but what evidence is missing, yet undiscovered, or removed. It is very interesting these vehicles appeared in two particular Naval training areas and not anywhere else. That is very telling. When the F-117 was undergoing testing during the late 70s and 80s, it was deliberately flown into and out of controlled air spaces to determine detection, interpretation and response. In other words, the psychology of the observations. I believe that similar tests are going on here. I agree that, based upon the conduct of the Pentagon, these objects are not foreign technology and certainly not extraterrestrial. Thus, it must be some sort of test program for, I admit, a wholly new technology that has me baffled. Still, 40 years ago, stealth technology was also baffling. Thus, my argument us based upon psychology and historical precedent. The opinion of a physicist regarding the propulsion technology would likely prove very valuable to understanding these phenomenon.

[@newcreationinchrist1423]

Very interesting video and I love your insight into this. However I see one big problem with your theory on it being a test aircraft. If indeed these are test aircraft and they were getting these F-18 pilots to unwittingly be in a test, would they have been willing to risk the life of its F-18 pilots ( who just may have engaged the said test aircraft) and a million dollar aircraft? Not only that but also the life of the pilot in a supposed test aircraft and what would likely be in an even more expensive aircraft? I have to admit I don't know much about how the Air Force and navy operates in their testing. I was just an old army grunt but when we were testing things out in training in the Army, we never used soldiers as live bait with live ammo. Seems to me that that would be an unnecessary risk and perhaps a very costly one.

[@gbennett58]

Not to mention near-collisions.

[@bryanrussell6679]

I know we don't like to think of ourselves as expendable, but that's exactly what we are in the eyes of our government and military. Remember all the soldiers that were intentionally exposed to nuclear radiation while we were "testing" all of those bombs. The British even did it to their soldiers too. I've also heard stories of citizens being exposed to chemicals. We're just fancier lab rats.

[@YTjndallas]

This situation reminds me of the scene in the 1980 movie, “The Final Countdown.” One of my favorite movies. I saw it in the theater when I was 13 yo. Anyway, it’s a time travel movie with Kirk Douglas wherein the USS Nimitz lands in December 7, 1941 and they must decide whether to defend Pearl Harbor, or to not interfere with history. Anyway, one scene is when the F-14s fly circles around the Japanese Zeros. FYI- My Mother’s brother was one of the 326 survivors from the USS Arizona when attacked by The Empire of Japan at Pearl Harbor on 12/07/1941.

[@aaronmerritt86]

I appreciate the perspective on US dark programs, but from an engineering perspective. We do not have the capacity in energy manipulation. Meaning the battery or reactor tech is just not there yet.

[@In_Set]

The "tic tac craft" are not solid objects.The laws of physics still apply in our atmosphere; if those were solid then you would have sonic booms. That particular tech is spoofing tech.

[@MitternachtAngel]

Why it's on radar?

[@hearmenow909]

The tech you know about has limitations, it's the tech you don't know about that you need to focus on..

[@thelmaviaduct]

You have no idea.

[@aaronmerritt86]

Alright alright chill with the Reynolds wrap. Our private sector is carving far more territory than government at this point. The black ops programs of the past were short lived and all used technology we already understood. The required technological leaps to do anything but spoof the whole thing would be so far beyond what the military is currently producing. Our high tech drones look like little planes.

[@ComplexAtom]

Love how you actually explain what you’re speaking about

[@johnbianchi3877]

He doesn’t account for all of the sightings world wide. The difference in technology between what we have and what we witness are far far far beyond a “leap”

[@33moneyball]

We don’t know what we “have”. And you can’t deconstruct every alleged sighting....you take them one at a time.

[@machtschnell7452]

In terms of physics and propulsion systems and flight controls, this is way more than a leap.

[@stscc01]

@@machtschnell7452 That's the point. It's not comparable to stealth, a new engine or any minor improvements of that kind.

[@sideswiped6874]

@@stscc01 ooops

[@sideswiped6874]

@@Spartan10k , Ok I re read it, I see. thanks!!

[@charleswest6372]

I know many people in military who saw ETs. A few stories were scary too. Ive seen 2, 1986 and 2002. Fast, silent and awesome.

[@j.anthonyk1730]

Thanks Ward, this really is the first rational video that I've seen on this. I was in the Navy from 89-93, Stationed on an FFG out of Long Beach. I'm very familiar with the area from Catalina to San Clemente Island down Southern Tip of Baja. Never, not once was anything like these craft reported.

[@Stryyder1]

You should catch Fravor on Joe Rogan's podcast kzbin.info/www/bejne/e5TSY6ZpYpWtqbM

[@caryladd863]

I was stationed on San Nicolas Island Calif in 76-78

[@bodystomp5302]

@@Stryyder1 Or Fravor's appearance on Lex Fridman channel. 4 hours. He discusses why, in his opinion, the tic-tac was neither USM black tech or near-peer spy tech.

[@bobfromjob]

One, you don't send unknown aircraft (are we admitting UFO technology here?) into a training area. Especially for work ups. Two, the military has spent a lot of money training these pilots who have witnessed these things. In my opinion, something weird is going on.

[@GoSlash27]

@@thatjerryburns I disagree. If they wanted to hide it, they would've operated up at the Nellis range where it's literally impossible for any unauthorized personnel to see it.

[@dorfsteen]

We don't need so-called disclosure from the government anybody that seen something physical not just a light in the sky moving around but a physical craft doesn't really need much explanation except for where they come from and who's driving them and will we ever get to take a ride in one or drive one cuz that's what I'm interested in

[@robertgutheridge9672]

And its not just them many many airline pilots " many of who are former military " and other same well educated people have seen similar things. They can't all be imagining similar things

[@bobfromjob]

@@robertgutheridge9672 Completely agree. Heck, I've heard ATC recordings asking if they have anything in their vicinity during a sighting.

[@drenk7]

Ward you tell a great story. I enjoy your style of narration. I am a retired aircraft systems instructor from MacDonnell/Douglas , Boeing at St. Louis. Keep them coming 👍

[@brucewygal133]

Ward, you are one of the few people that I consider credible and honest enough not to give us a bunch of sensational bs in order to elevate your status in any way. I appreciate your steady well thought out reasoning based on your extensive experiences. Thank you for your interesting and informative videos. I also must say that I cannot begin to understand what technology must be behind these incredible sightings. If you are correct about them, then we are truly being kept in the dark about some really exciting possibilities. I hope we all know the truth some day.

[@brycejcox]

When you don’t know, you don’t know. So to come out of the gate and say it has to be 1 of 3 things is simply wrong, unless of course one of those options is simply “unknown”.

[@PaulBrown-uj5le]

Exactly, I don't know why people do that, he doesn't know he's just guessing, you ever see thunder foots debunk of these videos good watch.

[@brycejcox]

@@PaulBrown-uj5le yea I’ve seen it. And no doubt he’s very smart and makes a compelling argument. The only issue I have that bugs me is how so many gov employees and private companies employees that have no doubt reviewed these films. We will likely never know if any of them came to the same conclusion but would like to know, otherwise it’s hard to imagine one man would ID what hundreds or even thousands missed, smart or not. Who knows?

[@stijill]

So we went from stealth to Adamantium.

[@davidelliott5843]

He qualifies his three possibilities and suggests it’s a super secret test program. Sounds fair enough to me.

[@mycommentpwnz]

This is a very illogical assessment. There are plenty of things you might not know which has a finite numbers of realistic options.

[@Mac_Diddy]

Y'know what they say: its never aliens, until its aliens. But whatever it is, its pretty dang interesting.

[@dawidw9199]

Could still be humans - from alternative universe or the future - using interdimesional or/and time travel technology ; ))

[@Desrtfox71]

@@dawidw9199 It's much more likely humans from this timeline, using plain old known physics :)

[@justanotherguy469]

@@dawidw9199 Everything is done by humans, because we are so damn special. Definitely can not be any other form of life. As a matter of fact we are gods crowning achievement, which he created in his own likeness, and man being the gentleman he is, so kindly returned the favor.

[@justanotherguy469]

@@Desrtfox71 Do you understand plain old physics? I have been studying it for the last 46 years and I still do not understand it.

[@rogerthornhill1491]

@@justanotherguy469 WTF.

[@audigit]

I totally get it when you mention switching between " white-hot" and " black-hot". Amazing how this went for those guys.

[@toddhitchens6272]

There's no aliens on Mars so it's probable that it's us. Kinda like when I go to the edge of an ocean and don't see fish therefore realize there must be no fish in the ocean. Funny how they've had these secret craft for centuries.

[@IC.1248]

Exactly. This isn't the "truth" about anything (including last name pronunciations).

[@Caseytify]

Earth could be the equivalent to a protected wetlands, and the alien probes the equivalent of spring break drunks pestering the wildlife...

[@frankwilliams3036]

Very good point. We haven’t even been outside of our own small solar system. It seems kind of presumptuous to think you know what’s going on, even in our own galaxy, let alone the rest of the universe. While I do think it is possible that these UAP are ours, these sightings have been going on for centuries and not just with the military. If it has rivots and metal it’s most likely ours, but if it doesn’t, it’s most likely off-world beings. Stop assuming that we are the only “intelligent” species in the whole galaxy, LOL! It’s actually kind of preposterous. How many solar systems in a galaxy?

[@whitetailrealityoutdoors958]

Yea. This dude is a joke. Credible until he’s not. Lol. He lost me at Mars has no life. We are not idiots ! We didn’t have this tech 70 yrs ago much less what the Sumerian hieroglyphics tell us. And other mentions in other ancient hieroglyphs.

[@whitetailrealityoutdoors958]

@@frankwilliams3036 besides rivets and seam welds. There is no way we had this advanced antigravity propulsion tech 70 yrs ago. Much less what we see in ancient text and hieroglyphics.

[@joeburrage]

It's Luis Elizondo, you killed his name!!!

[@Dpola8801]

Ha!!! AND Chris MEllon! Lol

[@IC.1248]

Ha yeah that was annoying. He must not have watched very many videos on this subject - not sure how he knows the "truth" of what happened...

[@DukeLukeProd]

Mr Alejandos & Mr Millon

[@joeburrage]

@Jack Meihawph Wrong answer, it is pronounced the way it is spelled. Nice try though!

[@Dpola8801]

@Jack Meihawph it is spelled Elizondo and pronounced the same. It is not Alejandro. And Cris Mellon family is ICONIC in the US and they spell it Mellon & pronounce the same way. Sigh…..enough….the whole video was a few moments in my life I can’t get back…😂😂😂😂

[@WierdSpookyDude]

Ward, you gave us 3 possible explanations for the encounters with tic-tacs or UFP's. I would like to add 2 more that were being constantly fed to the public during the Cold War. Ostensibly these explanations were to allay fears of an alien invasion or an attack by the Soviet Union ... 'Swamp Gas' and 'Weather Balloons'.

[@MiloValenko]

Well there’s no life on Mars that could make it’s way to earth so it rules out anything extra terrestrial! Genius just sheer and utter Genius!

[@sensiblyhonest695]

Mark You're being sarcastic right?

[@nastybastardatlive]

Seems like the moon would be a more convenient base, if anything.

[@mikemcculley]

Yeah, that bit of logic was a little head-scratchy. I thought he was just going to shrug it off as simply too uncertain to warrant discussion given the current information.

[@justanotherguy469]

@@nastybastardatlive Anything can be convenient if you can travel faster than light.

[@laurentzduba1298]

We should thank Lue Elizondo's efforts that finally ended the stigma of those US Armed Forces personnel who witnessed unexplained aerial phenomena. Since 1947, virtually all witnesses are dismissed as either nuts or making stuff up.

[@zoidberg444]

British intelligence like wise dismissed many of our servicemen who saw "things" as stupid or crazy for many years.

[@davidvogel6359]

Military commanders don't like it when you bring them a problem they don't know about and can't explain. It makes them look bad so it becomes classified and nobody can talk about it. Maybe it will get pushed under the rug.

[@Objectified]

China and Russia aren't near peers now, much less in 2004.

[@sidstevens9035]

I think Lue is still on the government payroll to distribute false information

[@jamesrothwell8693]

Another great interesting video, very much looking forward to the next video. It’s awesome that we can get this content, sometimes the internet is amazing. Congrats on reaching 50k subs!

[@UFOSeekers]

You must remember that this gentlemen has not been paid to make claims. He’s telling truth from his heart.

[@westsidesmitty1]

This gentleman seems to radiate good faith and sincerity, but, of course, none of us have any idea who is or is not, being paid to disseminate false info. All that we know is that the gov. does have a massive disinformation campaign aimed at its own citizens. I recall a disgusting quote from Casey's biography about the full extent of their desire that everything the US public believes they ''know'' is false. It distracts us from their very real crimes. He was actually bragging about the CIA's domestic disinformation campaign.

[@rickjason215]

Nobody claims he is dishonest, but Mars? Who ever claimed they were from Mars? He doesn't refute Commander Fravor and the other 3 aviators with a single fact. He thinks the government was experimenting new technology where American Flyers were flying. According to Lou Elizondo they never test new technology where US flyers can be injured. If we had the Technology Commander Fravor saw in 2004, what are we doing launching chemical rockets for the last 2 decades? It doesn't make sense. He has no inside information. It's just his conjecture and sitting there with an old flight suit doesn't help.

[@t5jerry]

AND you must remember there`s HUNDRED`S of millions of cell phone user`s thru out the world, yet NOBODY has managed to capture a good reliable "non faked" photograph, yes this "fairytale" happened at sea "apparently" but come on, wake up and smell the coffee 😏😏😏😏

[@EmperorNerox]

But has 1 shitty pic and claims he saw them daily for years. Lol seems a bit of BS to me.

[@scottjoslin1316]

@@rickjason215 in fact the Gov't has kept the charade going for 35 years-

[@aaaaa1957]

I’ve seen lights in the sky so many times it became normal. I was stationed at Quantico at the time. This was back in 1975-76.

[@brookmcdonald8365]

There’s more planets swinging around stars then humans have a number for we’re not alone pal

[@jerryjeromehawkins1712]

But... are these other planets flat like our Earth?? 🤣 🍻

[@ronvonbargen8411]

Actually we are alone and there is no proof to the contrary

[@Steelmage99]

Keep in mind that the same factors, that makes it an almost mathematical certainty that intelligent life exists somewhere else in the universe - being the size and the age of the universe - also insures, with the same mathematical certainty, that we will never meet them.

[@blair9689]

@@jasonjmarchi no proof that God (or gods) exist either,yet billions of people believe that they do.

[@kevinrusch3627]

@@ronvonbargen8411 There's no *proof*, but the odds are astonishingly high. We're made of the most abundant elements in the universe, there are zillions of planets similar to ours, etc. It's really likely that there's someone out there. It's also really likely, however, that we'll never see them.

[@stevenpuderbaugh821]

I love your breakdown of the possibilities of what this technology might be. Your presentation of the facts was very clarifying, especially since my wife had me watch some TV show where they sensationalized these encounters. Thanks for you cool reasoning and factual explanations. Can't press the "like" button enough!

[@whatthedeuce47d68]

😳...every even amount of times you hit the like button it will "unlike" the previous "like" selection....

[@bretthess6376]

They (the radar ship) had been tracking a number of objects at various altitudes, some of the altitudes extremely high, for days. The object went off the screen, and showed up again about three minutes later, 60 miles away. That's 20 miles a minute, with no contrails, sonic boom, or radar presence. And this huge leap in technology is held by him to be a military black op? I respect the man greatly, but there's not a chance in hell that these objects are current tech. Neither was his casual statement that UFOs had only been seen in these areas correct. They have been seen widely used throughout the world, and for long before any such technology was possible. It was painful seeing the man tie himself into knots trying to avoid a conclusion he cannot accept: that these objects are not human-made, and are therefore extraterrestrial in nature. Why are they here? Who knows? As long as they aren't bothering us, it doesn't matter.

[@Steve-Riverwood]

Spot on Brett, and might i add, that the Cmd. Fravor sighting was back in 2004! So to say that this technology was up and running 18 years ago, is i'm sorry to say... ridiculous! For god sakes, the Iphone was'nt even invented back then! As you say, the technological leap is so gigantic, that this premise can only be complete nonsense. Like the topspeed of the fastest car in the world did'nt go from 60 mph to 600 mph over night, there where small inventions and add-ons from years and years of testing and development. The evolution is like that in any technological developmen. I can't think of any technological leap, that even comes close to what is proposed. One other thing, if this kind of tech, was so superior compared to what we knew in 2004, why was this held back over the last couple of decades where the US and allies have been at war in the middle east. The "tictac" implemented as a "killer-drone"(for lack of better word) could have saved thousands of soldiers lives. A logical answer to these UAP's as i see it is, that they are "unmanned" space propes from an extraterrestrial civilisation, propes kind of like our Voyagers and Pathfinder etc. I think it matters a great deal what these UAP's is and who is controlling them, because like the plot is in many alien sci-fi movies, either there are friendly or they are hostile, it's 50/50.

[@your_average_joe5781]

I agree with your conclusion as well 👍 Clearly these objects have always been part of Earth history so... I believe they have been here for quite awhile now. If they wanted to harm us... They would have done so already. Perhaps they are using the Earth's resources for some need of theirs. But it's not military technology for sure 👌😉

[@natelaws3170]

I absolutely agree. I teach Physics and I don’t know anything on Earth that can counteract the incredible amount of inertia generated by the “tic-tac” let alone it’s propulsion/surface control systems. Whoever made that craft has an understanding of physics (let alone the engineering) that we just don’t have.

[@wingsofrichard1393]

Lockheed Skunkworks

[@garypowell3324]

@@natelaws3170 m

[@rockhardnipple6633]

That pilot's tweet was hilarious. In my 6 years at sea I NEVER saw an officer get within 3 feet of swab. I'd believe in aliens before I believed she had to swab a deck.

[@stcredzero]

Do the pilots call the regular sailors "swabbies?"

[@Phalcineddie]

Sometimes irony falls on deaf ears.

[@KristinaUSA-x5n]

And DEW lasers on planes with air to ground penetrating radar is being used worldwide for fires and HAARP weather warfare.

[@josephgriffin1065]

@@KristinaUSA-x5n almost as if the pilots seen halo graphic images that had the ability to spoof radar signatures

[@JK-dv3qe]

the greater mystery in all of this would be if a pilot was ordered to swab a deck 👀👀👀👀

[@twt3716]

Thank you for an informative video without any tripe or nonsense. Regards from England and love light and peace to you all out there. Have yourselves a brilliant day 😊

[@duanerichards9404]

Just because it's the easiest explanation doesn't mean it's the right one. We can't wrap our puny human minds around the concept of the possibility that we may not be the only ones alive in this universe so of course it must be us. Problem is the greatest minds in science today and throughout the history of humanity can't figure out or explain how these things do what they do. So the easy way out is oh it must be us. Unfortunately that doesn't make any sense.

[@donaldreese8]

Or this earth, we know more about the cosmos than what's in our oceans.

[@brandongardner3073]

I Wonder what Elon Musk would say about this apparent technology??

[@Len_J_]

Just because you don't know what it is doesn't mean it's aliens!

[@duanerichards9404]

@@Len_J_ um just because you don't know what it is doesn't mean it's not

[@Sugarman44]

It doesnt have to be aliens. How about advanced terestrials and arrogant humans aren't bright enough to realize we weren't top of the food chain in eartgs history

[@georgemartin1436]

What an interesting analysis that brings more to the table for me to consider that I had not previously thought of...

[@mgtowrules1649]

Me 2 but i'm still wanten to believe in lil funny gray lookin things!

[@spencebridges5957]

Wow! I'm very happy I found this channel..thank you SIR !! Subscribed and more than liked! 😊

[@danieltodd1750]

I saw one of these things and I am convinced it is some sort of light artifact from something else. The one I saw looked like a translucent triangle. Like putting glass under water stream, where the water runs over the glass and it's transparent, but on the edges where the water is getting on top of the glass, you can see the edges are raised slightly so that when it moves it looks like an cloaked triangle where as it is moving in the sky the light is bending differently around its edges. 😊

[@matthewdavies2057]

How would you explain simultaneous radar contacts by ships and planes as they observe the whatever-they-are's?

[@danieltodd1750]

@@matthewdavies2057 I know nothing! I'm just saying what I saw. It was maybe 150 yards from where I was standing, above a high rise building, on a summer evening last year, around 9pm in the Northern Hemisphere in Canada. So it was still barely light outside but turning to darkness. And it was hovering slowly above the building and then disappeared. It scared the shit out of me and I phoned a bunch of my friends. Then I googled "translucent triangle ufo" and there was hundreds of sightings others saw too everywhere. The fact that there are very few sightings over Russian and Chinese space (you can see the GIS mapping of UFO sightings - almost all of them are in US, Canada and UK, and Western Europe, and then in Australia, Japan and South East Asia and Africa - but almost none over former Soviet territory and China) suggests that this is NATO military technology experimentation. The ability to reflect light by bending light in some way to cloak or hide a craft is theoretically very plausible. The stealth fighters are all triangular. The creation of the US space force at the same time as the new UFO revelations also suggests this. My guess is that this is purposeful deep state media manipulation in order to deflect from the many space launches they are doing. Elon Musk's spaceX and his internet satellites are another deflection that the deep state would use to explain sightings so the convergence of all these things all at the same time suggests to me that the purpose of the space force is to deploy military capacity in the orbit of the earth and install cannons in order to be able to bomb a target on the earth. Whoever can do that will permanently control the world since they will be virtually indestructible while having the ability to exert force on anywhere unopposed. To do that, you would need the ability to launch a missile from space. To launch a conventional missile from space wouldn't be possible, since they are shot out through physical combustion and pressure, and for that you need air made up of oxygen, since without oxygen there is no combustion, and there is no air in space. So the missile could not be a conventional bomb. Rather, you would need a laser of some kind, as in the space movies, but that requires an enormous amount of energy, since a laser is essentially light, and photonic energy is miniscule, you would need ridiculous amounts of energy to yield any sort of destructive power by laser alone. However, you could use kinetic energy, a sort of sling-shot or ballistic projectile, which you could launch into the orbit of the earth with proper calculations, and as it enters the earth's gravity, it will be pulled into the orbit picking up speed and accelerating, so that when it hits a target on the earth, it's possible theoretically it could have a massive impact implosion - akin to a meteor hitting the earth, like the big one that destroyed the dinosaurs. I'm guessing you could easily get the impact as would be generated by a conventional nuclear weapon, but without any of the nuclear fall out that would contaminate a large area. That's my guess of what all this is. It's a violation of various treaties the US has signed on weaponization of space, so they're using the cover of UFO sightings and sending out the deep state agents to misinform so that if someone sees a launch or something they're doing, they would think "UFO."

[@kieranrankie203]

"planets that we're exploring really don't support life" So about 7 planets out of a seemingly INFINITE amount of planets don't support life so let's assume none do...Then mentioning the fact there's no life on Mars?! Why would you assume the aliens are incapable of traveling from further away than Mars, even with this incredible, advanced tech at their disposal?

[@zgwforum]

So, here is what it would take for aliens to get here: 1. They have to FIND US. What technology could they possibly have to scan the TRILLIONS UPON TRILLIONS of PLANETS from light years away and see that there was life here? 2. They have to get here. It is not just the time/distance involved, but they would have to sustain themselves over this time and distance, they would have to have fuel for their transportation system, and they would have to figure out how to survive here, in a place that is 99.9999% likely not to be anything like where they came from. 3. Did they come all this way just to toy with us? Why is there no credible contact? What reason could they possibly have to search for life in the universe, find us, and then just play hide and seek? 4. Not mentioned are events like Roswell, with alien crashes. Does anyone really believe an alien civilization could have the smarts to find/travel here and than crash? I agree with Carroll. DOD is very smart.

[@martijnnvermeulen7515]

@NITERAGERS I want what he is having☝️

[@Matthew_007]

@@zgwforum not very convincing I'm afraid.....

[@toddr.lockwood843]

@@zgwforum Such an advanced civilization has likely learned how to manipulate time-space. This would explain how they could traverse the Universe in seconds rather than lightyears. It would also explain the UAPs' ability to move in and out of our dimension, allowing them to disappear. As far as motive is concerned, how about our own space program? Why have we sent Voyager probes across our solar system? There is an assumption in the DOD reports that if these UAPs have extraterrestrial origins, then extraterrestrial beings must be piloting them. But they could simply be sophisticated drones that have the ability to react with their environment. Perhaps there is a mothership hiding in plain sight. Many things are possible when you learn how to manipulate space-time.

[@GordyB666]

@@zgwforum 1. An ancient Egyptian looked to the skies and said to himself, "if only I was a god I could travel to the heavens". Several thousand years later, his fellow man landed on the moon and sent space craft to Mars and further afield to various other planet's and beyond into the solar system. Is modern man a god? 🤨 2. Earth built drones monitor, video and carry weapons all without a living organism inside. Why would a species several thousand, or millions, of years more advanced not have worked out they need not pilot the craft they built themselves and / or develop some type of artificial intelligent organism / android? 🤔 3. How often do you exchange ideas, technology and communicate with ant hills or squirrels in the forest? 🙈 4. Do you know how many nasa missions have gone wrong resulting in accidents and death? Mistakes can and do happen and an advanced civilisation is not necessarily immune to that 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@gamechanger6285]

Very well explained. Thank you for this and indeed it will be interesting to see how things develop after the congress hearing. Greetings from Germany.

[@DJones476]

Awesome '80s guitar riff at the end, Ward!!!

[@gsx7r]

I wanna join the military just so I can learn the discipline to keep my house that clean!😂 Great videos, keep em comin!

[@levibailey6256]

or get a good wife

[@vicentee2687]

Nah man it's just that room and I bet he's not wearing pants

[@Make-Asylums-Great-Again]

Or you could buy a green screen.

[@trustyshellback4724]

You WILL learn that discipline too because in the navy the sign "Clean As You Go" is everywhere. My living spaces are just as clean as his, because of it.

[@davecarl7142]

I always remember they designed, built, and flew the Blackbird, before the Joint Chief's knew such tech existed....So I believe that it's advanced tech myself.

[@mikem7571]

That's been my speculation, too, for a good while now. The attached clip reminds me that just a few years ago people all over the world would report and even film formations of a half dozen or so strange lights in the air and called them UFO. Having been assigned to Korea in the early 70's (USAFSS/NSA) and marveled at the technology we utilized to monitor all air traffic in the North with such clarity that we recognized the individual voices of ground controllers, remote observers, as well as the pilots, I can only ignorantly imagine what cool technological toys our military and three-letter agencies utilize today. And , btw, it was downright hilarious to listen in on the North Koreans as they belatedly reacted and scrambled while one of our Blackbirds had already passed over above and was already returning to base. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nYWtaIaCfpecodk

[@davidkoloc1313]

The difference of course being if someone had encountered a Blackbird when it was a secret program, or even one hundred years prior, during the dawn of aviation, everything about it would have been readily explainable to, and understood by, anyone with even a cursory knowledge of aerodynamics, power plants and engineering. Clearly not the case here as they’re simply not examples of an ‘advanced anything’ we’re already even vaguely familiar with.

[@onetimer44]

Have you done any videos on Iran's F-14 fleet? Their capabilities, current flight worthiness, the spare parts debacle when the F-14 was retired. Being the only foreign customer of the F-14 I would like to know more about that.

[@Tigershark_3082]

Based on what I know, most of their Tomcats are falling apart. They've had to tear apart close to half of their tomcats for spare parts

[@daddy_marx6823]

@@Tigershark_3082 At the same time, I would think that Iran has been actively trying to reverse engineer parts to keep their tomcat fleet running

[@doncarlton4858]

I know we had to completely re-engineer the radar on the Tomcat and the Phoenix missile because they had been totally compromised. Aldi the CIA and FBI closely watched the international aircraft spare parts markets for many years looking for straw buyers for the Iranians.

[@utpharmboy2006]

I know they have/had our older f-4 phantoms as well. wonder how that fleet is doing?

[@Tigershark_3082]

@@utpharmboy2006 As far as I know, they were down to only a few F-4s

[@karlkovach8647]

All I can say is this some very cool stuff. If for any reason that we think we are the only one's out there then we are sadly mistaken. Great vid!!!!

[@johnmc4186]

Being a former Army Ranger from the 75th Rgt, I had to have a security clearance just to be in Bn, I certainly get the secrecy & misdirection of classified programs/operations. I also had an interaction with "The Agency" (just to make it sound all cloak & dagger) in the mid 80's. I have never figured out if it was a change encounter or planned, given their M.O. I assume the later. This is the best, bar none, explanation of these sightings I have read or seen. My wife will probably not give this video a thumbs up after seeing it, because of her desire for it to be little green men, but dont take that personally! I truly enjoy your videos, they're very well done & I love all things aviation, my dad having been a WWII USAAF pilot. Thanks! Rangers Lead the Way!

[@roblink4781]

Airborne

[@rickjason215]

So you think they ran operations where the Navy was doing exercises. So a pilot could get killed chasing this thing or do you think we have antigravity for decades? They run tests in secret areas, not where there is a fleet of ships. The Nimitz and the Aegis destroyer tracked these objects dropping from space for 2 weeks. Do you think it was a glitch? Why was he wearing a flight suit. He hasn't been in the AF for decades.

[@bobbertee5945]

Completely my thoughts on this also, if they want to test this stuff out, why not test it against the Aegis radar, our own aircraft....

[@lesterstrachan5159]

Independence Day. Think about this. What is wrong with our response to this ? [Humans are still killing each other, when they should be fighting the aliens. Instead] what's wrong with this picture??.

[@davec4823]

On behalf of all of us, thank you Ward! Great presentation, facts, and timeline. Excellent representation on how we should evaluate things from all perspectives before drawing a conclusion. Thanks again for your insight in all your videos! Hope to run into you one Saturday at NM-C.

[@ibcoull]

Not sure Ward can deny his ‘exemplary military’ perspective, which starts and ends with a ‘defend the nation’ against all (external) threats perspective. The indefensible technology demonstrated to both military and civilian witnesses over the years would amount to an ‘unbelievable’ scenario to those with that belief set. To limit his analysis to that recent pair of military witnessed incidents, and conclude that they in isolation clearly prove that it’s just ‘our’ guys trying out their new knowledge of physics, is at least as comforting as wearing your military garb on into retirement.

[@SonofDaVinci4]

@@ibcoull Fully agree with you. I just erased a long comment and am settling for this because most people reading it would think I am a tin-hatter. Suffice it to say, I am a retired 1110, and have witnessed some very interesting things in my life.

[@zm4710]

Interesting vivid look. This looks like a rendition of a magnetic toroidal interface propulsion system. Not sure but i can see the possibilities. Keeping a low profile, thanks Ward

[@mrjoel59]

The technology for inserting erroneous information into a opposing forces sphere of data would be a tremendous tactical advantage

[@curiousbystander9193]

@@gonehome6245 superluminal craft have no density, and time is distorted within it's field.

[@dennisparks3692]

that to me seems the most likely scenario, as the physics for a real object performing that way is like impossible. I heard one person interviewed on the news (can't remember his name) mention it was likely some type of laser/light trick

[@paulasmith1245]

In 1978 July 2 at 1 a.m. in the morning we were driving on route 75 1 hour south of Atlanta Georgia in the dark sky for 6 to 7 minutes we saw a UFO cigar-shaped. I think we were close to Perry, Georgia.

[@paulgee8253]

Or Ward is actually an alien agent trying to re-direct attention in a military program .

[@draleigh8881]

take aliens out of the equation and it will make more sense. aliens are the diversion. these craft are our top secret technology. of course no one on the ship is going to know about it. that's the point of top secret. even if they knew they would be told not to say so. fravor was told to say what he said.

[@draleigh8881]

also atip is a project to see how these craft can be detected and monitored to then better disguise these crafts. atip is basically playing the enemy so if we were ever to use these in war the enemy wont be able to defend. its all a secret military project where the only people who know about it are the ones making and operating with the craft. these people are monitored 24/7

[@draleigh8881]

also the ones that seem to slip in and out of reality are holograms.

[@christophmahler]

"Or Ward is actually an alien agent (...)" Our experiments conclude that buxom females are more effective in 'manufacturing consent' than aging 'boomers'...

[@baerster]

I love your videos, and this one has explained the "tic tacs" better than any I have seen. However, I wish you would say more about the possibility that the objects are optical illusions. I have seen some convincing arguments in that direction.

[@sam_s_]

I have never heard anybody say Luis's last name like that.

[@ursamajor7645]

Isn't it Elizondo ?

[@miketaylor00]

Probably because that isn't his last name. It is Elizondo. The z is pronounced just like it is in English. Sometimes it has more of an S sound but it does not make an h sound and there is no s at the end of the name.

[@hori83]

Bruis Elzamahondo

[@teamfour9513]

He's alien

[@lydellgorski4021]

Alisha Guadalajandro

[@vincewyre]

Love your lounge, very tasteful 🙂

[@raymondparsley7442]

Interesting and informative, it comes out something like a spy verses spy program... especially the thought of "possible misdirection" by the Pentagon. On balance though, it seems realistic to think we're dealing with alien technology here. This makes the entire subject all the more interesting... Everybody loves a good mystery. Thanks for the video, the talk on what may be the revelation of a lifetime.

[@sodog44]

The interview that CDR Fravor did on Joe Rogan's podcast was very interesting. He just said, this happened, and this is what I did, and seemed rather bored by it. but to hear him describe the encounter in detail is amazing, especially because he is such a very highly regarded pilot and squadron commander.

[@lufasumafalu5069]

agreed , CDR fravor's interview showed his level headedness on the whole episode , unlike this ward carol nonsense trying to dismiss the whole thing

[@TheJustinJ]

He is doing damage control of an incident that happened in 2014. They back dated it 10 years and down play it as "alien". But i know what it is. ;P

[@speaklifegardenhomesteadpe8783]

​@@TheJustinJ care to elaborate?

[@sparrowhawk3894]

Perhaps Bob Lazar's story was true, the object behaved exactly like he said it would (turning on it's side and falling to the destination).

[@pauleveritt3388]

I wrote to Burt Rutan about Bob Lazar's claims. Burt Rutan says this guy was just trying to make a name for himself.

[@77dris]

@@pauleveritt3388 And yet, Bob Lazar HATES attention and avoids interviews (went 20 years refusing to do any) and never does the UFO circuit. He's also made 0 money from this tidbit.

[@DANTHETUBEMAN]

Bob solved the ⛽ gas crisis,, water powers cars,, look up his vids.

[@reactolite]

When the US war ships were on exercises and were being stalked or buzzed by several triangular vehicles I found it strange that no order was given to shoot them down!

[@kgmid8939]

Why would you shoot at something just because you don’t know what it is? This is the epitome of a perfect example of why the Galaxy communities explain that mankind is not ready, they have not learned to live in peace amongst themselves. - Commander V

[@kgmid8939]

Look-up Omnec Onec, and really listen to her.

[@marylousherman5471]

There probably would've been hell to pay... secret budget high-tech craft are expensive.

[@bumblelina77]

They have been observing them off San Diego for a couple of weeks apparently with some going into the depths of the water there.

[@nashguy207]

you are a very interesting and smart guy. I really enjoy your content!

[@jsprite123]

He is, except for that Mars bit.

[@rayamaro9963]

At 20:43 you stated that they have flying craft that can travel at 1,300 miles per hour , but the caption stated 13,000 miles an hour . There is a huge difference between the two , just saying. Thank You.

[@SK-bw2cv]

I love your insight and input into this from your experience however there is one thing that makes your test aircraft theory implausible. When you look at scientists and researchers and their insight into this you see that the technology involved in what these things can do is far beyond what we understand and our knowledge of science and physics. 600 and 700 g turns would turn a human being into bug splatter. We would have had to have mastered anti-gravity technology and we simply do not have that knowledge.

[@Mudpuppyjunior]

Why do you assume there is a person in it to be turned into bug splatter? If they can pilot a drone over Afghanistan from the US seems like they could pilot one off the coast of Virginia.

[@whatthedeuce47d68]

@@Mudpuppyjunior my initial thought after reading your response is that I agree with you, however, the technology required to do this would include some kind of power source and manipulation of gravity the application of which would likely be "clean" energy for the masses... hopefully The government obfuscation doesn't add clarity to the situation so who knows

[@gbennett58]

@@Mudpuppyjunior G forces like that would also wreck all of the instruments on board and also the craft itself even if unpiloted.

[@kitchener71]

Just seeing this in June of 2023. This was an exceptional analysis of these encounters. Particularly them operating in areas where the Navy aviators are likely to operate. Also how the DoD would respond if they actually thought they were from a known adversary. It actually tracks pretty closely with what Steven Greer has said - that these are likely man-made by US Top Secret projects. He states they are the result of reverse engineering of captured alien craft. So an alien influence but not alien craft.

[@D3cepti0ns]

90% of car accidents happen within 5 minutes of your home, just saying.

[@ALM1936]

The VF41 encounter as described in this video simply reminded me of fooling a cat with a laser. Could this have been some kind of advanced technology able to put an image or hologram type of creation in front of a pilot??? I believe the military & other secret technologies are 50-75 years ahead, but I just have a very difficult believing 50-75 yrs of advanced technology would be able to create a physical craft that pulls over 600g's and travels through air, water, and space. It just has to be an illusion or new technology with light or electromagnetics. That's my worthless conspiracy theorist 2 cents after staying up later than I should watching KZbin videos, LOL.

[@robertruark8797]

That sure sounds very interesting.

[@geoben1810]

@ August Landmesser That's a very interesting theory. And considering today's technology, a possibility. Either that or it's definitely 👽s! 🤣✌

[@edwardstout4940]

I also thought of holograms. Keep in mind that visual light and infrared radiation as well as conventional radar returns are all electromagnetic radiation at different frequencies. A laser generated image can be moved about at will and simulate motion at any speed. Since the object is not physical, there is no evidence of propulsion or lift. The next question then is “where are the lasers?” Satellites?

[@PonyFoot123]

I like your explanation. Seems useful. Could trick enemy pilots, drones and stuff?

[@paulross225]

Lasers and plasma material.

[@samwamm85]

Pilot: "I saw a craft I haven't identified." Ground Crew: "Lol you believe in aliens from space." Pilot: "No, I'm pretty sure it's a foreign nation." Ground Crew: *laughs get cut off by loud explosion sounds* Pilot: "It's an F-16A." ... Pilot: "Hello? Ground Crew?" Just remember what the term UFO actually means.

[@chiatala1410]

Pilot to control room. “We got tic tacs all around us” Control room, “Yummm,What flavour “

[@delavan9141]

forgot to laugh

[@billludolph5738]

Pilots ARE NOT IN A " CONTROL ROOM"! Naval pilots go to a ready room to brief, debrief, watch classifieds information movies,slides, etc. All the times that I was in the Navy and stationed onboard aircraft carriers and was re-enlisted was in a squadron ready room. AMS-1 USN retired

[@chiatala1410]

@@billludolph5738 umm,So pilot to control room.meant pilot contacting control room, while flying.

[@chiatala1410]

@@delavan9141 I forget to care

[@jimmcginn2123]

Ward with all due respect, have you thought to actually get Lu Eizondo or Mr Chris Mellon on your podcast to further investigate your theory. Just asking. Still a fan of your podcasts !!

[@borismedved835]

Elizondo is the "star" of a History Channel show. Ward should not reduce this to that level.

[@T威]

Thank you for sharing

[@xCAPTNxBACONx]

I have a slight issue with your video. I've watched many videos of interviews with CMDR Fravor and in every one he's very clear that no one ever asked him to not talk about it. No one classified what he saw as secret. The footage you see is from a friend of his in another f18 during a different sortie. Other than that, great video.

[@VikingTeddy]

Most of it is also pretty much explained and debunked. This comment section man... I *want* to believe. But I also want the scientific method and common sense to be respected.

[@mattsapero1896]

@@VikingTeddy hahah so America has Mach 70(!) craft and fly it so it can be seen by our “regular” top pilots?! Hahah good luck with that!

[@VikingTeddy]

@@mattsapero1896 I don't understand how you came to that conclusion? *No one* has such craft.

[@mattsapero1896]

@@VikingTeddy Agreed.

[@markrich3271]

@Ward Carroll what do you say now to David Grusch claims ?

[@mightyarmoryprecision]

We’ll said.. this has been my opinion from the first time I head about UFO’s.

[@Allthrashedout.]

interesting! one note I don't think you mentioned was in the first story when the UAP reappeared 60 miles away was that.. well the story I heard when the UAP reappeared it was waiting for them at the two hornets Cas point for that training mission..? spooky if true! Thoughts? can u enlighten us on Cas points? ty

[@jml7429]

CAP point. Combat Air Patrol

[@thebajabobusa]

When the Skipper went beak-to-beak with the tic-tac did he observe the tic-tac through the canopy with his eyes? Or were his eyes glued to a display? That would be a very interesting distinction.

[@jeffkindrick6049]

Commander Fravor, as well as his weapons officer, his wingman and her back seater all had visual sightings. The FLIR footage was shot by one of Fravor's squadron mates in a follow on flight. The UAP encounter was also observed on radar by the E-2 AWACS from the Nimitz and the tracks recorded. After the E-2 returned to the ship, the recordings were placed in a safe which was normal procedure. Later the same day an Air Force helo landed on the flight deck and two officers in flight suits entered the island; a short time later the two AF officers, accompanied by the ship's captain, entered the compartment where the radar tapes were kept and the E-2 radar operator was ordered to turn the tapes over to them. I've not read or seen what happened with the FLIR recordings, but one way or another they obviously ended up at the Pentagon before being leaked by Chirstopher Mellon. This info is all easily available on line, including interviews with the E-2 radar operator and Chief Day, the radar operator on USS Princeton who innitially vectored Commander Fravor's flight to the anomaly. I'm a Naval Air veteran and deployed twice to Vietnam with VA-97 (now VFA-97) aboard USS Enterprise. The Navy trained me as an avionics tech and my civilian carreer was maintaining microprocessor controlled equipment.

[@mikeharrington5593]

I still find it surprising that modern digital photography can film at tens of frames per second but the total gallery of UFO objects in the digital era are generally inconclusive. As for the Navy events I wonder if they were an elaborate psychological test of the pilots using beamed imagery & radar spoofing. However I remember an RAF radar operator telling me 55 years ago that he had seen an object on radar travelling at 2000mph+ It wasn't a house fly on the screen, but it could have been a false reading from a tech glitch

[@PCJ52]

Usually, tech glitches aren't sighted visually by 4 pilots, in two different planes, at the same time the glitch shows on radar.

[@michaelvoorhees5978]

@@PCJ52 but pilot hoaxes are. They are still getting a good laugh out of this

[@blove9199]

Nah.unless they been doing that stuff for hundreds of years and longer dating back to HOMOSAPIEN painting flying shields and big headed beings on walls.abd Christopher Columbus writing in his journal about ufos and gengis khan writing about flying shields before and after battle.. So nope its not that

[@tonsofbricks1]

The Pentagon degrades the videos before they release it to the public.

[@michaelvoorhees5978]

@@tonsofbricks1 no we don't.

[@tacitus539]

When you’re just speculating, it’s a bit presumptuous to declare it’s the truth.

[@shaneyjulian1234]

That was view bate….

[@tacitus539]

@ I was trying to refer to the author of the video and the title he chose for the video.

[@govelasco]

Grainy video over the ocean put out by the military, sounds like crap. I want HD video of an alien blowing some shit up. Until then STFU!

[@tacitus539]

@@govelasco Dude, they’ve put out tons of info about what these objects do, there are hours of interviews with eyewitnesses, and the Pentagon directly said they don’t know what the objects are. What do you think is going on?

[@odinata]

@ David can believe in a falsity. Even if he doesn't think he can.

[@oboogie2]

Love Ward's videos! My take on this one, though: Ward (not by quote, but by essence): We just don't know what these things are. However, we can dismiss # 3 (aliens) right out of the gate because we don't see any aliens on Mars. Despite that these things seem to violate our known physics, have had similar reports for decades (or more), and similar reports from other countries and their militaries or civilian populations; let's not get ridiculous and think it could be aliens. It's almost certainly DARPA with game-changing technology, that we shouldn't be outraged they're holding secret rather than displaying openly to push nuclear weapons into obsolescence and maybe affect climate change. Me: Who knows what they are? However, considering we're a young star system among the plethora of now accepted goldilocks planets in our own galaxy, and an even younger species; considering our age, and if we have developed this game changing technology ourselves, wouldn't it be just as likely that far older non-terrestrial species couldn't have developed similar; and considering we haven't even touched on latest physics theories touching on possible interdimensional travelling or merging from manipulation of vibrational frequencies that could possibly take care of those whole time/distance problems and otherwise affect reality; wouldn't the alien hypothesis be every bit as likely as the other two choices, rather than just dismissing it out of hand? On further thought, nah, that's crazy. Gotta be DARPA.

[@falconeaterf15]

Well said !

[@unropednope4644]

Unfortunately DARPA doesn't explain these sightings dating back hundreds of years and multiple high level employees stating it's not unknown technology. You need to use some common sense and critical thinking bud

[@gbennett58]

@@unropednope4644 No the U.S. had DARPA projects going on back in medieval and even Roman times. They have just been keeping it under wraps.

[@stscc01]

Come on, how likely is it, that DARPA, any other US agency, the Chinese or the Russians have secretely developed such a technology? I mean, several hundred G's?? Works apparently anywhere, in the air, in the water and even in space? Sorry guys, if you believe this, you'll believe anything. It's just as likely as a secret Nazi base in Antarctica that operates flying saucers like the "Reichsflugscheibe" or the "Hanebu"... I do not know where these objects come from, nor do I claim to be an expert on that matter. But I cannot believe that it is possible for any nation to be in possession of such a groundbreaking technology and keep it secret. Just doesn't work. Imagine the number of people that had to be involved in such a project. I do not believe it is possible to keep them all from talking... I'd really like to believe that it is an US project. The idea that the Russians or Chinese possess such a technology makes me throw up... then I'd prefer aliens.

[@vk3wl]

Pse keep this topic alive. It is interesting, and we need to know what is going on around us. Tnx.

[@gregstephens2339]

I really don't think we have the ability to break the laws of physics yet.

[@gwgwgwgw1854]

I think we have a limited knowledge of the laws of physics.

[@toddr.lockwood843]

But distant civilizations much older than ours might be able to.

[@bjm6275]

The laws of physics cannot be broken. Attempting to break the law leads to dire consequences.

[@louismathews6831]

The laws of physics as we know it

[@frankhoose6125]

@@bjm6275 The laws of physics sometimes are radically redefined. See "30 Years that Shook Physics" by George Gamow

[@kennethh.566]

As much as I respect Mr. Carroll and appreciate the years he spent serving our great country...I feel he overlooked and/or dismissed quite a bit of reliable data and testimony that would tip the scale more toward his number "3" option. First...the Nimitz encounters happened in 2004. So let's assume for minute that these are in fact manmade aircraft...that means the early design phase for these aircraft likely started 10-15 years before a FIRST PROTOTYPE flight which likely came well before the 2004 Nimitz encounter. Imo the vehicles the Nimitz strike group encountered were well beyond a prototype phase as, according to USS Princeton Senior Chief Kevin Day, there were multiple UAP contacts on his radar at any given time over multiple days. It's not very likely, as history shows, that the US gov't would commission several "unproven" air craft to be built from the get go. There would be a lengthy test flight / trial period before green lighting construction of additional units. Also, the US gov't likely wouldn't have such a radical unproven prototype aircraft operating anywhere near where a USN carrier strike group was doing work ups. You run far too much risk of a mishap(mid-air collision etc.) So one could deduce, IF manmade, these things were already a well proven "production" model. Thus pushing the design phase of the aircraft back into the late 80's to early 90's timeframe. My point is that these aircraft, IF manmade, would have been designed around the same time as the YF-22 project that started back in the early 1980's. The YF-22 though revolutionary at the time, was/is still quite a conventional aircraft. Wings...check. Fossil fuel burning engines giving off thrust, heat, and sound...check. Now with the rough design time frame for these aircraft being in the late 1980's to early 90's...does it seem remotely possible that anyone on earth could have designed and built such a radical aircraft at that time? Could anyone build such a ultra high performance aircraft that has ZERO visible means of propulsion or lift even today? Could anyone then or now build an aircraft capable of jumping from well below subsonic speeds to over 10k mph in the blink of an eye while sustaining hundreds of g's? The performance envelop these things demonstrate is not simply game changing as the F-22 was...these UAP craft represent an entirely new sport. A sport I do not believe we humans know the rules to just yet. ;)

[@moresnare]

Yeah, we're giving human beings WAY too much credit.

[@jakerubino3233]

@@moresnare no, you are giving physics not enough credit! Once you realise the true scale of distance in cosmology, you would realise how preposterous the idea of an alien civilisation visiting us. Use all of science or none at all!

[@BenjWarrant]

@@jakerubino3233 I'm glad there's somebody commenting with a bit of sense and reason. Nothing can be UFOs because interstellar travel is all but impossible and to the extent that it is possible, no-one's going to fuck around tweaking the terrestrial armed forces.

[@jakerubino3233]

@@BenjWarrant indeed. I think people mistake the likelihood of life out there and intelligent life. When it comes to the almost unfathomable distances between stars just in our galaxy, the vast majority of people just don’t factor this in when trying to justify some otherworldly interference.

[@maeton-gaming]

Ahh yes, you sound like the engineers during the Wright brothers time, exclaiming that they had done the math, and there was no way man could fly. Somewhere out there, a Tic-Tac pilot is smiling to himself.

[@nootherthan]

Wow Keep the Great News Coming. thanks😀👍🏻

[@maximusmeridius3106]

Wow with a person of your intelligence I was shocked to hear you say that “planets we are exploring do not necessarily support life” to discredit that they come from outer space. What about the trillions of solar systems out there that we know hardly anything about? Are you serious right now? You lost all credibility with me with that one statement.

[@1gallimaufry]

Distance! How do you account for distance? He did not discredit life elsewhere. He discredited these unknowns being alien. The distance to the nearest star is mighty far and it is highly unlikely we are being visited.

[@CaptainJohn]

He’s a fighter pilot, not a astrophysics. Yes the wording was not right but I can see what he’s trying to say. And his statement about ETs on other planets was not wrong.

[@brandonr2380]

@@1gallimaufry distance is nothing if these are traveling at the rate of speed He is quoting. So not quite sure where He starts ruling out extra terrestrials due to distance. Just a thought.

[@maximusmeridius3106]

@@1gallimaufry if the technology being used here is far advanced from ours then distance is irrelevant.

[@nathanryweck3137]

@@1gallimaufry there are several ways of dealing with distances of several light years. One is that this object might be a probe designed to travel very fast through space, like a significant percentage of light speed which we know would be possible by laser, antimatter, nuclear, or ion propulsion which is only about a few decades to a centuries more advanced than we are on earth right now and if it had enough time to accelerate then this probe could have traveled for hundreds or even thousands of years (we don’t know what an alien’s lifespan would be anyway).

[@MakerMark]

Part of me is like "just shoot it down." Then the other part says "here is a thing with advanced tech and you want to pick a fight with it? Good luck with that. "

[@kenamaro3942]

The craft flew several times the speed of sound, zig zagging and coming to a complete stop and rotating mid flight.....no one has that type of technology..on this planet.

[@randyballweg6079]

You might be surprised.....

[@MitternachtAngel]

I don't think so

[@FMChimera]

...at this time...

[@mattsapero1896]

@@randyballweg6079 Nope, no human has that.

[@TheAmethyz]

I dont know where some people got time to learn every tech human has, to claim we dont have such tech while there are tech done in secret and even in public. While US doesnt have something doesnt mean russians or china doesnt have it. So many forget to keep open mind and anything is possible atm until there are extraordinary evidence. Camera footage of visual or ir doesnt tell if its spaghettimonster, cat or fifth dimensional organic robot from pegasus galaxy thats flying it.