2014, USS Theodore Roosevelt, East Coast operations off Virginia and Florida: The Navy upgraded F/A-18 Super Hornets to the Raytheon AN/APG-79 AESA (Active Electronically Scanned Array) radar — dramatically more sensitive than predecessors. Almost immediately, VFA-11 Red Rippers (NAS Oceana, Virginia) began detecting unknown contacts that the old radar had filtered as “clutter.” WHAT THEY SAW: Objects appeared almost daily from summer 2014 to March 2015. Descriptions: “spinning top moving against the wind,” “cube encased within a clear sphere,” “sphere encasing a dark cube.” Objects remained in restricted airspace for up to 12 hours. Detected simultaneously on radar, ATFLIR infrared, and visual. NEAR-COLLISION: A sphere-cube object flew directly between two F/A-18s only 100 feet apart at the Warning Area W-72 entry point — both pilots forced to take evasive action. Mission terminated. Hazard report filed with Naval Safety Center. THE VIDEOS: GIMBAL (January 2015): 34 seconds, ATFLIR infrared. Shows an elongated object rotating ~90+ degrees while traveling against 120-knot headwinds. No visible wings, propulsion, or exhaust. “Cool” infrared signature. Pilot audio: “There’s a whole fleet of them. Look on the ASA. They’re all going against the wind. The wind is 120 knots out of the west.” GOFAST (January 2015): Object appears to skim the ocean at extreme speed. Analysts note the calculated speed may be consistent with a wind-borne object at ~13,000 feet with parallax. RELEASE CHAIN: TTSA released Gimbal December 2017, GoFast March 2018. DoD officially released all three Pentagon videos (FLIR1/Tic Tac, Gimbal, GoFast) on April 27, 2020 — officially characterized as “unidentified.” Six Roosevelt pilots gave accounts to the New York Times in May 2019. The USS Roosevelt objects continued appearing when the strike group deployed to the Arabian Gulf in March 2015.