NARRATOR: Lieutenant
Ryan Graves has
spent a decade
training Navy pilots
and flying bombing missions.
As a combat section
lead, he twice deployed
to the Middle East
and holds a degree
in aerospace engineering.
 Go ahead.
Let's-- let's start
from the beginning.
 Well, simply
put, I don't really
know where the beginning is.
NARRATOR: In the summer
of 2014, Lieutenant Graves
was based out of
Naval Air Station
Oceana in Virginia Beach.
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Lieutenant Graves says his
squadron, the Red Rippers,
was running training
exercises up and down
the East Coast when
they started to pick
up mysterious radar tracks.
 We didn't really think a lot
of them other than the fact
that maybe they were just--
just a part of the radar
itself, not necessarily
natural physical object.
 Was there any difference
between the aircraft
you were flying in 2015 versus
what he was flying in 2004?
Any--
RYAN GRAVES: We had upgraded
electronics, radar systems.
It's a generational difference.
It's a big deal, yeah.
 Huge, huge increase
in capabilities.
 OK.
NARRATOR: The pilots wondered
if their new radar system was
malfunctioning until they saw
one of the unidentified objects
up close.
 Walk me through that.
Now, were you there, or was
it one of your colleagues?
 It was one of my
colleagues, so I didn't hear
about it until they landed.
 Did he give you
size, color, texture?
 It was basically a
cube inside of a sphere,
where the points
of the cube were
touching outside of the sphere.
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 We've got now two
different things.
You guys got cubes with balls.
Or on the West Coast,
we got flying Tic Tacs.
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RYAN GRAVES: You
will sometimes get
phantom tracks,
where it's seeing
something that's not there.
That's what we thought
they were 100% of the time
until we would see
them physically,
being tally with them
with their eyeballs.
It's not that I'm seeing
a bright physical object.
I'm literally just seeing
a flash shine out there.
And wherever we were,
they were there.
So that could mean two things.
That could mean they
were already there,
or they were following
the strike group.
NARRATOR: By 2015,
Lieutenant Graves
claims his pilots were
encountering bizarre craft
almost every time they flew.
RYAN GRAVES: You know, it's
one thing if one person
sees one of these objects.
We're like, OK, that's crazy.
When you go out there
every day and you see them
and your brothers and
sisters and other squadrons
are seeing them, then, you
know, it's like, OK, well,
this is probably some type of
maybe drone thing or something
that they're testing out.
It wasn't until someone
actually saw one
go in between two aircraft at a
close range by within 150 feet
that it was starting
to get worrisome.
NARRATOR: Lieutenant Graves says
when one of the objects nearly
caused a terrifying
mid-air collision,
[ENGINES WHINING]
[WHOOSH] the senior pilots
in his squadron decided to act.
 At this point, we're like,
something needs to be done.
We submit a safety report
to the Navy Safety Center.
 They've been seeing these
things for two months.
Multiple people have seen them.
Multiple people
have tracked them.
You get one that
splits a section
enough to send out your mishap
report to the Safety Center.
Did anyone contact you
and say, what is going on?
RYAN GRAVES: No.
 No investigation, no nothing?
 No.
 We have video I'd
like you to see.
Without telling you
anything about it,
I'm going to be
curious your thoughts,
and you can tell
me what you see.
NARRATOR: These three UFO videos
were released by the Pentagon.
The one on the left
has already been
identified as the 2004 incident
involving David Fravor.
The source of the other
two had remained a mystery.
This video has come
to be known as Go Fast
and shows an object speeding
just above the water.
The other is known as Gimbal.
 The sensor is
on a-- on a Gimbal
underneath the--
the aircraft, and it
can rotate to maintain a track.
 You never forget those voices.
 You know those voices?
 I know those guys, yeah.
NARRATOR: It's a breakthrough
in the investigation.
For the first time,
a pilot has confirmed
that the two unidentified
videos, Gimbal and Go Fast,
were taken by Navy jets
from the Theodore Roosevelt.
 We're getting ready for a
deployment, so we do work-ups
along the Eastern seaboard.
And these objects
kind of came with us.
NARRATOR: Lieutenant Graves says
both Gimbal and Go Fast were
filmed within weeks of each
other over the Atlantic
off Jacksonville, Florida.
And as Lieutenant Graves's
squadron was preparing
to deploy to the Middle East,
they were seeing so many
mysterious objects, they
started sharing the videos
when they got back on ship.
 They were also very
excited about what happened,
and then they were
heading down to watch
the full video in its entirety.
 There's parts of
this video that we can
talk about that aren't here.
Let's walk through that.
 So this object was
significantly larger than
the one you're used to seeing.
NARRATOR: Lieutenant Graves
says the Gimbal video is just
part of a longer
higher resolution
video he was shown on the ship.
It included several
smaller craft, the kind
he was more familiar with.
 They were essentially flying
themselves in a formation.
And then behind those was
the object that you see here.
And I'm not the world's
greatest drawer,
but as you can see
here, it almost
looks like a gyroscope, right,
the way it moves, the points
coming out of the top
of the bottom of what
appears to be a disk
or-- or at least
a central mass on the object.
So these objects were
seen in one direction.
The five at some point basically
just turn themselves around
with some type of radius,
a turn, as a unit,
and started flying
another direction.
At this time is pretty
much where you see
this video, where these
are now out of the picture
and it's just this
guy that's stationary.
 Is that why they
refer to them as there's
a whole fleet of them?
- Yep.
 OK.
 So there wasn't a
whole fleet of these.
There was just all
these little guys.
And there's the one object
which we had never seen before,
which was significantly larger.
NARRATOR: Lieutenant Graves
says the way the larger craft
suddenly rotates at 90
degrees is unlike anything he
had ever seen.
 It's just basic
airplane physics.
When your wings are underneath
you and you're flying along,
you have 100% of your lift.
And if you turn yourself all
the way like this, kind of knife
blading, you have
none of the lift
that your wings
will provide you.
So the fact that he would just
get himself on his wing tip
with no turn and by staying
at the exact same point
isn't how aircraft work.
LUIS ELIZONDO: Ryan Graves
is an aerospace engineer
when he's not a pilot.
So when Ryan is telling
you that there is something
up there that he
doesn't know how
it works and it is not
one of our aircraft,
you need to listen.
 What's fascinating and
interesting about these objects
is that they're up
there when we take off,
they're doing their thing for
our hour, hour and a half,
maybe two hour flight,
and then we land.
And my buddy that
takes off an hour later
is seeing the same things.
 This is important.
Now we're looking
at something that
can stay stationary
over a geographic point
in 120 knots of wind--
--can rotate around and then
can accelerate, go supersonic.
As a Top Gun guy, have you seen
something like that before?
 [LAUGHS] No.
No, I'm-- I'm--
I'm pretty baffled right now.
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