GoFast UFO incident

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The GoFast UFO incident is a 2015 U.S. Navy encounter in which fighter jet sensors recorded a fast-moving, low-altitude unidentified object over the ocean, later publicized as one of the Pentagon’s notable military UFO videos.

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Gimbal UFO incident 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf U.S. military UFO video
UFO incident
unidentified aerial phenomenon sighting
altitudeCharacteristic low altitude
associatedWithProgram Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program NERFINISHED
UAP Task Force NERFINISHED
classificationByUSNavy unidentified aerial phenomena
classifiedAsBy U.S. Navy NERFINISHED
confirmationDate 2020-04-27
confirmationType authenticity of video acknowledged
confirmedBy U.S. Department of Defense NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
debatedExplanation conventional aircraft or balloon misperception
parallax effect and wind drift
featuresObject low-altitude unidentified object
unidentified flying object
groupedWith FLIR1 (Tic Tac) UFO incident NERFINISHED
Gimbal UFO incident NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Go Fast UFO video NERFINISHED
GoFast video
involvesOrganization Pentagon NERFINISHED
U.S. Department of Defense NERFINISHED
United States Navy NERFINISHED
languageOfAudio English
locationQualifier off U.S. East Coast
madePublicBy The New York Times NERFINISHED
To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science NERFINISHED
mediaType cockpit sensor footage
infrared video
notableFeature object appears to skim rapidly over water surface
pilots express surprise at object speed
objectStatus unidentified
occurredInYear 2015
occurredOn 2015-01-21
platform U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet NERFINISHED
publicationYear 2017
publicizedAs one of three major Pentagon UFO videos
recordedBy Forward-Looking Infrared (FLIR) targeting pod NERFINISHED
U.S. Navy fighter jet sensors
sensorMode infrared
lock-on tracking
speedCharacteristic fast-moving
subjectOf U.S. congressional interest in UAP
media coverage on unidentified aerial phenomena
tookPlaceOver Atlantic Ocean NERFINISHED
ocean

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2014–2015 USS Theodore Roosevelt incidents hasPart GoFast UFO incident
this entity surface form: Gimbal UFO incident