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AARO-956955 — Navy 2021 Flyby video

File
AARO-956955
Agency
All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office
Incident date
2021
File type
VIDEO
Length
0:09

Topics: Congress & hearings

In a an open hearing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) before the House Intelligence Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation Subcommittee on May 17, 2022, Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Mr. Scott Bray shared this video of a US. Naval aviator encounter with an unknown object (UAP) in a fleeting pass. This video, captured by the pilot in the cockpit of a Navy fighter jet, demonstrates the typical speed at which military aircraft may approach an unknown object.

Key moments

AI-generated from video frames · may be inaccurate

  • 0:00 Phone video through the cockpit canopy: canopy frame upper right, horizon across the middle, part of the jet's grey body lower left. Two small bright spots stay fixed on the glass.
  • 0:08 The camera swings up past the canopy frame to open sky above the horizon.
  • 0:08 A small round light-grey object streaks from the left edge to right of centre, rising slightly. Only 3 frames (~0.1 s): use frame step.
  • 0:09 The camera swings back down; a canopy frame and cockpit interior come into view as the clip ends.

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TL;DR

9 s of footage—just enough time for the pilot to say ‘quick hello.’

  • Navy 2021 Flyby video, AARO video, incident 2021, 0:09 length
  • Shows Navy fighter cockpit capture of bright light during fleeting pass, illustrating typical interception speed
  • No official conclusion in the file

Same topic: title & summary match

Same period: 2021

Same agency: AARO