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Newly declassified files and images confirm the details of a UFO incident involving an Air Force pilot and four unidentified objects in 2023.
The incident was first brought to light by Congressman Matt Gaetz during a July 2023 hearing when he revealed that he had seen evidence of a UFO that he was “not able to attach to any human capability.”
Several months ago, my office received a protected disclosure from Eglin Air Force Base indicating there was a UAP incident that required my attention.
I sought a briefing regarding that episode and brought @RepTimBurchett and @RepLuna with me.
We were initially denied access… pic.twitter.com/0EhhqTcRea
— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) July 26, 2023
These new documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by software engineer Abbas Michael Dharamsey and published by The Black Vault reveal that one of the UFOs encountered by the Air Force pilot had a “orange-reddish” illuminated bottom and a “three-dimensional cone shape” top composed of “gunmetal gray segmented panels.” It was also compared in shape to an “Apollo spacecraft.”
USAF (FOIA)/Abbas Michael Dharamsey/The Black Vault
According to John Greenewald of The Black Vault, “The pilot managed to gain radar lock on the UAP and obtain a screen capture of the object, while the remaining three were only detected by radar. Notably, upon approaching within 4,000 feet of the lead UAP, the pilot’s radar malfunctioned and remained disabled for the rest of the mission, with post-mission investigations failing to conclusively diagnose the fault.”
In the summary of the UFO incident, it is also revealed that no airspeeds were recorded for the objects.
So the video/imagery is entirely classified and exempt from disclosure, yet, it’s maybe only a balloon? And the instrumentation issues were all just a coincidence?
At some point, we should all have to realize the events are piling up that likely go beyond just balloons and… https://t.co/GknsSWHshm
— John Greenewald, Jr. (@blackvaultcom) March 6, 2024
While some, including investigative journalist Mick West, believe the objects could have been a balloon, Micah Hanks, the Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder of The Debrief, states that this incident “bears a passing resemblance to was described by three witnesses decades ago during a harrowing encounter near Dayton, Texas in 1980.”
In that incident, “A description of the object later offered by UFO chronicler Jerome Clark based on accounts provided by the witnesses described it as ‘intensely bright and a dull metallic silver … shaped like a huge upright diamond, about the size of the Dayton water tower,’ with flames being emitted from the bottom of the object ‘flaring outward to create the effect of a large cone.’”
Additionally, the appearance of “blurry air” with “no smoke” observed near the base of UAP-1 during the 2023 incident, below an area where “orange reddish” light or coloration was noted by the observing pilot, does sound reminiscent of the apparent propulsion mechanism Cash and Landrum described seeing as the object they encountered bobbed up and down above the highway ahead of them.
Cash and Landrum both suffered health issues following the encounter and sued the U.S. federal government for $22 million because “according to the witnesses, it was accompanied by a small fleet of Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopters that surrounded the object to ‘escort’ it away from the scene.”
The case was eventually dismissed.