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The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office of the U.S. Department of Defense issued this case resolution on February 6, 2025, with a technical appendix, on the "Go Fast" video recorded by a U.S. Navy F/A-18F FLIR sensor off Florida in January 2015. Working from the public 34-second video, AARO puts the object at about 13,000 feet, moving roughly 5 to 92 mph once wind is accounted for. It concludes with high confidence that the object showed no anomalous performance and that its apparent speed came from motion parallax.
UNCLASSIFIED 23 UNCLASSIFIED black arrow is the direction of the wind at 3,692 m (the altitude of the UAP), and the colored arrow is the direction of travel of the UAP (not the path or distance travelled of the UAP). The lengths of the arrows correspond to the true (not intrinsic) speed of the UAP (again, not the path of the UAP) and the windspeed. Arrows of the same length would mean the total UAP speed is the same as that of the wind. Arrows in the same direction mean that the UAP is going in the same direction as the wind. The more different the lengths or directions of the arrows, the less effect the wind has on the speed of the UAP. Figure 18: The direction of flight and speed of the UAP in the case of the F/A-18 flying into a headwind. The UAP is going in nearly the same direction and at the same speed as the wind. Figure 19: The direction of flight and speed of the UAP in the case of a crosswind from the left side of the F/A-18. The UAP is going faster than the wind and in a more northerly direction.
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