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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 26 UNCLASSIFIED Figure 22: With the F/A-18 flying into the wind, the UAP apparent high speed due to parallax (right) is amplified compared to the results with no wind at all (left). Summary Although a complete set of data to fully solve for the location, speed, and heading of the “Go Fast” UAP was not available at the time of this writing, AARO has high confidence that the UAP did not exhibit any anomalous or even exceptional behavior. This conclusion is based on the results of our analysis of the range of possible scenarios. AARO notes that there is a range of winds where the object is moving generally at windspeed and in the direction of the wind. These foundational GEOINT techniques can be applied to a range of UAP case studies and will be incorporated into AARO tradecraft. AARO did analyze the short section of the video from approximately 4233 to approximately 4236 seconds where the target was acquired and the F/A- 18 flying mostly level. Results were similar to those presented here and do not change the assessment, though the shorter section of video may result in higher uncertainty. References 1. https://www.aaro.mil/UAP-Cases/UAP-Case-Resolution-Reports/ 2. https://www.geospatialexploitationproducts.com/content/socet-gxp/ 3. https://nsgreg.nga.mil/doc/view?i=5471 4. https://www.navair.navy.mil/foia/sites/g/files/jejdrs566/files/2020-04/3%20-%20GOFAST.wmv 5. NASA Mach number calculator 6. Refer to Section 4.9.1, p. 357 in the CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulae (1983) for more details on matrix multiplication and angle rotations about the cartesian axes. 7. Refer to Section 4.8.4, p. 356 in the CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulae (1983) for more details on relations between Cartesian and cylindrical coordinates. 8. https://earth.nullschool.net
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