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The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office of the U.S. Department of Defense issued this case resolution on the "Go Fast" video on February 6, 2025. It covers a January 2015 FLIR recording made by a U.S. Navy F/A-18F off Florida's eastern coast. From the public 34-second video, AARO puts the object at about 13,000 feet, moving at 5 to 92 mph relative to the wind. It attributes the apparent high speed to motion parallax and has high confidence the object showed no anomalous performance.
UNCLASSIFIED 20 UNCLASSIFIED Figure 14: Starting and possible ending locations of the UAP given windspeed effect on the flight path of the F/A- 18. Black line represents the “no wind” case. To expand upon this analysis and determine if there are any outlying conditions beyond the four directions considered, the F/A-18 flight path and resulting UAP path was calculated for all wind directions between 0° and 360° at 1° increments. Figure 13 shows the difference in the UAP heading and the wind heading at 3,962 m as a function of the wind heading on the F/A-18. Each of the headwind, crosswind, and tailwind cases are marked with the appropriately colored lines. Note that there are two angles where the difference is 0° indicating the UAP is moving exactly with the wind. Figure 14 shows the difference between the calculated UAP speed with the contribution of the wind to the UAP speed at 3,962 m removed. This “intrinsic speed” of the UAP represents the speed that cannot be accounted for by the wind “pushing” it and assumed to be inherent with the UAP (e.g. a propulsion system). The minimum intrinsic speed occurs near the case of the headwind, and maximum in the case of a tailwind. These findings indicate that the four specific cases considered sufficiently constrain the estimated performance of the UAP in terms of speed and heading.
Analysis, from the aaro collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 26 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.