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Navy range fouler reports (mirror)

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This Black Vault mirror compiles heavily redacted, SECRET//REL TO USA, FVEY Navy "Range Fouler Reporting Forms" dated from 2004 to 2021. The first form covers a 14 November 2004 event about 30 nautical miles off Mexico, southwest of San Diego, involving the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group. It describes a solid white, smooth object about 46 feet long with no wings, and notes that reporting ended at 3rd Fleet. Later forms describe unidentified small aircraft, suspected UAS and a near mid-air collision.

-SECRET//REL TO U3A, FVEY
Range Fouler Reporting Form
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Please complete this form to the best of your ability. If you do not have the requested information,
please leave the field blank. If there was more than one "group," please report each on a separate
form for data collection purposes. You should receive a response within 5 business days.
Last Nam e, First Nam e Rank Squadron S IP R E m ail Address C raw Position
This information is for contact only. (b)(1) sanitizes all reports of identifying information.
Absolutely no identifying information for aircrew or squadron will be recorded for analysis.
11/14/04
D ate (mm/dd/yy) Time of detection D a y /N ig h t
(hh:mm:ss Z)
Side No. B u m Mission Description (CAS, BPM, etc) ( M u
Contact Working Area
(Ex. W -72 1A)
Contact Latitute
(D O M M S S )
N /S Contact Longitude E /W
(D D M M S S )
Contact Altitude
(E x 22 0 0 0 )
Altitude
Constant?
Pfease ajtempf to determine a L a t / Long fo r the contact a t initial detection W e recom m end
W ind D ir at
Contact Alt
(From)
Wind
S peed
using p reference the senso r-d ew e d bearing and range relative to the bullseye you had
in use I f that m ethod is not available, an y reasonable derivation o f location will work, but please
b e as specific a s possible and m ake a note in the comments section These locations m ay b e
used to cu e other m eans o f tracking
W as the contact moving?
Dlrection/Speed
(Ex. 090/15)
# o f Contacts in "Group":
(b)(1)
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Please check all that apply:
(b)(1) Check all that apply):
(b)(1)
(b)(1) AtarAings.
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Moving Parts
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Wings/Airtia
O th e rS h
Apparent
Please use the field below to describe the contact and any interaction in your own words with as much
detail as possible. Please be sure to include any detail not included in questions above.
Ships: Nimitz CSG (CSG-11), USS Princeton (CG-59), VAW-117 (E-2C Hawkeye), VMFA-232
VFA-41 , USS Louisville (SSN-724)
30 Nautical Miles off the Coast of Mexico (south west of San Diego). It was "solid white, smooth, with no
edges. It was “uniformly colored with no nacelles, pylons, or wings." It was approximately 46 feet in length.
Pilots reported the incident through Intelligence Personnel, there was a large amount of harassment and

Cases discussed

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