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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.

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SECRET//REL TO USA, FVEY
Range Fouler Reporting Form
Please do not use the purple
"submit" button above. Save and
email the complete file manually
(see below).
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 Name, First Name Rank Squadron
l(b) (6) (b)(1) SIPR Email Address Crew 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.
(b )(1 )
Date (mmAid/yy) Time of detection
(hhmmiss Z)
Day
D a y /N ig h t
(b)(1)
Side No Buno Mission Description (CAS, BFM, etc) 1(b) (1),
Contact Working Area
(Ex: W-72 1A)
Contact Latitute
(D D M M S S )
N/S Contact Longitude E M
(D D M M S S )
Contact Altitude
(Ex 22000)
Altitude
Constant?
Please attempt to determine a L a t / Long tor the contact a t initial detection. We recommend
using t a i u i to reference the sensor-derived bearing and range relative to the bullseye you had
in use. If that method is not available, any reasonable derivation of location will work, but please
be as spedfic as possible and make a note in the comments section. These locations may be
used to cue other means o t tracking.
Wind Dir at
Contact Alt
(From)
Wind
Speed
W e s the contact m oving?
D lrectton/S peed
(Ex. 0 9 0 /1 5 )
(b)(1)
F W
(b )(1 )
(b )(1 )
# o f Contacts in "Group": (b)(1)
(b )(1)
Please check all that apply:
Round
Square
(b)(1)
Balloon-shaped.
Wings/Airtrame
Other Shape
Apparent Propulstnn
Moving Parts
Metallic.
Markings:
Translucent
Opaque:
Reflective
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.
and just prior to reaching
(b )(1 )
( b )(1 ) | B ( b ) (1)
(b)(1) ( b ) (1) he
controlling agency that there was no traffic in the area.
flight. Upon check-in SWj was told by the
some ( b ) ( 1 )
maintained (b )(1 )
was able to identify a small
for altitude deconfliction and passed no closer than
traveling at (b) (1 ’
(b)(1) at the location of the (b) (1)
(b) (1)
UH ii| passed the information

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