GIMBAL and GOFAST videos

2014. The APG-79 radar on their Super Hornets was upgraded. After that, pilots of Carrier Air Wing 1 aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt began seeing unknown objects almost daily in the training airspace off Virginia and Florida. Pilots including Ryan Graves reported objects that held position in high winds. Others moved at high speed. A near-collision was reported in 2014.

January 2015. Recorded with an ATFLIR pod, the 34-second GIMBAL video shows a dark object with an apparent halo. It seems to tilt and rotate as the aircraft passes. The audio captures the crew's astonishment, and a reference to 'a whole fleet of them' visible on the situational awareness page.

Then came the debate. Analysts have proposed that the rotation is caused by the FLIR pod's gimbal mechanism rotating as it tracks, and that the object may be a distant aircraft's engine glare. The pilots involved have disputed this.

Also from early 2015. GOFAST shows a small white object apparently moving quickly over the ocean.

The videos were published by To The Stars Academy and the New York Times in December 2017 and March 2018. April 27, 2020. The Department of Defense formally released them, alongside FLIR1. They featured prominently in the 2021 ODNI assessment and 2022-2023 congressional hearings.