THIS WELL-KNOWN UFO DEBUNKER IS SKEPTICAL OF THE DOD?S RECENT INVESTIGATIONS INTO AERIAL MYSTERIES. HERE?S WHY.

In January 2023, a military pilot reportedly encountered a series of unidentified objects while participating in training exercises over the Gulf of Mexico near Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.

Initially detected on radar, the four objects appeared to maintain a diamond-shaped formation, and the pilot was able to obtain images of the nearest of them using electro-optical and infrared imaging systems on his aircraft, despite various system malfunctions that occurred as he closed to within 4,000 feet of the unidentified craft. In shape and appearance, the pilot likened the mysterious object to an Apollo-era spacecraft.

The incident, initially revealed publicly by Florida Representative Matt Gaetz during a hearing by the Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs last summer, became the subject of a Freedom of Information Act request that revealed a drawing of the object made by the pilot, but offered few additional details.