"Navy F/A-18 pilot tracked the same UAP every day for 2 years. Testified under oath in 2023. Pentagon released the file in 2026. Still officially unidentified."
8/10
significant, well-sourced
UAP Insight significance score
- Author
- Classic-King-1244
- Published
- May 16, 2026
- Event date
- 2014
- Location
- Virginia Beach, Virginia
- Witnesses
- Military
- Object type
- dark gray metallic cube
Disclosure
Original excerpt
\*\*A Navy F/A-18 pilot encountered the same unidentified object every day for 2 years. In 2023 he testified under oath. The object is still officially unidentified.\*\* Lieutenant Ryan Graves was flying training missions off the coast of Virginia Beach in 2014 when his squadron began tracking an object on radar that wouldn't move. When they got close enough for a visual — dark gray metallic cube…
Key claims
- →F/A-18 pilot tracked same object for 2 years
- →Daily encounters starting 2014 near Virginia Beach
- →Pilot testified under oath in 2023
- →Pentagon released file in 2026, remains unidentified
UAP Insight Analysis— AI generated, not official
A Navy F/A-18 pilot tracked an unidentified dark gray metallic cube-shaped object daily for two years starting in 2014 off Virginia Beach, testified under oath in 2023, and the Pentagon released the file in 2026 with no official identification.
Analysis by Claude · may contain errors
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