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Learn about an unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) sighting from this video (known as the Gimbal video) captured by fighter pilots associated with the USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group. The video shows instrument detections of unknown aerial objects, which the pilots were unable to identify, off the East Coast of the United States, 2014–15.
J. Allen Hynek, an astronomer who served as a lead scientist for U.S. Air Force UFO investigations, founded the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) in 1973.1