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unidentified flying object
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, 2014ā15.
The Robertson Panel, which investigated unidentified flying object sightings in 1953, was led by H.P. Robertson, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology.1