Hello, hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
In this episode, we're talking about when US Air Force pilots
see UFOs. That's correct.
When US Air Force pilots see UFOs.
This is something that seems to be getting easier and easier for
folks to talk about and and I've got a couple of really
interesting cases here that have been in the news where U.S.
military pilots have had close encounters with these UFOs.
Really makes you wonder what in the world is going on here.
This first article is from dailymail.co.uk written by Chris
Melrose says and the date of this June 20th, 2025.
Fighter pilot reveals near miss with perfect rectangle UFO that
defied the laws of physics A veteran US fighter pilot has
broken the silence about a near collision with a UFO that defied
the laws of physics and left the Air Force in its stunned
disbelief. Major Ryan Bodenheimer, a
retired F15 and F16 combat pilot, revealed in YouTube in a
YouTube video that one of the wildest experiences of his
career involved a close encounter with a rectangle
shaped UFO as he flew with his squadron over southern Wyoming.
And this guy does have a pretty good YouTube channel where he
talks about aviation matters in the news.
I've, I've watched some of these stuff, it's very interesting.
But Bodenhammer, who served in the Air Force for 13 years, said
the large craft suddenly appeared out of nowhere during a
training mission and looked to be on a collision course with
his plane. When I realized we weren't going
to hit it and all of a sudden it came more into view and it was a
rectangular shape. This was likely a perfect
rectangle. Wenheimer revealed in his video
on June 8th, the military veteran described the UFO as
being 30 to 50 feet in height and appearing to be blowing
around the edges of its bright white body as it flew alongside
the Thunderbirds, the Air Force's elite Aerobatic
Demonstration squadron. Bodenheimer added that his
aircraft had no visible vapor trail coming from an engine.
Bodenheimer added that this aircraft had no visible vapor
trail coming from an engine, no radar signal, and was traveling
at approximately 400 knots. That's 460 mph.
It really was defying any type of aeronautical laws that I've
learned, Bodenheimer said. Bodenheimer then revealed that
his report to air traffic control left officials in dead
silence before the entire matter was apparently dismissed as an
anomalous object. Well, there you go.
There's only one of them, so let's not worry about it.
Goes on down here and says the strange rectangle UFO got so
close to Bodenheimer's F16 Falcon at 30,000 feet in the air
that he said he would make that he could make out every detail
of the craft before he eventually flew off and was
never seen again. When air traffic controllers in
Denver asked Bodenheimer if he would give them any more details
about the UFO, he revealed that it had a cream colored interior
that became transparent or had a hole in its center.
I know it sounds like I'm talking about a delicious
pastry, but this was a wildest experience I've ever had, the
fighter pilot joked. The only evidence of Boden
Harbor sighting was a report made by air traffic control
saying that an object had been spotted in the area where the
Thunderbirds were training that day.
But he never heard from anyone about the incident again.
The former combat officer explained on his channel Max
Afterburner that this UFO could not have been a weather balloon,
a high tech drone or or some kind of light trick.
There was nothing that made me think this was some sort of
illusion. It was clear as day.
It was right down our wing line, a 30 to 50 foot object.
The pilot continued. Botenheimer then speculated
whether this could have been an extraterrestrial craft, noting
that he'd never been a fan of science fiction, but admitted
that his encounter matched many of the incidents involving
military pilots that defied physics.
Going against aerodynamics definitely blows my mind.
And anti gravity, something that cloaks radar.
I didn't see anything on the radar.
He added. The object wasn't even tilted to
deflect the wind or traveling at that speed.
It's say completely vertical, as if the wind did not affect the
UF OS ability to fly at over 400 mile per hour.
Remember, 460 mph we're talking about here goes on and says this
wasn't the only time the Air Force veteran had encountered a
UFO. He added that a lightning fast
triangle while training with the Thunderbirds near Area 51, the
military's top secret base in Nevada.
But he got to wonder if that's some of our super high tech
stuff or if that's them keeping an eye on us or maybe us
collaborating with them. There's been lots of crazy stuff
that's been reported out there. Budenheimer said on this day,
the mysterious jet like object flew past Budenheimer's F16 as
his squadron was coming in for a landing.
Now look, if you've ever seen these Air Force guys at air
shows or something, I have. They are really neat.
I mean, the guys that fly these things are amazing physical
specimens to be able to take those kind of GS, they make
those machines do things. It's just hard to believe I've
seen these flying over at a low level.
I know I went to air show maybe 15 years ago or something and
and they put on display just fantastic.
And in fact, a few years before that, one of them I heard had
accidentally broke the sound barrier or maybe slowly too low,
I don't know which, but several car windows have been broken
out. So they were having to tone it
down a little bit that year. I mean, just really cool stuff,
he says. I just remember this thing going
massively fast past me. It had basically done an
interceptor maneuver, a dust off.
So maybe this is this was its way of having fun, saying maybe
this should be top three, Top Gun three, bringing our details.
The pilot noted that he hopes coming forward will encourage
more of his fellow pilots to reveal what they've seen during
their time in the military, noting that there have been
roughly 800 UFO reports in just the last four years.
That's 800 that we know of. That's not even counting all the
ones that people don't want to talk about or afraid to say
anything about. I just think this is such a
great report. Now there's a one minute audio
here where he talks about this. I'm going to go ahead and play
this just so you can listen to him.
It's just such a cool report. Immediately I thought I was on a
collision course with something and I kind of had this moment
where I'm like, we're up at 30,000 feet, there shouldn't be
anything else up here. What is happening?
So a moment of like my eyes just kind of getting wider.
I put my hand on the control stick.
I'm about to turn off the autopilot.
And then I realized we weren't gonna hit it.
And all of a sudden it came more into view and it was a rectangle
shape. This was like a essentially
perfect rectangle shape maybe, I would assume probably like 30 to
50 feet high. It was bright white along the
outside edges and the IT was like the outside edges were
glowing. And then on the inside, it kind
of got a little bit lighter colored and it went all the way
down to like a cream and then a clear center.
So cream in the middle and then clear center.
I know it sounds like I'm talking about like a delicious
pastry, but literally this is was the wildest experience I
think I've ever had. Yeah, what a really cool
sighting there. And I really enjoyed watching
this one minute video of this fella.
He just comes across as being 100% believable.
It's just a pilot talking about this occurrence that happened.
We don't have all the drama of, hey, this is a whistleblower.
We don't have all the other baggage that comes along with
it. Just a guy who was a high level
Air Force fighter pilot, combat pilot, telling us about a UFO he
happened to see in the sky flying along at 460 mile per
hour. And the way he tells the story,
I think it's mind blowing. I just love it.
Let's go look at this next case here.
This next article talking about a pilot UFO encounter comes to
us from ndtv.com. ndtv.com dated February 21st, 2025.
Title says right under my wing. US Air Force pilot claims UFO
sighted at 20,000 feet The intriguing encounter, captured
in newly leaked audio, has stirred fresh debate over the
unidentified aerial phenomena. An experienced US Air Force
pilot had a brush with the unknown during a classified
flight over California last September.
Cruising through controlled airspace at 20,000 feet, he
spotted a mysterious object, a dark grey cylindrical shape no
bigger than a football, zipping dangerously close beneath his
wing. The intriguing encounter,
captured in newly leaked audio, has stirred fresh debate over
identified aerial phenomena. This is going to sound weird,
the pilot identified by the call sign Troy 11 Radio to air
traffic control in Los Angeles at 2:30 PM on September 17th.
But I just had something pass under my wing, maybe a football
sized object right under my wing, he said, as per the New
York Post, at the time of the incident, the pilot was
conducting a mission linked to the Department of Homeland
Security. The specifics of the assignment
remain undisclosed, with clear skies providing optimal
visibility. He described the object as
moving with precision, showing no obvious signs of propulsion.
The air traffic controller, trying to make sense of the
sighting, inquired whether it could have been a drone.
But at that altitude, drones, especially ones small enough to
be foot by football sized, are rare.
I think these might even be impossible.
I've got my sensor operator looking for it on the camera
right now. We'll see if we can find it.
Troy, 21, reported scanning for any sign of the anomaly.
But it was like a dark Gray cylindrical object and it was
probably the size of a football and it passed maybe 10 feet
under our right wing, he added, emphasizing just how close the
near miss was. Now, Mike, you're flying along
at 4-5 hundred mile per hour and it may be a lot more and this
thing is 10 foot under your wing.
I mean, it's practically in your lap.
Less than a minute later, the pilots onboard radar detected an
object at a distance. Within 40 seconds, it
reappeared, this time an astonishing 60 miles away.
So this thing has gone 60 miles and 40 seconds.
If this was indeed the same object, it would have had to
travel at speed succeeding Mach 2 to cover that distance in such
a short span, I'd guess. Later in the recording, another
air traffic controller is heard acknowledging the report.
There was a UFO reported here, but that's all taken care of
now. Really, how's it taken care of?
The unusual sighting was later logged with the National UFO
Reporting Center, adding yet another case to the growing list
of unexplained airline counters. Interesting.
This event bears similarities to a report from NASA astronaut
Leroy Chio, who last summer encountered 2 metallic
cylindrical objects while flying his personal aircraft over the
Texas Panhandle. And we covered that in the
podcast. There was nothing around me
other than the Panhandle of Texas at 9000 feet on this
instrument flight panel. And just suddenly these big
things appeared. She ever called?
He described them as smooth, proportionless orbs that pass
just 10 feet beneath his wings. And eerily familiar description
to Troy 21's experience. We can take another look at this
event over here at newyorkpost.com.
US Air Force pilot reports close encounter with football sized
UFO and leaked audio right under my Wing by Shane Galvin.
This is dated February 20th, 2025.
AUS Air Force pilot on a secret on a secret flight reported a
football sized cylindrical UFO closely passing by his jet in
California last September. According to newly leaked audio,
the experienced pilot flying a Beechcraft 350C through
controlled airspace on September 17th reported a close encounter
with the unidentified object on a clear afternoon above
California, according to a recording of his call with air
traffic control contained by News Nation Spanfield.
This is going to sound weird, the pilot said.
The pilot, identified as Troy, 21, tells a local air traffic
controller in Los Angeles at 2:30 PM.
But I just had something passed under my underneath my wing,
maybe a football sized object right under my wing.
Just imagine that. The pilot was on an undisclosed
military related flight involving Department of Homeland
Security, the outlet reported. The air traffic controller asked
if the pilot believed the flying object was a drone, to which the
pilot, flying at 20 and feet, responded he was unsure.
Experts told News Nation that some military and hobbyist
drones can reach altitude that high, though those types of
drones are uncommon. Listen, that's just a horrible
idea of flying these things up in a commercial airspace like
that. I've got my sensor operator
looking for it on the camera right now and we'll see if we
can find it, Troy, 21, says. But it was like a dark grey
cylindrical object and was probably the size of a football
and it passed maybe 10 feet under our right wing, the pilot
said. Roughly one minute later, the
airmen reported seeing an object on the on The Jets air to air.
About 40 seconds after that, he reported seeing an object on
radar 60 miles away. But it's unclear if it was the
same one that passed under the plane's wing.
For the objects to be one in the same, the UFO would need to be
travelling at over Mach 2. That's over 1500 mile per hour
to cover the distance at that short amount in that short
amount of time. Later in the leaked audio
recording, a different air traffic controller can't be
heard saying there was a UFO reported here.
But that's all taken care of now.
Now they say leak audio. I mean, this stuff should be
publicly available. I don't know if if they're just
means if they're talking about somebody going to a specific,
you know, government site and just recording this and planning
it or what they're trying to say here.
One of those air traffic controllers later reported the
sighting to the National UFO Reporting Center.
According to News Nation, the close encounter has similarities
to former NASA astronaut Leroy Chews reported sighting up two
cylindrical metallic orbs while flying his personal plane over
the Texas Panhandle last summer. She had told the Post that two
objects passed roughly 10 feet under his wings showed no
visible means of proportion and were unlike anything the three
time space goer had ever witnessed.
There was nothing around me other than the Panhandle of
Texas at 9000 feet on this instrument flight plan and just
suddenly those wings appeared, she said.
They came right at me. The retarded astronaut said he
was reminded at the Pentagon's report of a small cylindrical
object flying through controlled airspace in Iraq, which was
caught on radar footage and shared to the public in 2023.
That was my first thought, that this must be some secret
military program. But what the heck are they doing
flying it where airplanes are operating, especially under
instrument flight rules? Why wouldn't they be in military
airspace? She said.
Well, that is a very good question.
Why wouldn't they be in military airspace?
Yeah, just another great sighting right there.
Two of them, actually. Now, some of you might remember
that Air Force encounter that happened in Florida.
I think this was last year. We talked about it when we
talked about some of the, I think it was maybe was it Matt
Gatz? Anyway, a couple of the
congressmen went down there, I believe, and tried to get some
information on this, but we're kind of left out in the dark.
Here's I think this is the same case as an article from twz.com
and it says Air Force pilots bizarre encounter with capsule
like craft off Florida declassified.
And it says official documents confirm an Air Force pilot had a
very unusual encounter over the Gulf of Mexico last year, though
questions remain. I guess we now call that Gulf of
America. Joseph Trevik published March
6th, 2024, goes on down here. It says US Air Force pilot says
that he saw something they couldn't readily identify.
That was the size and shape of an Apollo spacecraft during a
sorting from Eglin Air Force Base in Florida last year.
According to recently declassified documents, three
other unidentified objects were also tracked on radar during the
incident, which Florida Congressman Matt gets first
publicly disclosed last summer. Yeah, we did talk about that.
Abbas, Michael de Romsey and independent researcher obtained
the documents relating to the incident in question, which took
place on January 26th, 2023 over the Gulf of America off the
coast of Florida via the Freedom Information Act.
John Greenwald, well known for his use of FOIA, one of my
favorite guys on Twitter to uncover new details on a wide
variety of topics, posted what Dermacy received on his website,
The Black Vault, earlier today. Darmacy obtained 4 intelligent
reports on the incident that are all redacted almost entirely.
Don't you love that when they just send you a really cool
report, but it's all blacked out so you can't see it?
So this is what I'm talking about.
We don't need more committees, we don't need more meetings, we
don't need more hearings. We just need for them to give us
the unredacted versions of these documents and then this whole
thing will be figured out in no time.
This is as well as 2 pages from a visitors log that are also
largely redacted. However, the releases also
include a hand drawing of what the pilot claims to have seen,
as well as an unclassified summary of the incident.
The sanitized version. The Air Force further told
Darmacy that a video from the incident also exists, but that
this was being withheld for reasons of national security,
according to John Greenwald's post about the documents on the
Live Fall. In other words, you can't see it
because we want to keep all the cool stuff to ourselves, just be
so much better if these guys can just release this stuff than do
for, I mean, if they could do that without, I suppose, being
sent to federal prison somewhere.
Leavenworth. The drawing reproduced at the
top of the story and below shows a broadly pear shaped object.
Annotations on the drawing say that one end had a gun metal
coloring while the other end was grey.
A center section is also marked as being orange reddish.
A note at the bottom appears to say blurry air, which would
indicate heat distortion or some kind of disturbance, but no
smoke. This is all aligned with the
description provided in the unclassified summary.
A UAP 1 was likened to an Apollo spacecraft in size and shape,
but with an orange reddish eliminated round, bottom and top
section consisting of a three-dimensional cone shape
compromising gun metal grey segmented panels, it says.
The article continues here. It says this all does present
some extremely broad similarities to the command and
service modules used during the Apollo mission to the Moon in
the late 1960s and early 1970s. This goes to show you what
happens when you try to report one of these things through the
US government. You don't get answers.
What you get is a flimsy comparison to the lunar moon
module. And I'm asking, So what are they
trying to tell us? That these guys are time
travelling? They're seeing a lunar moon
module from 1969 just happened to zip past their fighter jets.
I mean, this is really ridiculous.
If they wanted to be honest about this, they would have
given us the unredacted reports. But they don't want to be
honest. They want to hide this stuff
from us as much as possible. It goes down.
It has a short declassified summary says on July 26th.
January 23rd, a US Air Force pilot gained radar lock on 4
separate UAP. Upon approach, the pilot was
able to make visual contact and employee sensors to obtain a
screen capture of the first of three objects.
The remaining three were only detected by radar.
So you've got a picture of them, they're not showing you that
you've got radar of them and you've got eyewitness.
So these things were recorded both visually by the person and
electronically in two different forms.
UAP 1 likened to an Apollo spacecraft but sounds like a you
know I could I could say like into a cow turd.
I mean come on in. Size and shape with an orange
reddish illuminated rounded bottom on the top section.
A3 dimensional cone shape compromising gun metal grey
segmented panels. UAP 2 operated at an altitude of
about 16,000 feet above ground level.
The 2nd and 3rd Uaps were noted at altitudes of 17,000 and
18,000. The 4th was lost from radar and
no altitude was noted. Moreover, no airspeeds were
noted for any of the UOP in this report.
Well, they're flying around at 1617 thousand feet.
They keep comparing these things to Apollo spacecraft, but I
don't remember Apollo spacecraft ever flying around at 17 or
18,000 feet in Earth's atmosphere.
I mean, they're coming in with a parachute.
Of note, upon closing to within 4000 feet of UOP One, the radar
malfunctioned and remained disabled for the remainder of
the event. Post mission investigating
revealed that a circuit breaker had triggered, but that
maintenance technicians were unable to conclusively diagnose
a fault. So something flipped the switch
on the radar so that it couldn't detect these things.
Hmm, I wonder how that could happen.
Many of these details are also roughly in light with what Matt
Gaetz. Matt Gaetz, a Republican
Republican representative from Florida, first disclosed during
a hearing in July 2023. They saw a sequence of four
craft in a clear diamond formation for which there is a
radar sequence that I and I alone have observed in the US
Congress. One of the pilots that goes back
to check out that diamond formation and sees a large
floating, what I can only describe as an orb.
Again, like I said, not of any human capability that I am aware
of, Gates said. At that time, at that time and
when we approached, he said that his radar went off.
He said that his flare forward-looking infrared system
malfunction and that he had to manually take his image from one
of the lenses and it is not automated in collection as you
would typically see in a test mission.
The now released unclassified summary of the incident makes no
mention of the failure of any sensor on the aircraft beyond
the radar. The summary also does not say
what type of aircraft the pilot, the pilot who saw the object was
flying at the time, though it has been said in the past that
they were in an F22 Raptor stealth fighter.
That would make sense, these things flying around having a
good look at our newest fighter. Raptors have been based at at
Eglin, which is also a major Air Force test and evaluation hub
since Hurricane Michael devastated Tyndall Air Force
Base, also in Florida in 2018. The F22 notably does not have a
built in forward-looking infrared system.
The Air Force has been testing the stealthy pods for Raptor
that contain an Infrared Search and Track System sensor system,
which is different than a flare but could potentially provide
basic imagery of the targets they spot under certain
conditions. This system is not operational
and was very unlikely to have been on this aircraft even if it
was an F22. You can read how Irsts could
help with detecting and tracking UAP here.
What these jets do have is what is called an AER 56 Passive
Missile Approach Warning Systems, which include an array
of steering infrared sensors installed around the aircraft
that can provide spherical incoming missile warning and
other situational awareness benefits.
This system could potentially also have the capability to
capture imagery of a target of interest that is relatively
close by. While it has been hinted at
before, this capability has never been officially disclosed,
which is unsurprising considering much of the F22's
capabilities remain classified. Once again, we would We still
cannot confirm F20 twos were involved at this time.
At the July 23rd hearing, Gets said he initially learned of the
incident through a legally protected disclosure to his
office. He, along with Tim Burchett and
Anna Paulina Luna, Republican representatives from Tennessee
and Florida, subsequently traveled to to get more
information. We asked to see any of the
evidence that had been taken by the flight crew and it's never
and to observe any radar signature as well as to meet
with the flight crew. We were not afforded access to
all of the flight crew and initially we were not afforded
access to the images and to the radar data.
That said, thereafter we had a bit of a discussion about how
authority flows in the United States of America, and we did
see the image and we did meet with one member of the flight
crew who took the image. The image was of something that
I am not able to attach to any human capability either from the
United States or from any of our adversaries.
And I am somewhat informed on the matter having served on the
Armed Services Committee for seven years.
Having served on the committee that overseas DARPA as the
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Advanced
Technologies for several years. He added without seeing the
imagery and the other data that was collected during the January
2023 UAP incident over the Gulf of Mexico off of America now, it
is difficult to independently assess what the pilot may have
seen. And Apollo Command and Service
Module is just over 36 feet long and nearly 13 feet in diameter.
So if the comment about UAP being of similar size is at all
accurate, it could have been a relatively large object.
They keep bringing up this whole thing about the Apollo module.
This was not the Apollo module, OK?
They don't really need. It's almost like they're trying
to insert this narrative into the story.
Among what little is unredacted. And the four intelligence
reports released to darmacy are warnings that explicitly say not
finally evaluated intelligence. The reports were all sent by the
Air Force Office of Special Investigation Detachment One O 4
at Eglin, primarily to the Defense Intelligence Agency.
They also appear to have been forwarded to a litany of other
intelligence and other offices across the US military and US
best intelligence community. What subsequent assessments of
DIA or any other of those entities may have made is
unknown. And they have a whole list of
people that sent this stuff to. Everybody gets to know but you.
There are interestingly, no clear indications that any of
these reports were sent to the Pentagon's All Domain Anomaly
Resolution office where they resolve nothing.
So, oh wow, you've got the AARO. They're going to resolve all
these UFO sightings. Of course they don't, but they
weren't even in the loop to get this unredacted report from
Eglin Air Force Base that should just show you what a joke this
thing is. In the past two years, so it
says Arrow has assessed dozens of Europeans to have actually
involved identifiable objects. Yes, the resolution department
that resolves nothing and you can see that non resolution
activity is continuing here with this sighting down at Eglin Air
Force Base. Well, what I like about these
three different individual sightings is a couple of them
are just people. One of them is a former pilot,
now a current YouTube talking about, hey, I'm remembering this
time that I saw this really strange rectangular shaped UFO.
But that was really cool. It just tells you how it is.
You see it. He's flying on AF15 or F16.
He's not releasing anything that's going to endanger the
country. He's just telling you.
I had an experience. I saw a UFO, it happened to be
in a fighter jet. Next guy, same thing.
He's actually flying for Homeland Security.
Could have been jet, could have been a prop plane.
I don't know. This might say what, but he's
flying along with this UFOs circling riser airplane under
his left wing, I think it says, and he's talking to ground
control, traffic control and the actually somebody has made the
audio available. I think those are public anyway.
I don't think you have to like sneak those off premises or
anything, but it's out there and it's really cool to be able to
listen to that and say, wow, this guy he's he's an he's a
military pilot or a homeland Homeland Security pilot and he's
having this close up experience with his UFO.
And then we have this last encounter talked about down
there at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, where a couple of these
pilots actually take pictures, images of these things on radar
and a screenshot, they said, and usually see these UFOs.
And half the information they're telling us is, well, it looked
like the Apollo capsule, big deal, it's a UFO.
It's hovering around all over the place, flying at super high
speeds, doing crazy maneuvers. And then when they finally get a
report from the government, the military, it's all blacked out.
And even when the representatives are Congress
members go down there, they're told to go # sand.
Now, Matt gets did say, well, we had to have a little talk about
how the money flows. Come on, Matt, be real.
These guys, they're, they're operating at a parallel universe
to us. And they're, and they're showing
you that. Yeah, they took Matt in.
They let him talk to a pilot. He probably saw a picture of
something. Who knows, maybe he knows a
little bit more than we do, but you can just almost probably
know as much as he does by assuming the worst.
So you just see the different ways that these things are
handled. Openness.
Hey, we don't know what these things are.
I saw it, people talking about it while it's happening,
reporting it to ground control. And then you have the way the
military covers covers it, or I should say covers it up.
And then, oh, by the way, they send out this unredirected
report to all these different agencies except for AARL, the
guys that are supposed to resolve these things and tell
the public, oh, yeah, we figured this all out.
You know, the people have resolved nothing but still get
paid all this money. Well, they're not even in the
loop, I should tell you right there.
The ARR is nothing more than a mouthpiece.
A limited hangout. Can't trust him ever.
My opinion anyway. Three really cool sightings
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