Date: 06-14-2018
Title: Ret. SR. Chief Petty Officer Kevin Day
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Just finished this although I didn't have the time to listen to it all at once so I probably missed a few details. I'm initially commenting on Day's statements. They generally agree with the written report and like any story the details will change a little with each person repeating it, especially after many years have passed.
Day was aboard
Princeton which has superior radar/sensor capability compared to the rest of the ships in its group. He was the man directly tasked with air defense for the carrier group. It was his responsibility to see what was happening by collating the data received from his own ship, plus the two destroyers plus the carrier and direct the combat air patrol toward anything that needed attention. At any given moment a carrier will have a number of aircraft aloft including a combat air patrol (CAP) to protect the ship. They don't wait to become aware of something and then launch planes.
There had to have been at least one attack sub involved in this group and I wonder what their crew members might say abut all this. Haven't heard any mention of that from anyone. If an object in the air merits the attention of the CAP you would think someone is also paying close attention to what's in the water.
A multitude of objects remained at 28000 feet cruising slowly southward at 100 knots about 40 miles away. Modern commercial airliner altitudes at airshow biplane speeds. The entire task force had seen them for several days and had no explanation for them. Up to a hundred objects cycling north to south predictably over several days. Not what we normally hear about with UFO reports.
Day seems to have been the trigger to have these unusual but apparently harmless contacts investigated. Since so many planes were due to be involved in an exercise it was common sense to at least send the planes who had the duty to investigate contacts to have a look, hence Fravor. One thing - Fravor's account begins with seeing an object in the water. Days account begins with Fravor screaming into the radio that he had been engaged and
then seeing the thing plunge into the water.
Up to eight additional intercepts took place. Two men in each plane, two planes in each intercept. Day said they just wanted to be left alone to do whatever they were doing and when approached would drop 28K feet to the water in a fraction of a second and then pop back up and go back to what they were doing. A predictable response - interesting.
Day mentioned that
Princeton had the most advanced sensor array but operators aboard other vessels -the DDGs I think - saw them leave the atmosphere and return. He can only attest to what he witnessed and that was the 28K yo-yo.
Day actually went on deck and eyeballed them through powerful binoculars. He said it was white light, like he was looking at a light bulb. He also said that in discussing it with the ship's captain they ran through a number of prosaic possibilities and UFOs were certainly on the list but Day felt he was looking at a benign unmanned drone of some kind, wherever it came from.
He is aware of Trevor and remarked that he was the only one talking about a traditional 'flying saucer'. They are both saying that additional data exists and that it was confiscated. That's a no-brainer. Damned sure there are some really interesting things locked away.
I found Day to be perfectly credible - except for a passing reference about missing time and some suggestion of dark clandestine activity. Once the hard data had been taken from the aircraft and comm logs (Day did discuss what was removed) and with it the ability to substantiate any claims it sounded to me like the Navy was just fine with letting people talk, and to a large degree that talk never really went anywhere.
Rather than haggling over what form of propulsion they might employ, whether we've seen them in other photos or any of that consider this:
If I had the resources of the Unites States and wanted to develop a reconnaissance - surveillance capability for the 21st century what would it look like? In the past we used a wide variety of high altitude balloons and aircraft that possessed performance capabilities well beyond anything else being flown at the time. How many UFO reports did those generate? And wasn't that generally OK with the military? Good camouflage.
Imagine deploying a suite of drones that could loiter for long periods of time collecting intelligence, probably far more than just visual observation, and when approached can react in a way that some of the most sophisticated aircraft in the world can't contend with? And then go back to what it was doing. That would be handy.
If I had a fleet of these drones and wanted to test them I'd want a real world test close to home. A carrier group off the west coast in a training exercise that required them to be unarmed would be a good place to start. The object Fravor encountered knew where his CAP station was - also very interesting.
Day feels that Fravor is "being controlled". I don't know what to make of that but feel we have been given a tiny little taste and are peering at this whole incident through a cocktail straw. Why are interviews with these radar operators not being added to what TTSA has already published? Why do we have to go to public podcasts to hear what they have to say? Something just doesn't seem right about the whole thing: we are seeing what they want us to see and we are hearing what they want us to hear. In this case years after the incident took place. The suggestion of alien craft all the hububbery that inevitably ensues would definitely work to he advantage of protecting an intelligence asset, as it has in the past.
I got no dog in this fight. No theories about how they work or where they came from or if we've seen certain ones before. I'd
love to see real proof of extraterrestrial visitation - been waiting for something along those lines my entire life ..... and still am.
What I'd love to see even
more is that proof being presented in a way that doesn't involve Bigelow & Company, Knapp, Corbell and TTSA in general. I can't help but suspect its a version of Moore & Doty - 'let them in on a little secret and tell them what they most want to hear'.
I have plenty of time and we'll see what else they come up with.