By Frank Warren, 10 October 2019
(The UFO Chronicles ,
U.S.A.
Fravor, who was involved in the 14 November 2004 USS
Nimitz UFO incident, talked about the incidents on The Joe Rogan Experience
podcast.
The first incident occurred while the helicopter crew
was hoisting up a BQM (a BQM is an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) or drone) off
the coast of Puerto Rico . The helicopter pilot
suddenly observed a dark mass that came up from the depths. Once they had
pulled one of the crew members and the BQM out of the water, the object
descended underwater.
The BQM is a “realistic aerial target, capable of
simulating enemy threats for gunnery and missile training exercises,” Fravor
said.
“This wasn’t an isolated event, a similar incident
happened a few months later,” Warren
The second incident occurred while the helicopter crew
was picking up a torpedo. Fravor did not mention where the incident took place.
“He’s out picking up a torpedo, they hook the diver up
on the winch, and as they’re lowering him down, he sees this big mass,” Fravor
recounted. “He goes, ‘It’s not a submarine.’ He’s seen submarines before. Once
you’ve seen a submarine you can’t confuse it with something else. This big
object, kind of circular, is coming up from the depths and he starts screaming
through the intercom system to tell them to pull the diver up, and the diver’s
only a few feet from the water.”
“They reverse the winch and the diver’s thinking,
‘What the hell is going on?’ And all of a sudden he said the torpedo just got
sucked down underwater, and the object just descended back down into the depths.
They never recovered it.”
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