On a clear, sunny day in April 2014, two F/A-18s
took off for an air combat training mission off the coast of Virginia.
The jets, part of my Navy fighter squadron, climbed to an altitude of
12,000 and steered towards Warning Area W-72, an exclusive
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By Ryan Graves Politico 2-28-2023
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block of airspace ten miles east of Virginia Beach. All traffic into the
training area goes through a single GPS point at a set altitude — almost like a
doorway into a massive room where military jets can operate without running into
other aircraft. Just at the moment the two jets crossed the threshold, one of
the pilots saw a dark gray cube inside of a clear sphere — motionless against
the wind, fixed directly at the entry point. The jets, only 100 feet apart,
zipped past the object on either side. The pilots had come so dangerously close
to something they couldn’t identify that they terminated the training mission
immediately and returned to base.
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