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Navy F-18 Pilot Reveals the UFO Encounter That Canceled a Four-Jet Mission

Shawn Ryan Show · 31 July 2026 · 11m · 1 Egleze moment
Navy F-18 Pilot Reveals the UFO Encounter That Canceled a Four-Jet Mission
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A US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet pilot referred to as “Lieutenant Gill” recounts two experiences he associates with unidentified aerial phenomena. First, he describes waking in a Virginia Beach house during recovery from an unspecified period away from flying to a bright light outside a second-storey window, which he says appeared like “a massive set of stadium lightings” at eye level. He recalls feeling an unusual sense of calm, returning to bed, and later wondering whether it was a dream.

He then describes seeing internal email traffic while working a ground job at Strike Fighter Wing Atlantic. Gill says senior personnel discussed sightings of unidentified objects in the Whiskey 72 training airspace and that the conversation was shifted to SIPRNet (“Sipper”), which he interpreted as an indication it was being treated seriously.

Gill’s main operational account concerns a four-jet training mission in Whiskey 72. He says his flight detected “interlopers”, that he observed a “spherical object” via radar and FLIR, and that the sortie was cancelled as a result. He adds that the object was not discussed during the debrief, which led him to speculate there could be a related programme outside his clearance.

In later discussion, Gill offers personal beliefs that some UAP involve “alien craft” and recovered technology, and claims—without presenting evidence—that such technologies are being controlled by defence industry actors for profit and to avoid destabilising existing energy and economic systems. The episode ends with a brief request to like and subscribe.

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Navy F/A-18 pilot says four-jet training mission was cancelled over “interlopers”

A US Navy Super Hornet pilot identified only as “Lieutenant Gill” tells the Shawn Ryan Show that a four-aircraft training sortie in the Whiskey 72 training area off Virginia Beach was aborted after his flight lead reported “interlopers”. Gill says he tracked a “little spherical object” using radar and the jet’s forward-looking infrared (FLIR), and that the flight returned to base without the object being discussed in the post-flight debrief. He says he took the silence as a sign there may be a classified programme involved, though he offers no evidence beyond his own experience.

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