Video · January 2015

Gimbal: the official U.S. Navy video (January 2015)

Also known as Gimbal, Gimbal video

U.S. Navy, NAVAIR FOIA Reading Room · January 2015 · 1 min · Watch the original

The 34-second infrared video recorded by an F/A-18 crew off the U.S. East Coast in January 2015, during the USS Theodore Roosevelt's pre-deployment exercises. The pod tracks a dark, saucer-like infrared shape above the clouds that appears to turn near the end. It was published by To The Stars Academy and The New York Times in December 2017, and the Department of Defense authorized its official release on 27 April 2020. Unlike GoFast, it has no official resolution.

The cockpit audio is poor: the transcript is a machine transcription, and the moments paraphrase it rather than quote it. This copy comes from the Naval Air Systems Command FOIA reading room.

Sources: NAVAIR FOIA Reading Room · DoD statement of 27 April 2020

Key moments

  1. 0:04 A crew member says there is a whole fleet of them on the aircraft's situation display (the “ASA”); Ryan Graves says he saw that fleet on the radar display in the debrief.
  2. 0:11 The crew remark that the objects are all going against the wind, which they put at about 120 knots.
  3. 0:29 The infrared image of the object turns while the crew comment that it is rotating.

Transcript

From machine transcription (Whisper); names and terms may be misspelled. Check the original video before quoting.

0:00 Dude, there's a fuckin' drone, bro. There's a whole fleet of 'em, look on the ASA. My gosh. They're all going against the wind. The wind's a hundred and twenty knots far west. Look at that thing, dude. That's not our LNS though, is it? Yeah, it is LNS, dude. If there's like a thing, it's rotated.

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