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Fravor told ABC News the object mirrored his plane's movements. David Fravor spent 18 years as a Navy pilot, but nothing prepared him for what he witnessed during a routine training mission on Nov. It was — after 18 years of flying, I've seen pretty much about everything that I can see in that realm, and this was nothing close. Fravor's stunning retelling of his encounter off the California coast with what appeared to be a foot-long wingless object that flew at incredible speeds in an erratic pattern comes as the Pentagon revealed the existence of a secret program to investigate sightings of UFOs.

The program was shut down in because of other budget priorities, according to the Pentagon. Controllers on one of the Navy ships on the water below reported objects that were dropping out of the sky from 80, feet and going "straight back up," Fravor said. As they were looking around for the object that appeared on the radar, another aviator spotted something.

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The object didn't display the rotor wash typical of a helicopter or jet wash from a plane, he said. The planes flew lower to investigate the object, which started to mirror their movements before disappearing, Fravor said. I don't know what it is. I don't know what I saw.

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I just know it was really impressive, really fast, and I would like to fly it," he said. The disturbance in the water also vanished with object, he remembered. At that point, they decided to return to complete the training exercise when they were told the object or something similar reappeared. That thing is at your half point,' which is our hold point," Fravor added.