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2 Navy Airmen and an Object That 'Accelerated Like Nothing I've Ever Seen'

Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal, Leslie Kean, 2017. The New York Times.

The first published account of the 2004 encounter, from interviews with Fravor and his weapons systems officer Jim Slaight, published 16 December 2017 with the FLIR1 video.

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The earliest public witness record for Fravor and Slaight.

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Cooper, H., Blumenthal, R., & Kean, L. (2017). 2 Navy Airmen and an Object That 'Accelerated Like Nothing I've Ever Seen'. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/unidentified-flying-object-navy.html
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